Kingston railway yard containing large number of iron ore type wagons

MERC600 said :

Mystery solved of the orange painted railway carriages parked at the local railway station. They are to be used to transport recycled metal up to Sydney.
Good to see the rail being used instead of thumping great road trains. Make the roads that much safer.

Canberra’s only export industry: scrap metal.
I think you mean the rail wagons are used to transport scrap metal up to Port Botany for shipment to and recycling in China.
The news report on ABC depicted containers being used actually.

Mystery solved of the orange painted railway carriages parked at the local railway station. They are to be used to transport recycled metal up to Sydney.
Good to see the rail being used instead of thumping great road trains. Make the roads that much safer.

JC said :

1967 said :

Land fill to the Old Woodlawn mine, give that Mugga Lane is full up?

Actually Mugga Lane isn’t full. What is full is the current cut, they just need to open a new one.

Something is “full” out there as the daily smell wafting over Fadden, MacArthur and Chisholm is getting worse.
It’s a combination of the garbage and the compost factory.
Both should be moved.

MrPC said :

Out of interest, what’s the most efficient way to transport coal (presumably in large hessian sacks that can be moved using a portable crane) from a coal terminal (all of which are on rail lines) to a railway museum that runs steam locomotives? Doubly so for a railway museum with an operational (albeit in testing) AD60 Garratt locomotive that chews through coal like there’s no day after tomorrow?

Dunno about efficient, but it’s certainly the most convenient way to do it nowadays. Think it started back in 1988 with so many locos running around the country for the Bicentenary. Steam locos use big lumps of coal, most of the stuff for export is crushed much smaller than they like now. And a museum doesn’t want it by the thousands of tonnes that a coal train needs to shift to be economic, a hundred tonnes or so will see them through a season of tours. So it’s usually a special delivery by truck from the mine that doesn’t mind occasionally supplying the sort of coal they need.

1967 said :

Land fill to the Old Woodlawn mine, give that Mugga Lane is full up?

Actually Mugga Lane isn’t full. What is full is the current cut, they just need to open a new one.

1967 said :

Land fill to the Old Woodlawn mine, give that Mugga Lane is full up?

Unfortunately, the rail terminates at the Crisps Creek Intermodel and then garbage would then have to be loaded into containers for the short road trip to the Woodlawn bio-reactor.

Out of interest, what’s the most efficient way to transport coal (presumably in large hessian sacks that can be moved using a portable crane) from a coal terminal (all of which are on rail lines) to a railway museum that runs steam locomotives? Doubly so for a railway museum with an operational (albeit in testing) AD60 Garratt locomotive that chews through coal like there’s no day after tomorrow?

(Not that I have any specific knowledge of these wagons, I just saw this done once with a steam locomotive in Victoria. They hauled around a similar wagon between the tender and the cars, and had a small crane lift up the hessian bags, which had some sort of drawstring that released the coal from the bottom of the bag, into the bunker in the tender. This was at Echuca, the destination of the tour, half way through the day’s travel. They then detached the (80km/h speed limited) wagon, leaving it in the yard, thus the trip back to Melbourne was substantially faster (as all the other cars on the train were rated for 115km/h).

Land fill to the Old Woodlawn mine, give that Mugga Lane is full up?

screaming banshee said :

Could be to do with load testing the beyer garrett?

It was tested with two other engines and 4 stainless sleeper cars

Could be to do with load testing the beyer garrett?