ALCO EXTINCTION

28-9-25. on a siding adjacent to the Junee Roundhouse rail museum, a lineup of stored & retired Alco locomotives can be seen all lined up awaitting their fates. Half of the lineup is made up of now retired and stored QUBE owned former Independent Rail 44 class locos with the 48's belonging to Graincorp & Junee Railway Workshops.

 

Based on the current condition of QUBE's stored 44 class loco's, it can be assumed that these loco's will eventually be cut up for scrap, with 4497 now being indefinately stored since 2024, it marked the end of the 44 classes freight carrer after 67 years of service.

 

The lineup is as follows from front to back.

 

-QUBE (Ex-Independent Rail) 4497

-JRW (Ex-Austrac) 4816

-Graincorp (Ex-Freightcorp 48157) 48216

-Graincorp (Ex-Freightcorp 48145) 48213

-Graincorp (Ex-Freightcorp 48110) 48205

-QUBE (Ex-CFCLA) 4477

-QUBE (Ex-Independent Rail) 4488

-QUBE (Ex-Independent Rail) 4458

 

Done