QR repurchased locomotives from Aurizon and began hauling the Sunlander with its own locomotives and crews, replacing the Aurizon locomotives and crews. Aurizon still hauls the Inlander for QR, but all other QR passenger trains are operated by QR locomotives and crews.

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Thanks for telling me

Pacific National now hauls the Wilmar bulk sugar trains in the Burdekin and Proserpine, plus molasses from the Kalamia Mill.

The containers are for bulk molasses, at the time it was moving from Inkerman and Kalamia to the Townsville Port. Since then the Inkerman molasses has moved to road.

This is Rockhampton in Central Queensland.

The 13 2600s were built as GE U22C models during 1983-1984 and were rebuilt as upgraded C22MMi models during 2000-2001. They were all sold to Apex Industrial in 2013 and exported to South Africa. Those remaining are operating across various southern African countries and in the Congo.

The E40 AG-V1 model was built by Siemens between 2005 and 2014, they weigh up to 132-tonnes with 5,260hp - they're a little more modern and powerful than the Eo 🙂

Thankyou 🙂

The wagons (bins) don't have brakes. Locomotives and remote brake vans provide braking. The brake vans are semi-permanently linked by radio to their specific locomotive.

They are, fitted with Allison 5 speed automatics and a V8 Mercedes. When you throttle off they don't coast

There's around 16 to 18 trains each day. This video was shot during one morning from dawn until 10.00am. After day break to mid-morning and during mid-afternoon tend to be the busiest daylight periods, with 3 to 4 trains during each of those periods. This is the mainline between Brisbane and Cairns, the busiest intermodal corridor in Queensland.

Mid-1990s GE Dash 8s, they have a great sound 🙂

Once Glencore closed its coke works, QR, the network owner, closed the line and the branch was subsequently removed during 2017, including bridges. There is very little evidence now the line even existed.

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it's 2804, it was the lead loco on 9255 (cement containers and lead ingots) heading down to the Jetty in the sequence immediately before the light engine movement. It's heading back to the Stuart locomotive depot.

Thankyou...the local avian population was a great help 🙂

Thankyou. There's a fair bit of action up here at the moment, particularly from the Koels 🙂

Downer leased it for a couple of years until it got DH73 running.

@@CalvusTV Must have been rough times for MVHR if they leased out their only shunting locomotive.

Aurizon as a name didn't exist when QR and QR National split. QR National renamed itself Aurizon about a year after the split.

Hi Lachlan, I have some information regarding your comment. Sometime during 2010 QR National would rebrand (this wasn't the 2012 Aurizon rebrand) and after this rebranding came the ''Beyond Australia'' logo better known as the Aurizon logo.

The headlight is the original. Slightly modified.