Genesee and Wyoming Australia

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Steve Sloan's Trains : GWI : Genesee & Wyoming Australia (GWA)

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Genesee & Wyoming Australia (GWA)

Founded by a United States short line railroad holding company, Genesee & Wyoming Inc, in 1997 as Australian Southern Railroad, and successively renamed Australian Railroad Group and Genesee & Wyoming Australia, it was renamed One Rail Australia in February 2020 after the American company sold its remaining shareholding. In July 2022, assets from the South Australian, Northern Territory and interstate operations of the company were sold to rail operator company Aurizon Holdings Limited. The remaining assets, relating to coal haulage in New South Wales and Queensland, were sold in February 2023 to Magnetic Rail Group.

Click on the following links to see pictures related to the GWA. Special thanks to Mark Carter without who's help this and the following photos in this series would not have been possible!:

GM43 Clyde Engineering, GM12-class

According to good sources GM 43 entered service in March 1967. It is a C-C covered wagon with a roots blown 567 prime mover. The first GM units were A1A-A1A. The GM units after GM 12 were C-C units, kind of like late SD18s in an E-unit body. I guess if they had been made in the US they might have been called F18s? I like to think of the A1A-A1A versions of these as EMD's PAs.
Yes, that is a Leslie S5 on the nose! According to Mark Carter, "GM42 entered service on Feb. 27, 1967 and GM43 entered service on March 23, 1967. A bit of trivia is that GM42 and GM43 were the only two of the class to operate on broad gauge (5'3") - from late 1992 to mid -1995."
GM43 on the branch to Pinnaroo
Genesee & Wyoming Australia Clyde Engineering built GM class GM 43 is leading a grain train on Sunday, March 29, 2015. The train is on the branch from Tailem Bend to Pinnaroo in South Australia. This branch is scheduled for abandonment in 2016.

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