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193-24430 viewsGympie yard, Comeng Qld built QLX type louvre waggon QLX 35335 from a batch of 100 built in 1971-72.
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200-32430 viewsMidland, loaded standard gauge grain train behind Westrail L class L 264 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 68-554 crossing Lloyd Street grade crossing 0940 hrs 24th June 1997.
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100602 8572430 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33470 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-012 and fleet number 8970 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, the 8 being a addition due to fleet size, build date of 06/2006 with a revised load of 82.5 tonnes, with PORTMAN painted out and an ARG decal applied to the side, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.
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100731 03166430 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33277 is one of a batch of thirty five built by Goninan WA between January and April 2005 with serial number 950104-017 and fleet number 776 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with PORTMAN painted out and the load revised down to 82.5 tonnes, empty train arriving at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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030409 104357430 viewsWaddikee station located at the 218.3 km and opened in September 1921, yard overview with loaded train operating south to Cummins behind 830 class units 851 and 842 and DA class DA 4.
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030411 154502430 viewsWirrulla, looking south at the south end of the grain loop, unprotected grade crossing.
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060111 2285430 viewsMurdinga, rounding the curve before entering the station environs empty grain train running north behind 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. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2466430 viewsThevenard, narrow gauge loco 1604 departs the yard with empty train 6DD3, 1604 leads a triple consist of Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 the original class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 1604 and 1601 both renumbered in 2004. 13th January 2006.
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060113 2586430 viewsCeduna, or Denial Bay area, empty gypsum train 6DD5 blasts up hill at the 440 km, west of Carpenter Corner Rd with power from triple 1600/NJ class units 1604, NJ 3 and 1601. 1601 in Australian Railroad Group livery is a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-728, originally built as NJ class NJ 1. Location approximation. 13th January 2006.
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130704 0479430 viewsKyancutta, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 35, originally an NHB type hopper built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Seen here loaded with grain with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover.
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130708 0811430 viewsMoule, Mewett Rd grade crossing, 470.1 km.
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130708 0910430 viewsThevenard originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 27, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum crossing Bergmann Drive grade crossing, 434.2 km.
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130708 0971430 viewsThevenard,
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PD 12857430 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 34079 with fleet number 945, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55.
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060527 4109430 viewsScotia, AQNY 32169, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S135D with original style door and sliding tarpaulin, and S124J with original door and modified roll top tarpaulin, train 6029 loaded Malcolm freighter.
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060528 4443430 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, OPC 385, originally built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 as an 8300 class brake van numbered 8372 on broad gauge, to standard gauge and recoded in Sept 1982 to AVAY 385, converted to AZXP accident van in c1986 and then in April 1993 recoded to OPC.
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060530 4943430 viewsParkeston, AHQF on the rear of the Loongana Limestone service, originally built by Goninan WA for Western Quarries as a batch of twenty coded WHA type in 1995. Purchased by Westrail in 1998.
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060603 5276430 viewsMidland, ABAY 30878 covered goods waggon originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA as part of a third batch of one hundred and thirty five WVX type covered vans, recoded to WBAX in 1980.
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100601 8518430 viewsParkeston, APNY 31156, one of twelve units built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR units built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin units built WN waggons for WMC.
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100605 9111430 viewsParkeston, APNY waggons on the rear of C73 trip train about to reverse into Cockburn Lime works sidings. Built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974-80 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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