The final shot of the day, with the sun almost set, sees quad ALCos 932 931 930 and 937 passing Bostock Reservoir, near Ballan, with 9121 Jet to Adelaide in June 1985.
With the wind blowing the heat haze from the four hard working 930 class across the landscape and the train, 932 931 930 and 937 dig in with 9121 Jet to Adelaide as they climb up past Ingliston, w... (more)
The Australian version of the "World Series" ALCo FA unit was the A.E. Goodwin-built 930 and 44 Class for the South Australian (later AN) and New South Wales Railways, respectively. During the 19... (more)
Class leaders 900 and 901 of the 10-strong charismatic broad-gauge Australian-built English Electric 900 class (1951 vintage) northbound through Bowmans with a Sunday Afternoon cattle train.
3 broad-gauge Alco-Goodwin '930 class' - double ended but with conventional styling at one end only - with an Adelaide bound container train. These were Alco's 'World' export models, but construct... (more)
Class leader GM1 - claimed to be the first Australian-built main line diesel loco - heads east with a transcontinental freight. GMs utilsed GM equipment and were built specifically for the trans-A... (more)
A sole 'GM' class is about to remove flatcars conveying passenger's motor vehicles from the Alice Springs to Adelaide 'Ghan'.
The Alice Springs-Adelaide 'Ghan' powers through Stirling North, past British-style 'Somersault' semaphores. The train locos are just out of sight, but two similar GM class wait for a path across ... (more)
The Alice Springs-Adelaide 'Ghan' powers through Stirling North behind 2 of the Clyde Engineering built GM class - using GM equipment featuring the classic 'covered wagon' carbody.
Ten Australian built locos of 900 class delivered in 1951 and all still working in 1979, I believe! The first main line diesels for South Australia, using English Electric prime movers and electri... (more)
Triple gauge track. 2nd rail from left to far right - Standard (4ft 8.5in). Far left to 2nd from right -Broad (5ft 3in). Centre two rails-narrow gauge (3ft 6in). The NG Branch to Wilmington was on... (more)
