I have returned! MANY photos from my trip

Giday all..its nice to be back...but sad to have left Melbourne. LOTS of photos of trams and trains. There were certainly no shortages of trains!!!!Enough talking...lets begin! A B2 tram with the Yarra Tram scheme heading to Airport West.
French Built C Class tram. "Citydas" trams were delievered in 2002. Apparently apon delievery, 1 fell off a boat and Yarra Trams got it replaced.
A Z3 (I think) in the JetStar sponsership colours for Yarra Tram heading out to Airport West.
My favorite, A 3 Car D1 "Combino" tram in a colourful scheme. These were built in Germany in 2003.
Spencer Street Station undergoing modifications. 2 N Class locos are ready to head out. 1 to Bendigo and 1 to Ballarat.
N467 and N470 are waiting for the green light to Bendigo and Ballarat, respectivly.
A W Class tram on the Free tourist City Cirle route.
Yarra Tram service to Docklands.
For all the AFL fans here...Telstra Dome!!!
An A Class heading into Melbourne with a red light,
West Preston bound 112.
The world famous Flinders Street.
A Sprinter (DMU) on the left and an electric X-Trapolious train heading into the subway/City Loop.
N471 waiting for its service to Albury (?)
This is the train I caught from Melbourne to Ballarat. P 17 and 4 H Cars. 1000hp unturbo-645 engine. The driver only knew one speed. Idle to Run 8 in 5 seconds!!
We changed trains at Baccus Marsh (about half way between Melbourne and Ballarat...2 hour train trip).
10 min later, A62 came with 4 H Cars + Power Van on the way to Ballarat, which we would get.
Brand new X-Trapolious train being built at Ballarat.
Random Tram shots at the Ballarat museum.
A tram track scrubber.
Freight Australia's P23 on the X-Trap transfer to Melbourne.
Monday We headed down to Geelong to watch the happenings. North Geelong yard...G514 + XR554 (brand new) + T402 + H5 + X33 were waiting to go out on 9121, empty grain to Mildurah via Ballarat. We would later chase this from Elane to Ballarat via Navigators and Warrienhiep.
At Lara (outside Geelong), S302 still in West Coast colours leads a V/line service to Geelong.
N457 on a H set going to Geelong.
N464 heading towards Melbourne.
I got some shots of NR27 + NR37 + AN5 on a Perth bound steel train...but i deleted it for some stupid reason!!!!At Elaine, the weather was getting nasty as 9121 headed up the grade.
XR554 as the second loco. Brand new loco, rebuilt from a X Class. R = Rebuilt.
Mt Warrienhiep. 75'000 years ago, this was an active volcano.
At Lal Lal, 9121 really picks up some speed.
A personal favorite, 9121 slowing for Warrienhiep junction.
A shot of 9121 just after the crew change at Ballarat. This was shot from Doveton street. The train stopped here whilst another Freight Australia loco (Y119) took some cars off the back of the train.
XR554. The radiator fans remind me of the UP SD70M's with flares!
X33 (exaclty the same as a XR)...which will soon become XR553.
Tuesday
A semi-time exposure shot of N454 at Ballarat at 0548.
A62 at the fueling racks with a H Set.
Middle Footscray station. This has to be the busiest place I have ever been too!! N459 scoots by at 0752
0754, Pacific National's SM-3 rolls into town behind NR120 + NR44 + NR64 + NR97 + NR96!!!
P16 at 0801.
P18 + P15 (on the rear) at 0809.
T408 + T371 + G533 + X54 on a loaded wheat train from Junee at 0815.
N466 comes through at 0816.
A Brand new Nexas train, which to me look like refridgerators turned on thier sides!! They are the UGLIEST suburbans in Australia, IMHO.
NR31 on the Sommerton Steel shunt.
A62 comes from Ballarat to melbourne.
NR23 + NR91 on a Patricks train from Sydney.
G511 + X33 + H5 on a Mildura Grain train.
NR26 + DL39 + NR96 on a Adelaide - Melbourne train.
T376 (SSR) with T377 (GNR) + T385 (WCR) at Dynon.
A66 heading to Dynon from Spencer Street.
Im going to leave you all with this...there are another 30 shots to come! Ill post tonight! Hope you all enjoy them!
>Mike Forster<
Perth, Western Australiapacificnational_nr103@hotmail.com
http://www.trainweb.org/aussiepix

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Nice shotz Mike.
Can't wait to see the restShane
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Awesome Pic's. I kind of like the locomotives they have over there, and it looks much busier than I would have expected.Chris Bogley
Syracuse New York

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Great pictures.
Sure would like to visit Australia some day. Looks like some beautiful country.

