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Powering around the 50kmp/h curve at the Adelaide end of Balhannah yard is CFCLA trio S300,S311,EL53 working 9L65 ore and ballast hopper transfer from Islington Workshops to Goulburn on 19-9-14
S302, S317 and G513 power up the grades through Woodford with track machines bound for Lithgow.
Woodford, NSW.
Monday 9 January 2017.
Car: Mercedes-Benz 500 SEC.
Date of first registration: 14th March 1990.
Registration region: Chelmsford.
Latest recorded mileage: 146,402 (MOT 24th June 2019).
Last V5 issued: 11th April 2012.
Date taken: 18th December 2018.
Album: Carspotting
Passing through Bolwarra north of Portland and at the end of Nash's road are the preserved Seymour Rail Heritage Centre locos S307,C501 heading towards Hamilton on a day trip from Portland and return on 15-7-23
With the silos of Miralie in the distance, S302,S317 cruise along towards Piangil with thier empty SSR grainy on 24-10-18
Having just departed from Appleton Dock, C501, 852, S303, 4908, CLF1 and CLF4 lead SSR's 7MC7 empty grain across the Maribyrnong River bridge and into the Bunbury Street tunnel at the commencement of their journey to Ardlethan. 17/12/2022.
Only a few km's out from Heywood, Seymour Rail Heritage Centre's S307,C501 are about to cross Golf Course road heading towards Hamilton on thier special passenger working on 15-7-23
Steamrail's preserved S313 leads B76,T395 on the P&O rice train from Deniliquin between Mathoura and Barnes on 14-10-11
Yeah you're eyes does not deceive you, I really uploaded a picture after quite a while ;). I wrote my last exam for this semester last Friday so I finally have time for photography again. So I went out in the city and took some shots. I saw this line up just behind the Brandenburger Tor and I thought that all these beautiful black S-Classes really look great at this location.
Unfortunately the lens flare isn't real but I think thats OK. Took me about to 3 hours of editing to get this picture. Sorry for the pretty poor cloning on the right. There was way to much going on.
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I dedicate this picture to my sister who is really ill at the moment.
A Broad Gauge SSR grain train arrives at Piangil in northern Victoria on 24-10-18 with double S class locos S302,S317
West Coast Railway class leader S300 is stored on transfer bogies at Ballarat East on 11-7-2000, work would begin on S300 to reactivated the unit in 2002
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Zoute Sale - Bonhams
Estimated : € 75.000 - 100.000
Sold for € 83.375
Zoute Grand Prix 2022
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2022
'Exclusive' is a much bandied-about word in the classic car world, but it is a most apt description of the Mercedes-Benz 280 SE 3.5. Why? Because at $13,500 in 1970 its price was not only $3,500 more than that of the equivalent Mercedes-Benz sedan but also more than double that of a Cadillac Deville Coupé! Commonplace it was not.
The 3.5-litre version of the 280 SE typifies the resurgence of larger-engined Mercedes-Benz models that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the progressive easing of fiscal constraints, which had dissuaded customers from buying cars with large capacity engines, encouraged the German manufacturer to offer bigger, more potent power units. Thus the ultra-luxurious 280 SE Coupé/Cabriolet and 300 SEL saloon were the models chosen by Mercedes-Benz to launch its magnificent new 3.5-litre V8 engine in September 1969. An over-square design featuring a cast-iron block and aluminium-alloy cylinder heads, each equipped with a single overhead camshaft, this all-new, state-of-the-art power unit produced 200bhp courtesy of Bosch electronic fuel injection and transistorised ignition.
The new V8 engine had particularly smooth-running characteristics and endowed the 280 SEs with performance superior to that of many out-and-out sports cars. Thus equipped, the Coupé/Cabriolet was good for 125mph (200km/h) with 60mph (97km/h) reachable in 9.5 seconds, a substantial improvement on the six-cylinder version's figures. As befitted top-of-the-range luxury models, the 280 SE 3.5 Coupé and Cabriolet came equipped with automatic transmission, power windows, and a stereo radio as standard.
