New STA corporate colours

 

Y175 arrives at Ballarat on the XXX roadside goods from Maryborough.

Y175 arrived at Ballarat today after recently being outshopped from Bendigo North Railway Workshops in the State Transport Authority's new corporate colours of orange and grey. Y175 arrived on the Up Maryborough Roadside Goods.  After leaving the train in the arrival siding, the Y was placed in the Carriage Shed sidings and drew a lot of attention from commuters and railway staff. 

Y175 rests in the carriage shed sidings with W243.

Later in the morning it was used on the flour Mill pilot and worked out to Redan in the afternoon to shunt the freezer sidings.

Y175 shunts a bogie flour hopper at the Garden City Flour Mill

Y175 shunts GY and GH's over the discharge pit at Redan Mill

Y175 shunts an S Flat wagon loaded with a shipping container into the freezer sidings.

The loco then returned to Ballarat and ran out to Ballarat East Locomotive Depot. There was much discussion between locomotive crews on the new colours, the main criticism being that it will show the dirt and won't stay clean for very long. 

Y175 rests around the turntable at Ballarat East Loco with B72, X40 and T401.