"Guess this is where they will be returned to traffic and painted into Seco Rails House Colours. (Same as 58026 - Orange & Yellow)
There is talk that they are looking at a Top n Tail formation for their new ballast cleaner. Whether that is what the 47s are intended for remains to be seen."
"The proposed use of Locos by Seco Rail on the Ballast Cleaner may require a number of modifications to be undertaken to the Locos
The proposed operation would be formed Loco, Ballast Cleaner, Loco
which would run under the power of the locos into an engineering possession. Once on site the Locos will be shut down and unmanned.
However they would remain coupled to the ballast cleaner.
Once the Machine starts work the ballast cleaner will self propel whilst
dragging the dead Top n tail locos at the same time.
This currently happed with the FL 66s on the First Engineering operation but the diffrence there is that the 66s are crewed at all times.
There could be some major economies here in respect that ballast cleaner
operators may double as the Locos traincrew.
This would also eliminate the reliance on current external loco/traincrew providers.
As I said before the 2 47s have not been confirmed for this role but I believe it is quite likely."
