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I forgot to mention that on Saturday a train came into Darwin. Everyone went down to the station to watch. There was nothing special on the train; it was just a 1.2km long freighter with 4000 metric tons. It’s just that it was the first train to run from Alice Springs to Darwin.
The trucks were unusual. They were well-wagons, and because it’s so flat from Adelaide to Darwin, they’d stacked the 40 foot shipping containers 2 high on each truck. Instead of the usual bogie at each end, they used a shared-bogie affair between the trucks so that 5 trucks used 6 bogies.
But enough of the trainspotting.
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The trucks were unusual. They were well-wagons, and because it’s so flat from Adelaide to Darwin, they’d stacked the 40 foot shipping containers 2 high on each truck. Instead of the usual bogie at each end, they used a shared-bogie affair between the trucks so that 5 trucks used 6 bogies.
But enough of the trainspotting.
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