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So. African Hoppers 2806 and 2807 - Official Work Thread
Philip Marshall:
I'm excited about this development, and also gratified to hear that the EBT couplers we got from Mount Union may finally find a use.
As an aside, I've noticed that caboose 554 is on SAR trucks. I'm curious, was there a previous purchase of South African equipment by Edaville?
Kevin Madore:
I noticed a photo on RailPictures.net today, which appears to depict a couple of these hoppers running at Sandstone Estates back in 2009. The photographer is Daniel Simon from France. I have not met him, but have corresponded with him a few times.
I assume these hoppers are perhaps 600 mm gauge?
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/854109/
/Kevin Madore
James Patten:
Sandstone has substantial 2-foot (610 mm) track. All their equipment came out of the various now-closed 2-foot gauge railways around South Africa.
Ed Lecuyer:
Some great press hit this morning.
First, across all things social media, our friend Sara "Ironhorse" Kammeraad posted this fun skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OShclk232v0
And Railfan & Railroad picked up the story too:
https://railfan.com/wwf-to-purchase-narrow-gauge-south-african-ballast-hoppers/
Can we raise $5000 before the end of the month?
Oh... We're halfway there!
https://wwfry.org/africa/
Ted Miles:
Like most members; I had never heard of Sandstone Estates Ltd. So I looked for it on Google, where else? It is an extensive farm museum with an operational Twenty-four-inch Railroad and a static display of Fourty-two-inch (Cape Gauge) locomotives and other items like a steam cane and a caboose. The web site shows a map of the active track; but not scale so I can not tell just how much track it has. The video on their site shows several locomotives in service; but no roster as such.
There are a large number of buildings which house equipment displays like tractors from steam to gas power. And stationary machinery including a gas engine powered washing machine!
As usual with farm museums there are lots of animals: oxen, cattle and chickens and others.
The have a Facebook companion site to go with their own home page. Like the old saying goes; Try it you will like it!
Ted Miles, Long time WW&F member
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