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, October 9, 2022

QUEENSLAND - PART 7 - OPERATION HURRICANE

 


Way back in ancient times, I accompanied Chris and Daven Walters (not related) on a trip from Mossman Mill down to Moreton Mill, with the aim of trying to photograph as many sugarcane locomotives as possible. 

The cane side of this monumental undertaking will be covered in a future blog installment (Queensland Canefields Pt3).

Of course, being the rabid railfans that we were, in between the 2ft train action, we also spent a lot of time visiting the mainstream 3ft6 operations of Queensland Rail.

It is the QR guff that we cover below. First all the sightings noted on the trip, followed by a selection of Queensland photos taken over numerous trips




DATE 2002LOCOSTRAINLOCATIONTIMENOTES: Operation Hurricane - Daven Walters & Chris Walters
      
14-9-20022815 -Down 6C77Babinda20:21 
 2373 -Up ContainersInnisfail- 
15-9-20022321 -Dn 3C37Boogan14:11Dn Sunlander
   Chased Innisfail Stn,Bellenden Ker,Harvey Ck,Gordonvale,Kamma
     NOTE: Bellender Ker with #7 On Ballast
 1771 -PassengerCairns From Kuranda
 1754 2815 2479 2845DepotPortsmith- 
 1733 1773 1729 DH45DepotPortsmith- 
 1734 2321 1771DepotPortsmith- 
 3620 (0401)DepotPortsmith- 
16-9-20022815 2392 2355Up freightInnisfail21:09 
 2850 -Up FreightInnisfail  
17-9-20021773 -Up MollassesBabinda08:14 
 2312 -Up PassBabinda Ck09:51 
 1773 -Dn MollassesBabinda10:35 
 2823 -Up Freight x 5Babinda Ck11:15 
 2833 -Up FreightInnisfail21:18 
 2313 -Up FreightInnisfail22:19 
18-9-20022186 -Dn FreightInnisfail06:53 
 2303 -Dn GSPEInnisfail07:34Great South Pacific Express
19-9-20022156 2151 2117-Townsville Port16:35 
 2213 --Townsville Port  
 2847 2472 2849 4039FreightTownsville18:15from port
 2177 --Townsville 18:10freight terminal
 2194 2209FreightTownsville18:26 
 1150 1263PreservedTownsville  
 2413 -FreightTownsville19:07Adobi Motel
 2821 -FreightTownsville20:31Adobi Motel
20-9-20022182 2600 2843 2826DepotStuart06:47 
 2609 2155 2188 2146DepotStuart  
 2213 -Sugar Train?Stuart07:09 
 2845 -Dn FreightTownsville07:29South of Townsville
 2212 -Dn SugarBrandon13:12 
 4037 4022Empty CoalKaili17:10 
 4037 4022Empty CoalPring17:23 
 2410 2411 4027 4029DepotPring- 
21-9-20021740 2474 2809StationMackay- 
 2809 2610Up FreightMackay20:18 
 2822 -Dn FreightMackay- 
22-9-20022497 -Sugar Train?Marian10:26 
 3210 3408 3241 3263DepotJilalan  
 3414 3419 3144 1576DepotJilalan  
 2137 3223DepotJilalan 2137 had an original cab.
 DH37 DH73DepotJilalan  
 1573 1574 LTC1849DepotJilalan No photos
 3102 3257 / 3285 3266CoalYukan15:303102 may have been 3103
 2192 2373Up MolassesYukan15:40 
 3104 3276 / 3277 3214Empty CoalYukan16:51 
 2189 -Empty cattleRockhampton22:03Northbound
 2829 2471 2490 2143 DepotRockhampton-Depot shots
 2181 -DepotRockhampton-Depot shots
23-9-20022836 -FreightRockhampton07:24Northbound, Denison Street
 3642 3610 3634 3414DepotCallemondah Photos
 2346 3901 3415 3528DepotCallemondah Photos
 4014 2414 4006 3503 DepotCallemondah Photos
 2206 DH72DepotCallemondah Photos
 2306 2362 3546 3532DepotCallemondah No Photos
 2348 3907 3912 3910DepotCallemondah No Photos
 3532 2179DepotCallemondah No Photos
 4019 4031EDI RailCallemondah  
 1571 -LimestoneGladstone14:33To Taragoola
 2163 2202Up FreightGladstone14:54 
 301 302Dn Tilt TrainGladstone16:28 
 3924 -Dn CementGladstone16:32 
 2150 -ShunterGladstone- 
 2331 2116WoodchipGladstone17:36 
 2185 -L/EGladstone17:37Arrive
 3926 -ContainersGladstone17:51Southbound
 2346 2306 2414 2179Light EngineGladstone20:26 inc 3526 ex Callemondah
 2414 2179 2185Oil TrainGladstone20:48 
24-9-20023503 3406 2362DepotCallemondah08:17 
 302 301Tilt TrainGladstone08:47Byelle Road Xing
 3908 -Dn FreightMiriam Vale09:45Pages Road
25-9-20023911 -Dn FreightMary West10:38Cross
 3925 -Up Q'landerMary West10:39Cross
 1763 -ShunterMary West  
 1632 1639 1649PreservedMaryborough Mary Valley Tourist Railway, 1632 Operational
27-9-2002DH2 1461 1281PreservedIpswich Workshops Railway Museum
 1710 -PreservedIpswich Workshops Railway Museum, cab only as driver sim.
28-9-20022142 2140 2147 2110WorkshopsRedbank  
 2136 2102 2115 2141WorkshopsRedbank  
 1511 1513 1519 1515WorkshopsRedbank  
 1518 1520 1523 1506WorkshopsRedbank 1518 Partly dismantled for 423 conversion.
 1525 2105 1754 1755WorkshopsRedbank  
 1749 1753 1726 2605WorkshopsRedbank  
 2612 -WorkshopsRedbank  
 Interail Coal HopperWorkshopsRedbank No visible identification.
 1400 -WorkshopsRedbank Opposite workshops
 2210 2162 2193 2160WorkshopsRedbank Opposite workshops, cabs only.
 1730 -WorkshopsRedbank Opposite workshops, cabs only.
 2356 2360FreightAcacia Ridge14:01 
 2173 -ShunterMoolabin14:10 
 3915 -FreightMoolabin14:37Arrive
 3930 -CattleWacol16:23 
 3930 -CattleDinmore16:39 
 1707 -PreservedSwanbank Privately preserved
 2373 1723 1650 2146DepotRedbank  
 1746 2485 2489 1766DepotRedbank Photos of all except 1766.
29-9-20022304 1745Up FreightMorayfield14:36 
 3919 -Up SunlanderMorayfield15:03 
     


