QR National 2190 Leads a Sunlander Passenger train.
The Tilt train streaks past
A QR city train EMU
Another QR EMU, note the odd placing of the horn (in the plough)
QR IMU flying past
hope you enjoy
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Quentin
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Modelcar wrote:Enjoyed your pic's James.....Question. {And I should know the answer}....but I'll ask anyway....Those rails do not look to be 4' 8 1/2" gauge....What is the gauge..?
There was a quite informative thread a few years back about the Australian gauges titled "The Folly of the Different Gauges". The gauges broke down roughly as follows:
3' 6" - Queensland, Western Australia
4' 8.5" - New South Wales, Commonwealth Railways, Pilbara ore carriers
5' 3" - Victoria, South Australia
The two 3'6" operations are on opposite sides of the continent and the two standard gauge operations did not initially connect with each other, they were separated by South Australia. The Pilbara carriers are separate from everything else, not unlike Reserve and Erie Mining Cos.
James, nice pics. Thanks for sharing!
Who built the loco in the first shot? If I had to hazard a guess, I'd go EMD...but it almost looks like a mix of EMD, ALCo and GE, assmebled by the folks at Santa Fe responsible for the CF7's. Kind of a mean looking critter, ready to pull for all it's worth day in and day out. I like it!
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CopCarSS wrote:James, nice pics. Thanks for sharing! Who built the loco in the first shot? If I had to hazard a guess, I'd go EMD...but it almost looks like a mix of EMD, ALCo and GE, assmebled by the folks at Santa Fe responsible for the CF7's. Kind of a mean looking critter, ready to pull for all it's worth day in and day out. I like it!
martin.knoepfel wrote:IIRC, the Pilbara carriers hold the world-record for the longest train ever. Does anyone know how many tons
The various Australians can help me out here but I'll give it a start. There are still three gauges in Australia but it's not as bad as it used to be. WAGR standard-gauged the main line from Perth to Kalgoorlie and two branches isolated from the rest of the narrow-gauge system. Kalgoorlie is the interchange point with the standard-gauge Commonwealth Railways. SAR standard gauged its lines from Port Augusta to Adelaide and Broken Hill, where it connected with the standard-gauge NSWGR. So there is now a through transcontinental standard-gauge route.
The rest of Western Australia and Queensland are still narrow-gauge, but they are substantial networks in their own right and interchange issues are not that big. Victoria and some of South Australia are still broad-gauge, interspersed with some standard-gauge and dual-gauge main lines.
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