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nrmadden

November 29, 2023 08:39PM

Registered: 5 years ago
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Good morning,
Steel ties (sleepers) ...usually used where there is a termite problem. Or nowadays the cost of making narrow gauge concrete sleepers is more than steel ones.
I believe there is a problem tamping the ballast under the tie (sleeper).
Great photography. If the heritage of a lot of the diesel locos can be found - most of them were built at the Queensland Rail Workshops near Brisbane as 3'6" gauge. Exported to Malaysia and Vietnam as 1 meter gauge versions.

Neville
Queensland
Australia

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Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	SR_Krause	November 20, 2023 07:15PM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	Aidan.Rattlehead	November 20, 2023 07:29PM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	John C	November 20, 2023 11:35PM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	Aidan.Rattlehead	November 21, 2023 10:57PM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	MitchRGS	November 27, 2023 02:18AM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	Shavano479	November 20, 2023 09:49PM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	Dave Peterson	November 27, 2023 08:15AM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	James	November 27, 2023 09:42AM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	SR_Krause	November 28, 2023 05:25PM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	Wayne Sanderson	November 28, 2023 01:37AM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	SR_Krause	November 28, 2023 05:24PM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	nrmadden	November 29, 2023 08:39PM
Re: Other side of Narrow Gauge: TasRail	MitchRGS	December 08, 2023 04:46PM

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