SAR Livery rolling stock in HO Scale
I played around some more with my new 36" x 6" diorama. It's a simple single track module, but it seems to work OK for photography, especially when I take it outside. Here are a few more photos. Nothing looks more like sunlight than actual sunlight.
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SAR Class 6J 4-6-0 Locomotive.
(Precision Miniatures) (HO scale)
History of the CGR class 6J 4-6-0 Locomotive:
The 6J can trace its lineage back to the original
6th Class designed by Locomotive Superintendent,
M. Stephenson for fast passenger service on the
Cape Government Railways.
These locos were built by both American and
British builders between 1893 and 1904.
The most successful of the bar-framed
versions of the numerous 6th class, which
originated in 1893, were the fourteen locos
supplied in 1902 by Nielson, Reid and Co.,
which were used initially on the Cape main line.
The last of the type was withdrawn from Bethlehem
in the Free State as late as 1972.
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| A smoking hot SAR Class 6J Locomotive on my Aliwal North SAR Layout - HO Scale - a digitally framed image... |
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| SAR B-2 wagon with pipe load. |
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| SAR B-2 wagon with coal load. |
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| SAR U-13 Abnormal load wagon with load. Detailed and weathered. (handcrafted tarpaulin covered load at the rear and steel cable tied CAT D5M Dozer) |
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The Railway Tracks...
"Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?"
A line from the PINK FLOYD song "Wish You Were Here" |
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| SAR XPHR-17 Fuel Tanker |
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| SAR BAL-J Wagon with Coal Load |
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| SAR STJ-2 Log Wagon - with Load |
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| SAR Class 8x (kitbashed) (Frateschi) (OO scale) History of the CGR class 8x 2-8-0 Locomotive:
The first 8th Class 2-8-0 Consolidation type
locomotive of the Cape Government Railways (CGR) was designed by H.M. Beatty, the Chief Locomotive Superintendent of the CGR from 1896 to 1910. Sixteen of these engines were ordered from the Schenectady Locomotive Works in the United States of America. In 1901, while they were being built, Schenectady merged with seven other American locomotive
builders to form the American Locomotive
Company (ALCO).
As a result, the first two locomotives,
numbered 749 and 750, were built by
Schenectady in 1901, while ALCO built the rest in 1902. Of the latter, the first seven
were numbered in the range from 351 to 357 and
were allocated to the Midland System, while the
last seven were numbered in the range from 751 to 757 and joined the two Schenectady-builds on the Western System. They were conceived as mixed traffic locomotives, equally suitable for goods and passenger work. |
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| Marshalling... |
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| SAR Class 35 Diesel Electric (semi kitbashed) |
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| SAR VL-9 Guards Van |
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| SAR ZO-3 Officials Coach |
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| The race is on |
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| Peterbilt 359 with Flat Trailer Load |
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| SAR GZB-1 Small Livestock Wagon |
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