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Col André Kritzinger's Collection
 
5/6/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: South African Railways
Type: Reefer
SAS Class:   LA-2

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SAR Class LA-2 (Side A)
Title:  SAR Class LA-2 (Side A)
Description:  Class LA-2 (LAJ-2) wagons entered service between 1967 and 1968 and are designed to transport frozen products. It is a mechanichal refrigerator fitted with 168 double meat hooks. Mechanical refrigerators are nearly all retired now, having been replaced by reefer containers. This one is painted in the Union Limited passenger train livery.

Number range 15 011 003 to 15 012 093 (this one may have been renumbered, since it's number actually belongs in the Class LA-3 number range), Length between couplers 13.076m, Length over headstocks 12.192m, Length between bogie pivot centres 8.230m, Height 3.886m, Width 2.534m, Door width 1.397m, Door height 1.797m, Tare (average) 24,666kg, Load 26,000kg, Floor area 23.7m2, Capacity 40.2m3.
Photo Date:  8/3/2003  Upload Date: 12/16/2006 3:47:00 PM
Location:  Ysterplaat, Cape Town, WC, ZA
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock
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