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Outback Frieight...

Eyre Peninsula Bulk Gypsum Train

One off the most isolated train services in Australia.

Genesee & Wyoming Australia operates the isolated Eyre Peninsula Railway in South Australia. The narrow gauge (3ft6in/1037mm) system now only has one regular service, gypsum from a mine at Kevin to the port at Thevenard near Ceduna - a route of approximately 60km.

Captured at 4.15pm in Saturday 10 August 2019, diesel locos pretending to be steamers head towards the port near Ceduna. The locos were 1603 (Clyde/EMD), 873, 859 & 905 (all EA Goodwin/ALCOs)

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Coupling

C class locos at Goulburn, NSW

Nose to Nose - C502 & C503

Tail to Tail - C501 & C502

The C class are Electro-Motive Diesel model GT26CW locomotives. The class of 10 were built by the EMD Australian licensee Clyde Engineering. Class leader C501 entered service on 14May 1977, the last C510 in July 1978

The locos have a EMD 16-645-E3 prime mover with an output of 2,237kW (3,000hp). 

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Clyde Engineering/EMD #4201 at Maitland Steamfest

NSW Government Railway’s first Clyde/EMD product, entered service in November 1955.

The design was based on the Electro-Motive Diesel EMD F7 locomotive and were very similar to the GM 12 class then being built for the Commonwealth Railways & the S class for the Victorian Railways.

4201 was the first of 6 in the class, with an EMD 567c engine providing a gross power output of 1,750hp (1,305kw)

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Streamliners 2016

Many surviving members of Australia’s first diesel locomotives at the Goulburn NSW locomotive roundhouse.  

The background sound is the that of the Clyde EMD locos "notching up" during the day's sound off.