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Good day FOTR Friends,

Ex SAR 24 no 3655 is currently the only active steam locomotive in the Cape Town area.

It is on lease to Atlantic Rail, which as you know, operates special day train trips from Monument station (Cape Town) to Simon's Town.

With the permission the respective photographers ...

One week later, on 23 February 2011, we again passed through Ashton.

Work on #2010 was now completed.

Presently this must be the neatest looking locomotive plinthed anywhere in South Africa in an open public space. I exclude the locomotives at Gold Reef City and Queens Casino, as these are ...

Passing through Ashton on 19 February 2011, we noted that the Langeberg Municipality was doing some restoration work on #2010. The paint job was nearly done, and on both sides of the water tender the worst rusted sections were cut out awaiting replacement strips to be welded in place.

The ...

The historical information for the loco should be credited to John Middleton ... thanks John!

Hi Luca,
when I compare your picture with mine, it seems to be the same loco but the loco stands now at another place?
And a second one beneath the loco?
I can't remember that I saw two of them there.

Hi Andreas,
The mine display now shows two of the Bagnalls: A total of 4 Bagnall loco's were ...

Hello all Friends
I have been sent this latest position (received 2 Feb 2010) on the old Heidelberg Station project.
Please contact Stafford Currin should you want to confirm before you visit.
Regards
Piet Conradie

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Just to update you regarding the Heidelberg Transport Museum. We (CUE ...

Hello Andreas,

You may be interested in visiting my blog page entry about 15 CA 2828.

http://steam-locomotives-south-africa.blogspot.com/2007/11/visit-to-vinkrivier-station-near.html

It plots bits of the history of 2828 over many years - much detail was provided by Richard Niven, the last ...

I have just received this very positive news.

They need every bit of support - I hope that there will be enough regular visitors to justify this project.
FOLLOWING IS THE MESSAGE:

For the attention of Mr Piet Conradie

Good day to you.

I am writing this email in the hope that you receive this ...

Using my photos taken in Aug 2009, the list for Queenstown seems to be correct, with one more locomotive:

In addition to the listed:

"19D #3337"

there also is a

19D #3330 with tender no 2714.

As far as I can establish from the photos there are 19 engines "stored" on the site.

There had ...

re Luca's remark about Queenstown

There are still a couple of loco's in the Queenstown "grave yard" - about a dozen engines - all in very poor condition -- we visited there on 27 Aug 2009. I still have to work out which engine numbers are identifiable in in my photos.

Nice details of the inside of 15F 2994, yes, she is in excellent condition ... she backed in under own power to her present position ... still carries a full load of coal ... unfortunately the water tender rusted through in due time :(

You may also be interested to take a look at my blog which ...

Tom,

Yes, that is what I thought too ... we should not push too hard ... rather just be on the lookout.

However, this one is not necessarily a human problem, but may be a mechanical failure.

:)

Tom and other Friends,

Thank you to all who commented on this, made inquiries, and reported back. I certainly learned a lot from this. I guess we now have reached the point where we'll have to let it rest for a while ...

I managed to work a bit back in the "forward chain", about 4 senders ...

Kevin, I like the angle (no pun!!!) you are taking. I think it is a very valid point and certainly not easy to answer. One would like to see a picture of a complete bogie in the workshop.

From my understanding there is a 550kW motor on each axle (Paxton) and they (4 motors) work independently, so I ...

Good morning all Friends!

I take the liberty to post some technical information from sources elsewhere on the web, as I think this may aid in our understanding of this unusual incident ... optional reading !!!
piet

WIKIPEDIA: CAUSES OF WHEEL SLIP

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