Car Roster
Background - QR's section car fleet - at a glance

A listing of QR section car purchases indicates that between 1906 and 1984, Queensland Rail purchased a total of 1459* individual units from 103 purchase arrangements (orders)

Highlights:

• The purchases covered 11 brands including: Bodico (2), Buda (20) , ComEng (11) , Drewry Car Co (2), Fairbanks Morse (37), Fairmont (1305), James Wilson (4), QR Northgate (146*), Sylvester (59), Tamper(52) and Wickham (21);


• Smallest order 1 unit (on serveral occasions) thru to a major order in 1955 of 90 Fairmont MT14's;


• 1 Fairmont MT14 originated from (disposed by?) the Rockhampton Harbour Board in 1960;


• 1 Fairmont "Rail Test Car" was purchased in 1958;


Hopefully more information will be obtained and confirmed including number of of each model purchased & the year delivered in due course.

* Purchases of QR Northgate trikes are included above;

Purchases of Sheffield hand cars are recorded as being made, but not refered in the above.
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Non QR section cars included  Sugar Cane Service 2ft

The Fairmont was  buit by Pacific Construction Equipment Co, Hornsby, NSW, builder's number 1046 of 1976. Fairmont single-cylinder petrol engine. Built under licence from Fairmont Railway motors Inc., Fairmont, Minnesota, U. S. A. Fairmont No. 240119, Model 19Z 24.
Photographer and source - Sheepdog (Bob)
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2ft Gemco ex Prosperpine Mill

Built by George E Moss and Co. at Newstead, Brisbane Unit #1, c1976  Hydraulic drive from petrol engine, 4 wheel disc brakes.  Photo and Source, Ken McHugh 2006
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2004 - In February 2004 I recieved an email from a gent overseas asking:
"Is there a listing of all QR section car numbers and what type they were?? what is scrapped? what has been preserved?? just curious."

This was the catalyst to do something and with valuable input from many people, at the end of 2004 a total of 184 enties had been made. Included in this are photos of cars "in service" from years gone by, which may or may not still exist in 2004. I've included them anyway (total being 4 or 5) so the number of QR section cars known to exist in 2004 is about 180.

However, there are still more cars out there, we saw some on private property under a tree amongst lantana on a recent meet - so expect more to be added in 2005.
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2005 - Where are they now? The left hand side column contains links to a simple list of data of the section cars that are still known to exist. If you're lucky, there is also a photo.

I am pleased to acknowledge the strong support of Peter Burden an others who greatly assist in the ongoing update of the data / photos collected in this project. It is acknowledged this list will not contain all the information, but its a useful guide in any case.  All up there is now about 200 known to exist and the list continues to grow.

Data is for personal enjoyment only please and all photos (c) to their owner.

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2006 - Contribution to this area of the website is tremendous.  In April 2006 the total number of cars known to
still exist is 211 ish
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2007 ?