Today's historic photo of the day: Commonwealth Railways NDH class diesel hydraulic #railcar NDH2 sits in storage at Albury, NSW, June 11, 1983

Six NDH railcars were built for the Commonwealth Railways in 1954 by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company in the UK as subcontractors to Commonwealth Engineering. These railcars were powered by 6 cylinder Detroit series 71 diesel engines that delivered 105kW of power to a 1A-A1 wheel arrangement and, as delivered, ran on 1067mm narrow gauge

Today's historic photo of the day: Rail flaw detection vehicle SRS141 passes through Hawkesbury River, NSW, September 5 1983.

SRS141 was built in 1928 in St Louis (USA) as a passenger #railcar for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. In 1972, it was converted by Sperry to provide rail flaw detection services to US railroads.

In 1973 it came to Australia, and roamed the NSW checking for rail flaws. It eventually returned to North America certainly by 2002, and is still in use over there

Today's historic photo of the day: An overview of the railcar depot beyond the terminus station at Newcastle, NSW, June 9 1985.

Inside the shed is what looks like a Flyer set. To its right is a yellow-end 660 class #railcar set, next (in candy colours) is 631, then behind it is 661, then an unidentified candy set, and in the distance is 730, then 628, and finally in whiskers livery at far right is 721.

Texas and Pacific Railroad #1603
"The Train of Thought" Education Rail Car
National Museum of Transportation
Kirkwood, Missouri, USA

See photo Alt-Text for historical information.

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This unique passenger railcar is one of only two AR2 series, manufactured in Latvia in 1997. This one (AR-02) was used in Lithuania for more than two decades and is now on display at Railway Museum in Vilnius. Another (AR2-01) belongs to Latvian Railway (LDz).

AR2s had one 310 kW engine, top speed of 120 km/h and had seats for 73 + 3 passengers.

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