New T75 Cryo Tanks

Came across these fancy tanks last week heading to Brisbane.

Cryogenic & Industrial Services 22K7/T75 tanks CYSU 207533-4 and 207535-5.

Both are carting Carbon Dioxide for Air Liquide.

Appears the tanks are manufactured by CHART in Changzhou China.

Enjoy!

 

White SLZU Bulker

Scored this unusual CS Leasing bulker today on an MB service.

SLZU 512422-0 is a 25B0 bulker with three top hatches and a pair of unloading slots in the end.  

What makes this box interesting is that it is the first CS Leasing box I have seen that it white.  All the other bulkers are the dark red/maroon colour as you can see to the left and right of this container in the photo.

Anyway, this box, along with another 200 or so were build for ammonium nitrate traffic, and the former placards were mounted to the cross-hatch area on the side of the container.  

Enjoy!

Team Global Express - New Containers

Happy New Year

In the lead up to the Christmas, plain green containers started appearing on PN rail services. While the green was similar to Toll, it was also very close to the Intermodal Solutions shade. The coding of INTR also suggested a possible lease container from Intermodal Solutions. 

Anyway, a few months on, and the mystery has been revealed!

40ft container INTR 4022096 was shot on a PN MB intermodal service with one of these containers sporting Team Global Express (TGE) markings.  

It is assumed that the INTR is a TGE code for their asset, with the numbering being the full 7 digits with no check letter.  It is expected that the '40' is for 40ft in length, the 22 is the year manufactured, and the last three digits are the unit number, so in this case it is box 096.

Team Global Express is the new name for Toll Global Express (which was formerly Toll).  The name change has come after Allegro acquired the Toll business from Japan Post in 2022.

Great looking container and hopefully more to come.

Enjoy!

Thanks for your patience as its been three months since my last post.  This year has been exceptionally busy with family, work, and a heap of other commitments in the community.  

While my posting this year has been a bit slow (as has my photography), this Blog continues to be an enjoyable past-time for me and obviously for many of you.  

Looking at the stats, it is a pretty amazing journey:

• Blog started in 2010!
• Over 1200 posts
• 700,000 page views

Anyway, to celebrate another year and of course Christmas, I thought I would post this rare tank container that I captured in November.  

I haven't seen a red one of these before.  This is a Specialty Trailer Leasing Inc tank marked as JBKU 238534-3.  It is a Helium carrier, and may be this colour for BOC Limited.

 I'll endeavour to post more over this holiday period.

Have a safe and relaxing Christmas.

Enjoy!

Fletcher Diversion

Shot a diverted Fletcher / SSR service on the south a few weeks ago.

The usual triple FIE locos leading a healthy sized train.  FIE004 is due to debut in October as an additional loco the the Dubbo to Sydney freight task.

While a lot of the freight is frozen lamb, some of the meat is chilled to -1c, so needs constant power to maintain the right temp.  To do this, a generator in a container is used to supply power.  Here is GEN002 powering a couple of 22R1 reefers on wagon FRAY 04.

GEN002, a converted 22G1 container with a genset mounted inside.

Isn't this adorable?  Cosco Shipping marked 22R1 reefer.

Former Hanjin 22G1 box, now owned by Triton and marked as TLLU.

Enjoy!

 

Toll Shipping Reefers TSHR

A few updates on Toll Shipper 40+ foot reefers:

New reefers have started appearing with year 22 prefixes.  Photoed below are TSHR 2205 and 2206.  Interestingly they carry no Toll markings and also have a neat reflective rectangle around the perimeter.  The first box in the series is 2200, and I have seen 2208.

This was a neat catch; 5 x TSHR reefers on the same 5-pack.  Quite a selection of ages and brandings.

Noted in recent months is that Toll and Toll Shipping logos are being painted out.  These cover a number of series including the 13, 14, and 15 year series.  Some are better than others.  

To complete the story, the 21 year prefix containers are SCF leased units remarked from SCFU 821 series reefer into the Toll series of 21xx.  Obviously these don't carry Toll logos either. 

Anyone know why Toll logos are being painted out?

 

More Kitchens on the Run

Always interesting when Kitchens on the Run (https://korhire.com.au/) containers turn up on trains.  

Enjoy

BOX-42L  (Left hand kitchen unit)

BOX-JH014C (Joining Hub)

BOX-PC069R (Right Preparation & Coolroom)

 

Legend Tanks

 A whole stack of Legend marked tanks (some owned and some leased) turn up on a Melbourne to Sydney service last week.  Here they are.

Branchline Ballast

Jagged this classic the morning after returning from a long holiday.  

Here are 3 x SSR 49 class on a ballast job returning back to Chullora, coming through Tahmoor.

Enjoy!

 

New Toy - Drone Photo

Took the new toy out for a fly today.  It is a DJI Mini 3 Pro.  

Train service is NY3.

Enjoy!