JOINING trains in the OVERBERG beyond CALEDON Shunting Grain Trains at KLIPDALE | Train South Africa

OVERBERG trains beyond CALEDON: Part 2 TRANSNET Freight Rail Shunting trains at KLIPDALE during March 2018. In this video 2 separate trains get joined into one train at KLIPDALE. The balloon track at KLIPDALE is of special interest. Part of the Overberg barley harvest is stored in silos along railway routes in the area. Transnet Freight Rail transport some of this barley to the SAB maltings plant at Caledon. These diesel train operations beyond Caledon are not exactly rare, but being relatively remote for local railfans to access, are not regularly recorded in photos or videos. (More often train movements between Caledon and Bellville get recorded.) It was purely by chance that we stumbled upon train activities in March 2018 while based at L"Agulhas. The trains are relatively short, because most silo's can only accommodate about 10 grain hoppers at a time. Some silo's do have a small shunter to move the wagons while loading at the silo, but specifically the silo's at PROTEM and NAPIER have sidings designed with a small gradient, so that wagons can by moved very slowly by gravity and working the handbrake.

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