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Beware, you are approaching another selection of photography showcasing the Aussie product of the greatest* locomotive manufacturer to ever exist.
Prepare for the approaching tsunami of photographs from the 80s till today.
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* In my humble opinion.
4469 was apparently on a tour when captured here at Richmond.
4469, made famous due to the early Lima H O scale model, has since been scrapped.
Photo: Peter Bubb
Brad Peadon Collection
ST30 8031 sitting around the yard at Broken Hill (NSW).
ST30 is now owned by Greentrains, while Pacific National has 8031 in store.
Photo: Brad Peadon
442s6 442s1 shut down on the siding into Seatons.
The Sandown branch is just visible beyond 442s1, this being all long closed with it part converted into the light rail access to the new Parramatta system depot.
442s1 (ex 44220) now with Southern Shorthaul
442s6 (ex 44226) now statically preserved at Junee in candy and back as 44226.
Photo: Brad Peadon
JL404 (ex 44209, and since renumbered the same) in R&H livery.
Leightonfield Yard, Sydney
Photo: Brad Peadon
48145 4514 FL220 with a rake of containers approaching Port Botany.
48145 now Graincorp's 48213.
4514 is scrapped.
FL220 (ex 42220) now operational in Western Australia with Watco.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4401 44212 arrives at Cooks River as a light engines to Botany.
4401 is retained for heritage and was being tested on local trip trains at the time. Today she is a static display at the Junee Roundhouse Museum.
44212 was later rebuilt as GL112.
Photo: Brad Peadon
442s3 442s5 8111 with an empty container train from Port Botany has just passed over the former Banksia Street pedestrian crossing.
Today the track has been duplicated and a massive footbridge has replaced this crossing.
442s3 (ex 44203) is now scrapped, 442s5 has reverted to her original 44223 number and is operational, while 8111 is still with Pacific National.
Photo: Brad Peadon
442s4 (ex 44202) shunting the Patricks siding at Port Botany.
Unit now with Qube and reverted to it's original number.
Photo: Brad Peadon
44222 pulling out of the Patricks terminal at Port Botany.
Later rebuilt as GL108.
Photo: Brad Peadon
48103 shunting the Graincorp Carrington sidings in Newcastle.
Photo: Brad Peadon
607 (ex 600) 602 on a works train at Wiley Park in Sydney.
607 has since been scrapped, while 602 survives with Southern Shorthaul.
Photo: Brad Peadon
48107 has had a whoopsie and is seen sitting at the Chullora Workshops. Not surprisingly, the unit has since gone through a blast furnace.
Photo: Brad Peadon
A rtaher schmick looking 48137 shunting the Graincorp Carrington sidings in Newcastle.
Alas, also now scrapped/
Alas, also now scrapped/
Photo: Brad Peadon
A heavily stripped 4804 at the Delec Locomotive Depot in Sydney. No prizes for guessing her ultimate fate.
Photo: Brad Peadon
John Currey's privately preserved 4465 at ALCo Park (Werris Creek). She is now kept in a shed.
Photo: Brad Peadon
8003 sitting at Werris Creek in Northern New South Wales.
She was one of the members of her class scrapped in the same livery she wore on delivery.
Photo: Brad Peadon
48123 is another of her class seen shunting the Graincorp grain sidings in Carrington, and likewise another that has been scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4812 4823 4810 on an up Nowra Goods at Coniston.
4812 would go on to be Cargill's bright yellow shunter CAR1, before later being scrapped at Junee.
The two behind her are also now scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4822 4811 sit at Rockdale on a works train during a shutdown.
4822 is preserved at the Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum, while 4811 is now 48s36 with Southern Shorthaul, but is expected to revert to it's original number.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4826 4911 with a rake of containers for Port Botany.
Passing through Campsie in Sydney.
4826 is now scrapped, 4911 with Southern Shorthaul.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4429 on an Illawarra passenger train passing through the Lilyvale Tunnel.
Unit has long been scrapped, being done at Sims Metal in Mascot.
Photo: Peter Bubb
Brad Peadon Collection
48125 4861 4881 4869 on an empty Pelton Colliery coal rake passing through the abandoned Kurri Kurri station (South Maitland Railway).
Only unit that isnt scrapped is 48125 which is now Graincorp's 48211.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4859 briefly pauses at Stockinbingal station late one evening back in 1989.
Today she remains in the area, privately owned in Junee by local stuntman Lawrence Legend.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4869 4881 4861 4862 on an up Pelton coal passing through Hexham.
All four have gone to god, 4881 as PL5.
Photo: Brad Peadon
PL5 (ex 4881) PL2 (ex 4871) sitting in Morandoo (Newcastle) yard with empty coal hoppers.
All PL class, with the exception of PL1, have been scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4520 transferring a Silver City Comet set to the museum at Thirlmere is seen passing through the famous Maldon Curve.
4520 is preserved at the same museum.
Photo: Brad Peadon
8049 8004 sitting around the turntable at Lithgow just west of the Blue Mountains.
8004 is with Pacific National but not operational, while Southern Shorthaul have 8049.
In the background is now scrapped 4877 and electric 8641.
Photo: Brad Peadon
4893 on an up ore train leaving Stockinbingal.
Yep it's scrapped also.
Photo: Brad Peadon
PL2 (ex 4871) PL5 (ex 4881) 48129 PL7 (ex 4856) empty Pelton coal train passing through Bellbird cutting and the site of Bellbird Colliery.
All scrapped and the line has not seen use for some years now.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Silverton ST28 ST29 shunting the mine at Broken Hill in far west New South Wales.
ST28 would become Silverton Rail 48s28, later sold to South Spur, then Greentrains, and is now with Southern Shorthaul as 4828 (the second NSW DL531 to do so with the original already being scrapped.
ST29 is scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
3507 (ex 45107, ex 4507) 4528 passing through Maitland on a northbound freight.
Photo: Brad Peadon
44207 4499 (8504 dead attached) approaching Taree on a rather sad and pathetic looking May morning.
The 85 was on it's way to Lansdowne for painting into the new Freightrail blue livery.
44207 was rebuilt at GL101, but the other two have been scrapped
Photo: Brad Peadon
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