Afternoon delight
Mid-summer high light and heat haze are not the best conditions for rail photography, but when the subject matter is a 53 year old GM 'Bulldog', then exceptions have to be made.
GM47 entered service with the Commonwealth Railways (of Australia) on 16 January 1968 with ownership later passing through various iterations of ownership with Genesee & Wyoming Australia until early 2020.
After several years in storage it was reactivated earlier this year, and this afternoon made a rare appearance, after several other locos on the train had failed, at the head of 5DA2 intermodal service from Darwin to Adelaide, seen near Mallala, South Australia.
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Afternoon delight
Mid-summer high light and heat haze are not the best conditions for rail photography, but when the subject matter is a 53 year old GM 'Bulldog', then exceptions have to be made.
GM47 entered service with the Commonwealth Railways (of Australia) on 16 January 1968 with ownership later passing through various iterations of ownership with Genesee & Wyoming Australia until early 2020.
After several years in storage it was reactivated earlier this year, and this afternoon made a rare appearance, after several other locos on the train had failed, at the head of 5DA2 intermodal service from Darwin to Adelaide, seen near Mallala, South Australia.
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