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Tag Archives: scrap
To Be Broken Up
Covid has been responsible for a number of changes of ownership of ships in the cruising industry, and has also been the harbinger of doom for a number of ships and cruise operators as they make their final voyages to … Continue reading
Posted in Cruiseships, Hobbies and Interests, Personal, Photo Essay, Retrospective, Ships, Transportation
Tagged breaking up, Carnival Cruises, cruise, cruiseship, Fantasy Class, scrap, ship, Sovereign Class
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They have gone and destroyed it
Regulars to my webpage and blog may remember the SANRASM debacle, and how a collection of valuable railwayana was reduced to so much scrap metal. It was a messy escapade, and the final outcome saw a new team placed in … Continue reading
Posted in Collections and Museums, Heritage Rail, Hobbies and Interests, Personal, Photowalks, South Africa, Transportation
Tagged 19d-2644, 23722, 4-10-2T, Randfontein, RSME, Sanrasm, SAR, scrap, South African Railways, Steam engine, train, Whardale
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