Re: XPT Report att Jack.

[petan@NOSPAMion.com.au (PETer and susAN)]

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:22:35 +1100, "Jack" <bd107@tsn.cc> wrote:

>Hi Peter
>
>PETer and susAN <petan@NOSPAMion.com.au> wrote in message
>385b66ad.10328921@news.ion.com.au">news:385b66ad.10328921@news.ion.com.au...
>> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:17:13 +1000, "Turner" <soniaball62@ozemail.com.au>
>wrote:  ( who was really me)
>>
>> Hi Jack,
>>
>> well how was Nth QLD?  What interesting rail movements did you spot [QR as
>well as sugar tramway]?
>>
>> Perhaps the sugar might have finished for the year?
>
>Where I was was at Sarina Beach, and in that area there is the huge Hay
>Point Coal Terminal which is serviced by the a very busy electric coal
>Railroad... The coal trains there run stop.... if you were into takin pics
>it would be one of the places to be... If you go into the town of Sarina
>itself you come across both Cane Trams and the main North Coast line... the
>trams were quiet but the Coast road was busy as well... the one thing I find
>interesting in the working up there, is that they run huge coal trains with
>locos in the middle of the consist, yet the container and general freight
>traffic are only pocket sized short trains... they don't seem to run long
>general freight at all... Also when I travel to Sarina Beach from here I go
>via Armidale Toowoomba Miles Bannana and into Rocky via Westwood.. I don't
>see too many trains from Toowoomba to Miles but  the hiway from Westwood to
>Rocky runs right beside another electric Coal Road... I think it is single
>line and I think it goes to Emerald or somewhere like that... someone will
>know where that line goes, but man is it busy with coalies as well... As far
>as engines up there go, I don't know the classes at all, but the majority of
>the Trains on the coast are hauled by 2800 class diesels, as for the
>electrics I have no idea what their class numbers are, and I am sure we used
>to haul them as part of general freight loads on the Nth Coast when they
>were being delivered from wherever they were built...
>
>
>
>--
>Cheers
>Jack
>
>Queensland beautiful one day perfect
>the next.... And wet the other 363 days
>of the year
 
Thanks Jack, for that report!!!

Cheers
Peter Cokley
petan@ion.com.au