SAR Sheathed Dining Car (Type 2, Side B)         
This dining car, the MOOI, has a sheathed wooden body with a tapered roof peak at one end and nine panorama size windows. Dining cars run permanently coupled to kitchen cars with their squared roof peak ends coupled together, and are always positioned in the middle of the train. It is an ex SAR coach that was restored by the Umgeni Steam Railway. The interior layout is, from the right, an ice box in the corner on the B side, a servery with a passage around it on the A side, and the dining room. .....oo....oo..... SAR Type A-28, Built 1937, Length over headstocks 63' 0", Height 12' 5 13/16", Width 9' 3", To seat 44.
Date: 3/21/2010 Location: Nottingham Road, ZN,  ZA Country Flag Views: 621 Collection Of:   Col AndrĂ© Kritzinger
Rolling Stock: SAS 233 (Diner) Author:  Charles Baker's picture
SAR Sheathed Dining Car (Type 2, Side B)
Picture Categories: Passenger This picture is part of album:  South Africa's Rolling Stock - Passenger Mainline
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