Prior to the standard intersystem coding these were class VFXCheck Chris Drymalik's Comrails site. There are at least four builds and this link I have included could be the skinny gauge one in question.
I have a photo of a newly built VFX pair in early Australian National Railways livery (Bright red plates reading "Australian National Railways" in upper case on CR maroon bodies, on 3'6" bogies at Midland awaiting transfer to standard gauge for movement East. I can't recall who built these, probably not Comeng since they were by that stage connected to the SG.
So you could run them on a WAGR HOn3-1/2 layout if you wanted to. (Sadly they seem to follow Sn3-1/2 more in WA....)
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The ABFXs in their heyday were supposed to be restricted to Forwarding Agents traffic between Melbourne and Perth and anyone who misdirected one into other traffics was in strife. The NSW Forwarding Agents preferred 50 tonne vans (NLKY/VLEX/WBAX) over ABFXs. It was only in 'later years' that ABFXs became available for Mount Gambier paper traffic.There are many photos around of traffic on the Peterborough line with mixtures or larger box cars. There are quite a few pictures around of ABFX on Mount Gambier trains. In the 80's I spent many weekdays at Steam Ranger and many ABFX were shunted past the depot into the paper warehouse next door.
Carmor Engineering was based in Whyalla and built TOK (?) tank wagons as well as ABFXs IIRC but they went broke in the mid 1970s.
There some vehicles built at Dandenong by Comeng but I don't recall what they were but some of these movements were loaded with dogspikes and other track jewellery made by West Footscray Engineering. These were transferred to Pirie on BG bar framed bogies hired from the SAR as the Victorians wanted outrageous hire charges. It's all a bit hazy now.
Those were the olden days when we did things and made things in Australia.
Check Chris Drymalik's Comrails site. There are at least four builds and this link I have included could be the skinny gauge one in question.Looking at Chris' site, there are photos of Carmor and Comeng wagons in original condition.
http://www.comrails.com/freight/rs_vfx_2788.html#vfx2830
Until now I had never heard of Carmor Engineering so is it in WA ?
There are also list of wagons built in Comeng NSW
Mechanical Handling Woodville SA
Comeng WA
A couple of points to remember.The ABFXs in their heyday were supposed to be restricted to Forwarding Agents traffic between Melbourne and Perth and anyone who misdirected one into other traffics was in strife. The NSW Forwarding Agents preferred 50 tonne vans (NLKY/VLEX/WBAX) over ABFXs. It was only in 'later years' that ABFXs became available for Mount Gambier paper traffic.There are many photos around of traffic on the Peterborough line with mixtures or larger box cars. There are quite a few pictures around of ABFX on Mount Gambier trains. In the 80's I spent many weekdays at Steam Ranger and many ABFX were shunted past the depot into the paper warehouse next door.
Carmor Engineering was based in Whyalla and built TOK (?) tank wagons as well as ABFXs IIRC but they went broke in the mid 1970s.
There some vehicles built at Dandenong by Comeng but I don't recall what they were but some of these movements were loaded with dogspikes and other track jewellery made by West Footscray Engineering. These were transferred to Pirie on BG bar framed bogies hired from the SAR as the Victorians wanted outrageous hire charges. It's all a bit hazy now.
Those were the olden days when we did things and made things in Australia.
I was not familiar with the Carmor name and on the Comrails site I found four different batches of VFX builds. I thought it may have fitted in with the trip on the skinny gauge.
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