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By the late 1970's the only commodity that the remaining O's were carrying was limestone traffic from Nowa Nowa to Maryvale. they were originally VR's main coal carrying wagon, traffic was from State Mine, Wonthaggi to Newport powerhouse for the Melbourne electrification. From the mid 1950's many O's were modified/recoded to ON, (ballast) and OC, (sand) | |||||||||||||
ABOVE & BELOW: By the mid 70's only 3 of this style O wagon were left, 2, 3 & 5. (photo below, 1977 courtesy Peter J. Vincent)
ABOVE: O 284 beautifully preserved by the Central Highlands Tourist Railway. Note, this style of lettering disappeared by the mid 70's. Photo at Daylesford August 2005
ABOVE: O's 292 and 273 at North Geelong yard, July 24 1978. Photo courtesy Geoff Winkler
ABOVE: In 1923, four O's entered service in this configuration to transport coal for the Fuller Lehigh Pulverized [sic] Brown coal tests involving C 16, A2 800 and a DD. The numbers were: 336, 337, 338 and 346. (PROV collection)