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Photos from the above trip, and other occasions.


Rockhampton bound tilt train stops over at Gladstone station.
Photo: Brad Peadon



2202 2163 sitting opposite Gladstone station.
Photo: Brad Peadon


2185 Gladstone station.
Since sold to South Africa.
Photo: Brad Peadon


3926 arrives at Gladstone station with a short southbound container train.
Photo: Brad Peadon


2202 sitting opposite Gladstone station.
Photo: Brad Peadon


2331 at Gladstone.
Photo: Brad Peadon


2202 gets mooned at Gladstone station.
Photo: Brad Peadon


2414 2179 2185 sit in Gladstone yard on a fuel train.
Suspect this sort of access would be difficult at best in 2022.
Photo: Brad Peadon







A small road/rail shunter at the Redbank workshops in suburban Brisbane.
Photo: Brad Peadon


2171 inside Redbank workshops.
Photo: Brad Peadon


2303 stops at Townsville with a southbound 'Great South Pacific Express'.
Photo: Brad Peadon


2163 outside Redbank workshops. 
Photo: Brad Peadon


1528 outside Redbank workshops. 
Locomotive since went to Chile.
Photo: Brad Peadon


2197 also slumming around outside Redbank workshops. 
Photo: Brad Peadon


WHW-31494 (wheel sets) Redbank workshops. 
Photo: Brad Peadon


VGH-37705 (grain) Redbank workshops. 
Photo: Brad Peadon


DUMP-37881 (maybe for garbage items going off the code) Redbank workshops. 
Photo: Brad Peadon


RM55 at Cabanda on the Rosewood Railway. 
Sadly, services are currently paused due to emerging staffing issues.
 This news was placed on their website in 2018, with no further update. Their Facebook page appears to have disappeared.
Photo: Brad Peadon


2182 at Stuart depot (near Townsville).
Photo: Brad Peadon

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Chris Walters and Daven Walters for their company on onbe of the most fun trips ever..
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021

QUEENSLAND PART 3

 


The Queensland travels continue, as we punish the internet world with another selection of sightings and photos.
The sightings are from our October 1996 trip, the photos from all over the place (location and date wise).
Please enjoy, if you so desire, otherwise feel free to hate. I leave that choice up to you.

