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SAR Sheathed Baggage-Van (Side B)
Title:  SAR Sheathed Baggage-Van (Side B)
Description:  This combination conductor's van/baggage car has a sheathed wooden body with squared roof peaks and is painted in the original SAR maroon and gray livery. The interior layout is, from the righ, a baggage room with two dog boxes on the A side, the conductor's cabin with exit doors on both sides, and a baggage room with a toilet on the A side and two dog boxes on the B side.
Photo Date:  1/11/2008  Upload Date: 2/13/2009 5:43:19 PM
Location:  Vink, WC
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  434   Comments: 0
SAR Sheathed Baggage-Van (Side A)
Title:  SAR Sheathed Baggage-Van (Side A)
Description:  This combination conductor's van/baggage car has a sheathed wooden body with squared roof peaks and is painted in the original SAR maroon and gray livery. The interior layout is, from the left, a baggage room with two dog boxes on the A side, the conductor's cabin with exit doors on both sides, and a baggage room with a toilet on the A side and two dog boxes on the B side.
Photo Date:  1/11/2008  Upload Date: 2/13/2009 5:31:47 PM
Location:  Vink, WC
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  466   Comments: 0
SAR Sheathed Coach (Side A)
Title:  SAR Sheathed Coach (Side A)
Description:  These sheathed wooden commuter coaches disappeared from South African rails during the 1960s and 1970's, gradually getting replaced by all metal coaches with driver controlled sliding doors. These coaches had toilets at one end and six doors to a side.
Photo Date:  1/11/2008  Upload Date: 1/26/2009 10:23:03 AM
Location:  Vink, WC
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  583   Comments: 0
SAR Steel Coach (Side A)
Title:  SAR Steel Coach (Side A)
Description:  These metal sheathed wooden commuter coaches disappeared from South African rails during the 1960s and 1970's, gradually getting replaced by all metal coaches with driver controlled sliding doors. These coaches had toilets at one end and six doors to a side.

SAR Type S-45, Built 1949, Number range 7499 to 7555, Length over headstocks 63' 0", Height 12' 1 7/16", Width 9' 1 3/4", To seat 115.
Photo Date:  1/11/2008  Upload Date: 1/26/2009 10:50:05 AM
Location:  Vink, WC
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  540   Comments: 0
SAR Steel Coach (Side B)
Title:  SAR Steel Coach (Side B)
Description:  These metal sheathed wooden commuter coaches disappeared from South African rails during the 1960s and 1970's, gradually getting replaced by all metal coaches with driver controlled sliding doors. These coaches had toilets at one end and six doors to a side.

SAR Type S-45, Built 1949, Number range 7499 to 7555 (this one), Length over headstocks 63' 0", Height 12' 1 7/16", Width 9' 1 3/4", To seat 115.
Photo Date:  1/11/2008  Upload Date: 1/26/2009 11:09:34 AM
Location:  Vink, WC
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  579   Comments: 0
SAR Class 15CA 2828 (4-8-2)
Title:  SAR Class 15CA 2828 (4-8-2)
Description:  In 1926 the South African Railways placed twenty-three Class 15CA steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain wheel arrangement in service, built by the by American Locomotive Company and numbered 2039 to 2059, 2072 and 2073. Another sixty-one were ordered and delivered in 1929 and 1930, built in four batches by three manufacturers (Baldwin Locomotive Works, Società Italiana Ernesto Breda and North British Locomotive Company). These were numbered in the ranges 2074 to 2077 and 2801 to 2857.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 15CA 4-8-2.
Photo Date:  1/11/2008  Upload Date: 5/7/2009 10:50:04 AM
Location:  Vink, WC
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  SAS 2828(4-8-2)
Views:  683   Comments: 1
SAR Sheathed Baggage-Van (Side A)
Title:  SAR Sheathed Baggage-Van (Side A)
Description:  This combination conductor's van/baggage car has a sheathed wooden body with tapered roof peaks and is painted in the original SAR maroon and gray livery. The interior layout is, from the left, a baggage room with two dog boxes on the A side, the conductor's cabin with exit doors on both sides, and a baggage room with a toilet on the A side and two dog boxes on the B side.
Photo Date:  1/11/2008  Upload Date: 2/13/2009 5:17:55 PM
Location:  Vink, WC
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  478   Comments: 0
SAR Steel Sleeper Coach (2nd Class, Side B)
Title:  SAR Steel Sleeper Coach (2nd Class, Side B)
Description:  This second class coach has squared roof peak ends and a closed vestibule at each end. It is painted in its original maroon and gray SAR livery. Side B is the passage side and its interior layout is, from the right, a toilet, two six-bed compartments, two three-bed coupes, three six-bed compartments, a three-bed coupe, and a toilet.

SAR Type E-16, Length over headstocks 63' 5", Height 12' 5 13/16", Width 9' 3 3/16", To sleep 39.
Photo Date:  1/11/2008  Upload Date: 2/13/2009 6:04:38 PM
Location:  Vink, WC
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  503   Comments: 0
SAR Steel Sleeper Coach (2nd Class, Side A)
Title:  SAR Steel Sleeper Coach (2nd Class, Side A)
Description:  This second class coach has squared roof peak ends and a closed vestibule at each end. It is painted in its original maroon and gray SAR livery. Side A is the compartment side and its interior layout is, from the left, a toilet, two six-bed compartments, two three-bed coupes, three six-bed compartments, a three-bed coupe, and a toilet.

SAR Type E-16, Length over headstocks 63' 5", Height 12' 5 13/16", Width 9' 3 3/16", To sleep 39.
Photo Date:  1/11/2008  Upload Date: 2/13/2009 5:53:42 PM
Location:  Vink, WC
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  431   Comments: 0
SAR Class 15CA 2828 (4-8-2)
Title:  SAR Class 15CA 2828 (4-8-2)
Description:  In 1926 the South African Railways placed twenty-three Class 15CA steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain wheel arrangement in service, built by the by American Locomotive Company and numbered 2039 to 2059, 2072 and 2073. Another sixty-one were ordered and delivered in 1929 and 1930, built in four batches by three manufacturers (Baldwin Locomotive Works, Società Italiana Ernesto Breda and North British Locomotive Company). These were numbered in the ranges 2074 to 2077 and 2801 to 2857.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 15CA 4-8-2.
Photo Date:  10/20/2009  Upload Date: 11/11/2009 3:30:42 PM
Location:  Vink, WC
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  SAS 2828(4-8-2)
Views:  762   Comments: 0


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