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By:Rick Morgan
Dates:2/23/2011 - 2/23/2011
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CFCLA C-class C502
Title:  CFCLA C-class C502
Description:  Chicago Freight Car Leasing C-class C502> Ten C-class units were built by Clyde-GM in 1977 for the Victorian RY. They carry 3300HP 16-645s and are mechanically similar to the EMD SD40.
Photo Date:  12/8/2012  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 5:16:56 PM
Location:  Junee, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  75   Comments: 0
CFCLA VL-class VL362
Title:  CFCLA VL-class VL362
Description:  Chicago Freight Car Leasing VL-class unit VL362, leased to El Zorro for grain hauling. 12 were built by Avteq in Melbourne in 2006 with all going to CFCLA. 3300HP, 16-645 prime mover.
Photo Date:  12/8/2012  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 5:17:21 PM
Location:  Junee, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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CFCLA C-class C508
Title:  CFCLA C-class C508
Description:  Chicago Freight Car Leasing C-class C508. Clyde-GM 1977, 3300HP. Currently leased to El Zorro for grain duties. The C-class was built for the Victorian RY in the mid-70s and is mechanically similar to an SD40. It's also closer to US configuration (hood with a cowl nose) than most Australian diesels.
Photo Date:  12/8/2012  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 5:17:36 PM
Location:  Junee, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Short Grain Train near Goondah
Title:  Short Grain Train near Goondah
Description:  While some major roads in the US won't even look at a grain train with less than 100 cars, short trains are common in Australia. This 20-hopper effort originated in Harden and is on its way to export behind the normal pair of 81-class units.
Photo Date:  12/8/2012  Upload Date: 12/8/2012 6:02:34 AM
Location:  Goondah, NSW
Author:  Rick Norgan
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Up and Down
Title:  Up and Down
Description:  The Sydney to Melbourne Main South features an undulating profile through a good portion of its |ath with grfdes up to 2.5% frequently encountered. This "up" (towards Sydney, eastbound in this case) container train is climbing a long stretch of 1.5% between Goondah and Bowning. Original English-influenced clearances on this line (particularly numerous stone road overpasses) limit trains to single-stack only.
Photo Date:  12/8/2012  Upload Date: 12/8/2012 6:02:50 AM
Location:  Goondah, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA NR94(CV40-9i) PNA NR1(CV40-9i)
Views:  267   Comments: 1
Eastbound Steel Working the Cullerins
Title:  Eastbound Steel Working the Cullerins
Description:  A pair of Pacific National NR-class units drag their loaded steel train (probably 2XW4) up grade near Cullerin on a nice autumn day in New South Wales. NR83 leads NR110.
Photo Date:  3/6/2013  Upload Date: 3/6/2013 4:41:22 AM
Location:  Cullerin, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA NR83(CV40-9i)
Views:  167   Comments: 1
Pacific National Steel Train Headed Downhill
Title:  Pacific National Steel Train Headed Downhill
Description:  A "down" (away from Sydney) empty steel train (possibly 4NY3) has crested the summit at Cullerin and is in full dynamics as it starts its run down the hill.
Photo Date:  3/6/2013  Upload Date: 3/6/2013 4:40:39 AM
Location:  Cullerin, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA NR80(CV40-9i)
Views:  171   Comments: 0
81-Class Downgrade Near Cullerin
Title:  81-Class Downgrade Near Cullerin
Description:  Two Pacific National 81-class units are in full dynamic as they run their empty grain train down grade near Cullerin NSW.
Photo Date:  3/6/2013  Upload Date: 3/6/2013 4:41:54 AM
Location:  Cullerin, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA 8138(JT26CW-SS) PNA 8179(JT26C-2SS)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
Empty Grain at Biscuit Bridge
Title:  Empty Grain at Biscuit Bridge
Description:  The usual pair of 81-class units bring their empty grain train downgrade near "Biscuit Bridge" in the Cullerins on the South Main. As a local explained to me several years ago the structure, which carries the Old Hume Highway over the tracks, had a truck loaded with biscuits (cookies to us in the US) go out of control and end up on the tracks, closing the line for a period. It's been "Biscuit Bridge" ever since.
Photo Date:  3/6/2013  Upload Date: 3/6/2013 4:42:07 AM
Location:  Fish River, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA 8138(JT26CW-SS)
Views:  213   Comments: 1
A Change of Names
Title:  A Change of Names
Description:  QR National recently changed its name to Aurizon, as in "Australian Horizon", which means it needs to re-mark all of its fleet. DC2206 wears the later QRN "Pineapple" scheme and is trailed by a pair of L-class units with an empty grain train approaching Sullivan's Bridge near Cullerin.
