SAR - PROPOSED RAAF RECRUITING TRAIN – 5’3” GAUGE – CAR No1 – GENERAL OFFICE CAR
SAR - PROPOSED RAAF RECRUITING TRAIN – 5’3” GAUGE – CAR No2 – RECRUITING CAR
SAR - PROPOSED RAAF RECRUITING TRAIN – 5’3” GAUGE – CAR No3 – MEDICAL CAR
SAR – FLAT CAR (OF) TO CARRY MAIN PLANE CRATE – 3’6” GAUGE
SAR – EXISTING 50 TON ‘FB’ FLAT CAR FOR TRANSPORT OF TWO 26 TON AUST. CRUISER TANKS – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – LIGHT AMERICAN CRUISER TANK MK3 – 12.5 TONS MOUNTED ON ‘OF’ FLAT CAR – 3’6” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM SHOWING AFV ON CLASS FN HEAVY TYPE FLAT CAR – 3’6” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM SHOWING HEAVY CRUISER TANK No’s 1 AND 2 LOADED ON ‘FB’ FLAT CAR – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM SHOWING HEAVY CRUISER TANK No3 LOADED ON ‘FB’ OR ‘FBF’ FLAT CAR – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM SHOWING HEAVY CRUISER TANK No4 LOADED ON ‘FB’,’FBF’,’FO’ FLAT CARS – 5’3’ GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM OF AMBULANCE TRAIN – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – ADMINISTATIVE CAR – AMBULANCE TRAIN – 5’3” GAUGE - (CONVERTED SUBURBAN PASSENGER CAR)
SAR – DINING CAR – AMBULANCE TRAIN – 5’3” GAUGE - (CONVERTED SUBURBAN PASSENGER CAR)
SAR – PERSONNEL CAR – AMBULANCE TRAIN – 5’3” GAUGE - (CONVERTED SUBURBAN PASSENGER CAR)
SAR – WARD CAR – AMBULANCE TRAIN – 5’3” GAUGE - (CONVERTED SUBURBAN PASSENGER CAR)
SAR – DIAGRAM OF WING SPAN CRATES ON CONVERTED 50 TON FLAT CAR – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM OF CENTRE PLANE CRATES ON CONVERTED 50 TON FLAT CAR – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – PROPOSED METHOD OF TRANSPORT OF AIRCRAFT WINGS ON CLASS ‘FB’ FLAT CAR – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM OF PROPOSED METHOD OF LOADING 8” NAVAL SHELLS ON VIC. CLASS ‘E’ GONDOLA CAR
SAR – DIAGRAM OF CENTRE PLANE & WING SPAN CRATES ON CONVERTED 50 TON FLAT CAR – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM SHOWING MOUNTING OF 3” GUN ON 50 TON FLAT CAR CLASS ‘FB’ – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – PROPOSED AMBULANCE TRAIN
SAR – PROPOSED AIRCRAFT CRATE ON FLAT CAR – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – M3 AMERICAN MEDUIM CRUISER TANK WITH ENGLISH TURRET SHOWING IN RELATION TO 5’3” MAX OUTLINE GAUGE
SAR – M3 AMERICAN MEDUIM CRUISER TANK WITH AMERICAN TURRET SHOWING IN RELATION TO 5’3” MAX OUTLINE GAUGE
SAR – M3 AMERICAN MEDUIM CRUISER TANK WITH ENGLISH TURRET SHOWING IN RELATION TO 3’6” MAX OUTLINE GAUGE
SAR – M3 AMERICAN MEDUIM CRUISER TANK WITH AMERICAN TURRET SHOWING IN RELATION TO 3’6” MAX OUTLINE GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM SHOWING METHOD OF LASHING TANK TO ‘FB’ FLAT CAR -5’3” – AC 1 CRUISER TANK SHOWN
SAR – DIAGRAM SHOWING METHOD OF LASHING TANKS TO ‘FN’ FLAT CAR – 3’6” GAUGE – AC 1 CRUISER TANK SHOWN
SAR – PROPOSED AMBULANCE TRAIN – 3’6” GAUGE – CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY
SAR – DIAGRAM SHOWING CHAINS REQUIRED FOR LASHING TANKS TO FLAT CARS
SAR – DIAGRAM OF MARKINGS ON AMBULANCE TRAIN – WARD CARS – 3’6” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM OF MARKINGS ON AMBULANCE TRAIN – SLEEPING CARS ALBERGA & COONATTO – 3’6” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM SHOWING ONE MK3 MEDUIM AND ONE LIGHT TANK MOUNTED ON 40 TON ‘FB’ CAR
SAR – DIAGRAM OF MARKINGS ON AMBULANCE TRAIN – ADMINISTRATIVE CAR (BAROOTA)
SAR – DIAGRAM OF MARKINGS ON AMBULANCE TRAIN – COMMONWEALTH RAILWAYS BRAKEVAN CLASS NYBA & NYAB – 3’6” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM OF MARKINGS ON AMBULANCE TRAIN – COMMONWEALTH RAILWAYS DINING CAR CLASS ‘ND’ – 3’6” GAUGE
SAR – DIAGRAM OF MARKINGS ON AMBULANCE TRAIN – COMMONWEALTH RAILWAYS SLEEPING CAR CLASS NRC – 3’6” GAUGE
SAR – M3 AMERICAN MEDIUM CRUISER TANK WITH AMERICAN TURRET ROTATED 170 DEG.
SAR – M3 AMERICAN MEDUIM CRUISER TANK WITH ENGLISH TURRET LOADED ON ‘FB’ FLAT CAR (NO RUNNING BOARDS) – 5’3” GAUGE
SAR – CENTRE PLANE CRATE
SAR – PROPOSED AIRCRAFT CRADLE FOR BD 45 B CENTRE SECTION
SAR – CONVEYANCE OF ARMY TANKS ON FB & FBF CARS – 5’3” GAUGE

At Inprotrans P/L we hold build drawings for many classes of South Australian Railway and Commonwealth Railway vehicles. They include steam and diesel electric locomotives, rail cars, passenger cars and freight rolling stock.

To maintain a library of approximately 200,000 drawings is very expensive and most of this financial burden is met by Inprotrans. We have a strong belief that the ex State and Federal technical railway drawings should remain accessible to all people and have struggled at many times over the years to keep this vision alive. We are under increasing pressure to give up and although the rail industry clients within Australia are happy to be a part of a user pay system it is only on a needs basis.

How do you put a price on a copy of a drawing when you have housed and maintained the drawing for 5 years between requests? If the true cost was charged when a drawing was required the cost would be prohibitive as reverse engineering or new engineering would be comparable in price. As we can't ask for full cost recovery we have set a reasonable charge for copies of drawings and underwrite the housing of the drawings with the retail aspect of our business. It is easy to see that this is not sustainable so we have embarked on a program of creating high quality scans to replace the original drawings and verify each drawing for usability from an engineering perspective. This will allow access to the drawings with much lower overheads and we hope will eventually be self sustaining. As part of this streamlining we are able to consider the needs of model makers and hobbyists and produce sets of drawings of interest at a reduced size and therefore reduced cost.

By grouping common drawings in sets we can reduce any time component of retrieval and offer usable interesting drawings at an affordable price.