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R class 4-6-2
4 built Perry Gawler 1923
R1-R4
R3 & R4 streamlined late 1930s for Hobart to Launceston expresses

TGR R Class, no. 3, streamlined, northbound with passenger carriages in matching livery, Austin's Ferry, [c. 1938]
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TGR R Class
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TGR R Class, no.4, on turntable at roundhouse, Hobart
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TGR R Class, no. 2 Boag's building in background
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TGR R Class, streamlined, Tasman Limited, Hobart, Tasmania, [1940]
UON
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The streamlining no doubt inspired by VR S class locos for the Spirit of Progress.
R3
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The streamlining was removed in the late 1940s.
All the R locos were withdrawn in 1956-1957.
Unfortunately, all were scrapped.

No detail available for this. Looks like R1. Perhaps a backup for R3 and R4 if not available? Trial for the streamlining??
Very impressive for 3' 6" gauge to say the least!

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Tasmanian Government Railways R Class Engines 3 & 4
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CN class 4-6-0
8 built 1907-1908 Montreal Locomotive Works for Canadian Northern Railways
Emergency loco reinforcement during WW2 through US Army Lend Lease scheme due to acute loco shortage
CN70-CN77 1942

CR CN Class Port Augusta
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CN H-6-c 1283 packed ready for shipping to Australia - this became CR locomotive CN 73 (Matthew Reid)
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Commonwealth Railways CN class locomotive, no. CN76, at Port Pirie, South Australia, with a mixed train for Port Augusta, South Australia
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C class 4-6-0 same as NSWGR C36 but with higher capacity tenders
8 built Walkers Qld 1938
C62-C69

Commonwealth Railways C Class no. 62
Port Augusta Railway Station
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Note short smoke deflectors located either side of the funnel. Image
Commonwealth Railways C class locomotive C67 on the Trans Australia railway
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Commonwealth Railways C62
Port Augusta Railway Station
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There was a problem with smoke entering cabs of the C locos so various designs of smoke deflectors were tried and small short smoke deflectors located either side of the funnel was the solution. Image
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#CRsteamlocomotives
KA class 2-8-0 same as NSWGR D53 (TF)
26 built 1918-1920
Perry Engineering (6)
Walkers Limited (20)
KA35–KA54, KA56–KA61
1st KA Class Engine, CR, thought to be possibly at Port Augusta
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If it is the 1st would be KA35 Image
Port Augusta Roundhouse KA 61 + KA + KA 43 (Chris Drymalik Collection) 1949
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In the 1920s/30s CR considered that at least 14 KA locos were surplus to requirements and tried to sell them, fortunately unsuccessfully, because of the subsequent demands on rail in WW2.

The West Australian (Perth, WA) Thu 22 Oct 1936 Page 18
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