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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
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+181…
If it is the 1st would be KA35

Port Augusta Roundhouse KA 61 + KA + KA 43 (Chris Drymalik Collection) 1949
comrails.com/pic_a/a_a0286.…

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
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/arti…

KA56-KA61 (Perry built) were fitted with superheaters in 1943.

Commonwealth Railways engine KA 53 at the Port Augusta Roundhouse (Chris Drymalik Collection) c. 1920s
comrails.com/pic_common/b07…

C.R. Class KA, Port Pirie 1937
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+465…

KA Engine on a turntable Port Augusta
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+503…

Last KA withdrawn 1952, all scrapped by 1961

KA67, G9 and G20 in derelict condition, Port Augusta, SA, January 1958
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/105…

KA class tender locomotive at Port Augusta 1951
probably KA37
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KA_c…

Film: NFSA
Rail Town' Port Augusta
National Film Board 1953

"Port Augusta is distinctly an individual town with a character all its own. Here is the starting point for the long railway lines to Central and WA, and the HQ of the CR."

Marvellous!

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