Скачать или смотреть Four Pacific National 48 class on a grain train 16 July 2016 with 48162 48153 48130 48144

Possibly the last quad working of all PacNat 48 class occurred on 16th July 2016. It was an interstate grain train having loaded out on the Hillston line near Goolgowi at a non-Graincorp site (the possible reason why no Graincorp 48 class were in this line up) and the train was heading back to Cootamundra. At Cootamundra mainline units will relieve the 48s.

Picking up these mighty DL531s at Barellan we followed the train to Mirrool. It was an action packed little chase, mage great by being with the family seeing and hear the 48 class (unadorned by other locos) doing what they had started doing in 1959, hauling trains in NSW.

48162 lead 48153 48130 48144. The two oldest unit in this quad were built in 1969, and the last two in 1970 as part of the last hurrah for Goodwin Alco NSW branchlike units. In 2016 these units had a total of 186 years of combined service.

At Temora four Graincorp 48s on a train at the Graincorp subterminal. A rare day of eight 48s on two trains that would pass each other later this day. Though we had to have been one by that time.