Goonyella System Flyovers - 03.Waitara Sidings
Channel: Way of the Rails
Date: 2022-11-15

Today's video - the last in a series of 3 that occurred during the system wide shutdown over the Queen's Birthday long weekend - we're taking a birds eye view of Waitara Sidings near Nebo. Whilst most commonly used these days for ballast operations, we also see other rail maintenance yards and an apparently disused grain silo.

At the start of the video (which I didn't notice till editing), I managed to capture what appears to be a lineside defect monitoring station. Note sure why it would only be on the westbound lines - presumably there is another somewhere on the eastbound lines to capture issues with those trains heavily burdened by loads?

--Gear--
Drone: Mavic Mini 2
Camera: GoPro Hero 9
Tripod: Manfrotto MKCOMPACTLT
Microphone: Joby Wavo Mobile
Camera Bag: Lowepro Flipside 300 AW II Camera Backpack (Black)

--Tech--
Video Editing: Cyberlink PowerDirector v16
Shuttle: Contour ShuttlePROv2
Local Storage: 1Tb WD SDD (synced to QNAP NAP via QSync)
QNAP NAS: TS-253Be / 4Gb RAM / 2 x 4Tb Seagate ST4000VN008-2DR166 (Mirrored)

Reminder: The locations given are in What3Words notation!
NB: I source the QR Master Train Plans from here (https://www.queenslandrail.com.au/business/acccess/Pages/Master-train-plans.aspx)