The article below was published in the Jan/Feb issue of VicRail News outlining transportation of grain and flour for Bunge's Flour Mills at Ballarat and Albury.
This traffic is replicated on the layout. VLCX and VLBY lourve vans and are loaded with pallets of bagged flour from the sheds at the Macarthur Street end of the flour mill sidings. These are picked up by the afternoon pilot and taken to Ballarat yard and forwarded overnight on Ballarat to Melbourne Goods to the Melbourne Freight Centre.
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| VLCX lourve van being loaded with pallets of bagged flour at the Bunge's Garden City Flour Mill. |
Flour is also transported in FJ and VPCX hopper wagons and in flour containers on KMQ or KQ flat wagons. Pipes that run above the unloading bay allows bulk flour to be loaded from the loop. This creates complicated shunting moves as the hopper wagons need to be moved each time the pilot enters the flour mill sidings. On Rob O Regan's website
http://www.robx1.net is a picture of silver painted FX/VPCX 8 being loaded at Garden City Mill in October 1976.
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| 4 wheeled FJ hopper wagon being loaded with flour |
The picture in the article shows a VPFX in white with Bunge logo's. I haven't seen any photographic evidence to indicate that any VPFX hopper wagons carried Bunge advertising at this time. I therefore assume that the photograph might have been one on file. SDS Models produce an excellent model of the VPFX hopper wagon including both white and silver versions with Bunge advertising.
http://www.sdsmodels.com.au/fxx.htm
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