Spotlight On Candy Livery

Candy, the livery everyone loves, and who can blame them. Afterall, it pulled us out of that dreary Indian Red (and reverse) era, and into the awesome decade that was the 80s.

Our most recent project covers the candy livery 

and can be found at the

Australian Locomotive Rosters website.

It gives a little history, covers all locomotives and railcars that were so painted, and has 107 photos of locomotives, railcars and other sundry assorted guff to wear it during that era.

Our pleasure.

4701 arriving at Picton Station. If i recall correctly, it was headed to Thirlmere.

Brad Peadon

Super Shunter at Elcar (Chullora) - Brad Peadon

4472 at Cardiff for the big auction - Brad Peadon

4405 at Delec loco depot (Enfield) - Brad Peadon

4403 at Sydney Terminal - Brad Peadon

4405 and 44xx pass a CPH tour from Jewels (Belmont branch)

Broadmeadow - Brad Peadon

4419 withdrawn at Delec - Brad Peadon

4428 at Sydney Terminal - Brad Peadon

4432 had not long been painted in candy when she decided to have a fit and get herself withdrawn. Here she sits at the former Delec Locomotive Depot.

CPH7 and CPH1 at Telarah

Spotlight on the Candy livery.

The SRA Candy livery Group.

GM3 had been at the Delec Open Day.
Now scrapped 8219 hauled it to Bathurst from Sydney, with 48116 then transferring it to Clyde at Kelso.
48116 is now 48209 with Graincorp.

48117's main claim to fame is that it is the first locomotive the photographer
ever cab rode on.
Alas, she has since been scrapped.

48118 has also gone to God.

48119 likely scrapped at Werris Creek.

48121 was scrapped at Werris Creek in 2015.

48122 was also scrapped at Werris Creek in 2015.

Stay tuned for the next thrilling installment of small ALCo goodness.

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Two recent requests have seen me pulling out the dusty old slide boxes from the 'Semi-Retired Foamer' archive. The slide collection, while quite large, has always been the lesser cousin of the massive print one.
As such, it has probably been some 2-3 decades since I really had a look at them.
With most shots taken in the glory years that formed the 80s, I really just can't remember what is amongst them. So, I can honestly say that what appears in this 'occasional' series, will likely be as much of a surprise to me as it will be for you.
Also of surprise will be the distinct lousy quality of most of what appears. I was only trialling slides for a few years and, well, it was my early years of transport photography.
I am sure you shall find a way to endure it.

I was never only a train fan, I have always had an interest in transport away from railways. It is just that most of my public involvement was in the rail arena. Something that I guess I sort of regret at times.
It did give me some tremendous lifetime friends who do make up for the butt pipes.

  Returning from Melbourne, while on one of many 80s trips, we decided to stop in at Wagga Wagga for a look at the former 'Urban Transit Authority'  Leylands (no rail reason to stop in back then) that Fearnes were using at the time.
  Above are two Mk1 Leopards and just a small part of an Atlantean (see future posts).

Be hard pressed finding one of these on QANTAS Drive nowadays.
While the bus, and livery, are now long gone, Murrays Coaches still exist.

 Obviously we thought long walks were a great idea back in the 80s.On this day we caught a train to Lidcombe, then walked to the former Pippita station, before risking our lives entering the railway corridor to survey the old line to the Abattoirs. Ooooh, todays railfan nazi's would have been impressed.
Despite being caught in an upturned Brickworks signalbox, the day was an educational and fun one. Many shots were taken and will appear in due course.

The livery is now gone.
The 48 class has been decimated in number.
The fuel tankers are likely all scrapped.
The siding is ripped out.
The terminal is gone.
The Sandown line is mothballed.
Safe to say we ain't going to see this ever again.

As part of the task of cataloguing the massive collection accumulated over the years, I recently decided to start going through all the slides.
The of the 80,000+ print collection has been gone through numerous times, but the slides have not been looked at for a couple of decades.
Needless to say, I am finding a huge amount of surprises within the confines of those dusty slide boxes and, being the generous chap that I am, I shall be bringing forth a lot of these for your enjoyment.

Boorowa had not long seen it's last grain train when these shots were taken. The yard, such as it was, was still intact, as was the bridge approaching the yard, signalling and turntable.
In 2017, it is far from a pretty sight.
The classic truck in the top shot is believed to be an International.

One of the lesser known stations on the Sydney network.
Hope Street was a railway employees platform to the south of Delec.

Galong track diagram.

Galong station, facing north towards Sydney.
photo taken prior to the derailment that saw a good portion of the

down building demolished.

Grenfell station a few years after closure.

Forbes station, on the Stockinbingal-Parkes line, has not changed much more than a paint job into different colours.
Forbes opened in 1893.

Candy, it just improved the look of everything.

Not much was left of Sodwalls in the late 80s, but there was still 

far more than exists in 2017.
The station, complete with passenger amenities, first opened back in 1872.

As was the custom of the day, every Hunter trip commenced with a visit to the Toronto branch, before heading around to the Belmont line.
This morning we were a little earlier, being there to watch the sun rise up over Lake Macquarie. Sadly those shots did not scan well.
The morning sun had just fully lit the whole station when this shot was taken. Soon we would send the next couple of hours chasing spuddies back and forth to Fassifern.

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More slides from the SRF and S*M*U*T archive coming shortly.