International Railroad Discussion > Watco Grain Australia

On the Southern Line in Queensland, Watco Australia's Thallon to Fisherman Islands grain train 6837 crosses Emu Creek at Greenmount with NRE-built E2250CC locomotives WRA006 and WRA002 leading 40 DGWY grain wagons. Watco's eight NRE E2250CC locos were built in Mt.Vernon, Illinois, in 2019, for grain traffic in south-west and central Queensland. 

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Very beautifull hoppers. Can you post some pics of them?

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

Baotou Beifang ChuangYe Co. Ltd, in the city of Baotou, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region built 128 DGWY grain wagons for Australia's GrainCorp. Length 14.025 metres, Maximum gross 63 tonnes. Tare 16.5 tonnes. Maximum net 46.5 tonnes. Maximum speed 100 km/h. Fitted with Barber S-2-E bogies. The wagons are semi-permanently coupled in pairs.
 

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It's really beautifull. Thanks for sharing with us.

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

Very unusual ends on them.

Excellent video...

Fine video. Those hoppers are interesting. And I'd also like to understand the function of the end canopy. Do hoppers like this operate in China?

King_Coal Wrote:
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> Fine video. Those hoppers are interesting. And I'd
> also like to understand the function of the end
> canopy. Do hoppers like this operate in China?

Looks to me like the end pieces are to deflect grain away from the track during loading.
In looking at the photo, the car appears to have a long slot lengthwise along the top for loading ... there is probably a system to catch overflow and divert it back into the loading system.

 

Will MacKenzie
Dundas, ON

Yes, the covers on the ends are designed to keep spilled grain off the end platforms of the wagons where the brake equipment is placed. Coal wagons are also fitted with them. 

Very NICE looking grain train with interesting looking grain cars and big locomotives!

Larry

9E56 Wrote:
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> Yes, the covers on the ends are designed to keep
> spilled grain off the end platforms of the wagons
> where the brake equipment is placed. Coal wagons
> are also fitted with them. 

The modern coal hoppers are designed differently, but the older ones as well as ballast hoppers do have the covers. These are Aurizon cars at East Maitland, NSW. That is a great video and I hope they can keep those cars grafitti-free for a long while.

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Is the rail bolted to the ties or do they use  clips?

tomstp Wrote:
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> Is the rail bolted to the ties or do they use
>  clips?

In my photo the coal train is on track using E-type clips (what I associate with the Pandrol clip) and the foreground tracks appear to have Deenik-type clips.