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$1billion paid for two 50 year old Garratt locos
January 2008
A steam enthusiast from New Zealand recently paid one billion Zimbabwe dollars (approx USD$7,500) for two Garratt locomotives built for the Rhodesian Railways in 1953.
Until about ten years ago, the locomotives were in regular use and have been sitting around idle ever since. The Garratt’s were dismantled and shipped from Africa to New Zealand – a journey of three months.
It is expected to take two years to fully restore them and convert the locos from burning coal to oil.
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