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050409 0411405 viewsShell Swagman Roadhouse, Lampson eighty wheel float ready to deliver BHP's new mainline tamper a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480 view of front trolley and tarp protecting windscreen. 9th April 2005.
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050412 0818405 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, front view of BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 12th April 2005.
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050421 1617405 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's RR24 model 24 stone rail grinder serial M20 before they had id stickers fitted, this unit was later stickered as RG 1, rear view of the generator and driving module. 21st April 2005.
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150523 8214405 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0034, one of a second batch delivered in 2015, detail view of the B end.
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030404 120231405 viewsStirling North, looking east from Port Augusta, line to Stirling North yard and Leigh Creek curves away to the left, line to Port Augusta power is right at bottom of frame.
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030404 120343405 viewsStirling North, looking west to Port Augusta, line to Port Augusta power station is diverging left, the narrow gauge line for Pichi Richi Railway is on the far right.
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030404 141115405 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, MKA (Morrison Knudsen Australia) rebuilt AL class AL 24 into EMD JT26C-2M model for Australian National in 1993 as the ALF class, here ALF 20 serial 94-AB-020 shunts empty rail transport waggon sets from the Darwin construction. 4th April, 2003.
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060723 7764405 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 03, receiver waggon with two air tanks or receivers. These are built on former ore waggons that have been cut down. Seen here just outside of 7 Mile. 23rd July 2006.
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241-07405 viewsNelson Point, Mt Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW sits awaiting partial dismantling before being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's museum at Bassendean, Perth for preservation, cab side view. June 2002.
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180615 1574405 viewsWalla Siding, BHP took delivery of two new ballast ploughs in December 2017. They were built by CRRC Yangtze China in 2017 and weigh in at 65 tonnes. The ploughs are numbered BP 01 and BP 02. We finally caught up with them top and tail on a ballast consist, here's BP 02.
Roland Depth photo.
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190107 0537405 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00324 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-324 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190109 1582405 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00282 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-282 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190109 1624405 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00146 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-146 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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110620 2218405 viewsForrest Siding near the 126 km, detail shot of empty FMG ore waggon 4266 showing the builders plate, RFID tag, number decal and bogie detail. CNR QRRS of China built waggon dating from 2011. 20th June 2011.
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246-17405 viewsCape Lambert, yard view of the then new extension to the south for the West Angelas mine was coming on stream as a Robe River loaded Deepdale train arrives on the main behind the standard quad Dash 8 power with 202 waggons. 9414 which is a Goninan WA ALCo to GE rebuild CM40-8M with serial 8206-11 / 91-124 from November 1991 and was originally an AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo built new for Robe in December 1971 and numbered 262.005, later numbered 1714. 22nd May 2002.
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249-33405 viewsLoaded Hamersley Iron ore waggon pair National Steel USA built 5126 and Nippon Sharyo Japan built 770. Approximate location. 18th December 1999.
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245-10405 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still in former owner AN livery, Australian Southern 830 class locomotive 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137 which has been on the Eyre Peninsula Division since being built in April 1962, roster shot coupled to sister unit. 6th April 2003.
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140601 4456405 viewsWoodbridge, empty Carina bound iron ore train #1035, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8016-2 part of a pair of 120 sets built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
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210407 9848405 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, CQWY type well waggon pair CQWY 5015, platform 2 with a Royal Wolf 48' type MFG1 container RWTU 922049 and platform 1 with Aurizon 48' MFGB type container AEHQ 100608. The CQWY well waggon pairs were built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in a batch of sixty pairs in 2008 for CFCLA.
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040912 132238r405 viewsNelson Point, view from above of BHP ore waggon 8415 showing the internal plates fitted for the bottom discharge arrangement of the Goninan WA build of the Golynx design built in November 2001 as a bottom discharge waggon for Goldsworthy service with serial number 950088-345. 12th of September 2004.
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