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DATE 1996LOCOS / LOCATIONTRAINLOCATIONTIMENOTES
      
7-10-961766 -Dn OilDoomden06:55 
 1757 -ShuntPinkenba07:15 
 2499 3905 3921 3913DepotMayne07:30 
 3903 3911 3920DepotMayne07:30 
 2142 -ShuntBundaberg14:18 
 2214--Bundaberg14:18 
 DH47 7336 M1852 DH41-Bundaberg14:34Bundaberg Foundry
 DH29 Bundaberg  
 2157 2461 2460 Gladstone18:16 
 2162 2159 2140 Gladstone18:16 
 1511 1733 1504 1519YardGladstone18:30 
 2490 2488 2405 3413YardGladstone18:30 
 1740-ShuntGladstone19:04 
 2138 2455 2160MT CoalGladstone19:41 
 1518 1527 1513 1555DepotRockhampton22:04 
 1515 1530 2484 2811DepotRockhampton22:04 
 2154 3915 2809 2144DepotRockhampton22:04 
8-10-962809 1527 1513 2823DepotRockhampton06:19 
 2470 2421 1518DepotRockhampton06:19 
 1530 1515Ballast 0Y81Rockhampton07:20To Yeppoon line (pit beyond Lakes Creek)
 1727-Up L/ERockhampton08:44 
 2811-Dn FreightRockhampton10.21 
 2806-Up FreightSee Notes11:31Fourteen Mile Road
 2811-Dn FreightKouwarara12:05Cross
 2824-Up freightKouwarara12:05Cross
 2814-Up FreightMackay16:02 
 2188 2179 1509 2403-Mackay16:02 
 1526 2185 2104-Mackay16:02 
 1507--Mackay16:29Sugar Terminal
 2811-Dn FreightProserpine18:54 
 1773-ShuntBowen21:05 
 2810-Up FreightBurdekin22:02Bridge
9-10-962401-Up FreightTownsville00:49Bi-Centenial Livery
 2408-Up FreightGarbutt07:45 
 2507-Dn FreightTownsville07:49Hyde Park
 2831 2208 1647-Townsville-1647 may have come from Mt Isa IIRC
 2108-Molasses Townsville09:41Jetty Line
 2106-SugarTownsville09:41Jetty Line
 2400-CementTownsville09:50Jetty Line
 2803-StoneTownsville09:56Jetty Line
 2802 2827 2473 2209DepotTownsville10:30 
 2147 2821 2420 1506DepotTownsville  
 2205 2409 2203 1731DepotTownsville  
 2202 2831 2208 1751DepotTownsville  
 2177 1748DepotTownsville  
 2408 2815ShuntBohle12:41Goninan siding
 2806-Dn SunlanderBohle12:41 
 2420 2471Dn FreightIngham18:56 
 2133-SugarTownsville22:50Port
 2106-SugarTownsville22:50Port
 1748 1751 2177 2208DepotTownsville23:00 
 1506 2487 1558 2408DepotTownsville23:00 
10-10-962108-Molasses Townsville08:27Port
 2133-SugarTownsville08:33Port
 2477--Townsville08:35Port
 2106-SugarTownsville08:40Port
 1755 -AccidentTownsville08:40Collided with buffer stop and ran off end of rail.
 2814 2177 1751 1748DepotTownsville- 
 1560 1558 2811 2807DepotTownsville- 
 2820 1731 2833DepotTownsville- 
 2809 -Dn FreightSth Townsville09:42Marron Road
 1509 -Dn PickupAyr13:25Cross
 2820 -Up FreightAyr13:40Cross
 2205 2209Dn CoalHome Hill14:08 
 1704 -Dn PassGumlu14:39Sunshine Rail Experience Tour
 2818 -Dn FreightBowen15:52North of Bowen
 2825 -Dn FreightMackay19:07 
 1488 3273Dn L/EYukan19:553273 dead attached.
 2813 -Dn FreightMarlborough22:04 
 1462 1620 2143 1735DepotRockhampton23:59 
 1518 2821 3512 1763DepotRockhampton  
 1737 1771 2463 2817DepotRockhampton  
 1510 1723 2478 2831DepotRockhampton  
 1515 2103 2484 2146DepotRockhampton  
11-10-961530 1515Ballast - Ballast siding beyond Lakes Creek - Yeppoon Line
 3532 3303 / 3411 3626CoalRockhampton11:35South of Rockhampton
 3304 3634 3607CoalRockhampton16:28South of Rockhampton
 1513 -Dn L/ERockhampton17:26South of Rockhampton
 3924 -Up FreightRockhampton17:33South of Rockhampton
 1727 -Up TripRockhampton18:14South of Rockhampton
 2831 1477 1493 1530DepotRockhampton18:14 
 2405 2828 2103 3413DepotRockhampton  
 3405 -DepotRockhampton  
12-10-962826 -Dn BallastRockhampton06:30 
 2478 -PassPt Curtis Junct06:38 
 1620 -Special PassRockhampton Chased to Yeppoon and back.
 3302 3609 / 3502 3615CoalGracemere11:57West of Gracemere
 3536 3524 / 3618 3631CoalWycarbon12:19 
 3504 3643 / 3641 3412CoalWycarbon13:32 
 3279 --Rockhampton Accident damaged
 2814 1723Up L/ERockhampton  
 1530 1515Dn BallastRockhampton Yeppoon line
13-10-962809 -Dn FreightRockhampton  
 3506 3316 / 3613 3605MT CoalMidgee09:02 
 3550 3408 / 3621 3611MT CoalGladstone10:05North of Gladstone
 2162 2159 2140CoalCallamondah  
 3504 3643 / 3641 3412MT CoalGladstone  
 3544 3642 / 3614 3414CoalGladstone13:21North of Gladstone
 2475 2191GrainGladstone13:55 
 2488 2190 1571 2483YardGladstone14:08 
 1511 2454YardGladstone  
 2460 2461 2157CoalGladstone14:22 
