RCSF Coils

The RCSF coil fleet has now passed into the ownership of Qube.  At Port Kembla a rake of about 5 are lined up with a nice bit of backlighting.

The spec of one of the coils is:

11.64 tonnes in weight

1064mm wide x 3.75mm thick

outer diameter of 1525mm

Material is Tubeform 300.  Hot-dipped Zinc-coated.

Enjoy!

MGFH 1758 - Norma Woodhart

Managed to get another Van Helten painting last weekend.

This is Norma Woodhart on MGFH 1758

You can see Ron Fox Bennett here

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Qube Steel Trains

2022 will be remembered for a long time (especially by model railroaders) as the year that saw a major change in haulage of the Bluescope steel contract from PN to Qube.  

A large number of jumbo coil and plate steel wagons have transferred across for Qube to haul, along with Bluescope RH and RV (butter boxes) and DMJU jumbo coil container frames.   

Qube are carrying the containers and butter boxes on new CRRC Meishan built SQSY 40ft skels (about 400 of them all up), along with a small fleet of new plate steel and beam carrying wagons.

Below are some photos of the a loaded Qube steel train from Port Kembla to Melbourne in mid Feb 2022.  

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Qube SGMY Grain Hoppers

A couple of shots of Qube's new SGMY grain hoppers.  Noted in the rake was number 100.  

These are just delivered from CRRC Meishan.

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Different 25G1 Boxes

A couple of different 25G1 20ft boxes I haven't seen around.

SKIU 226528-5.

Transcorp TCPU 1000028-7.

Looks tiger-like is Titan Containers TITU 859244-0.

Brisk Transport BRSK 800121-0.

RJKM 204001-1.

Enjoy!

 

New SCF / SCT Containers

These have started appearing on SCT services at the beginning of December.  There appears to be around 100 of them based on the numbers.  

Enjoy!

 

SSR Grain Trains

Not a lot of sunny days in the past 4 weeks, so pretty slim pickings.   

The SSR 'Green' train was doing a single trip to Port Kembla with double doggies.  602 got dropped at Mossy.  

Trailing unit CLF1, Milton Bromwich.

The next day GM22 led the 'Grey' train to Maldon with a neat combo of GM, 48, 49, C.

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One Containers

 Various ONE containers, with many of them fully painted lease units.  All are 45G1 type.

ONEU 009596-0

BEAU 525993-8

FDCU 045816-4

FDCU 063028-9

GCXU 528421-6

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Army Aviation Fuel Containers

A funk Army load on MB4 this morning.  Containers are marked for aviation fuel

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Boxcar 'reborn'?

These pair of 46'6 PN reefers have been rebranded for a number of months now, but have been captive between Perth and Melbourne.

Yesterday they ventured south from Brisbane to Melbourne on BM4, which does not usually convey PN container/express containers.  

These were formerly marked Pacific National but wear a Boxcar logo.  The road numbers are 4872 and 4890.  

Based on the colours, Boxcar may be a PN brand, but the Boxcar name is still registered to Linfox (from 2000).  

Enjoy!