Pacific National grain trains in SA 2019-2020

From 2018-2020, Pacific National ran a large number of grain trains (mostly for the drought relief effort) to South Australia. With the exception of the trains that loaded in western Victoria (then unloaded at Outer Harbor), all of them loaded at Mallala, Bowmans, Snowtown, Crystal Brook (Grainflow loop) or Gladstone. 82 and NR class were the backbone of the effort with occassional appearences of BL, G, DL and 81 class.

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

They may be ugly but you cannot beat that EMD roar from the DL class, some good ones there Rhys. I wonder why the security style fence at the Salisbury North (5.49) property? Most of those 82 class have been repainted into Pacific National livery now. Excellent collection and well presented, nice work.

[@Rhys4AUFC]

Cheers. The security fence is for the Edinburgh RAAF base. Also there’s way uglier locos than DL’s (which I don’t think are ugly) like 82’s, 1100’s and cm’s for example