Model Trains and Things

It’s hard to believe but there are mainline locos that are over 50 years old and still putting in some heavy haulage on Australian mainlines. The survivors of the old Victorian Railways B class are examples of those locos with the first of the class being introduced in 1952.

Originally built for broad gauge work within Australia these EMD locos were built in Australia by Clyde and were based on EMD’s famous F diesel design. The Bs differed from the standard F body by having cabs at either end of the loco.

Today the Bs are running on the standard gauge and have travelled well beyond the Victorian border. Here we see three of the class teamed up with an S class loco moving a spoil train through Hawkesbury River.

Turn up the volume and listen to these old locos roar!