Random Bollocks From A Semi-Retired Foamer!: 2025

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

THE LOCOMOTIVE DIARIES - EMD PT6

Well, Look Who’s Finally Organizing 300,000 Photos…
Hey there, loyal readers (and those of you who just wandered in here by accident while Googling “vintage trains” or possibly “how to organize your life”)!
So, fun fact: If you ignore a growing pile of 300,000 photos for a few years—give or take a decade—you eventually hit a point where you either have to sort them... or fake your own disappearance. I chose the former. Barely.
Yes, I’m now in full-blown catch-up mode. Think digital archaeology meets mild existential dread. I have managed to wrestle thousands of images into some sort of themed order here on the blog (because, you know, I’m a responsible adult LOL), but there’s still a mountain of unsorted memories waiting to see the light of day. Or at least the glow of your screen.
So what’s coming your way over the next few months? Oh, just a tsunami of transport-related guff: locomotives, carriages, infrastructure, trams, and buses type bollocks. Basically, if it runs on rails or gets stuck in traffic, it’s probably going to make an appearance.
Now, before you get too excited (or fall asleep), let me lower expectations just a tad. This particular post steps away from the mechanical marvels of ALCO and English Electric—yes, I know, tragic—and instead, we take a solemn, slightly pitying glance at the humble creations of Clyde/EMD. Think of it as the train equivalent of watching someone try their best in gym class.
But hey, whether you’re here for the glorious detail shots or just to marvel at how someone let this photo hoarding situation get so out of hand, you’re in for something. A ride, perhaps. A journey. Or maybe just several weeks of relentless scrolling/yawning. Either way, buckle up—or, you know, don’t. I can hardly tell you what to do.
Photos from the '80s right through to today are incoming. It’s going to be wild. Or mediocre. Depends on how much you like trains, really.

Stay tuned (or don’t). The visual garbage is coming either way.
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ATN Access L265 seen passing McIntyre in Melbourne with three grain wagons.

Believed to now be with Aurizon and stored back in Western Australia.

Photo: Brad Peadon

1770D 'JAMES COOK'.

Redbank Workshops in Brisbane.

Now with QR Heritage and under restoration at Redbank.

Photo: Brad Peadon

DL40 in Port Kembla North (South Yard) still wearing it's original Australian National green and gold livery.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Three DLs in three different liveries.

DL44 DL43 DL50 on a train in the Cringila exchange sidings.

All three now stored at Werris Creek. None of the surviving members are currently in service.

Photo: Brad Peadon

4918 back in the black with red band livery she wore for a while.
Seen here at Chullora Workshops, while today she is in the ownership of the 'Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum'.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Now scrapped 4909 undergoing maintenance inside the former Delec Locomotive Depot in Sydney.

Photo: Brad Peadon

42109 sits around the depot at Casino in Northern New South Wales.

Seen here in the colours of former owner 'Northern Rivers Railroad', she had by now entered the ownership of Interail.

Sadly she would go on to be scrapped.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Two more in the 'Northern Rivers Railroad' livery, but now owned by Interail.

42302 and 42206 on an empty coal train at Wards River on the NSW North Coast line.

42302 was formerly Queensland 1507, but has been scrapped. However 42206 is still in use with Aurizon.

Photo: Brad Peadon

4913 sitting inside the shed at Delec Depot in Sydney.

She would be sold to Manildra Group, have her short hood lowered, and renumbered MM02.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Also at Delec Depot, now preserved 4903 has a rest over the weekend.

Photo: Brad Peadon

1571 sitting on a Taragoola limestone rake opposite Gladstone station in Queensland.

She would later become 2268, a member of the 2250 class.

Photo: Brad Peadon

8102 has a sleep at Morandoo yard (Newcastle) until it's next shunt of the OneSteel steelworks area.

Photo: Brad Peadon

2123 2145 passing through Willowburn (Queensland) with a freight.

2123 was sold to South Africa, and 2145 was rebuilt as 2273.

Photo: Brad Peadon

2172 heads through Helidon (Queensland) with the Westlander passenger train.

