Heading up to the border tunnel from Glenapp. Thirty five years before, I stood at almost the same location to capture an ageing 442 Alco-hauled freight flic.kr/p/qxwmso . If anyone then would have said that in 35 years time, I'd be there photographing a train hauled by locos even older, I'd have asked what they'd just been smoking.

On one of the ARTC's regular inspection trains, GMs 22 and 10 did the honours, heading as far north as Acacia Ridge, before heading back south. 15 January 2025.

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Further south, there's that distinctive GM profile, just north of Glenapp.

On one of the ARTC's regular inspection trains, GMs 22 and 10 did the honours, heading as far north as Acacia Ridge, before heading back south. 15 January 2025.

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Heading south in hard sunlight, at Tamrookum.

On one of the ARTC's regular inspection trains, GMs 22 and 10 did the honours, heading as far north as Acacia Ridge, before heading back south. 15 January 2025.

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Journey Beyond’s special name plates for the Great Southern.

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Journey Beyond’s Great Southern luxury cruise train from Adelaide to Brisbane (return) is heading through Sydney on the evening of Saturday, 25 January 2025. Special liveried NR Class — 30 & 31 — lead the 28-cars through Thornliegh Station.

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