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160522 2204537 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0032 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with a 48' MFG1 SCT unit SCTDS 4810 and an unidentified 40' flatrack.
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190911 4755537 viewsPort Hedland, Broome Rd crossing, BHP's MM 800 track recording vehicle powers south on a recording run, still wearing it's Movember 'mo' as part of a men's health campaign, the MM 800 was built by Mermec in Italy and is a ROGER 800 model, ROGER is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control.
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174-20536 viewsAlbury, V/Line standard gauge VQAW type leader VQAW 1, three pack articulated container waggon with Gloucester bogies, built new at Ballarat North Workshops and issued to traffic 22-11-1990, empty on a south bound goods train, the disused Dalgety's warehouse is behind the waggon.
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180-01536 viewsSeymour loco depot, broad gauge V/Line Bulldog locomotive A class A 70 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1187 rebuilt from B class B 70 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-11.
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108-05536 viewsMurchison East silo complex, elevation of the Ascom Jumbo silo elevator, mobile grain bins in foreground.
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196-13536 viewsYandi Two loaded car side of the loadout balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M or Dash 8 motive power in the form of 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 rebuilt by Goninan as GE model CM40-8M from ALCo M636C number 5480 and two new Goninan built GE CM39-8 units 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 and 5631 'Apollo' serial 5831-10 / 88-080 are the head end power with another two CM40-8M units mid-train. Train length is 240 waggons with a 120/120 split. Yandi Two ore stockpile and pedestal stacker boom tip visible in the background, the loadout operates via gravity and the train travels through a tunnel. May 1998.
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200-18536 viewsMoorine Rock, Australian National AN class AN 6 a Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT46C serial 93-1302 and ALF class ALF 24 on the mainline with a Perth bound freight, 22nd June 1997.
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202-15536 viewsMeckering, looking east with the points for the hand operated non-interlocked points for the goods loop, grain siding continues on the left skirting the bunker and heading under the silo loading spout, while the goods loop bypasses the silos.
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203-09536 viewsBing Siding, BHP General Electric built AC6000 unit 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 in the passing track with a Yandi empty working. The size of the BHP AC6000 model radiator is clearly evident here.
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060108 2047536 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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060527 4093536 viewsScotia, AQHY 30050 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0063, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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160609 0486536 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RQFY 113 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, to VQFY in 1989, current code in 1995 when 2CM bogies fitted, loaded with a 20' 25G1 type Royal Wolf box RWPU 201456[0] and a K&S Transport 40' flatrack KT 140 with concrete forms.
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200914 7755536 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, 5450 a USA built EMD model F7A serial 8970 and frame 3006-A9, built Jan-1950 for Western Pacific Railroad as 917-A, imported for the Mt Newman Mining Co. to construct their Port Hedland to Newman railway in December 1967. Donated to the Society in 1978. 14th September 2020.
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269-17536 viewsBing North and the Alstom 25-year service agreement special led by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5653 'Chiba' serial number 8412-10 / 93-144 heads back to Nelson Point with The Sundowner and 5634 on the rear of the train. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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165-13535 viewsAlbury loco depot fuel point overview with several liveries of NSWSRA on display and a V/Line G class G 524 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 86-1237 with NSWSRA 81 class 8175 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1094 with NSWSRA 422 class 42219 Clyde Engineering EMD model J26C serial 69-674 and 48 class 4830 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 83825.
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108-16535 viewsToolamba station building and platform, track removed, opening in platform where signal box once stood.
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108-20535 viewsTatura yard derrick crane.
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137-1-19535 viewsBenalla station yard overview, Benalla signal box A and up home departure semaphore signal posts 7 and 7B looking south across Nunn St towards Melbourne.
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101-23535 viewsDonald loco depot, broad gauge V/Line G classes G 513 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1241 and G 528 serial 88-1258, side view.
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188-17535 viewsHarefield, located at the 497.6 km from Sydney on the NSW Main South.
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