Guess this is another batch for Mongolia: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/846950/
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Besides the new locomotives being hauled, what is the status of the (branch?) line heading the opposite direction? Given the grass between the rails, I don't think that line has been used much recently.
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That's a special and observant woman right there for giving you a heads up on this. Or at least in my book it is!!
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Branch is oversignaled. It runs a mile or to out to a now defunct foundry. It used to go maybe 5-6 miles out to a large quarry but that ended sometime before 1967. When the foundry was busy back in the sixties there was a fair bit of traffic (The sky was a beautiful cyan color in the morning and the air smelled like hot brake shoes). Track seems to be used a little but no idea for what. Big bureaucracies can't be bothered with something trivial so when the CFLs were replaced they replaced the fancy old branch signal with a fancy new signal when an interlocked hand throw would have been sufficient.
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Thanks for this photo, Sid. I will be taking these engines soon in Mongolian Gobi and will publish here!
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