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Last updated July 28, 2010 16:17 PM (today)

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Another backlog of updates

July 15, 2010 22:55 PM

Over the past week or so I have been out chasing El Zorro grains up north.

On Friday July 9 I headed down to Geelong to see a down train depart, on the way I saw the up Mildura pass through Melbourne, a PN grain at North Geelong, and the GWA sleeper train for Adelaide at Inverleigh. The El Zorro locos were getting service at Geelong Loco, Y168 being tasken off the train after suffering a hotbox on the trip from Tocumwal. The locos ended up getting stabled, leaving me with nothing else to see.

On the morning of Monday July 12 the El Zorro train was due to depart Geelong for Birchip, I headed out to St Arnaud to wait for it at sunrise, but nothing came though. It turned out the train was delayed at Warrenheip doe to a faield PN train, then needed to wait for a path between Ballarat and Maryborough between V/Line driver training specials. I headed south to Maryborough to wait for it, following the train back north to Donald, where the crew stabled the train in the yard, having run out (...)

Updates from South Australia

July 08, 2010 23:37 PM

I have finally gotten around to uploading my photos from my recent week long trip to South Australia - it was the reason for the two weeks when to new photos appeared!

What did I get up to?

I stayed at Mt Lofty station to see the trains go past, plus a side trip to Dry Creek to see some double stack trains.
Visited the National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide.
Had a trip or two on the TransAdelaide suburban network.
Discovered how weird a bus on a concrete track is.
Went for a ride on Steamranger between Goolwa and Victor Harbor, and visited their Mt Barker depot.
Had a quick look at the Victor Harbor horse tramway.
Checked out the stored Murraylander cars in the yard at Tailem Bend.
Swung past Dimboola for a look at the J class.

Plus when I got back to Victoria I spent a day around Geelong not seeing much, followed by a day where I saw three broad gauge freights (the Waurn Ponds cement, an El Zorro grain, and the Apex train to Brookyn). (...)

New Facebook page

June 09, 2010 16:06 PM

If you are on Facebook, you can now join up to the new Wongm's Rail Gallery page and find out straight away when new photos have been uploaded! Just follow the link, then click 'like'.

http://www.facebook.com/wongms.rail.gallery

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	All albums Every album - all 362 of them
	Accidents Miscellaneous accidents from around the place, derailments, clueless passengers, and broken bits and pieces.
	Ballarat Stations, trams, workshops, V/Line, freight and special trains from around Ballarat
	Broad gauge V/Line, suburban, freight and heritage train action on the broad gauge of Victoria
	Eastern Victoria V/Line, freight and heritage trains from the east of Victoria
	El Zorro El Zorro is a small freight operator based in Melbourne, running a mix of elderly locomotive and units hired from other operators and heritage groups
	End of the line Scraping of wagons
	Freight All kinds of freight from around Victoria, both standard and broad gauge
	Geelong Photos of V/Line, broad and standard gauge freight, the Overland, track machines, and heritage trains around Geelong. My full set of infrastructure photos are at Rail Geelong
	Heritage trains Heritage trains operated by both steam and diesel locomotives around Victoria
	Infrastructure Photos of all kinds of rail infrastructure and doodads from around Victoria
	Locos Locomotives from all around the place
	Melbourne V/Line, suburban, freight and heritage trains, and train station in Melbourne and the surrounding suburbs
	North East Victoria V/Line, freight and heritage trains on the North East line from Melbourne to Albury, via Seymour
	Northern Victoria V/Line and heritage trains on the lines running through Bendigo and the grain belt
	Pacific National Pacific National operates intrastate and interstate freight trains on the broad and standard gauges in Victoria
	Seymour Railway Heritage Centre Based in Seymour, the SRHC operates heritage trains across the state
	Southern Cross Photos of redevelopment work and trains at the main station in Melbourne, Southern Cross. Connex, V/Line, CountryLink and Great Southern Railways all operate from the station
	Southwest Victoria V/Line, heritage and freight services on the line from Geelong to Warrnambool
	Standard gauge Two standard gauge lines enter Victoria, from Adelaide and New South Wales. A variety of operators run freight trains over them, as well as interstate passenger trains by GSR and CountryLink
	Stations Photos of railway stations around the state
	Steam trains Steam operated trains from around the state
	Steamrail Victoria Steamrail Victoria operates heritage trains all over Victoria
	Suburban Melbourne Metro Trains Melbourne operates the suburban railways of Melbourne with a fleet of electric multiple unit trains, taking over from Connex in 2009
	Trackwork Track machines, ballast trains, and all of the other things that come out at odd times to keep the railways running
	Trams Trams from Melbourne, as well as preserved trams from around the state
	Transfers Locomotive hauled transfers of electric multiple units and railcars
	V/Line V/Line operates passenger services all around Victoria with both locomotive hauled carriages and railcars
	Western Victoria Trains in the west of Victoria
	Workshops Trains being worked on in the workshops