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  1. Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve

    Fertilizer train 9283, from Phosphate Hill to Townsville Jetty, rolls through Reid River yard (west of Townsville) behind Goninan-GE CM30-8 locos 2821 2813.
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    • Category: Night Photos
  2. GM Sunset

    GM Sunset

    The Commonwealth Railway's GM Class displaced steam on the desert stretch of the Nullarbor Plains but by 1999 their use on the transcontinental main was quite rare. Now owned by the Australian Railroad Group, GM.43, GM.46 and GM.40 prepare to leave Parkeston on the western edge of the desert...
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    • Category: Sunrise, Sunset and Glint Photos
  3. Winter Morning

    Winter Morning

    Preserved 38 Class Pacific 3801 leaves Parkes early on a cold (by Australian standards) winter's morning with a mainline tour.
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    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  4. A Patch of Sunlight

    A Patch of Sunlight

    GM Streamliner CLP17 in its handsome Australian National RR passenger colours leads ALF24 and ALF23 into Bonnie Vale Loop in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia with 3MP9 transcontinental Freight from Melbourne to Perth.
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    • Category: International Freight Trains
  5. Over the Top

    Over the Top

    One of the unusual Clyde-GM double ended B Class streamliners, owned by West Coast Railway and painted in a UP inspired colour scheme at Cooks River Yard in Sydney Australia as a China Eastern Voeing 777 is just about to land at nearby Sydney Airport.
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    • Comments: 8
    • Category: International Freight Trains
  6. Green machines

    Green machines

    This sighting today interrupted my reading while my train was being loaded at Blayney. Two Freight Australia T class wander along with the grain for Friskies cat food factory. T408 and T371 were originally Victorian Railway units. From 1955 a total of 94 T class were built for VR, being divided...
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    • Category: International Freight Trains


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