Southern Cross Station

A great afternoon was last last week between 4 and 6 pm.  Stacks of N class and VLocity railcars in and out of the main station in Melbourne.  These shots are from the photographer friendly La Trobe St bridge.

An overall shot of the syline behind the signal box.

N452 departs while standard gauge N471 sits with the Albury bound pass.

N453 departing.

N465 departing.

N470 departing

N471 heading into the station.  Looks to be fresh from overhaul, with some pretty blue radiator fans.

P11 leads a push pull service out of the station.

Y161 propells three cars from the storage yard.

N471 departs the station bound for Albury.

N471 again.

Enjoy!

V/Line Cars

A few V/Line cars from last week.  

PH 451, 452 and 453 were all photoed, and all are fitted with new access doors.

DT 322 in VLine red.

Standard Gauge Albury operations power car PCJ 491.

BZN 271.

ACN 33

Enjoy!

Aurizon BM7

A few shots from last week of the Aurizon Brisbane to Melbourne intermodal service.

LDP003 leading a QR coloured LDP.  

Rand reefer ARLS 420.

With a bund capacity of 2700 litres, this box now carried the code BBUU 300162.

Fitted with a side access door is CXU 960930.

Orica sodium cyanide tank ORA 413.

The red has worn off the SCT logo on PBGY 117M.

A deck shot of QQBY 2026.

The other side deck shot of QQBY 2083.

Loaded QQBY 2053 with a TRDU and ARDU box carrying sodium cyanide.  The middle tank is a cement/flyash tanker.

QQGY 654 loaded with two CRT boxes.

Reefer RAND 239 with a cleaned/serviced reefer unit on the end.

This shot has snuck in from the morning (it was on MB7).  RWXX 442719.

Pneumatic tank 2PB4 type, SCFU 813089.

Another 2PB4, SCFU 813066.

This SCF reefer and the one below are the same but have different logos.  This one is SCFU 814062.

Fitted with a very red logo which is a bit smaller than the reefer prior, this container is SCFU 814067.

Enjoy!

New SCFU 48ft Container

A few of these have started to turn up on Aurizon services over the last few days.  They are brand new and continue the 800000 series numbering.  This SCFU 48ft dry box is numbered 415176.  It is 9'10" tall and carries the new mega-large SCF logo.

Enjoy! 

Red Macfield Box

Bright and early this morning saw Macfield box MGCU 801111 on MB7.  These were formerly blue and a shot of an original one is here.

This box is at least 10 years old but looks good for its age with a repaint!

Enjoy

Chris

PQAW

A quick shot of PQAW 2 on a late running WP2 yesterday.

These are owned by Ettamogah Rail Hub 

Enjoy!

Its a Breeze

A couple of new Breeze Logistics containers on MB4 this morning.  BRZC 12 and 15.

Enjoy!

Containers

A couple of interesting containers last week.

MUVU 100031.

Titan Container TITU 895801.  A lot of these have been coming up to Sydney in the last few days.  Maybe a delivery from China arrived in Melbourne last week?

Enjoy!

Sunny Container Shots

The weather has been crappy for days, so here are a few from last week when the sun was out.

A pair of FBT Transwest FBTT tanks on a PN intermodal service to Sydney.

Below are some containers from Aurizon BM7 service

AEBD 913037.  The orange stripes denotes allocation to Coles.

AFRD W 13111.  The W has replaced the leading 4, denoting allocation to Woolies.

EXXU 999697 and a remarked QR side door SFCU 305 series container.

mCColls Transport MCTU 240003.

NZ based Pacific Forum Lines 22R1 reefer PFLU 605100.

Side door QLST 307506 with a new Eurotainer EURU 094040

Uncommon in NSW is toll QRX seacell, QRXA 4001.

12.6m reefer SCFU 480014.

12.8m reefer SCFU 807036

Tanker TOLU 956129.

Enjoy!