Howdy folks!
One major drawback of years of neglecting to catalogue over 300,000 photos is that I'm now playing catch-up. While I've managed to organize thousands of images on this blog across various themes, there are still countless others sitting around waiting for their moment.
To tackle this backlog, I'm embarking on a mission to sort through and categorize a substantial number of these photos in the coming months. Expect to see posts dedicated to locomotives, carriages, infrastructure, trams, and buses, catering to those with even a passing interest in these subjects.
Prepare for the approaching tsunami of photographs from the 80s till today.
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Class leader 930 (aka 967) preserved at the National Railway Museum in Adelaide.
Photo: Brad Peadon
48138 shunting the Graincorp sidings at Carrington (Newcastle, Australia).
Still with Pacific National.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4467 having a bludge at Hope Street (Delec Locomotive Depot).
Photo: Brad Peadon
ALCos parts during the mass scrapping near St Marys (Sydney Australia).
Photo: Brad Peadon
Greek 'World Series' A.303.
Locomotive has since been scrapped.
Photo: Unknown
Brad Peadon Collection
RENFE (Spain) 1806 with three tankers at Asturies.
Quite likely now scrapped. But updates welcome.
Photo: Joaquin Lopez del Ramo
Brad Peadon Collection
RENFE (Spain) 1816 with a freighter at Asturies.
Quite likely now scrapped. But updates welcome.
Photo: Joaquin Lopez del Ramo
Brad Peadon Collection
Cootamundra shunter 4851 sitting around the yard in between duties.
Unit would later be painted in the blue Freightrail livery, but has since been scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Delec locomotive depot shunter 4806 (named after employee Bruce Pender) shut down at the depot the night before an open day.
Believed to have been scrapped after many years laying around the former Delec site.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Above and below.
48125 48152 shunting the long closed fuel terminal at Sandown.
48125 became Graincorp 48211.
48152 now scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
48110 and 8041 around the turntable at Lithgow (NSW, Australia).
48110 became Graincorp 48206.
8041 has been scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4461 in Leightonfield yard.
Now scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Above and below.
8021 at the State Mine in Lithgow.
Also now scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4465 at a birthday gathering in Werris Creek.
Privately preserved, still in the same place.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4463 4488 on a rake of containers passing through Enfield.
4463 has since been scrapped, while 4488 is stored at Junee with a grim-looking future.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4878 4871 4870 4876 with a loaded coal from the Pelton (Austar) mine.
East Greta Junction (South Maitland Railway)
4878 became GPU2.
4870 and 4871 became PL class, but were later scrapped.
4876 was just scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4845 shunting Wodonga in Victoria.
Also scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Delec locomotive depot shunter 4806 shut down at the depot the day before an open day.
Photo: Brad Peadon
48125 sitting on the Departure Roads at Delec Loco Depot.
Became Graincorp 48211.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Above and below.
'Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum' owned 4420 when stored on a surviving stub of the former Wickham branch in Newcastle.
The locomotive is now at the museum.
Photo: Brad Peadon
44220 44225 44218 4498 sitting around the turntable of the now-closed Broadmeadow Turntable.
44218 rebuilt as GL106.
44220 operational with Southern Shorthaul.
44225 and 4498 have been scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4808 Sydney Terminal shunter.
Now, not surprisingly, scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4813 at the Delec Locomotive Depot went on to be rebuilt 907 in South Australia.
Photo: Brad Peadon
607 (aka 600) with 704 in the Port Flat Yard (Gillman, Adelaide).
607 scrapped.
704 now with Steamranger.
Photo: Brad Peadon
JL404 and 4497 with a rake of flats at Warabrook.
JL404 reverted to its former 44209 number, owned by Manildra Group, and operational. Believed to be used as a banker at Ardglen with Southern Shorthaul.
4497 thought to still be operational in the Junee area.
Photo: Brad Peadon
48105 48136 48112 on a down ballast train headed to Bombo.
Dapto railway station.
All three units have since gone to god.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Preserved 4306 4201 and 4490 waiting for departure from Dungog (NSW North Coast).
Photo: Brad Peadon
4468 shunting the CTAL sidings at Port Botany.
Now privately preserved at an unknown location.
Photo: Brad Peadon
442s4 shunting the CTAL siding at Port Botany.
Since returned to its original 44202 number and still operational.
Photo: Brad Peadon
JL402 with containers from Port Botany.
Passing through East Botany.
Since returned to its original 44206 number and still operational.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4493 4504 and 4498 land at Taree with containers from Brisbane.
All are now scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4427 on a rail train at Picton.
Here it will run around, before heading south to Bargo to dump its load.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Beautifully restored 4401 climbing through Farmborough Heights with the Cockatoo Run.
Today she is on static display in the Junee Roundhouse.
Photo: Brad Peadon
8024 stored around the Werris Creek turntable in north-west New South Wales.
Scrapped like so many others.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4816 48s33 with a containerised coal train from the Pelton (Austar) Mine. Passing through East Greta on the South Maitland Railway.
The mine has since ceased, the line sold to Aurizon (as far as Bellbird Junction), and sees only occasional use for wagon storage.
Both are still with us, 4816 with 'Junee Railway Workshops' and 48s33 with 'Southern Shorthaul'.
Photo: Brad Peadon
DL531 goodness lined up around one of the Broadmeadow turntables.
48151 - Scrapped
48142 - Graincorp 48212
48163 - Scrapped
48143 - Still with Pacific National
Photo: Brad Peadon
Above (East Maitland) and below (East Greta)
PL3 48134 PL7 PL2 on an empty coal train to the former Pelton (Austar) coal mine.
All four units have been scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4894 and 4886 spending the night in Cootamundra yard.
4894 - Still with Pacific National
4886 - Graincorp 48201
Photo: Brad Peadon
PL1 is the lucky last survivor of the class, now being with Progress Rail in South Australia.
Kendall Airlines (above) was less lucky, becoming a victim of the Ansett (parent company) collapse, and later being sold to a consortium that formed the now troubled REX Airlines.
The plane itself went to REX and is probably still with them.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4503 outside the Chullora Workshops in Sydney.
Sadly she is now scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
JL404 leaving Botany with another rake of containers.
JL404 reverted to its former 44209 number, owned by Manildra Group, and operational. Believed to be used as a banker at Ardglen with Southern Shorthaul.
Photo: Brad Peadon
8023 around the Lithgow locomotive depot turntable.
Has been scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
8015 and 8039 on an up Elouera coal approaching Unanderra. This was during the period the two were leased for steelworks coal traffic.
Both still with Pacific National.
Photo: Brad Peadon
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Bradly Coulter
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------I would have liked to have been an Astronaut.
Seeing as I am not a top gun pilot, have excellent health or degrees coming out of my ears, not liking sci-fi as it is ridiculous and far fetched, or remotely interested in Uranus..
I have been quoted by peers as being a Space cadet on occasion though.
