This forum is a learning experience and one thing we've just learned is that people with slow dial up connections have difficulty viewing a long thread full of photos, so we've split the photo section for Rotary's Greatest Train Race 2007 into several smaller threads each beginning with the title Witbank 2007.
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Rotary's Greatest Train Race - Witbank Marathon August 2007
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- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
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Ready to depart from Witbank shed on a misty Sunday morning
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- ...but first third man Tony has to refill the water bottle for the footplate crew
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- 2650 stands at the head of the train in Witbank shed ready to depart
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Diesel traction at Witbank Station - the shunt cars take the coaches from the station to the loco shed. The steam engines have already gone to the shed.
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- Train ready to depart
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- Coupling, coupling...
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Photo and text by Nathan Berelowitz August 2007
"as I slept I dreamed and visions of vapour and familiar shapes pierced the darkness and brought a familiarity to them."
"as I slept I dreamed and visions of vapour and familiar shapes pierced the darkness and brought a familiarity to them."
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- AM in Witbank. 15CA shape haunts the shed once home to these magnificent locomotives.
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