Photo Date:  3/9/2013  Upload Date: 3/9/2013 12:10:07 AM
Location:  Cullerin, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Pacific National Grain climbing at Cullerin
Title:  Pacific National Grain climbing at Cullerin
Description:  PNA usually assigns a pair of 81-class units to its loaded grain trains that come out of Australia's Riverina region and head to export facilities at Sydney or Port Kembla. L-class unit L251 leading this train is a nice change; it was built in 1967 for the Western Australia RY and is, functionally, an EMD SD40 internally.
Photo Date:  3/9/2013  Upload Date: 3/9/2013 12:10:55 AM
Location:  Cullerin, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Approaching the Crest of the Cullerins
Title:  Approaching the Crest of the Cullerins
Description:  Pacific National L251 leads a loaded 'wheatie' on its way to export on a beautiful Saturday morning in the Cullerin Range. 81-class 8178 trails. The pair is mechanically similar to an EMD SD40/SD40-2 duo.
Photo Date:  3/9/2013  Upload Date: 3/9/2013 12:11:17 AM
Location:  Cullerin, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  98   Comments: 2
Pair of 81s
Title:  Pair of 81s
Description:  The standard pair of 81-class units drag a loaded grain train up grade towards "Biscuit Bridge" in the Cullerin Range. 8142 still wears its FreightCorp blue paint while 8138, trailing, has been recently painted in fresh Pacific National colors.
Photo Date:  3/9/2013  Upload Date: 3/9/2013 12:11:45 AM
Location:  Cullerin, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA 8142(JT26C-2SS)
Views:  203   Comments: 0
Pacific National 93-class
Title:  Pacific National 93-class
Description:  A pair of Pacific National's 93-class units swing a container train up hill near Cullerin. Six 93-class UGL/GEs (model C44aci) were delivered in 2012 and augment the operator's large fleet of NR-class units in trans-continental service.
Photo Date:  3/9/2013  Upload Date: 3/9/2013 12:12:22 AM
Location:  Cullerin, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  92   Comments: 1
Over the Summit
Title:  Over the Summit
Description:  Pacific National units 9303 and 9304 bring an "Up" (towards Sydney) container train over the crest of the summit at Cullerin- all of 2500 feet of elevation, but still the high point of the Main South line between Melbourne and Sydney.
Photo Date:  3/9/2013  Upload Date: 3/9/2013 12:12:44 AM
Location:  Cullerin, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  70   Comments: 0
GL-Class Under Wide Angle
Title:  GL-Class Under Wide Angle
Description:  GL101 is a GL-class unit owned by Chicago Freight Car Leasing-Australia. It was built in 1971 as a 2000 HP Alco-powered 442 class locomotive and rebuilt in 2003 with a 3300 HP GE prime mover and Mitsubishi electricals. It's shown near the station at Goulburn. 12 are in service; all owned by CFLCA.
Photo Date:  3/9/2013  Upload Date: 3/9/2013 12:13:14 AM
Location:  Goulburn, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Grain Crossing the Wollondilly
Title:  Grain Crossing the Wollondilly
Description:  Two Pacific National 81-class units run a grain train eastbound ("UP") across the Wollondilly Bridge located just east of Towrang NSW.
Photo Date:  3/9/2013  Upload Date: 3/9/2013 12:13:41 AM
Location:  Towrang, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA 8125(JT26C-2SS) PNA 8153(JT26C-2SS)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
Crossing Wollondilly River
Title:  Crossing Wollondilly River
Description:  A quartet of Pacific National NR-class units take an "Up" container train towards Sydney and across the Wollondilly River viaduct near Towrang NSW. The current bridge is double tracked and replaced an older structure at some point; the remains of which obviously suvive.