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Excellent shots!It's great to see those old EMD carbodies still in action.Thanks for posting.BTW,do you work for the Australian Tourism Board?You've sold me on an Aussie vacation.

"Hold tight,feel the drivers bite,hear the whistle moan.Engine rockin' to the left and right,vibratin' in my bones.Once the locomotive steals your soul,you got a Casey Jones!"---Ian"Lemmy"Kilmister

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Nice pics. I do a fair bit of railfanning around the Geelong - Ballarat line. --Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/Australian Bulldogs for MSTS! B, S, GM & 42's now available!

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Thanks for the comments guys! Gixxer86g: No sorry, I dont mate. Im just an 18 year old college student! LOL!Part 2...Brand new X-Trapolious train set through Clifton Hill.
Wednesday Kilmore East. About 200km North North East of Melbourne.EL62 + EL58 on MC-3 (Melbourne to Cootamundra)
N474 through Kilmore East.
Random Telegraph pole.
H1 + X49 on a stone train. The train will enter a quarry just up the track, load, and then head back to Melbourne.
N457 heading through Seymour on its way to Melbourne.
Broadford we see X54 + G533 + T408 + T371 on the standard gauge line.
Exactly 5 minutes later, on the South bound broad gauge track, X37 + X36 + P21 come through with a train from Shepparton.
Not long after those 2 trains, NR71 + DL45 + NR73 (Mark I Pacific National colours) roll through on a Brisbane to Melbourne train.
Saturday A 5 car Combino tram (D2 Class) in Melbourne. I think these are the longest trams in the world, built in Germany.
A Z3 tram infront of Flinders Street. The tram has adverts for the new Kirsten Dunst movie, Wimbleton.
The skyline of South Bank.
Looking north to the CBD of Melbourne. Flinders Street station is in the right hand corner.
9121 grain with G514 + A81 over Warrienheip Bank.
Inside a Z3 tram.
Melbourne's Tullermarine airport...QANTAS 737-800, 737-800 + 767 - 500 (???) at the gates.
Home in Perth at 2045.
>Mike Forster<
Perth, Western Australiapacificnational_nr103@hotmail.com
http://www.trainweb.org/aussiepix

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Hi Mike,I noticed how "litterfree" your trains and streets were: you're a clean lot then! Come to the UK and have fun catching rats before they catch you.Please don't show any shots of your wide open blue skies, beaches, and babes as this is likely to inflame the disadvataged amongst us.Mike

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Absolutely great pictures Mike! Sigh... Wish we still had urban/suburban transportation like that left in Columbus, Ohio. We called them "streetcars", not trams (or "interurbans" if they went from town to town).PaulS

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LAST EDITED ON Oct-10-04 AT 03:02 PM (EDT)

*checks airline schedules an fares from germany to australia*Damn! To expensive!!!
Really Nice shots. I never knew that Australia was such an active country when it comes to railroads. Must be my central european chauvinism Once again, really great shots!regardsThomas
PS: There is no Boeing 767-500. The only existing versions are the 767-200, 767-200ER and 767-300.

"Damn the torpeodoes- Four bells Captain Drayton" - Admiral Farragut aboard USS Harford during the Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th 1864.

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Great shots. What's the story about two different guages?C h r i s