 2496 1732 1519 1504DepotCallamondah14:40 
 2485 2453 2214 3615DepotCallamondah  
 3619 3501 3502 2457DepotCallamondah  
 2475 2142 2214 2496 DepotCallamondah  
 2153 1732 1511 2485DepotCallamondah  
 2475 -DepotCallamondah  
 3549 -DepotCallamondah Accident damage
 2454 -GrainGladstone08:00Terminal
 1733 2191 2475 2188DepotCallamondah08:05 
 2145 2496     
     Cab ride 2160 2157 2153 Stirrat-Clarke. MrX: Clarke - Mt Rainbow
14-10-19962137 2163 2150 2158CoalGladstone08:42West of Gladstone
 1571 -MT LimestoneGladstone10:08Bouganville Caravan Park - Moura.
 2160 2157 2153MT CoalGladstone13:48West of Gladstone
 2213 1465WheatGladstone14:35 
 1732 -ShunterGladstone15:15 
 1504 1519 3904 2496YardGladstone15:15 
 2483 2454 1733"Gladstone  
 2490 -SleepersGladstone19":32 
 3922 -Dn FreightGladstone21:02 
 2143 2141Dn BallastGladstone21:05 
15-10-962479 2151 3615 3623DepotGladstone07:17 
 3520 3617 2157 3419DepotGladstone  
 2407 2176 2141 2143YardGladstone  
 1504 1519ShuntMt Miller08:20 
 3905 -Dn FreightGladstone09:07 
 3923 1511Up FreightGladstone09:19 
 3912 3926 3909Dn FreightBororen10:41North of Bororen
 1565 1529Dn FreightBororen11:201529 'ALVA G LEE'
 2142 2214Up BallastBaffle12:212 Locations South Of Baffle - One a cutting.
 3930 -Dn FreightBundaberg20:19 
 2105 -YardBundaberg20:19 
 3920 -Up FreightBundaberg21:06 
 3928 3903Up FreightBundaberg21:32 
16-10-963925 -Up FreightBundaberg13:00 
 3904 1574Dn FreightBundaberg13:00 
 1769 -Oil ShuntMaryborough15:34 
 1702 1746YardGympie17:03 
 1632 1639MuseumGympie- 
17-10-962462 -MT PassengerNormanby17:20 
 1767 -ShunterNormanby17:20 
 1709 2171 2173 2107Dn L/ENormanby17:30Plus 2200
 2456 -MT PassengerNormanby17:35 
 3914 -FreightNormanby17:40 
 2456 -MT PassengerNormanby17:52 
 2505 -FreightNormanby17:53 
 1514 1711L/ENormanby17:58Cross
 3909 -FreightNormanby17:58Cross
18-10-962107 2200YardWacol06:24 
 1557 2413Unknown TrainWacol06:27 
 1651 1647 1705 1720WorkshopsRedbank06:30 
 1562 1564 1460 1502WorkshopsRedbank  
 1497 1508 1522 1475WorkshopsRedbank  
 DH38 1650 1177 1641WorkshopsRedbank  
 1200 1263 1225 1633WorkshopsRedbank  
 1634 1638 1637 1628WorkshopsRedbank  
 1622 1627 1652 1640WorkshopsRedbank  
 1623 1643 1635 1626WorkshopsRedbank  
 2187 1465 2610WorkshopsRedbank 2187 half scrapped.
 2419 -PassengerRedbank06:54 
 2465 -MT PassengerRedbank07:57 
 8012 8016 8050 8217DepotYeerongpilly09:25 
 2171 -L/EMayne11:52 
 2501 -ShuntMayne12:18 
 3913 -FreightMayne12:39 
 1523 1466L/EFishermans Is13:48 
 2201 2196CoalFishermans Is13:48 
 2498 -ContainersFishermans Is14:37Depart
 1563 -MT WheatFishermans Is14:37 
 2201 2196MT CoalHemmant15:23 
 1563 -MT WheatLytton15:52 
 2456 -PassengerNormanby17:08 
 2499 -WheatNormanby17:08 
 2200 -MT SunlanderNormanby17:12 
 3903 -MT PassengerNormanby17:12 
 2212 -MT PassengerNormanby17:18 
 2456 -PassengerNormanby17:28Home Show
 2174 -FuelNormanby17:45 
 2456 -PassengerNormanby17:50Home Show
 2505 1703L/ENormanby18:00 
 2456 -PassengerNormanby18:06Home Show
 2456 -PassengerNormanby18:23Home Show
 2197 2114CoalDarra20:42 
19-10-968005 -ShunterAcacia Ridge08:56 
 8238 8040 8017 80456SB7Acacia Ridge09:06 
 8245 8019 8026 80067BM4Greenbank13:25 
 8141 81306SB3Algester17:00 
 8238 8045 8017 80407BS8Algester17:21 
 C17 974PassengerRoma Street20:25 
20-10-961517 1707 1747 1556DepotWillowburn09:00 
 2110 2422 2199 2505DepotWillowburn  
 1528 -DepotWillowburn  
20-10-96WestbrookLocationWestbrook-Abandoned line crossing Millmerran Road.
 PittsworthLocationPittsworth-Fertiliser, 2 track yard, triangle, still used.
 BrooksteadLocationBrookstead-Numerous sidings, triangle, silos both sides
 PampasLocationPampas-Siding, no station. Stored VO33325,33322,33269,33468
 YandillaLocationYandilla-Station intact (photo of silo on left with car bonnet)
 2121 -BallastInglewood- 
 TexasLocationTexas-Closed branch terminus, rails gone, one structure still existing
     From Texas, returned to Brisbane via Wallangarra.
21-10-19961563 -MT PassengerMayne08:15 
 2173 1461 1466 2112DepotMayne09:30 
 2110 1707 2197 1563DepotMayne  
 2196 1523 1495 2212DepotMayne  
 2174 2201 2462DepotMayne  
21-10-968233 8229ContsAcacia Ridge10:11From the south.