Photo Date:  3/9/2013  Upload Date: 3/9/2013 12:39:45 AM
Location:  Towrang, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Wallaby Darned
Title:  Wallaby Darned
Description:  Well, its probably a Kangaroo, but I couldn't resist the title. A 'Roo sits by the tracks in downtown Cowra NSW. I caught him pensively considering his future; he ended up bounding right up the hill seconds after I shot the picture. There was another Kangaroo feeding in a park only about three blocks away but he seemed less interested in trains. The tracks belong to the Lachlan Valley Ry, a heritage group which operates the former NSW RY line.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/10/2013 6:14:33 AM
Location:  Cowra, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Qube, out of Illinois
Title:  Qube, out of Illinois
Description:  QUBE Logistics operates trains in both New South Wales and Victoria with an eclectic stable of power. 1105 is a 2012-build out of NRE in the US. It's model is listed as E-3000E3B and carries a 16-645 engine with 3300HP. Zach Walters has posted shots of some of this unit's sisters at Mt Vernon IL prior to delivery in January 12.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/10/2013 6:16:19 AM
Location:  Dubbo, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Minore
Title:  Minore
Description:  Semiphore and grain elevator, looking east at Minore NSW; KP 476 on the Northern Main, located about 14 KM west of Dubbo.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 2:37:39 AM
Location:  Minore, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Greentrains RL306
Title:  Greentrains RL306
Description:  Greentrains RL406; one of ten built at Islington Shops, South Australia in 2007; power is an EMD 16-645 cranking out about 3800HP. To American eyes an odd looking unit, there is no rear access and what appears to be a mid-body door does not have an access ladder.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 2:49:33 AM
Location:  Narromine, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Working Grain at Narromine
Title:  Working Grain at Narromine
Description:  Two PNA stalwarts work the grain elevator at Narromine NSW on a nice autumn day. The 81-class Clyde/GMs are frequently helped by the 'classic' 48-class Alcos; 48163 doing the honors here.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/10/2013 6:17:27 AM
Location:  Narromine, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA 8170(JT26C-2SS) PNA 48163(DL-531)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
Parkes Deadline
Title:  Parkes Deadline
Description:  A string of dead Alco-powered units sit at the Greentrains Parkes shop; heavily canibalized and most sitting on shop trucks. The include a pair of 48-class branchline units (one in Silverton yellow/blue, the other, on the far end, in NSW "Candy" red), three 80-class (two in blue, one in maroon) and a single 442-class (yellow). The 48-class on the#far left is still operable.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 2:52:16 AM
Location:  Parkes, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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COMENG/ALCO Boxcab Down Under
Title:  COMENG/ALCO Boxcab Down Under
Description:  The 80-class locomotive, built by COMENG with an Alco 12-251 prime mover for 2000HP and Mitsubishi electricals in 1983. It's still in service out of Parkes and is currently marked for Coote Industrial, which has since been acquired by EGENCO/Greentrains.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/10/2013 6:18:14 AM
Location:  Parkes, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Sitting Around the Turntable
Title:  Sitting Around the Turntable
Description:  A fascinating covey of Greentrains units sit around the turntable at Parkes. They include an RL, C and 49 class units and what appear to be a pair of 48-class stripped of parts.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 2:51:57 AM
Location:  Parkes, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Thank You Very Much.....
Title:  Thank You Very Much.....
Description:  Advert for the annual Parkes Elvis Festival; where a trainload of Elvi impersonators descend on the town for the summer event.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 2:49:59 AM
Location:  Parkes, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Pacific National at Parkes
Title:  Pacific National at Parkes
Description:  Parkes is a crew change point for trans-continental trains. NR53 and NR8 have pulled into town and are shunting their train before adding a third unit (NR21) and heading down the line to Stockingbingal and points further east.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 2:50:24 AM
Location:  Parkes, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA NR53(CV40-9i)
Views:  180   Comments: 0
Pulling Grain Through Parkes
Title:  Pulling Grain Through Parkes
Description:  Parkes NSW is an important rail center with four lines radiating out of it that carry trans-continental freight as well as local grain. Here a loaded grain train enters town from the east behind BL-class BL35 and an 81-class unit.
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/10/2013 6:18:50 AM
Location:  Parkes, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA BL35(JT26C-2SS)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
How To Irritate Motoristr
Title:  How To Irritate Motoristr
Description:  Late afternoon in Parkes; an empty grain train has come in from Cootamundra and is just about to clear route 39 when a pair of units shunting their loaded cars takes over the circuit and keeps the crossing arms down. (it also looks like the elevator forgot to close one of the car's roof hatches)
Photo Date:  3/10/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 2:51:03 AM
Location:  Parkes, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Early Morning at Parkes
Title:  Early Morning at Parkes
Description:  About 8AM at Parkes and looking west from the station foot bridge- Pacific National is preparing to send two grain trains out and is moving power to accomidate. Two 81-class units move back to their train with a single 48-class Alco trailing.
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/11/2013 2:53:52 AM
Location:  Parkes, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA 8138(JT26CW-SS)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Goodwin/Alco Branchline unit
Title:  Goodwin/Alco Branchline unit
Description:  PNA 48-class 48132 backs to its train at Parkes early on a Monday morning, with the delightful burble of a small, turbocharged Alco prime mover. 48132 was delivered in 1969 and still earns its keep hauling grain throughout New South Wales.
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/11/2013 2:54:27 AM
Location:  Parkes, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA 48132(DL-531)
Views:  377   Comments: 0
Crawling Up Morrison's Hill
Title:  Crawling Up Morrison's Hill
Description:  Two PNA 81-class units work a loaded grain train up grade at Morrison's Hill after having left Cootamundra.