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To cut a very long story short, the different gauges is due to the way railways started in this country. Back in the late 1800's, Australia wasn't even a nation and each colony pretty much did their own thing. Victoria and South Australia chose 5'6" (broad gauge), New South Wales chose 4'8½" (standard gauge) while Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia chose 3'6" (narrow gauge). South Australia later adopted 3'6" for the lines being built in the north of the state. When the trans Australia line was constructed in the early 20th century by the new federal government, this was built to 4'8½".Obviously this was a complete mess that has led to problems ever since. There were numerous break of gauge stations all over the country. Eg: to travel from Sydney to Perth, passengers had to change trains several times as the gauge varied between 4'8½" and 3'6". In the latter half of the 20th century there was some effort made to rectify the situation on interstate lines. In 1962 a 4'8½" line was opened next to the 5'3" line from Albury (Vic/NSW border) to Melbourne. In the late 60's, the 3'6" sections of the trans Australia line were re-gauged to 4'8½" and the first through SG train ran in 1970. In 1995 the Melbourne - Adelaide line was converted to 4'8½" with a new standard gauge line being built from Geelong - Melbourne next to the existing broad gauge lines. There have also other numerous gauge conversions around the country but I can't remember them all and I would need to write a book to cover them! So now in the early 21st century, the states have the following gauges:New South Wales:
4'8½" - Almost the entire state
5'3" - Several Victorian lines crossing the border into southern NSW
3'6" is used on the Zig Zag tourist railway.Victoria:
5'3" - Majority of the state.
4'8½" - Albury to Melb (new in 1962), Melb to Adelaide (re-gauged in 1995) and several grain lines in the western part of the state (re-gauged in 1995).
3'6" and 2'6" are used on tourist railwaysSouth Australia:
5'3" - Originally the main gauge of this state, there is very little left outside the suburban lines around Adelaide, several grain lines and tourist railways.
4'8½" - Most 5'3" and 3'6" lines were either closed or converted to 4'8½" in the 2nd half of the 20th century.
3'6" - Isolated Eyre Peninsula division and tourist railways running on sections of the old 3'6" SAR system.Western Australia:
3'6" - Still used over most of the state's rail network
4'8½" - Perth to SA border and branches out of Kalgoorlie. It's also used on the mining railways in the Pilbara.Queensland:
3'6" - The majority of the state uses 3'6". However, this hasn't held the state back. QR regularly runs passenger trains at 160km/h between Brisbane and Rockhampton and holds the Australian speed record at 210km/h. Their coal train operations are also very impressive.
4'8½" - One line from the NSW border to the state capital of Brisbane was built to this gauge.
2'0" - Queensland has an extensive network of cane railways using this gauge.Northern Territory:
4'8½" - Only one railway line now exists in NT. It's the SA border to Darwin line that was completed last year. Used to have and isolated 3'6" line at Darwin as well as the old 3'6" line to Alice Springs.Tasmania:
3'6" - Since the state isn't connected to the mainland, there has only been one gauge widely used in the state.--Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/Australian Bulldogs for MSTS! B, S, GM & 42's now available!

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"The driver only knew one speed... Idle to run 8 in 5 seconds"Wait.. you mean there's OTHER speeds? :-PNice pics. You guys have some wierd looking equipment.. Perhaps it is consequence of being upside down all the time? *Ducks the flying objects*Bradley Linda
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NICe REPORt MIKe, ONe THINg MISSINg THOUGh * cough * ACe* cough *Shane

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>NICe REPORt MIKe, ONe THINg MISSINg THOUGh * cough * ACe*
>cough * NEVER in my country!!! I'll pack my bags and leave if those things rock up!!!!!>Mike Forster<
Perth, Western Australiapacificnational_nr103@hotmail.com
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LAST EDITED ON Oct-11-04 AT 03:19 PM (EDT)

>1000hp unturbo-645 engine.Wait, who made the 645? was it that division of General Motors? At least it didn't have a FDL16 in it Nice shots. I would love to go to Australia but I couldn't think with all the blood running to my head from being upside down all the time Nice to see some stuff from not around where I live. -Dave

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More great shots.Thanks!Yeah,that Aussie equipment is a little funky,but I like it.I love the double ended F-units.

"Hold tight,feel the drivers bite,hear the whistle moan.Engine rockin' to the left and right,vibratin' in my bones.Once the locomotive steals your soul,you got a Casey Jones!"---Ian"Lemmy"Kilmister

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Hehehe...Dave...you should have heard the 2 EL's come by at nearly 70mph (120kph), they were pulling pretty much nothing (just baretables and about 20 containers)....the FDL-16's were screaming to the heavens! I must admit...some of the EMD stuff sounds great! Like that S302 notching up.Gotta love the 5 NR's on the train though...NR Class locos are C40-9's with some variations...like variable horsepower (2500hp, 3200hp or 4000hp settings).>Mike Forster<
Perth, Western Australiapacificnational_nr103@hotmail.com
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Get over the trams dammit. They aren't that exciting I told you P Classes sound good Adam

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Combino's and Z Class are exciting! Bah...the N's sounded soooo much nicer. Likewise with the A Class! How can I forget the S Class too!! Bah...all EMD...ahwell, I guess I can get used to it! >Mike Forster<
Perth, Western Australiapacificnational_nr103@hotmail.com
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But P's have more muffler noise They putt-putt

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