Author: MITCHELL, KEN; Compiler. Title: Farewell Old Chums: A Pictorial Tribute to the 1200 and 1250 Classes of Diesel Electric Locomotives of the Queensland Railways.
Description: First Edition; Oblong F'cap 4to; pp. 36; text illustrated with numerous b/w. photographs, list of distances traveled by each Loco, bound in original stiff stapled illustrated wrappers, good copy. Brisbane; Australian Railway Historical Society- Queensland Division; 1988. On 3rd July 1953 a new era commenced in the Queensland Railways for on that day the first diesel electric locomotive of the 1200 class entered service. Having been built in England, the class soon became known as Chums or Chummy Locos.
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