KC non ISO container wagons
ABOVE: KC 114 at Geelong loco depot. May 15 1978.
Photo courtesy Geoff Winkler
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Converted from IY open wagons this class carried non ISO containers. Traffic I'm aware of was from Uncle Ben's pet food plant at Wodonga to a unloading facility near the canal zone of Melbourne Yard where the containers were transferred to road truck. | |||||||||||||
ABOVE: KC 96 at Melbourne yard circa 1957 (official VR photo)
ABOVE: The classender KC 121 awaits the scrappers torch at Ranglea 1979
ABOVE: KC 103 at Nth Geelong 1978.
ABOVE: Unknown KC at West Footscray, 1979
ABOVE: Closeup of stencil/load board and container lugs
The photo below is from the March 1962 VR newletter
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Containers carrying tallow. At Dynon, steam fed pipes liquify the tallow before road trucks convey it to soap factories.
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BELOW: official VR photos from 1958, I'm unaware of where this traffic went from/to.
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