8216 /58 BL35 /28 – Wolli Creek, NSW, Australia 2010
Friday 8th Of January 2010. The 82 class are used for general mainline freight services in NSW. These locos are leased to FreightCorp from Ready Power (made up of Clyde-Walkers, GM-EMD, and the First National City Bank of New York). The introduction of this class and the 90 class allowed the withdrawl of the 44, 442, 45, and early 48 classes. Some locos in the 8212-8216 range used to operate into Victoria, while 8201, 2, and 4 are in South Australia working on Leigh Creek coal traffic. The BL class are an Australian diesel electric locomotives introduced to service in 1983 and built by Clyde Engineering, Rosewater, to a contract issued by Australian National. Ten were built over a period of 16 months, from March 1983 to July 1984. Numbered BL26 to BL35, they are powered by an EMD 16-645E3 engine, weigh 129t, and have a maximum speed of 115km/h. With the dissolution of Australian National, the BL Class were transferred to National Rail, and then onto Pacific National in 2004. They are mainly used for general freight duties on the standard gauge lines in New South Wales, although 4 units (BL29, BL30, BL32 and BL34) are fitted with broad gauge bogies and are permanently based out of Melbourne to operate the Melbourne to Long Island steel service. The in-service members of the BL Class can be seen wearing in one of 3 different liveries: the standard National Rail grey and orange, the grey and white National Rail ‘SteelLink’ variant, or the new Pacific National blue and yellow …
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Sorry I cannot tell you where this train came from, as all the main lines of NSW carry coal. I suspect she heading south to Port Kembela so the coal can loading onto ships bound for other countries
hey mate where is this train heading to and where did it originate with the coal?
is it going to a powerplant?
im wondering because i see these everyday but dont know anything bout them