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Locomotive Transfer ACB4405+ ACB4401 + ACB4403 (26/1/2021)
Aurizon needed to transfer three ACB class diesel locomotives from New South Wales to Western Australia. The movement was performed using two SCT services, one to transfer them from Newcastle to Melbourne, and then a second to transfer them from Melbourne to Perth as seen here.

 

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Churchward GWR 4400 2-6-2T Locomotive no 4409 at Swindon Works

 

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TAFE 4410 Samrat

 

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Southern Pacific, No. 4412

Streamlined, built by Lima Locomotive Works, in December, 1936, for the ''Daylight'' trains between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

 

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Bomag’s new 4413 self-propelled asphalt paver features a 60-hp (44.7 kW) Cummins A-Series water-cooled diesel engine that offers approximately 40-percent more output torque than the engine on the previous model. The new engine also is turbocharged for consistent power at all altitudes.

 

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4415 & 4430 top over the highest point on the NSW Railway System hauling N13 Tenterfield Mail at Ben Lomond on 14/01/1983

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Builder's
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C 25 4417
The Don River Railway is a volunteer-run vintage railway and museum in Don, a suburb of Devonport, Tasmania.
It runs a passenger train ride from Don to Don Junction (adjacent to Coles Beach) and return using part of the former Melrose line that ran between Don Junction and Paloona.
The service is usually run daily except Mondays/Tuesdays inclusive.
The Don River Railway is open every day with the exception of Good Friday, ANZAC Day and Christmas Day.
Wednesdays through to Saturdays, customers can expect to ride in a 1940s ex Tasmanian Government Railways rail car and trailer, DP22 and PT3. Whilst on Sundays a heritage carriage set is hauled by either a steam locomotive or a vintage diesel locomotive (V2, X4, Y6 and 866).
Numerous other locomotives and rolling stock are in the process of being restored at the on-site workshop.

 

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Union Pacific No. 4420
Union Pacific No. 4420 is a class S-6 0-6-0 steam locomotive. It was built in 1914 by the lima locomotive works for the Union Pacific railway.

The engine was design to work as a switcher for the Union Pacific railroad.

The engine was retired in 1957 and it was donated to the City of Evanston in 1958, where it went on display on the courthouse lawn.

Today the engine is now on display in a play area off Elm Street a few yards north of Oak Street in Evanston WY. It was revealed that Roundhouse Restoration INC, the company in charge of restoring the former Union Pacific Evanston Roundhouse and complex, had plans to move the 4420 to the Evanston Roundhouse, and eventually restore it to operation

 

(LMS 4422)

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4422 was completed in 1927 at Derby at a book cost of £3,217 plus tender at £1,000.
It is the only left hand drive member of the class which has been preserved.

It was first allocated to Leicester shed but was subsequent transfer to Wigston, near Leicester in 1929.

Moving to Bristol in 1940 and then Bath (Green Park) in 1948, 4422 spent the rest of its working life in South West England