Wacol - stored wagons for the torch

[ozbob]

Container flats going to the torch from Wacol.











Photographs mufreight 18th May 2011

[Dean Quick]

A disgraceful waste !!  This only confirms QRs disinterest in running general freight services.

[mufreight]

The container flats could have been sold to Tasrail or redeployed to ARG for use in WA which would in either case have given a more unified fleet of rollingstock to either system.

[Stillwater]

These bits of rolling stock, although disused, have value.

[Stillwater]

This company is selling flat tops as farm bridges -- for $13,000 each!  And QR destroys them.  http://www.a-tm.com.au/salecarriage.html

[Golliwog]

Uhhh, what evidence do we have that QR isn't also selling them for some other use? All I see is a crane loading some old flat beds onto the back of a truck.

[HappyTrainGuy]

Who said their getting torched? To my knowledge only the goods/fuel rollingstock in Townsville/Pinkenba are getting put up for tender by QRNational. Who said QR owns them? They don't have a freight division anymore after QRNational acquired all their freight assets. If QRNational don't have a need for them they have every right to sell them or move them to other parts of their network. Going from that website Stillwater linked too they are offloading timbertop wagons which IIRC QR put up for tender before the QR/QRNational split but the original photos look like BM/BMA flat top container wagons.

[mufreight]

The QLX and curtain sider vans from Redbank and Wacol have all gone to the scrapper as it would seem have all the container flats that were stored at both these locations.
The vans could be onsold as sheds but the container flats being short and having only a partial deck only have value as rollingstock in use or as scrap.
QRN has obviously decided that having no current use for them and taking a page out of PN's book with SG rollingstock lets put them to the torch rather than sell them to another operator within this country.