Thought I would demonstrate that I was still amongst the living by posting a few snaps of things I have photographed poorly since my last post, which was May 2024.
The rather surreal (for us old blokes, at least) combination of N466 and S311 on a grain at Middle Footscray on the first day of June 2024.
Yep, only a couple of V sets at Central. A scene repeated a hundred times a day for 50 years, soon to be gone forever. 14 June 2024.
Goulburn Station is always worth a look. On 15 August 2024, GM22 and 4904 were stowed in the back platform on the AK cars.
In October 2024 we moved to the Southern Highlands of NSW. On days when you get visited by NSW P classes and Victorian R classes, it was a good move. First 3265 and then R766, both a Moss Vegas, on 26 October 2024.
Four days later at Bundy, I ruined someone's morning tea by racing across to the station for LZ3119, 4904 and CLF2 on a loaded grain.
The Highlands has an active grapevine of train hunters. One posted that CLF2, 4904, CLP12 and CLP13 would work a down grain through Moss Vale after dark on 11 November 2024. It coincided with a run to the local bottle shop. Oh happy days.
Most of the time in these parts, it's just modern stuff, like this empty grain train leaving Moss Vale on 18 November 2024 with QE005, QE007, and CF4412 at the pointy end.
I then had a couple of months off, thanks to an appendix that decided to quit on me. Not recommended. But by 14 March, I was up to catching 8037 and 8040 shunting the steelie at Port Kembla.
I am still a big fan of GMs, so was pretty happy catching CLP9, 4911 and CLP12 on 8242 grain arriving at Moss Vale on 26 May 2025.
I am currently doing the near unthinkable - trying to get as many shots of 81s on cement trains as I can before the Boral contract is lost to Pacific National at the end of 2025. On a very cold fourth day of June, 8125 was about to do the honours up the branch to Berrima.
Anyway, that is a bit of a hurried catch up on things.
Cheers
Don
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