XRN Classes Have A New Livery

Hi all!

I just want to talk about something that had changed a few months ago that i was a bit slow at capturing.

The XRN Class C44aci fleet that were with Xstrata Rail National (XRN) and Glencore have been bought by Genesee & Wyoming (G&W) along with the company.

The XRN fleet are in progress of receiving the G&W Livery.

The photo below shows locomotive XRN013 with the G&W livery.

This is actually my first photo of an XRN Class in this livery as i haven’t really had the time to make my way up to the Hunter etc until the day the photo was taken (4/1/2018).

Thanks for reading :)

New Qube Loco's

Saturday 30th January 2016

New Qube QBX Class Locomotives have been seen on trial runs in NSW.

There are 6 QBX Class loco's.

They were stored at Yennora and weren't allowed to run due to asbestos but it seems that issue has been resolved.

QBX005 & QBX006 went on a trip towards Goulburn in late December or early January.

Ive only seen 1 QBX Class in service.

QBX006 as seen below passing Woy Woy heading south.

QBX006 was with an 11 class and an MZ class on a trial run from Carrington to Cowan in this event.

Yesterday (29/1/2016) while i was on a trip to Liverpool from Campbelltown i saw QBX001 & QBX002 sitting in a yard where MZ classes pick up their containers on the South Line.

There are loco's stored up at East Greta that are of the same loco type.

They are Bradken owned BK class loco's.

There are only 2 of these. BK001 & BK002.

Im assuming the BK classes had the same asbestos issues as the QBX classes.

With the QBX classes starting load trials hopefully we can see the BK's enter service in the near future.

Thank you all for reading.

Phil, Sydney Trains Vlogs.