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2410D was not long out of the paint shop when found at the Redbank loco shop.
Photo: Brad Peadon.


2192 2373 passing through Yukan (south of Sarina) with a Molasses train.
Photo: Brad Peadon.


How Queensland EMD locomotives are supposed to look.
2137, along with her lovely original cab, sitting at Jililan (near Sarina) depot.
Photo: Brad Peadon.


2212 on a sugar train passing through Brandon (south of Townsville).
Photo: Brad Peadon.



2146 was still in a very worn Queensland Rail blue livery during our visit to Redbank.
Photo: Brad Peadon.



One of the more interesting moments when cataloguing 100,000+ photos is the finding photographs of items, and places, you never even remember going to.
  Evidently, we caught a train from Roma Street to Beenleigh, after seeing a kettle arrive at the former station.
Photo: Brad Peadon.





Not in Queensland, but taken on the way there.
Broadwater Sugar Mill, in Broadwater (not surprisingly) NSW.
Photo: Brad Peadon.


2488 at the Redbank LMD.
Photo: Brad Peadon.


1769 at the Redbank LMD.
Photo: Brad Peadon.


Roma Street station prior to the aforementioned nocturnal Beenleigh trip..
Photo: Brad Peadon.


Pittsworth station on the now closed Millmerran line.
The station building now resides at the 'Pittsworth Historical Village'
Photo: Brad Peadon.


Have always had a thing for the Queensland QLX van.
Wish I took more photos of them.
Photo: Brad Peadon.
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