Queensland Railway's ballast train, led by 2485H and 2490H, about to climb Baking Board hill westbound.
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Queensland Railway's ballast train, led by 2485H and 2490H, about to climb Baking Board hill westbound.
Queensland Railway's locomotives 2902 and 2490H haul the ballast train west around Hillview Curve, east of Yuleba.
Queensland Railways 2902 and 2490H lead the ballast train east past JayDee homestead this morning. JayDee is about 8 k east of Dulacca.
Queensland Railway's 2902 and 2490H lead a ballast train west through Jackson.
Queensland Railways locomotives 2902 and 2490H, haul the ballast train west around Eaglehawk Creek curve this afternoon. Eaglehawk creek is east of Yuleba.
Queensland Railway's locomotives 2490H and 2901 lead the ballast train up Ludlow Hill, just east of Dulacca. Heat shimmer will soon effect these shots out here.
Recently, 2485H lost power to its traction motors at Morven, while pulling the Westlander. 2490H was sent to retrieve the train and is shown while climbing Ludlow Hill eastbound, just east of Dulacca.
Queensland Railway's Westlander led by 2485H had broken down at Morven, so 2490H was sent out to rescue it. Very rare to see it eastbound in daylight in our district but here it is passing Jaydee farm, between Dulacca and Drillham.
Here's eastbound Queensland Railways diesel locomotives 2473 and 2490H about to cross a farm access dirt road just east of Drillham Queensland (about 18 k west of Miles on the Roma line).
Here's QR's 2490H trailing behind 2473, heading almost due east down Dulacca Hill and about to climb Ludlow Hill east of Dulacca.
Queensland Railways locomotive 2473 led 2490H eastbound through Dulacca on a light engine move around 1730 this afternoon.
A surprise this morning, 12 June 22, when 2490H and 2415 led a sleeper train through Dulacca, discharging replacement timber sleepers.
The 2470 class were an evolution of the 2450 class. They differed in having lighter alternators and smaller fuel tanks.[1][2][3][4] A 2470 class was built by Clyde Engineering for the Townsville Harbour Board, this was later sold to Queensland Rail.
Between 2000 and 2002, six were rebuilt as 2300 class locomotives at Redbank Railway Workshops.[5][6]