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160526 5326486 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0001 type leader of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with a 48' SCT reefer SCTR 214 and a fresh looking 48' MFG1 type container SCF unit SCFU 414041 with SCT decals.
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160526 5351486 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0025 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.
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160529 8875486 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, CFCLA leased crew accommodation coach CDBY type CDBY 255 'Curlew', originally built by SAR Islington Workshops in 1956 as a Bluebird railcar 'Curlew', later numbered 802 in National Rail service, then to CDBY 255 when converted to crew coach in 2007 behind SCT class units SCT 010 and SCT 007 with inline refuelling waggon PQFY 4209.
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160530 9121486 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, ABSY type ABSY 2452 covered van, originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA in 1972 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type recoded to ABFX and then RBFX before being converted by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.
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160530 9211486 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0016 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with two 48' MFG1 type Rail Container boxes SCFU 412598 and SCFU 412544.
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161111 2464486 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon APNY 31159, one of twelve built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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161111 2468486 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, diesel fuel tank waggon ATMY 553, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW for BP Oil in 1971 as WJM type, capacity of 102000 litres, diesel capacity of 76000 litres, refurbished by Gemco WA in Oct 2015.
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161112 2981486 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, CQZY type waggon CQZY 1657, built by CIMC at Dalian China for CFCLA and one of fifteen on lease to Aurizon with two non decaled Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur containers BISU 100062 and 100039.
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030403 154252486 viewsGladstone, former South Australian Railways AE Goodwin built DL500G ALCo designated the 700 class, class leader 701 serial G6042-2 leads a grain train being loaded on the 3rd April 2003.
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6995 001 Welshpool 19880819486 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, under construction Mt Newman Mining's GE model CM39-8 loco 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079, 19th August 1988 image.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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030415 171948486 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking east along the Central Australian Line, Trans Australian is the middle road with the loop on the far right. Tarcoola is the junction for the TAR and CAR railways. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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240-15486 viewsWickham, right hand side number two end view of former Robe River and NSWGR MLW built ALCo RSC3 serial 77737 of October 1951, was originally 40 class 4006. Shows modified bogie to convert the A1A to a BO bogie type. 31st August 2002.
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02396 080116 1375486 viewsChapman Siding, view of FMG's CSR Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works built waggons showing the 'F' type Interlock fixed and rotary couplers between master waggon 2396 and slave waggon 1187. Note the difference in the tare weights, 2396 with the fixed coupler is the master waggon, while 1187 is the slave waggon with the rotary coupler. The yellow circle also denotes the rotary coupler end. 16th January 2008.
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200914 7776486 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, the cab from Mt Newman Mining / BHP scrapped Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5495 serial number C6084-11 next to the office building. The shade uprights are re-purposed crank shafts and cam shafts. 14th September 2020.
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247-11486 viewsCape Lambert, Robe River's 9426 a Comeng WA rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Seen here in the South Yard dragging a loaded rake down to the car dumper. Approximate location of train is here. 22nd May 2002.
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252-07486 viewsCockatoo Siding 273 km on the Hamersley Iron line to Yandi, General Electric built 9-44CW unit 7088 with serial number 47767 from the original 1994 build idles away on the eastern end of the ballast train. Cab side view. Location is roughly here. 24th November 2001.
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130710 1018486 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1, PWWY type 100 tonne well waggon PWWY 0031 double stacked with an ex NTFS 46' 6" MPR1 type reefer MGCU 788069 and ANL 46' 6" reefer OLCF 8014. Bradken NSW built forty of these PWWY wells for SCT in 2008.
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231020 8146486 viewsParkeston, QQYY type 40' container waggon QQYY 57932 one of five hundred ordered by Aurizon and built by CRRC Yangtze Group of China in 2022. In service with two loaded 20' half height hard top 'rotainers' lettered CRM, for Cristal Mining before they were absorbed into Tronox, CRM 000674 with Tronox decal and CRM 001426 with Cristal decal, on Aurizon's Tronox mineral sands train 4UP1 from Ivanhoe / Broken Hill (NSW) to Kwinana (WA). 20th of October 2023.
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119-34485 viewsWarrenheip, V/Line broad gauge G class locos G 513 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1241 with another G class working down empty grain train 9125, swaps the electric staff for a caution order with the signaller, remains of removed Siding C on the right, semaphore signal post 2 and disc signal post 3.
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169-01485 viewsSpotswood, distant view looking towards Newport, former Victorian Railways and ex. Australian - Portland Cement broad gauge T class locomotive T 413 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 56-107 leads an up special at the platform, signal box on the right and banner signal U6 on the left with dwarf signal 8 in-between running lines.
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