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Today's historic photo of the day: Candy liveried EMD diesel locos 42101 and 42219, after bringing the Canberra Monaro Express down from Sydney, only just fit into the headshunt as they run around their train at the absolute end of the line at Canberra station, Kingston, ACT, November 22 1985

Instead of running as a DEB set down to Cooma as it did most days, on Sundays in the 1980s, the Canberra Monaro Express ran as a loco-hauled #train to Canberra only before stabling for its afternoon return
A pair of diesel locomotives, both painted in bright red 'candy' livery, sit coupled together and hard against a buffer backed with a mound of earth. The loco at the buffers has a streamlined cab with its nose to the buffers. The second loco is of a boxcab style. The ground around the tracks is fairly well covered in green grass. A second track veers towards us in the lower foreground leading to a rocky mound from which this photo was snapped and which forms a barrier to runaways on that track. Behind the locos are a number of tall green trees, and to the right is a high cyclone wire or chain wire fence beyond which are some flowering street trees and a suburban street. Above it all is a cloudless, rich blue sky.
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