Empty Mt.Isa line copper concentrate train 9M58 heads west from Homestead with 2605 and 4021 hauling 50 seventy-three tonne GOMB, GOCM and GOM wagons.
Loading copper concentrate at Thalanga, train 9295 stands in the siding off the Mt.Isa line while a Kenworth truck backs into the bunker with another load from the mine.
Mt.Isa-Townsville freight train 6291 passes Thalanga behind 2111D. Built by Clyde in 1971, 2111D was the first Queensland Rail locomotive to be fitted with Locotrol command equipment.
On the Mt.Isa line, Goninan-GE 2607 and Clyde-GM 4022 power Phosphate Hill-bound sulphuric acid train 9T90 up Thalanga bank, near Homestead.
Empty copper concentrate train 9T58, from Townsville Jetty to Phosphate Hill drops down Lamond Bank, on the Mt.Isa line between Balfes Creek and Mungunburra, behind Goninan-GE locomotives 2611+261... (more)