A note on this site

It's been a long time between updates. Most of what's on qrig.org was written back around 2010, and apart from the odd fix up until 2018, I haven't really touched it since. Life happened. Work, family and everything else got in the way, and the site just ticked along in the background.

So keep that in mind while you're reading. The class histories and technical details have held up pretty well, but anything about the present day is a snapshot from back then. Fleet numbers, who's running what, which locos are preserved and where they ended up, the dates in the rosters, even the scanner frequencies. A fair bit of it will have changed. QR National has been Aurizon since 2012, just to give you an idea.

If you're after current information, Wikipedia is a better bet these days. The articles on Queensland's railways and the individual loco classes are well looked after and kept up to date, which is more than I can say for this place.

Plenty has changed around the site as well. Railpage has come and gone. The QRIG gallery has been archived, and you can still browse it at archive.qrig.org. The Yahoogroup, which later moved over to Groups.io, is gone too, but the old posts are archived at group-archive.qrig.org.

I've kept qrig.org online because there's still good material here, a lot of it put together by people who put real time into it. Mike Quirk's work on the steam fleet especially. I've moved it off WordPress onto something much simpler so it's easier to keep running, but the content is as it was.

If you spot something that's wrong, let me know.

Dean