Although the equivalent SEL saloon used the 'New Generation' bodyshell, the 280 SE Coupé and Cabriolet kept the elegant coachwork that had debuted back in 1960/1961 on the 220 SE. Nevertheless, there had been some refinements made: the radiator shell was lower and wider, with a correspondingly flatter front end to the bonnet, a characteristic that has led to enthusiasts referring to these face-lifted cars as 'flat radiator' models, while the bumpers were now fitted with rubber strips. Significantly, the 280 SE 3.5 was to be the final model featuring this long-established and much-admired body style. It was truly Mercedes-Benz's flagship model, representing status, luxury and reliability. Today these last-of-the-line classics are highly sought after by discerning Mercedes-Benz collectors.
Most elegantly finished in the original colour combination of beige grey (beigegrau) with bamboo (bambus) coloured leather interior, this beautifully presented Mercedes-Benz incorporates a host of desirable options including a Becker Grand Prix radio; central armrests front and rear; heated rear screen; additional spotlights; automatic transmission; electric sliding sunroof; and electric windows.
As per the Mercedes-Benz data card (copy on file), the car was sold new via the Munich based dealer (code 226) but its first custodian was a medical doctor based in Vienna. The doctor owned the Mercedes from new until 1989 when the car was sold to its second Austrian owner, who would keep it until 2012 (copies of Austrian registration documents are on file). In 2012 the car was sold via a German dealer to its first German owner, who in turn sold it to the current vendor, a very well-respected collector of fine cars based in Munich. Clearly this car has been looked after all its life, and recent expenditure includes the following:
• 2017: comprehensive service by Mercedes-Benz in Munich including a comprehensive brake service; repair of the power-assisted steering; cooling circuit overhaul; installing new engine mounts; check and repair of heating and ventilation system, etc for a total of €14,600
• 2018: overhaul of the automatic gearbox and further smaller repairs, again at Mercedes-Benz Munich €5,530
• 2018: installing safety belts at CarTech Knowledge, Ismaning near Munich €2,000
• 2020: dry ice blasting and repair of some rust on wheel arches including paint, again at CarTech €5,150
• 2021: service with some minor repairs at CarTech €3,050
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Class III a : Post-War Closed Cars "The most elegant ones"
Zoute Concours d'Elegance
Royal Zoute Golf Club
Zoute Grand Prix 2021
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2021
Southern Shorthaul Railroad run their Hunter Valley export empty wheat rake from Carrington to Goolgowi in the Riverina, via Sydney, Cootamundra and Temora today Friday 18-8-2017.
BRM002-S317-S302-C505 worked the first leg of train no.4343 to Cootamundra. Upon arrival the two S class were removed and replaced by the sole pair of NREX 1200 class Gensets for the run out the branchlines. They made for an unusual and spectacular sight, unseen before in NSW.
Location: Berlin - 1417km from home.
This week's highlight comes from a country I haven't uploaded in a long time now - Andorra. I was pretty surprised to find this W220 just randomly parked up at the Gendamermarkt when I was running some errands. I guess I was pretty lucky. I usually try not to take pictures of parked cars with people inside of them, but I had no choice here. Andorra is definitely one of the rarest European state for me, which is no surprise, given that it's far away and it only has about 80k inhabitants.
In the 1920s, the Victorian Railways built an express passenger locomotive for the express run from Melbourne to Albury (where passengers changed trains – and gauge – to continue on to Sydney). These were the first three-cylinder locomotives designed in Australia.
Four locomotives were built between 1928 and 1930. In 1937/38 they all were streamlined in blue and gold livery for the new “Spirit of Progress” service. Tenuis is currently building the streamlined version. I like the lines of the original, and as a bonus, the locos were painted in a red livery from 1934, unlike so many VR locos which were plain back.
The initial boiler design and cab are from Teunis’s design. I just got the loco finished in time for this weekend, although there are a few more details I may add later. It ran well on it’s first outing other than the cow catcher falling off a few times.
Scanned the negative in for this recently. One of those wtf moments. Walking through a Melbourne suburb back in 1988 I stumbled on this scene. Someone had bought the front of a S Class Diesel locomotive from Victorian Railways (I just googled that bit), put it in their front garden and arranged the roof and the wall to look like it had smashed through their front living room.
10/10 for effort!
With most of the CFCLA branding removed , former CFCLA S class units S311,S300 are stored at Goulburn up for Sale at the time on 22-10-18.
Later both units would be sold to a private operator who in turn later sold S311 to Southern Shorthaul Railroad.
A pair of Victorian Railways GM-equipped 5'3" gauge classic 'S class' A1A-A1A diesels leave the town of Portland, Victoria on a wet day in May 1982.