Alco Diesels - the 44 Class - 2
Early members of the 44 class were built at A E Goodwin’s factory at St Mary’s and were issued to traffic in a stylish tuscan red and yellow with a thin red separation line as seen here in this photo of a restored 4401 taken by Brad Peadon at Delec in 1996.
This was just the start of a wide variety of colour schemes that that class carried over the years. The first change involved the dropping of the red separation line and the class carried that modified scheme for many years.
Here’s one of the class wearing the modified scheme on a down empty wheat train at Wallerawang in the first half of the 1980s.
There was a time when Wallerawang boasted quite an extensive set of sidings but by the time this photo was taken most of those sidings had been lifted - including the one that had run along the gray area just in front of the camera.
You’ll find the first section of Alco Diesels - the 44 Class by following the link.