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Class G16 Diesel-electric locomotive (G16-163), built by GM in the US in 1961 for the Egyptian State Railways.
Seized in Sinai in the 6-Day War 1967. Railway Museum (Haifa-East). 29 May 2012.
P.L. Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr) |
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Class G16 Diesel-electric locomotive (G16-163).
Railway Museum (Haifa-East). 29 May 2012.
P.L. Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr) |
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Not what it appears to be. This is the Haifa-East diesel depot in June 1992. ISR class GP-16 #162, built in 1961 and captured from the Egyptians in the 1967 war, is undergoing a massive overhaul. Note the many MFE diesel switchers dumped around – Haifa-East was their final resting place before they were all sold off as scrap metal. This yard is empty today.
Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com> |
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Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com> |
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Beersheba station is the gate to the south of Israel. Heavy freight trains pass here from the Oron phosphates mines deep in the Negev desert, normally worked by a tandem of ISR’s largest diesels. ISR #163 (built 1961), however, is an aging lady. Exposed to the demanding ascents of the Beersheba–Oron line, it may breathe out its last. On the 05 April 1990, #163 has little to do but await the arrival of a long freight train from Lod or Ashdod, after which it took off in the opposite direction, to the north. This fine diesel is no longer active.
Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com> |
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