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    Z522 and Z524 were built by the Phoenix Foundry in Ballarat for Victorian Railways in 1893. Both were steam passenger motors with a full length cab which was later reduced to reveal the chimneys and domes. Both locomotives were scrapped in 1910 and 1911 respectively.
    Class leader Z522, 1906
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    Y108 preforming shunting duties at North Melbourne in 1959. This locomotive has been preserved at the Newport Railway Museum.
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    Z526 was built in 1893 at Newport Workshops by Victorian Railways as a Z class. This cute little engine was rebuilt in 1904 to have a steam powered crane on top and was referred to as "Polly". She was withdrawn in 1978 and is now at Science Works in it's 1890s condition.
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    My class got handed our science homework booklets to complete some work questions regarding punett squares or some useless bullshit. The questions we had to do were related to SpongeBob, and some of the questions had the following: Spongebob meets a female named SpongeSusie at a dance, Patrick meets a female named Pattie at a dance, and my favourite, Mr Krabbs and his wife give birth to a Lil' Krabby. (Krabs is actually mispelt as Krabbs).
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    D2 604: The sole surviving DD class locomotive
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    D2 604 was built in 1912 by Beyer Peacock and was apart of the DD class of locomotives, introduced in 1902. Originally known as DD 557, this loco was reclassed as a D1 and later a D2, while staying exactly the same physically.
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    Are old trains more of your style, or are there some modern ones (i.e. Shinkansen looking ones) that strikes your fancy?
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    I do like both, but I can be more in side with modern rolling stock. Preferably Victorian Railways' EMD diesels (B class, T class, S class), our Melbourne multiple units (Comeng, Hitachi, and Siemen Nexas), JR's stock, etc. I would only hate maglevs/monorails at most.
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    This is our once mighty S class locomotives. 4 of them were built between 1928-1930 to replace old aging locomotives. They were powerful and beautiful in appearance. In 1937 the class gained streamlining for the Spirit of Progress train service. Despite their historical significance, all were withdrawn from service, with the last to go, class leader S300 (pictured below), being scrapped in 1954. None were saved. However, serval artifacts from the trains still exist.

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    So from what you've shared to this point, is it fair to say that the 19th and early 20th Century native Australian engine construction was more heavily influenced by British designs, with some other influence playing in late in the steam era? And were there major national companies building for multiple railroads (akin to ALCO/Baldwin/Lima here in the US), or did each road prefer to have their own in-house builders?
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    I shall not proclaim my viewpoint regarding the machining of the proliferous steam train, so ambiguous at the time, in regards to the railway's specifications. Still, due to my extremely knowledgeable mind, I shall inform you that, at that time, the majority of locomotive engines did, in fact, go choo choo
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    I should also mention that Victorian Railways shifted from English and American looking engines that were either imported or outsourced to what would be just a mix of both which served as VR's standard designs. These standards were built in-house by VR, thous no longer needing importation or outsourcing.

    Also, other railways either had there locomotives imported from different countries, outsourced from local contractors, or made by themselves.

    Below is an X class, one of the standard VR locomotives.

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    In 1911, Victorian Railways ordered 2 rail motors from the McKeen Company in Omaha USA. The units seem to have been a failure, as by 1919, their engines were removed and were used as passenger cars on the Altona line, usually hauled by a steam locomotive which created some odd trains. Both were scrapped in August 1926.

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    This is our mighty Heavy Harry, the largest locomotive built in Australia. He was built in 1941 at Newport Workshops and was put to work on Victoria's North East Line from Melbourne to Albury. Retired in 1956 due to worn condition. He's now at our Newport Railway Museum.

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    Being in between Chicago and Omaha, all the major Western US railroads had lines within about 100 miles either north or south of me, but UP is the only name that hasn't changed (and BNSF is the only other 'legacy' Class I line that can trace back to before 1970).
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    My suburb or other suburbs have railway lines that can connect to various parts of the state of Victoria. The tracks are mainly used my passenger or freight operators under different companies such as V-Line from 1983, Metro from 2009 and Pacific National from 2002. This is due to Victorian Railways dissolving in 1983 as they covered the whole Victorian rail network. (They started in 1859)
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    Other states also had their own government owned railways too, such as New South Wales Government Railways, South Australian Railways and Western Australian Government Railways.
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    This is E236, my all time favorite train. He was built in 1893 in Melbourne (my city) for use on their passenger network. Taken off passenger roster in 1920 and retired altogether in 1953, he has sat in my local train museum. I remember seeing him for the first time in person and falling in love. I affectionally call him "Mr 236.'
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    Hi, I am new to this site, have a free locomotive picture.
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    Definitely! They are one of my main hobbies!
    Doedoel
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    I've only gotten on train a few times. Most of them was in Qatar, when I wanted to take a walk around using the Metro Rails. Other than that was the Indonesian train, KAI (dunno which model).
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    I have rode on many metropolitan trains in the past, from the rare occasion of riding the trains in the city, to even using Japan's trains as our main transport when I was on holiday there! (We used them almost everyday! I also rode a train in Thailand. Below is a pic of one of the Japanese trains I rode, the AE class.
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