G'day from Australia!
I'm a volunteer at my local rail museum in Western Australia, and we have a class of steam locomotives (U Class) 14 were bought from a batch of 40ish 4-6-2 Pacific's headed for Sudan. We have two members left in preservation (I'll link later in this post for those interested) However my main query of this post was do any of these still survive (In or out of Sudan) Here's the picture links that I found of them. http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... =147&t=500 http://img.posterlounge.de/images/wbig/ ... -45563.jpg
Now, for those interested here are the images of the two that reside here in W.A. One remains in it's near original state, while the other is in a heavily modified form (Namely a 4-8-4 Tank.) Here is U 655 in original form http://www.australiansteam.com/wa/u655.jpg and Ut 664 http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5010/5361 ... 3506_m.jpg
Many thanks for any information regarding the locomotives in Africa!
-Jaydan-
Regarding a Sudanese Loco (Pic Link in the post)
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Re: Regarding a Sudanese Loco (Pic Link in the post)
Jaydan, welcome to the Forum. I have a great personal interest in railways in Sudan and South Sudan, having worked there for 30 years now.
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Re: Regarding a Sudanese Loco (Pic Link in the post)
http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... =147&t=500
http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... =147&t=450
http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... 147&t=7745
Further looking through the Sudan section has brought up pictures with The or a very similar class of locomotive.
Here is a reference picture http://www.australiansteam.com/wa/u655.jpg
http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... =147&t=450
http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... 147&t=7745
Further looking through the Sudan section has brought up pictures with The or a very similar class of locomotive.
Here is a reference picture http://www.australiansteam.com/wa/u655.jpg
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Re: Regarding a Sudanese Loco (Pic Link in the post)
Sorry guys, slight typo, the Ut is a 4-6-4 (Thanks to WAGR on Railpage for the correction!)