On the prototype, Cudgewa stock specials (and regular goods) dropped off empty stock wagons on the Dn trip then picked up the full wagons on the Up. Here Ta411 has is picking up 2 Ma's from Beetoomba to add to it's train of three from Cudgewa.
Slowing through the Koetong Pine Plantation for the entry to Shelley yard.
With stub ended points at the Up end of some of the yards, rope shunting was not uncommon on the Cudgewa branch. Here Ta411 rope(wire!) shunts two more Ma's out of Shelley's livestock siding, positioning them mid-yard for easier collection.