Sitting at Spencer Junction this morning was LDP-5. Looks like an SSR all yellow with a black mid section with a grey panel overlaid with a white section with Progress Rail a Caterpillar Company in black lettering. Looks very striking.
Owned by Progress Rail, leased to SCT as far as I know. LDPs 001-005 are reportedly all leased to SCT.Sitting at Spencer Junction this morning was LDP-5. Looks like an SSR all yellow with a black mid section with a grey panel overlaid with a white section with Progress Rail a Caterpillar Company in black lettering. Looks very striking.
Thanks for the heads up. Do we know who now owns and operates this loco?
Big time operation.Just remember, there's no money in LCL freight on rail!!!!!!! Love SCT, especially love how the SCT stands for Specialised Container Transport!
That's certainly the way to move stuff.
Good luck to SCT.![]()
Just remember, there's no money in LCL freight on rail!!!!!!! Love SCT, especially love how the SCT stands for Specialised Container Transport!LCL probably wasn't under the previous railway practices, labour rates etc. This is a positive example of what privatisation can do for a sector.
I returned from the Gold Coast on Saturday 20th, we passed 3 very long freights 2 on the down and 1 on the up, the first down train at ? which had NR,AR,NR up front, the other down service was crossed at Dungog, with 3 NR's, only saw around 5 empty flat wagons on one train with the others having fully laden wagons. The up train at Nambucca had what appeared to be 2 NR's and another type in the middle, and no empty wagons.Just remember, there's no money in LCL freight on rail!!!!!!! Love SCT, especially love how the SCT stands for Specialised Container Transport!LCL probably wasn't under the previous railway practices, labour rates etc. This is a positive example of what privatisation can do for a sector.
Looking forward to seeing what 2018 brings for intermodal.
LCL was a big loss maker for the various traditional rail operators.SCT isn't a rail operator these days - they're a logistics company that happens to run trains. Using LCL as a moniker for SCT's service offering really doesn't do it justice IMO.
Significant LCL traffic was handled through Forwarding Agents like Sadleirs, FCL and SCT who consolidated the goods into van loads back in those days.
This is what Sadleirs still does and SCT does but on a grand scale.
44 gallon drums on the bottom layer and paper tissues on the top to max out the capacity of the van both cubic and tonnage.![]()
Just remember, there's no money in LCL freight on rail!!!!!!! Love SCT, especially love how the SCT stands for Specialised Container Transport!@bevans, which particular part of my post were you disagreeing with? Or was it the whole thing?
Seriously though, there must have been more than 35 vans in there, unbelievable.
BG
No im not saying they have, just wondering if it is necessary to change when any loco does.Apart from fleet owners wanting to have consistent names, like people have personalised plates i guess, is there any need for LDPs to be renumbered/reclassified to other classes if their ownership changes?I don't believe their ownership has changed, just a new lessee.
The most recent change was BK 001 and BK 002 which became CSR 011 and CSR 012 about a year after SCT purchased them.No im not saying they have, just wondering if it is necessary to change when any loco does.Apart from fleet owners wanting to have consistent names, like people have personalised plates i guess, is there any need for LDPs to be renumbered/reclassified to other classes if their ownership changes?I don't believe their ownership has changed, just a new lessee.
in the past did any 830s change to 48cl and vice versa, for examples sake? I haven't seen any reference to this happening so not sure why it is done with the modern fleets.
Ok, great crash course in loco numbering changes! Thanks for that.James each state and private operators had their own class numbering systems, pre the privatisation of the government systems.
Still not sure why its done though.
Err TasRail did use 2150 numbers, 2150 ex Y1 and 2151 ex Y5.No im not saying they have, just wondering if it is necessary to change when any loco does.Apart from fleet owners wanting to have consistent names, like people have personalised plates i guess, is there any need for LDPs to be renumbered/reclassified to other classes if their ownership changes?I don't believe their ownership has changed, just a new lessee.
in the past did any 830s change to 48cl and vice versa, for examples sake? I haven't seen any reference to this happening so not sure why it is done with the modern fleets.
Tasrail renumbered some QR 2150 class to 2050 class (you wonder about that being worthwhile, since no Tasrail locos had the 2150 numbers - but in Tasmania, 2100 numbers were for English Electrics and 2000 numbers were for EMDs).
Peter
From a personal perspective, I cannot work out the modern system especially with LDP, 60's XRN's and the like, although XRN's I must think were assigned to the Xstrata coal working. I can only think its to show/separate loco's into a set pool type of working, but often that seems at odds these days.Locos of the same model but a different class usually have a different owner - or a minor difference in equipment. Is that simple enough? The only difference is that these days there are a lot more different loco owners!
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