Tassie TQAY

I had a quick trip to Tassie last week and managed to get some photos.  Here are a couple of Chinese built 40ft TQAY skels.  

TQAY 100 with a pair of SCFU side door containers, marked for Toll as TSSD.

TQAY 144 with a Cronos leas box marked as TSTG, and a BOC CO2 ISO tank #42.

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New Linfox Boxes

Following on from my sighting on 25/11/18 (Link) of new Linfox 46'6 reefers, new 22ft reefers and 48ft curtain-siders have turned up.  

FTLD 9122702.  I would assume the '22' in the code is a reference to the length.

Another angle of FTLD 9122702.

Next in the build is Linfox FTLD 9122703.

The 48ft curtain-siders are interesting in that they have a fair amount of info on the curtain itself.  Historically most of the info has been on the solids ends.  Here is LTMU 3148714.

In sequence again, Linfox LTMU 3148715.

The reefer coding of 'F' is likely to follow old FCL coding methods and the L on the curtain siders would be for Linfox.

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Bore Horizontal Butter Boxes

Managed to hit the Bore Horizontal jackpot the other week while in Newcastle.  It appears these containers run from Port Kemble to Brisbane regularly.  

I first saw repainted blue Bore Horizontal containers back in 2016 in Morandoo (LINK) and since then they have chosen to use green and the container colour, although it appears recent conversion have been a pretty average patch job with BH stencilled on a green background.  The based are also no longer being painted black but have the centre section painted green.

Auscision do a great model of the blue and green containers.  (LINK)

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New SSR Grain Hoppers

Spotted this new SSR BGTY (1401) grain hopper the other day in Newcastle.

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K&S Loads

K&S loading has returned to PN services in 2018.  Here are a few interesting loads so far this year.

The firsttime I have seen an orange wrapped load on a K&S flatrack.

An ADF trailer heading south.

A K&S load on a Caru Lease SLZU flatrack.

Another Caru flatrack with a K&S load.

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Qube Box (QUBU)

Not currently a common sight, but quite possibly becoming more common, this 9'6" Qube QUBU 509646-9 box was headed to Melbourne on PN's BM4 service.  Yesterday a pair of similar boxes were sighted heading to Perth on 7MP5.

About 12 months old, this box still looks in good shape.

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Hanjin Box

After Hanjin was declared bankrupt just under 12 months ago, a lot of the Hanjin boxes have been sold off with logos painted out and codes changed.  

Snapped on 11/01/18 running from Melbourne to Brisbane is this 'pristine' Hanjin 45G1 box HJCU 199628-0.  

Hanjin boxes were a common sight on Australian port shuttles in the 1980s right through to the present era.  

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Endeavour 2802/2852

Set 02 has been hanging around the Highlands lately so I grabbed a shot on the first sunny morning we have had in a while.

You can see the yellow starting to peel off above the windscreen already.  Probably due to the tough wash program they put them through.  

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CMA CGM Shipping Containers - 45G1

A few CGM CMA containers turned up on BM4 the other day.  I suspect these are paper containers running on he east coast, and I recall were usually on the now defunct Aurizon services.  

Below are a few varieties of the CMA CGM 45G1 type containers.

With the new loco (unveiled in mid-2017) CMAU 728229-8 is a CMA owned container with eco features.

Showing the recently replaced loco, CMAU 590526-2 is another CMA owned container.

The Seaco text and the SEGU code is a give away that this is a leaved container painted in CMA CGM colours.  This is SEGU 522009-6.

A new lease Textainer container with the new logo.  This is TGBU 528096-0.  

While not painted in CMA CGM blue, this brown lease box carry a small CMA CGM logo on the bottom right corner.  DRYU 969260-1 is a SeaCube (former Carlisle) owned box.

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Short Spoil Service

In mid-December, SRS ran a short spoil train from Sydney to Picton, via Moss Vale.  The locos were 4702 and 4701 on 12 spoil open wagons.

4702/4701 heading south through Aylmerton, running to Moss Vale to turn on the triangle.

A little over an hour later, the train returned on the Up.

Yellow NDCF 250x.

Orange NDCF 2098.

Brown NDCH 2092.

Brown (form BDX) NDCH 2526.

NDMX 1801.

NDMX 1803

NDMX 1804.

NDMX 1806.

NDMX 1807.

NDMX 1809.

NDMX 1819.

NDNF 2536.

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