Neill, G'Day... Thanks for your UG Sighting/Report from Today/Thu (?) 1 Feb 07 Any idea of the programme for tomorrow (Friday) through Glenapp? Day off...
According to RACQ no-one (motor vehicles) can get past Merinda at present. Tony G. ... gecko@... ... The Ark was built by amateurs, Titanic was built by...
Hi Sorry I can't help Lindsay. Went down today hoping to see both the rail train and MB7. No sign anywhere of the rail train. Recent rain south of the border...
... Hi Neill, Is the Casino loop being rebuilt at Nammoona just north of the meatworks? Have I missed some announcement? Thus it appears that Casino loop will...
After seeing the news last night I agree Jason thanks Alan Jones ... llan, I belive it is because of the weather up north. Regards, Jason Hite Wynnum Brisbane....
... Pretty much, but while I was paddling my car home last night I got stopped by 2123F/2152D with 1 IBJX and 16 loaded VBZ heading south over Boundary St to...
Hi all, not too much detail in some of these I'm afraid, Sightings 1/2/2007 On the angle at Roma St unless mentioned otherwise 1038hrs 2501D with #3907 down on...
MMY004 Regards, Frank T http://www.users.bigpond.com/sigq/sigq.htm ... From: qrig@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qrig@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Jones Sent:...
Hi All The track near Giru never got over the last flood. Now it is over again, so it maybe a probelm again after the water goes down. That bit of old track ...
Hi Peter Answers are yes, yes, yes, yes. Probably find out more on the ARTC website. I think Casino is constrained by the bridge over the river to the south ...
a few friends in the big smoke rang me up yesterday and said on their way to and from work some lettering had been scratched or removed from the station signs...
Folks advertisement in Courier Mail of Sat 3 February 2007. Queensland Rail as Mortgagee, invites offers for the Purchase and Removal of C17 class steam...
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... Parts of Townsville - particularly to the south had another 200mm of overnight. Good chance the Haughton will get a fair bit higher at Giru now. For those...
G'day all, I've added two new galleries of photos to my web page you may be interested in. The first is a gallery of photos taken on the standard gauge line...
Peter & Neill, The new loops will be constructed to a length of 1800 metres in preparation for the running of 1800m long trains on the North Coast (PN already...
Pilet, If you do a search through the Australian media websites you will find that Toll has proposed to the ACCC to keep PN intact so as not to break it up ...
Neill, Don't be too sure that a train is "well loaded". It can have every slot filled with containers, that is only one part to it though. Whether those ...
Arthur, Send some of that rain down here! Only 37 mm has been measured in my gauge so far, and that is from Wednesday night until this morning. The Fitzroy ...
Hi all, SIGHTINGS 2-2-2007 0706hrs- 2387/2198F (Up freight), waiting road Roma Street fork 2011hrs- 2201D/2474D^ (8355 freight), pass Chelmer on Down Main ...
Any reports of an accident on the Beaudesert Rd Acacia Ridge level crossing this morning after about 9:30? The Main Roads traffic report on 131940 said there...
Neill, In following up, I was on 1300 local today. MB7 arrived sometime around 1400 DST with CLP12 "Njadjuri" + CLF1 "City of Whyalla". After my last post I...
Thanks Ben. To me it makes sense to control trains on the UG from a single location. Handing over at a crossing loop will inevitably end in tears one day. Keep...
Thanks Ben, I'll look for those. I was going by the slow progress and noise. Either one loco was lame or that train was near full load. I've noticed that they...
Neill, A single CLP/CLF should be able to haul 970 tonnes from Acacia Ridge to Broadmeadow (or vice versa). Two of them, 1940 tonnes. A single NR should be...
Folks, Have put up a short album: 6M42 Rail Train Showing the transit of the Uniform Gauge Rail Train (Empty), between Tamrookum and Glenapp, having unloaded...
Hi All Northwest line is cut between Tsv and the Towers and also at Balfes Creek between the Towers and Hughenden. Trains have stopped on this line now. The...
Hi all After a month or so of quiet, the Jetty branch started getting a bit busier yesterday with the return of the Nickel ore trains. Having just arrived from...
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