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237-23466 viewsCoongan River crossing looking north east, Comet Mines are behind those hills. Geodata .

237-31466 viewsAt the 89 km grade crossing on the Hamersley Iron mainline near Galah Siding, General Electric Dash 9-44CW units 7086 serial 47765 leads 7089 serial 47768 as they struggle up the grade with empty train.

160523 3579466 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 529, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.

160525 4529466 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRQY 8344 platform 2 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set the last of a batch of 41 built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 for Pacific National, with a Pacific National 48' curtainsider PNXM 5203.

160528 8412466 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RRGY 7121 platforms 3, 4 and 5, loaded with a Toll 40' curtain sider 3NW 805, 40' flatrack KT 163, a Grace 2EG1 type 20' box GRRU 230148[4] with a RWTU 360250[7] low height double stacked and a Smorgon Steel open top RTP 2021. The RRBY waggon sets were built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996/97 in a batch of fifty for National Rail, rebuilt and recoded to match RRGY type waggon sets.

160524 4034466 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKMY 57, recently recoded from RKMX, originally an ELX waggon, heavily modified to cart butter boxes, either ex Victorian Railways or SAR ELX type waggon.

160529 8779466 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQSY 34458 one of one hundred OCY type container flat waggons built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1974/75, recoded to NQOY, then NQSY. Loaded with a 20' CIMC Tank built Eurotainer 22K2 type ISO tank EURU 191850[0] for ammonium nitrate solution and a 40' K&S flatrack KT 400201 with a tarped load of Timber Link products.

160529 8810466 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRGY 7125

160531 9889466 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, NR 100

060601 5092466 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation car RZAY 283 on train 4PM6 was built by Comeng NSW as an ARJ type stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car ARJ 283 in 1972, sold to National Rail and converted to a crew car in 1997. Destroyed at the Jumperkine collision in December 2019.

160526 5320466 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0060 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.

160526 5330466 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0023 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with a 48' MFG1 type container SCT unit SCTDS 4806 and a 48' SCT reefer SCTR 313.

160530 9192466 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0103 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014 without the Greater Freighter signage.

160530 9221466 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0002 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with two 48' SCT reefers SCTR 302 and SCTR 311.

161111 2527466 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30098 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0127, 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.

161116 5101466 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, tank waggon ATPF 575, built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1974 for Shell as type WJP 80.66 kL one compartment one dome.

0202 USA 040419 102104466 viewsAbydos back track, riveted flat waggon 202 with three water tanks fitted, view of handbrake end, originally part of the 'camp train', modified by Mt Newman Mining railway workshops.

Sundowner EG Budd USA 040912 142144466 viewsNelson Point, Silver Star observation coach, 'Sundowner', 3/4 view of rear end, shows lighting arrangement, end of train markers. Originally built by E. G. Budd in 1939 numbered 301 as the Silver Star as a diner-parlour-observation coach on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's General Pershing Zephyr train from the 1930s and 1940s. Donated to Mt Newman Mining Co. by AMAX an original joint venture partner to commemorate the projects first 100 million tonnes of iron ore railed between Mount Whaleback mine and the Port Hedland port.

0510 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 060414 3442466 viewsNelson Point yard, originally a Magor USA built ballast waggon for the Oroville Dam construction, 510 seen here modified as a weighbridge test car. The others in the fleet are 40, 60 and 100 tons. April 14, 2006.