Kalahari Mikado performance
| November 23, 2011 08:43AM |
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From my one experience of riding behind a Kalahari they run very well indeed. On a trip on the Avontuur line in 1997 (I think) we reached a maximum speed of 60 kilometres an hour, that is 36 m.p.h. - the fastest I have ever travelled on 2ft. gauge.
A few pictures from the trip below - the clinker was the result of the high speed run!
Don Newing
Derbyshire, UK
A few pictures from the trip below - the clinker was the result of the high speed run!
Don Newing
Derbyshire, UK
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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