More Australian action. NGR shunting at Maryborough QLD

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JCitron

Trainzing since 12-2003

What's really cool is I saw this live virtually. I was watching a livestream of storm chasing in QLD by Daniel Shaw. www.severestorms.com.au back in January 2024. His livestreams are available mostly by Patreon subscription with an occasional US broadcast open to the public. He chases 3-months in the US during "severe storm season" and then heads home for the spring down under.

As he and his chase partner pulled into Maryborough, my eagle eyes caught the trains and the roadside tracks that terminate at the beautiful station. He and his partner continued on their chase after they stopped to grab something to eat but I went on to Google Earth afterwards to scope out the area. Little did I know there was a video of the trains in operation.
 
do you watch pecos hank by any chance?
JCitron said:

What's really cool is I saw this live virtually. I was watching a livestream of storm chasing in QLD by Daniel Shaw. www.severestorms.com.au back in January 2024. His livestreams are available mostly by Patreon subscription with an occasional US broadcast open to the public. He chases 3-months in the US during "severe storm season" and then heads home for the spring down under.

As he and his chase partner pulled into Maryborough, my eagle eyes caught the trains and the roadside tracks that terminate at the beautiful station. He and his partner continued on their chase after they stopped to grab something to eat but I went on to Google Earth afterwards to scope out the area. Little did I know there was a video of the trains in operation.
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It's a shame the Queensland government has plans to shut down these factory lines in Maryborough, just like they did for Bundaberg and Mackay 'before the current railway station was built' and Cairns, all had street shunting. You can also see street shunting in Rockhampton, along Deison Street
 
PhilChorusch01 said:
It's a shame the Queensland government has plans to shut down these factory lines in Maryborough, just like they did for Bundaberg and Mackay 'before the current railway station was built' and Cairns, all had street shunting. You can also see street shunting in Rockhampton, along Deison Street
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I used to watch the shunting in Cairns when I was a boy. (Dad would be in the yards loading timber.) I just loved watching the "fly shunts". It was a dangerous job reaching in between the wagons to release them as they started to move. Many lost an arm to this practice and then became flagmen guarding the road crossing.
 
PhilChorusch01 said:
It's a shame the Queensland government has plans to shut down these factory lines in Maryborough, just like they did for Bundaberg and Mackay 'before the current railway station was built' and Cairns, all had street shunting. You can also see street shunting in Rockhampton, along Deison Street
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That's typical of what happens. The NIMBYs complain after moving into the industrial areas, their lawyers make a few phone calls, and the rest is history. The same happened here all over the place. Lowell and Lawrence had tracks all over the place serving the mills. Then some developers came in and turned the mills into lofts. People complained about the trains making noise and smelling and shortly afterwards the tracks were abandoned. Lowell was a bit luckier. The National Park Service kept some of the track and now runs a tram on the line with the residents using the trams. There's no longer any freight though because Guilford had cut the connection with the mainline long before.
 
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