South African Railways RED DEVIL on goods 1991
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She is at present mothballed and was even pulled out into the open a few weeks ago but the words you use "wasn't scrapped" means nothing in SA nowadays. Hopefully you are right but many a wonderful once preserved locomotives have already been cut up in that country!!
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Int it weird with no chuffing!? condenser ftW!
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Can you remember which month you were there? I spent a week there at the end of August 1991 after I'd flown from LHR to C.Town to attend a mate's wedding. Couldn't resist the attractions of De Aar; things would have been better if I hadn't left my camcorder on top of car after filming first train, it certainly didn't work after hitting the gravel at 50kph!
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Thanks for the memories.
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nádhera
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Exhaust beat sounds interesting....
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No chuffing? The Red Devil is not a condensing loco. She's just going so bluddy fast that her beat is a drum roll.
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Amazing that this thing is only a 3-foot gauger...
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Beautiful piece of footage from the era.
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Very nice video and loco. Thumbs up! :)
I have only "dangerous half-knowledge" about SA railways, like we Germans say.
But is this a Henschel loco with the condensing technique from the German locos that were build for the conquered Russian landscapes in WWII?
megatwingo 3 months ago
@megatwingo This loco was built by Henschel in 1954 but was rebuilt and improved in 1980s. Many of the class 25s were condensing locos but 3450 was built as a standard 25NC meaning non-condenser
LifeofRail 3 months ago
'only 800 tons'' : )
Priceless technical artefact of global significance.
SteffanLlwyd 6 months ago 2
@SteffanLlwyd Only 800tons!! That was a light goods load for that line for any steam loco. Most of the time it was about 1300tons behind the tender of these mighty 4-8-4s although I do remember taking a load of 1900tons with a single engine after the trains two diesels broke down!! Great old days indeed!!
LifeofRail 6 months ago 2