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147-18512 viewsSeymour, a very rushed shot of V/Line broad gauge N class N 468 'City of Bairnsdale' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1197 with the up afternoon Cobram pass? Taken from Siding A looking back towards the loco depot. Out of focus.
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185-01512 viewsNorth Geelong grain arrivals, a pair of V/Line G class locomotives G 533 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1263 and G 524 serial 86-1237 run light engine to Geelong loco depot past semaphore signal post 13 having dropped a loaded grain consist on the arrival road, X class X 44 is on another loaded grain rake.
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189-26512 viewsAlbury, NSWSRA standard gauge turntable radial roads sees Victorian interloper V/Line G class G 519 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1232 resting between jobs.
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199-16512 viewsMeckering, National Rail NR class units NR 19 and NR 20 Goninan built GE Cv40-9i models lead train 7PM5 as they power out of the loop following a cross with the Prospector 1420 hrs 21st June 1997.
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212-22512 viewsWeipa, a loaded train ex-Andoom Mine runs along the main with thirty two waggons at Lorim Point towards the dump station behind Comalco R 1001 Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 originally numbered 1.001 and built in 1972. July 1995.
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030406 082802512 viewsMurdinga, track view looking south across the grade crossing for Murlong Rd, points, indicator and lever, 6th April 2003.
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030406 090159512 viewsKarkoo, station located at 93.6 km, originally opened February 1914 and closed in August 1980, this former loading ramp being all that remains today, 6th April 2003.
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060108 2058512 viewsLock, 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model serial 84137 repainted into Australian Railroad Group livery.
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060109 2100512 viewsKyancutta, Kyancutta Tanks Rd grade crossing, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 as the empty north bound grain train pauses for a crew change. 9th January 2006.
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060111 2400512 viewsWudinna, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004, shunts through the yard.
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130708 0987512 viewsThevenard workshop environs finds two Kinki Sharyo built NH type ore waggons bookending an Kinki Sharyo built NHA type ore waggon NHA 992, all for the NAR now on the Eyre Peninsula system and now coded ENH and ENHA types, ENH 40 with hungry boards and ENHA 4 and ENH 3 both without still wearing the former owner livery of Australian National.
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160103 DJI 0074512 viewsColonial Mill and mine ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. Concrete foundations remain of the once impressive crusher, mill, dryer and bagging plant. See images of the site intact here . Geodata: -22.3090405 118.3190116 .
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160526 5253512 viewsParkeston, 3MP7 priority service train runs upgrade around the curve bound for Kalgoorlie and Perth behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 82 serial 7250-03/97-284 and NR 49 serial 7250-08/97-251.
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160528 8428512 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RQZY 7054 platform 1 of five unit bar coupled well container waggon set built in a batch of thirty two by Goninan NSW in 1995/96, loaded with an SCF sea2rail 40' 4EG1 type container TSPD 408102[3] double stacked with Royal Wolf 40' 4FG1 type container RWTU 941308[4].
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160522 2259512 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ARFY type ARFY 2228 refrigerated van with a Ballarat built Maxi-CUBE body mounted on an original Commonwealth Railways ROX container waggon built by Comeng Victoria in 1970, recoded to AFQX, AQOY and RQOY before having the Maxi-CUBE refrigerated body added circa 1998 for SCT service.
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160523 2824512 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, SCT crew accommodation coach PDAY 003 'Monica Ivey Smith' converted from former Bluebird 250 class power car #258 'Goshawk' originally built by SAR Islington Workshops in 1957 and seated 56 second class passengers, converted to crew car in 2005.
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160530 9226512 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, ARBY type ARBY 4430 refrigerated van, originally built by Comeng WA in 1977 as a VFX type covered van for Commonwealth Railways, recoded to ABFX and converted from ABFY by Gemco WA in 2004/05 to ARBY.
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16942512 viewsBassendean, Goninan GE CM40-8M rebuild unit for BHP Iron Ore 5653 'Chiba' serial 8412-10 / 93-144 sits out the back on shop bogies still under construction in the October 1993 image as Westrail P class loco P 2014 looks on.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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180614 1329512 viewsAllen Siding, at the 45 km looking east, the original rail or steel train is stowed on the mainline, looking from 1st lead off waggon 6011, built by Scotts of Ipswich 04-09-1970, the mesh guarding is for the winch cable. The chute arrangement for the discharging and recovery of rail is visible. 14th June 2018. GeoData.
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190107 0419512 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources MRL class loco MRL 002 'Spirit of Yilgarn' with serial R-0113-03/14-505 a UGL Rail Broadmeadow NSW built GE model C44ACi in 2014 stands in the Engineers Siding with a string of eighteen, or nine pairs of MHPY bottom discharge hopper waggons awaiting transfer over to West Kalgoorlie.
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