Locomotive would be later sold to South Africa.

Photo: Brad Peadon

2358 and 2352 also at Helidon, this time leading a coal train.

Photo: Brad Peadon

8106 is about to pass over Jersey Farm Road at Wongawilli Village as it arrives at the Elouera coal mine.

This line has been closed for some years.

Photo: Brad Peadon

8242 leads class leader 8201 through Islington Junction with an coal rake.

8242 is one of the last six still in this original livery.

Photo: Brad Peadon

8125 8177 preparing to depart Botany New Yard with a rake of containers.

Image taken from the top of Kellogg's (with permission) on the 12th February 1999.

Both are still with Pacific National.

Photo: Brad Peadon

8173 arriving at Cooks River with train 3196 from Melbourne.

27-11-1996

Photo: Brad Peadon

Impressive much.

C506 B61 4532 GM27 C504 pass through the former Mascot level crossing during the combined SRF/SMUT annual Christmas party.

Photo: Brad Peadon

8245 and 8129 passing through Maitland with a loaded coalie.

Photo: Brad Peadon

2214 (ex 42217) 2208 (ex 42208) passing through Dapto with a Manildra train bound for Bomaderry.

Photo: Brad Peadon

42206 and GM27 pull out of CTAL at Port Botany in Sydney.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Above and below.

A somewhat grubby 1435 pass through the former Mascot level crossing during the combined SRF/SMUT annual Christmas party.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Above and below.

Now it is the turn of 1428 to do the same during the same function.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Above and below.

Metro liveried 4901 is seen along the now closed Elouera (Wongawilli) line during a tour.

Photo: Carl Millington

Brad Peadon Collection

Quad 90s was also a pretty awesome sight to see.

9035 9011 9016 9021 passing through Tarro with a loaded coal train.

All four units are now in storage awaiting what their future may hold.

Photo: Brad Peadon

49 class around Delec locomotive depot and wearing three different liveries.

4906 in red terror livery is now with Lachlan Valley Railway.

4911 wearing her original livery here, is now operational with Southern Shorthaul.

4916 seen here in a hybrid candy/red terror livery, is preserved at Thirlmere. Sadly they have restored her to the original livery as on 4911 above.

Photo: Brad Peadon

The interesting combo of 8251 G538 9204 9210 passing Victoria Street in East Maitland with another loaded coal train.

All still remain with Pacific National.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Qube RL303 RL309 shunting Cringila exchange sidings at the Port Kembla steelworks, before hauling a rake of steel coils back to Port North.

Photo: Brad Peadon

A78 X53 P22 on an up freight passing through Middle Footscray station.

A78 (ex B78) believed stored for the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre.

X53 scrapped at Islington Workshops back in 2019.

P22 (ex T328) now owned by Ettamogah Rail Hub and wearing the Victorian Railways blue and gold livery.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Above and below

Like 4916 above, 4910 also wore the hybrid candy/red terror livery. She is seen here at Delec after being withdrawn from service.

She would survive, now being operated by Southern Shorthaul.

Photo: Brad Peadon

DL41 DL48 stop at Spencer Junction (South Australia) with 1166 freight from Alice Springs.

This was a promotional run for the new National Rail, DL41 having recently become the first to wear their attractive livery.

Both are now stored.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Y159 preserved at Daylesford by the 'Daylesford Railway'.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Back in the days when we used to lurk around rural railway yards at all hours of the night, we were treated to the arrival of 8155 and 8128 on a grainie.

Both are now with Pacific National.

Photo: Brad Peadon

On the very odd occasion you time things perfectly on a long long distance railfan trip. So it was on this rather miserable day when we arrived at the border (NSW and Victoria) of Tocumwal to find T396 about to depart south.

While the NSW standard gauge had long closed by this time, the broad gauge into Victoria still operated, as it continues to do in 2025.

We ended up chasing this train through to Shepperton.

T396 was later part of Pacific National but was withdrawn in 2015 and subsequently scrapped.

Photo: Brad Peadon

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