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160128 00393663 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, General Electric V16 7FDL-16 prime mover from CM40-8M 5664.
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102-23662 viewsRed Cliffs station and yard overview looking south.
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160101 2300662 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view inside drive No. 5, formally sealed, erosion has collapsed the sealing door, geodata: -22.3247417 118.3277889 , iPhone 5S image.
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112-11661 viewsViolet Town, looking north across Cowslip Street, standard gauge NSWSRA 81 class 8174 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1093 in candy livery with an up goods heads south, station building behind camera, broad gauge track on the left, March 1994.
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213-33661 viewsWeipa, a loaded train from Andoom near Northern Avenue with Comalco R 1004 leading thirty three loaded waggons of bauxite.
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160525 4569661 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), Gemco WA built PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0029 loaded with an SCT 40' RFRA type reefer SCTR 143 and an SCT 40' container SCT 40205.
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111-02660 viewsNorth Geelong grain arrivals yard, V/Line broad gauge locos N class N 461 'City of Ararat' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1190 and X class X 47 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-794 with a loaded grain rake pump up the air, another loaded grain rake on the right, off focus.
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160101 2296660 viewsWittenoom Gorge, location of former power station, showing old foundations, looking north from approx. engine hall location, geodata: -22.3222833 118.3340833 , iPhone 5S image.
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161109 1951660 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 11 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum. Also shows signs of derailment and being on its side.
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186-15659 viewsMidland, Westrail standard gauge up Kalgoorlie loaded acid train 428 behind a pair of L class locomotives L 268 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 68-617 and L 256 serial 67-546, the narrow gauge track to the Flashbutt yard in the foreground and Midland Workshops behind train, trailing view.
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195-15659 viewsWittenoom, view from the Devil's Staircase of Colonial Mill and Mine with piles of tailings, the building and yard at the bottom of the frame is the warehouse or store and gated yard with the workshop being the larger of the two, the buildings at the top level are the locomotive and underground mining offices and workshops, with the crusher and milling and bagging plant using gravity to its advantage.
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113-03658 viewsBallarat station platform No.2, signal gantry with stripped doll, V/Line broad gauge up Adelaide goods train 9150 behind the quad CGCG combo of C class C 506 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-829, G class G 538 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1271, C class C 510 serial 76-833 and G class G 513 serial 85-1241, in miserable conditions, poor quality.
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172-03658 viewsSunshine, an expanded view of image 141-50, signal Post 49 for Up movements while signal Post 36 is for controlling Down trains off the Sunshine - Newport Loop Line, either towards Sunshine back track, Platform 3 or onto the main down line and Platform 2, a broad gauge push-pull double H set with V/Line P class, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G18HBR rebuilt from Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B on each end is on the down approaching Sunshine.
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203-26658 viewsDrillers Ridge, Wittenoom, the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) tower was a navigation aid for the Department of Civil Aviation for the Wittenoom airport, the site was also used by Telecom for providing 'radio links' for phones into Wittenoom prior to the current tower located at the eastern edge of town which links back to Auski Roadhouse.
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060111 2321658 viewsNantuma, Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C model loco 1203 serial 65-427 leads two ALCo units 850 and 905 as they round the bend just north of the old station site at the 183 km. Their next shunt will be Warramboo. 11th January 2006.
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160128 00386658 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, upturned bogie from recently scrapped new built Goninan CM39-8 unit 5632. Bogie is of a GE floating bolster design, serial 1-10-87.
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103-06657 viewsSpringhurst V/Line broad gauge Plasser 07-16B Production Tamper or track tamper with V/Line asset number 6-52-013.
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103-19657 viewsBenalla Workshops, broad gauge HD type four wheel departmental van HD 74, stencilled 'Held For ARHS'. HD 74 was originally built as a U van U 1547 by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in January 1957, converted to HD in August 1977.
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101-05657 viewsDandenong, Boral Quarry overview of new plant being constructed.
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186-01657 viewsMidland, Westrail standard gauge up Kalgoorlie loaded acid train 428 crosses Lloyd Street behind a pair of L class locomotives L 263 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C, serial 68-553 and L 274 serial 73-779, with the dual gauge track to the Flashbutt Yard in the foreground. The empty return working of this train was 027 empty acid.
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