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Have been browsing through a few images from a trip to Far North Queensland a while ago. Funny how I invariably dismiss all my images on first viewing but given a little time manage to find a few I can live with :)
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Thursday Island is an island of the Torres Strait Islands, an archipelago of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait. TI is located approximately 39 kilometres north of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.
7124, with 7113 and 7135 assisting, work a loaded Pacific National coal train north through Yukan.
Monday 18th July 2022
Looking towards the Glasshouse Mountains from the Maleny Botanic Gardens and Birdworld, Maleny, Queensland. Happy Bench Monday.
4028 and 4039 head for Townsville near Woodstock with loaded phosphate train 9281 from Phosphate Hill.
Wednesday 27th July 2022
Haycock Island can be seen from the shores of Palm Cove. It's more commonly called Scout Hat Island as it looks just like that, an over-sized scout hat sitting in the water.
The typically short 6391 crosses the Dawson River near Boolburra with 2335 in charge.
This is the twice-weekly container service from Longreach to Rockhampton, with it extending onto Winton once per fortnight.
15th July 2022
2830 and 2333D head through Yukan with loaded ballast train 0WB2 heading for the Collinsville to unload ballast the following morning.
18th July 2022
2410 hurries off the Danny Hannay bridge on the approach to Alice with the Spirit of the Outback as PW57 from Brisbane to Longreach.
Wednesday 13th July 2022
ORN003, ORN002 with ORN004 and ORN001 assisting, work hard over the hill at Balook with a loaded One Rail coal train from the Goonyella system to Dalrymple Bay
The ORN Class is a narrow gauge Progress Rail built EMD GT46C-ACe Gen III locomotive.
One Rail Australia operate two coal rakes in the Goonyella system, one with four ORN Class locomotives and the other with four older GWN Class locomotives, each with a spare to account for any failures or repairs.
Thursday 28th July 2022
3730, assisted by 3737 and 3712 head through Balook with loaded Aurizon coal train EJ01 to Hay Point.
Thursday 28th July 2022
2485H drops down through Murphys Creek with the eastbound Westlander passenger service from Charleville to Roma Street as 3987.
One of three locomotive hauled passenger services left in Queensland, The Westlander operates twice-weekly from Brisbane's Roma Street station to Charleville, some 777km away or 17 hours total travel time. Today the service is a shell of its former self, operating with a power, crew and two economy carriages, a far cry from its heyday with multiple sleeping carriages which were axed in 2014.
Saturday 30th July 2022
The northern end of Thornton Beach, one of the beautiful remote beaches of the Daintree region of Queensland, Australia.
After a brief pause, 2335 gets underway at Edungalba with the twice-weekly container service to Rockhampton from Longreach as 6391.
Once a month, this service extends onto Winton, as well as regularly stopping off at Barcaldine and Alpha to drop loading. This train operates loaded from Rockhampton to deliver supplies to various towns.
Friday 15th July 2022
2846 and 4001, with 2200 in the middle acting as a “giant compressor” approach another level crossing on the Cloncurry Duchess Road, this one south of Maldon, as they head for Phosphate Hill with IPL combination train 9T76 from Townsville.
The phosphate wagons in the second half of the train require main reservoir pressure to keep the pneumatic equipment closed (doors/lids), resulting in a 2170 class locomotive in the middle to keep main res air flowing through the wagons. The front half sulphuric acid wagons do not have main res, making it impossible to transfer from the lead locomotives.
Friday 22nd July 2022
2391 and 2363 navigate the curves at Laidley with empty Aurizon grain 66A6 heading to Willowburn yard at Toowoomba, before continuing onto either Thallon or Talwood.
Saturday 30th July 2022
Heading west away from Alpha, 2410 crosses a dried-out Tallarenha Creek with the Spirit of the Outback, as PW57, to Longreach.
Wednesday 13th July 2022
Sporting a moustache for Movember, 4023 and 4123, with units 4036 and 4156 assisting, work empty Aurizon coal train 9L16 between Bluff and Boonal.
Friday 15th July 2022
'Under threatening skies', BMACC005, with BMACC007 and BMACC009 assisting, head north through Yukan with a loaded BMA coal train to the Hay Point coal terminal for export.
13 BMACC Class locomotives were built for the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance in 2013/14 and are a Siemens E40 AG-V1 electric locomotive, the same as the Aurizon 3800 and Pacific National 7100 classes.
Monday 18th July 2022