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221-05462 viewsHardie Siding, with the days of C36-7M operations numbered, Goninan rebuild 5513 serial 88-078 / 4839-02 from ALCo C636 5453 holds the mainline with a loaded train bound for Finucane Island.
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191-17462 viewsBroadford, Smiths Lane looking north, UP special sleeper discharge train behind Victorian Railways liveried B class B 65 Clyde Engineering EMD ML2 model serial ML2-6.
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151111 9524462 viewsA loaded train behind General Electric ES44DCi units 8113 serial 59105 in the original silver livery and 8145 serial 58726 in the tiger strip Rio livery and Dash 9-44CW 9433 serial 54766 in ROBE Pilbara Iron livery runs over the 54.04 km culvert on the West Mainline bound for Cape Lambert viewed from Table Hill.
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160101 9776462 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, mine drive adit No.6 concrete entry structure. Geodata.
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160101 9796462 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view of the eastern wall of the gorge shows pool in Joffre Creek. Geodata.
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160103 DJI 0055462 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: -22.3107554 118.3185943 .
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150523 8197462 viewsNelson Point Yard, a pair of BHP Billiton SD70ACe units waits in the arrival yard with a loaded rake for the dumpers. Lead unit 4327 'Hamersley' is from an order originally built by Electro-Motive, London Ontario for BNSF, a US Class 1 railroad, but BHP secured 10 of them during construction, this unit 4327 serial 20066862-056 was destined to be BNSF 9185 before coming to BHP. The second unit 4402 is from a batch of Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe units serial 20118575-012.
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150523 8213462 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0031, view of A End, tare of 38.6 tonnes, total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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239-02462 viewsView inside the diesel power station located at Yandi One of a freshly overhauled Caterpillar 3516 engine and Kato alternator. Genset no 1. GeoData.
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239-06462 viewsView from the radial stacker at Yandi One looking north at the Yandi Repeater for the rail communication system. GeoData.
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060110 2158462 viewsNear the 64 km between Pillana and Cummins, empty grain train behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 then sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004, and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of photo.
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160524 3749462 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRXY 3 platform 4 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a 46' 6" RAND Refrigerated Logistics reefer RAND 92 on top of a Railroad Transport 40' box RRTU 004058.
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160525 4497462 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRGY 7129 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of fifty originally built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and coded RRGY, 40' deck with Cronos 40' box TSPD 092102.
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160528 8338462 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RQSY type 60' container waggon RQSY 35009, built in a batch of one hundred as OCY type container waggons by Goninan NSW in 1975. Recoded to NQOY, then to National Rail in 1994. Loaded with three 20' containers, Royal Wolf 25G1 types RWPU 202565[2] and RWTU 963150[6] and Linfox 20' 2EG9 type FSWB 963517. May 28, 2016.
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160528 8342462 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RRZY 7031 platform 2, originally built by Goninan NSW during 1995/95 as part of thirty four sets of five unit bar coupled well container waggons coded RQZY, recoded to RRZY as repairs were carried out to strengthen them. With FCL commemorative 48' container FBGU 480031[6] which was the first official double-stacked container from Parkes to Perth back on May 22, 1997. It is now relegated to top loading only or single stacked.
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160523 2995462 viewsParkeston, intermodal train 7SP3, RQFY 90 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFY c1985, then RQFY May 1994, May 1995 to RQFF, then 2CM bogies fitted in Aug 1995 and current code Dec 1995. Loaed with a Toll 5TW 513 40' curtainsider and Cronos 20' 2EG1 type box TINT 124865[0].
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160524 3789462 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRQY 8314 platform 2 of articulated five-unit container waggon set built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works in China as part of a forty one unit order in 2005/06, K+S 40' flatrack KHS 400470 with Wesbeam products.
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160522 2146462 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, platform 2 of 5 on RRQY 7323 5 pack articulated skel waggon set built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 for Pacific National, with a 48' container of the owner PNXD 012.
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160522 2369462 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRAY 7244 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 48' deck, Rand Refrigerated Logistics 46' 6" MFR1 type reefer RAND 236.
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160522 2379462 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRKY 2379 container waggon, built by Perry Engineering SA in 1971 as RMX, to RM, AQMX, AQSY, RQKY, empty.
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