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 Posted - May 28 2008 : 3:06:35 PM
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G´day,
Martinsburg, Vic. in Australia is a small town, which has been founded 90 years ago by German immigrants. It´s located near the mainline Melbourne - Adelaide and is served by Australian National and VLine.
Today I could take pictures of a local freight train, which was made up of AN-cars only.
I took the fist picture from far away, the EMD GP38-2 in the typical green livery.
Then a close-up of the diesel, isn´t it a beauty?
Following the loco there was a falt car with IPEC-containers
Then a car carrier with a load of Holdens (really?)
A cattle car followed (sorry, no pic yet) and finally a gondola.
This was my trip to the station today. The models are Lifelike, except the gon, which is OZ-Freight.
And now, a cold stubby of VB...
Cheers,
Martin
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Posted - June 01 2008 : 10:04:38 AM
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How strange. I've lived in Victoria all my life, and had never heard of Martinsburg. :)
Not as strange as how that Oz-Freight gondola has the AN logo upside down though.
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Posted - June 01 2008 : 11:41:51 AM
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Best is, there´s supposed to be a Martinsburg in southern Germany, with a clone of this station, have to come up with pix later....
But, AN never ran GP38´s nor did they have american style wagons. Combined all that, the upside down logo on the gondola does not affect so much anymore!
Martin
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Posted - October 11 2013 : 01:19:05 AM
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Funny that AN GP38-2 should have yellow trucks shouldn't it? It also doesn't have a road number. Perhaps the 2000 number series might be appropriate. Actually I worked in a hobby store back in 1996-98 named "GONE LOCO" in the Adelaide suburb of Plympton & sold many of these Lifelike GP38-2 loco's. I don't remember any of the ones i sold ever looking as CLEAN as your model shown here. Good job. Who needs to be a"Rivet counter" modeler anyway
Many Thanks. Regards. Pete H.
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 Posted - October 11 2013 : 02:20:50 AM
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Am jealous of your train now 
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 Posted - June 08 2023 : 08:56:41 AM
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Makes those items look more realistic.
One of them is a Life Like item.
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