Easter Bunny Express to Cullinan - 1 April

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Gabor Kovacs
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Easter Bunny Express to Cullinan - 1 April

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Here are a few pictures I took in preparation for and during the Easter Bunny Express to Cullinan.

My apologies for the grainy smaller photos, but they were taken with my mobile phones' camera, which is certain showing signs of degradation with age . . . .

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Mobile phone picture.
Caption: Saturday (30 March 2013), late afternoon, 2650 rests in front of John's office after a small shunt was completed and just before 2650 is returned to the compound for the night to wait for the night-shift firelight . . .

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Mobile phone picture.
Caption: Sunday afternoon, and 2650 stands at the head of her train, waiting to shunt the passenger coaches onto the platform at Hermanstad . . . .

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Mobile phone picture.
Caption: Shunting completed, train is now ready for tomorrow, all thats left now is to stable the locomotive for the night . . . .

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Mobile phone picture.
Caption: Driver Attwell greasing loco 2650 at Cullinan. We arrived rather late in Cullinan, bang on 12H00, due to PTA Metro Service running late . . . .

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Mobile phone picture.
Caption: what a lekker (nice) day it' was in Cullinan. Almost time to head home at 15H15 . . . .

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Caption: taking the loco back home to Capital Park, and putting her to bed. . . . .
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Re: Easter Bunny Express to Cullinan - 1 April

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Some more photos from this past weekend!


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Caption: 2650 simmering away quietly at Hermanstad . . .

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Caption: with the fire dying down after the required work was completed, 2650 still simmers away, into the late afternoon . . .

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Caption: right down-low, a artsy pic!

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Caption: 2650, awaken from her simmering night slumber, prepared, and moves forward to couple onto the head of her train standing alongside the Hermanstad station platform . .

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Re: Easter Bunny Express to Cullinan - 1 April

Post by Nathan Berelowitz »

Some very nice stuff Gabor and the difference in camera equipment is definately visible.
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