Southern Rail Models L Class Interail L271 N.Rivers
The Western Australian Government Railways L-Class were designed as an Australian version of the US SD40 model. The emerged from the Clyde Engineering plant at Sydney between 1967 and 1969. Twenty three were initially built, followed by an extra two for Western Mining in 1973. In 1972, two similar locos were built for Comalco’s railway at Weipa on Cape York Peninsula. These were not fitted with dynamic brakes, and weighed 148 tonnes. The WAGR fleet were purchased to operate the new standard gauge railway from Perth to Kalgoorlie, which replaced the narrow gauge route in 1970.
Features:
-Ready to run
-5 pole skew wound motor
-All wheel drive & pickup
-Blackened metal disc wheels
-Metal chassis
-Factory painted & decorated
-8 liveries in the first run
-Plastic abs body
-Super detailed underframe & body
-Separately applied metal parts
-See through metal etched grills
-Operating headlights & marker lights
-Genuine kadee couplers