Publisher: Train Hobby Publications
Publication Year: 2000
Format: Softcover, Landscape
Pages: 48
Photography: All colour
Condition: New

Locomotive Profile – Victorian Railways ‘C’ Class Steam 2-8-0 is a photographic profile celebrating the VR C-Class locomotives, a mainline 2-8-0 ‘Consolidation’ type built for freight and passenger services. This volume provides a detailed visual record of these powerful engines, which served Victoria between 1918 and 1962.

Originally designed with some operational shortcomings, the C-Class locomotives underwent a series of technical improvements over their long career. Many of these modifications influenced the design of subsequent VR locomotive classes, highlighting the class’s importance in Victorian railway engineering and operational history.

Presented as a 48-page, full-colour, big-picture album, this volume captures the locomotives in service, illustrating their role on mainline freight and passenger operations. It is an essential reference for Victorian railway historians, steam locomotive enthusiasts, modellers, and Australian rail book collectors.