Photo Trip around the Northern Cape: De Aar

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James Attwell
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Photo Trip around the Northern Cape: De Aar

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A bonus! Very rare that one can find 2 passenger trains a De Aar at the same time. Here Rovos Rail and the Shozoloza Meyl Arrive and depart the sleepy town of De Aar. I also threw in a picture of the Trans Karoo leaving Potch
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Stefan Andrzejewski
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Post by Stefan Andrzejewski »

How do they justify putting two 7E's on a Shoz Meyl train that one 6E1 can pull? I have never seen a passenger train even a 19 coach train been pulled by two 7E's
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