Junee Railway Workshop was formed in January 1995 as Austrac Ready Power.

[3] In November 1997, Austrac began operating a service from Griffith and Junee to Port Botany using 48 class locomotives.

[4] Austrac adopted a livery that was a reverse of that of the US Erie Lackawanna Railway.

[7] This ceased in May 1999 following V/Line Freight being sold to Freight Victoria however by then, Austrac was operating log train services from Junee and Tuggeranong, grain services from Quandialla as well as metropolitan trip workings in Sydney.

[8][9] In late 1999, Austrac recommenced a three times a week Sydney to Melbourne service with four leased Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia EL class locomotives and from December 1999 containerised grain services from Willow Tree were operated.