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CA class 4-6-0 built 1905 (CA78) and 1907 (CA79)
Baldwin - arrived in Australia for CR 1943 as urgent loco reinforcement during WW2
ex New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway USA
G-4a class

Port Augusta - CA79 (Doug Colquhoun)
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CA78 written off 1945
CA79 written off 1950
both scrapped 1956

Port Augusta - rotten row - CA79 (Chris Drymalik Collection) 1951
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NH G-4-a 4-6-0 #836 at Northampton, Mass., built by Baldwin in 1905 seen here on October 13, 1946. Photo by R. L. Wonson
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CA78 was NH G-4-a #846
CA79 was NH G-4-a #820
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NFA class 2-6-0
Dubs and Co Glasgow (builders No.3385) 1896
CR purchased as ex contractor loco in 1915
Design similar to NZR J class
1 only NFA8 used NAR
Withdrawn 1925 scrapped c. 1960

New Zealand Railways locomotive J 2-6-0 class
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'Number 1' used by Smith and Timms on construction of the Yeelanna-Minnipa Hill and Cummins-Kimba railway lines on Eyre Peninsula between 1912 and 1915.
This was loco purchased by CR 1915 and is NFA8
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NF class 2-6-0
CR 1911/15
ex SAR W class
built c. 1877-82 Beyer Peacock
NF2 - W13
3 - 21
4 - 36
5 - 53
6 - 54
NF7 - W51 poor condition
Also W35 poor condition used to reconstruct NF7
Used on NAR

CR NF5 (Chris Drymalik Collection)
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Two men on railway train, Northern Territory, approximately 1927 / Michael Terry
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NF class loco Image
Railway workers on a steam engine c. 1882 Beltana GNR
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This is a W possibly what was to become NF5 or NF6 Image
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NB class 0-6-0T (saddle) 3' 6" gauge
Built Vulcan Iron Works USA 1916
Used for construction works Henderson Naval Base WA
Purchased by CR 1925 for CAR NB29 & NB30

C.R. NB Class No. 30, Quorn 1949
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NB29 (Chris Drymalik Collection)
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NB30 at Quorn (Chris Drymalik Collection)
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