The Semi-Retired Foamer has been a railfan since he was around 5 years old, oh yes a very young age, an age when one really should avoid being involved with the gunzel community to any great extent. A few rather unsavoury people bringing that fact home.
After a few decades of train chasing, one decided to break with protocol and get married, thus leading to a severe cut in railfan activity.
Subsequent dealings with hate breeders, lunatics, mental defectives and self-appointed preservation overlords lead to an even greater decrease in my hobby participation.
However things have changed thanks to our small group of trusted mates, interest has returned, and now I have become a bit more involved yet again.
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Over the years I have tried my best to further both the hobby, as well as the friendships that it brings. I have done this by setting up proactive groups both here in Australia, as well as the Philippines. It is with huge honour that I am often considered the founding father of the railfan hobby in the Philippines (my second home).
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I don't take the hobby too seriously and I am a friend to anyone who is good and genuine. But never forgive those who have used their hate to destroy my hobby or hurt the friends within it.

Let's Make The Hobby Great Again!
I aim to share the era that I considered mine, the 80s and 90s. I also like to help promote, and even raise funds for, the various heritage societies that keep the era alive
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Sunday, April 26, 2020

Dynon Nights


Howdee fellow home-confinement sufferers.
While passing the countless hours stuck at home, well away from humanity, I continue on my quest to catalogue the, long neglected, archive.
Occasionally, I come across a group of photos that I feel may be of interest to others. If they aren't, I do invite you to move on to another website rather than bellyache on the interwebs.
This is one such lot. They were taken during a LEGALLY authorised night visit to the Dynon locomotive depot in Melbourne (Victoria).
I will also be aiming to give the situation of each locomotive today (April 2020) for those, who like me, have an interest in such guff.




T408 (one of them) still in Freight Victoria livery. By that time, the company changed it's name to 'Freight Australia' to reflect their expansion outside of the state.
Went to Pacific National, then onsold to Ettamogah Rail Hub and stored at Seymour.


A70 still remains with V/Line, although withdrawn in 2015 and currently stored.


X36 and T392 show the revised Freight Australia logo (note the disappearance of the white Victoria part as seen on T408 above) on the front.
X36 would go to Pacific National as part of the earlier mentioned sale of the company. Today it is scrapped and possibly part of that Kia your driving.
T392 went to Pacific National with the same sale,  she has now gone to '707 Operations'.  
She currently wears the blue/yellow livery of Pacific National.


Owned by Great Northern Rail Services at the time
Today GM25 is no longer in existence.


Owned by 'Great Northern Rail Services' at the time.
Believed to now be owned by Southern Shorthaul and stored at Bendigo.

Y121 is seen here on freight bogies.
Despite the livery, she was owned by Freight Australia at the time. Like other FA (don't be rude) locos here, she passed into Pacific National ownership.
She was scrapped in 2011.


Former Westrail L253, then owned by 'ATN Access' in storage. Ownership would later pass to RTS, then to ARG, before becoming part of Aurizon.
Today she is renumbered LZ3119, owned by Aurizon, and stored in Avon Yard (Perth).


Have absolutely no idea what RT class this is, nor where it is now.
If ou can help, I would love to hear from you.


T382 would go on to be owned by Great Northern.
Today, she is with the 'Seymour Railway Heritage Centre' and back in her original 'Victorian Railways' blue and gold livery.


See above.


See above again.


X33 was part of the sale to Pacific National and was subsequently rebuilt as XR553.
She still exists as XR553.


G521 was owned by Freight Australia despite her old V/Line livery.
She would go on to be part of the Pacific National fleet, but today is believed operational with QUBE Logistics.


Now with Ettamogah Rail Hub and stored.



See above.

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