2008
S313 and T357 leading a down ballast train towards Donald on the Mildura line on the morning of Wed.8.10.
G532 and T386 are stabled on the front of 9768 up mineral sands train, pictured beside the locomotive depot at Portland at 18 00 on the evening of Wed.24.9 awaiting its scheduled 22 00 departure for Melbourne.
El Zorro operate this new service between Portland and Melbourne three times a week for Iluka Resources, transporting containerised minneral sands from the processing plant near Hamilton to Melbourne for export. In its first few weeks of operation, this has been the standard motive power.
XR555 and XR559 leading a down empty grain service [9721] destined for loading at Yaapeet, seen here between Rainbow and Albacutya where the rail parallels the road on the morning of Tues.22.7.
SCT's G514, on hire to El Zorro, on the front of an empty grain train stabled at the up end of the Dimboola AWB siding on the afternoon of Sun.18.5.
G528-G536 loom out of the smoke haze whilst leading a healthy up Horsham goods, 9792, soon after departure from Horsham on the afternoon of Tues.22.4
The impressive quintette of VL356-EL54-EL52-GM36-44204 lead empty El Zorro grain service, 9742, out of Dimboola in the fading light of the evening of Good Friday the 21st of March.
This train was returning from Adelaide on the first of an anticipated number of shuttles loading at locations in New South Wales, unloading in Adelaide and travelling in both directions via Melbourne and western Victoria.
44204-GM36-VL356 stabled on the front of an empty El Zorro grain consist at AWB Dimboola on the evening of Sat.23.2.
| GWA empty grain service 7CA2 from Temora in New South Wales to Dry Creek in Adelaide powers along beside the Western Highway near Gerang Gerung in the section between Dimboola and Nhill on the afternoon of Sun.3.2. |
El Zorro loaded their first broad gauge grain service on Fri.18.1 at AWB GrainFlow’s Sea Lake terminal.
The train consisted of a rake of 38 yellow and green AHGX grain hoppers hauled by locomotives S302-S311-T376-T413-T357 in ex-V/Line Passenger, CFCLA, SSR, VR and VR colours respectively, making for quite a colourful train.
The train is seen here negotiating the main street of Wycheproof on its way back to Melbourne