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/11/2013 2:55:00 AM
Location:  Jindalee, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA 8153(JT26C-2SS)
Views:  181   Comments: 1
Accelerating at Wallendbeen
Title:  Accelerating at Wallendbeen
Description:  It's battle with Morrison's Hill over, an eastbound ("up" in this case-towards Sydney) grain train accelerates as it comes downhill for a short section of track at Wallendbeen NSW. More grades await it on the undulating Main South profile.
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/11/2013 2:55:23 AM
Location:  Wallendbeen, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA 8153(JT26C-2SS)
Views:  161   Comments: 2
Passing the Depot at Galong
Title:  Passing the Depot at Galong
Description:  An empty PNA grain train runs past the depot at Galong NSW. The usual pair of 81-class units are in charge today.
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/11/2013 2:55:51 AM
Location:  Galong, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  PNA 8183(JT26C-2SS)
Views:  127   Comments: 0
Jeep On Rails
Title:  Jeep On Rails
Description:  Something you don't see every day- a Willys Jeep with flanged wheels for rail operations. Pictures with the display show it pulling one or two small cars behind it. This one was used by the Australian Army late in WWII in Borneo. Taken at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT
Photo Date:  5/8/2013  Upload Date: 5/8/2013 7:04:15 AM
Location:  Canberra, ACT
Author:  Rick Morgan
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422 and 442
Title:  422 and 442
Description:  A pair of late-60s era Australian boxcabs at the Goulburn NSW depot- externally alike but very different inside. 42202 is a Clyde/GM deliveried to the NSW Ry in 1969 with 2000HP- mechanically it's similar to a US SD38. Only 20 were built-It wears an Aurizon patch over its previous scheme. Behind is QUBE 442 class unit 44202, originally delivered to NSW RY from Goodwin in 1969 as a class of 40 with an ALCO 251 prime-mover cranking out 2150HP. Getting these two units together defies the odds; Aurizon has only a pair of 422-class left; QUBE owns only one 442.
Photo Date:  5/10/2013  Upload Date: 5/10/2013 6:09:02 AM
Location:  Goulburn, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  NSWGR 42202(UNKNOWN)
Views:  103   Comments: 1
Xplorer Arriving Canberra
Title:  Xplorer Arriving Canberra
Description:  The morning Xplorer service from Sydney arrives Canberra on Mother's Day. The three-unit DMU takes about 4 1/2 hours to make the trip. It will turn around and return to Sydney within 30 minutes.
Photo Date:  5/12/2013  Upload Date: 5/13/2013 2:54:47 AM
Location:  Canberra, ACT
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Canberra Station
Title:  Canberra Station
Description:  A three-car Xplorer DMU set prepares to load for the Sunday 1155 departure for Sydney. The small depot serves the nation's capital with two to three roundtrips daily to Australia's largest city.
Photo Date:  5/12/2013  Upload Date: 5/13/2013 2:55:08 AM
Location:  Canberra, ACT
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Country Link Xplorer Car
Title:  Country Link Xplorer Car
Description:  First Class seating section in an Xplorer DMU. Introduced in 1993; the "A" car carries 42 seats and a small buffet. The other two cars have 114 economy seats. Each seat-unit is rotated 180 degrees at the end of each run so that they face forward.
Photo Date:  5/12/2013  Upload Date: 5/13/2013 2:55:32 AM
Location:  Queanbeyan, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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CFCLA Tl-class TL153
Title:  CFCLA Tl-class TL153
Description:  Chicago Freight Car Leasing-Australia TL-class unit TL153, used as a shunter at the owner's Goulburn shop. It was built by Clyde/GM in 1952 and sent to Hong Kong, being returned to Austrlia and rebuilt for service in 2006, carrying a 1320HP 12 cylinder 567 power plant.
Photo Date:  5/12/2013  Upload Date: 5/13/2013 2:56:25 AM
Location:  Goulburn, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CFCLA TL153(G12)
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The Sydney Monorail Nears its End
Title:  The Sydney Monorail Nears its End
Description:  The Sydney Monorail was opened in 1988 as a 2.2 mile (3.6KM) circle connecting the central business district with the newly re-developed Darling Harbour tourist area. Eight stations are operated and the trains make a counter-clock-wise cycle on their 25-year old line. The Monorail will be closed in June 2013 and dismantled due to age, limited route and expansion of a modern light rail system. This train is shown as it approaches the Harbourside station.
Photo Date:  5/14/2013  Upload Date: 5/14/2013 2:41:42 AM
Location:  Sydney, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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QUBE RL309
Title:  QUBE RL309
Description:  QUBE RL309 sitting near the depot at Goulburn. It's a model AT36C, built in 2008 with EMD 645 engine and GE electricals.
Photo Date:  3/8/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 3:22:27 AM
Location:  Goulburn, NSW
Author:  Rick Morgan
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