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B61 leads fellow ex-Victorian locomotives S302, S317 and G514 towards Newnes Junction with 1877 SSR freight from Cooks River to Kelso. With the G Class only having recently returned to this service after a stint running grain trains for Westons Milling at Enfield, it was a notable event to get streamliners leading this train again, especially on a now uncommon daylight run west. It might have been less than desirable high summer sun, but one doesn't turn down the chance to chase a veteran like B61 on the mainline.
Anytime one of the bigger horses is sidelined or diverted to other duties, the veterans of SSRs mainline fleet prove that they're still just as able as when they were first introduced. The lead three locos have 172 years of service between them!
As an aside, this chase took the train and myself through no less than three severe thunderstorms, all moving from western NSW out to sea. The second storm can be seen behind the train.
S301, T395 and S313 power up hill away from Maryborough as 8198 to Melbourne from Mildura
Monday 2nd November 2009
S3303 comes off the branch line from Dwellingup at Pinjarra with a loaded Alumina consist destined for Bunbury on 11-3-09
B61, B65, S317 and GM10 cross the Parramatta River, heading for Meadowbank and can be seen cranking it up for the
ascent towards Hornsby on work train M822. Main North, NSW.
5th April, 2009.
Then freshly painted in new livery, S317 leads fellow veterans S302, GM22 and 44206 wrong road past Lithgow yard with train 1845.
In service dates of the four vary from 1957 (S302) to 1971 (44206)!
S313 & A66 leading 8897, Steamrail's Otway Explorer to Camperdown, on a typical cloudy Autumn morning. 13/03/21
The streamlined S-Class locomotives are finally finished (unless we modify them further)! I have been helping Teunis with them for the last couple of months. Teunis has built two locos (301 and 302) and I have built a third (303) to go with the non-streamlined S that I built last year.
The design of the boiler, cab, streamlining and tender are all Teunis’s. I designed the running gear including the 3D-printed rods, redesigned the nose, added details such as handrails, and made the stickers (gold vinyl).
The VR crest and lettering were hand drawn based on scanned photographs. Thanks Mike for the loan of the vinyl cutter. Where possible, Teunis has used chromed tiles on his locos. The gold on mine is all vinyl.
The locos are fitted with custom led lights powered by 4xAAA batteries inside the boiler. They are currently unpowered – they will be pushed by motors under the carriages. I may try to power mine through the tender in the future.
Four S Class locomotives were built by the Victorian Railways as express passenger locomotives in 1928. They were streamlined in 1937 with the introduction of the new Spirit of Progress between Melbourne and Albury on the New South Wales border.
S301 departs Mildura with the 1st shuttle of the day bound for Red Cliffs.
S301 and S313 hauled shuttles on the Sunday between Red Cliffs and Merbein, stopping at Mildura in the middle. To date this was the last heritage train (excluding RM58) to visit Mildura.
Sunday 1st November 2009
Restored Seymour Rail Heritage Centre locos S307,C501 have just arrived at Heywood station with a special passenger train for locals on 16-7-23.
The locos will run around and soon depart back for Portland
Seymour Rail Heritage Centre's preserved locos S307,C501 stand ready to depart the Portland yard in the morning of 16-7-23 with the shuttle trip to Heywood and return
Steamrail Victoria’s S301 “Sir Thomas Mitchell” & T395 are seen hauling an assortment of carriages to Castlemaine. This is the first mainline train S301 has lead in a very long time. S301 was donated to Steamrail by Pacific National at the start of the year
SSRs 442s1, CLF3, S311 & C501 leading 5CM4, from Coolomon, NSW to Appleton Dock, VIC. Seen approaching McIntyre Loop, Sunshine North. 30/12/21
Tucked away deep in the middle of the Port Augusta workshops is a mix of different operator's locos, all stored most likely to never run again, including Pacific National's S307,8007 which arrived at Port Augusta for storage in May 2018 but previously stored at the AFT as well as all 3 cabless XRB class, built in 2005/2006 they have been stored at Port Augusta for a number of years after a short life.
One Rail Australia's GM44 can be seen just hiding behind a tree having been withdrawn at the end of 2007.
SCT's T404 is also stored, probably the most recent of the stored locos
S303 & T357 lead 6L70 Up 'Southern Aurora 60th Anniversary' Special through St Peters, nearing the end of its return journey from Melbourne.
Hired CFCLA locos S300,S311 approach Long Plains with 4120 Balco on 15-8-13.
The twin CFCLA S class locos were used for a short time during 2013 on the Balco services
SSRs aging fleet of BG locos S302, S317, T363, P16 & S312 lead 9197 empties from Kensington/Tottenham to Manangatang. Making a rare daylight appearance on approach to the Princes Hwy underpass at Brooklyn. 13/03/22
Only found these due to stopping for the BX, one of my passengers noticed these at an overgrown, derelict house/farm beside the road.
I think the Mercedes is an S-Class rather than a W114/115? No clue as to its engine size.
CLF3, 4917, 48s28, 48s36, S311 & GM22 leading 5MC5 through Kilmore East (Mathiesons) on it's way to The Rock from Appleton Dock. 18/03/21