Good evening stay-at-homes. Today's #virtualrailfanning journey comes from Footscray's Bunbury Street Tunnel in Melbourne in March 2006. 1/ Here, triple NR class locos head over the Maribyrnong River bridge toward Dynon Yard with a standard gauge steel train on 6 March 2006

2/ Here, Freight Australia-liveried (but Pacific National owned) broad gauge loco G539 drags a transfer train from Tottenham yard to the Port of Melbourne with Melbourne's skyline in the background.

3/ Back in 2006 a standard gauge 'landbridging' container train ran between Port of Melbourne and Port Adelaide run by the former Genessee and Wyoming Australia operation for Patrick stevedores. Here, CLF7 leads a classmate on the -MA3 Container train.

4/ While the tail of MA3 disappears into the Bunbury Street tunnel, Pacific National's broad gauge units A85/P19 roll over the Maribyrnong Bridge with a light engine movement heading for the Port.

5/ At the other end of the tunnel on the western side of Footscray station, an unidentified X class and T402 on a broad gauge light engine movement head into the tunnel portal toward the Port precinct.

6/ The location the photos were taken at this end of the tunnel is now lost to history, being demolished as part of the Regional Rail Link project. Similarly, the scene here of N451 with a H-set on a Ballarat or Bendigo line service is now largely a historical one.

7/ So that's it for tonight's late-running #virtualrailfanning session from Melbourne's Bunbury Street 2006 time tunnel. I hope to be back tomorrow to provide you with more of your railfanning needs in isolation. Goodnight!

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