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246-36394 viewsCape Lambert, a Robe River loaded Deepdale train rolls along the mainline behind the standard quad Dash 8 power with 202 waggons which are a mix of builds from Nippon Sharyo Japan and Tomlinson Steel and Centurion Industries both WA companies. The ore is a ROM product and will be dumped over the gyratory crusher to be correctly sized. The newly extended roads can be seen either side of the train and in the distance can be seen are the railway workshops. 22nd May 2002.
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249-29394 viewsA loaded Hamersley Iron train runs across the plains north of Dugite Siding near the 70 km as it nears the destination of its cargo behind the standard pair of GE built Dash 9-44CW locomotives 7084 serial 47763 and 7079 serial 47758 both in the original Pepsi Can livery. Approximate location. 18th December 1999.
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251-11394 viewsNelson Point, BHP's recently retired Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5511 awaits its fate. Rebuilt in 1987 at Goninan's Welshpool factory from 1969 AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 with serial number G6035-4 and road number 5463 and assigned new serial number 4839-08 / 87-076. It was delivered in Mt Newman Mining orange and was named Port Hedland. 551 holds the dubious honour of being the first unit withdrawn following an engine failure in 1998. 22nd April 2000.
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245-04394 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still in former owner AN livery, Australian Southern 830 class locomotive 865 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84711. 6th April 2003.
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140601 4449394 viewsWoodbridge, empty Carina bound iron ore train #1035, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8028-2 part of a pair of 120 sets built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
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190109 1454394 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, RHTY type tank waggon RHTY 653, one of fourteen such waggons built by Industrial Engineering Qld in 1976 for Victorian Railways as TWX type crude benzene tank 56,000 litres. Recoded to VTHX in 1979. After a period of storage ended up in National Rail ownership for Alice Springs traffic, now Pacific National ownership.
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210407 9908394 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRQY type articulated five-unit container waggon set RRQY 8316 platform 5, built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works in China as part of a forty one unit order in 2005/06 for Pacific National.
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100603 9004394 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0040, final one of forty units built by Gemco WA in 2009 loaded with SCT Logistics 40' GPR1 type reefer SCTU 03 / CR018 and K+S Freighters 40' GPR1 type reefer RWRU 0003.
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176-10393 viewsWodonga, V/Line standard gauge up goods train passing the Wodonga Coal Sidings behind the G class G 524 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 86-1237 and C class C 505 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-828 combination, broad gauge track on the left, and the former broad gauge line to Bandiana and Cudgewa curving around to the right.
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180-26393 viewsWodonga loco depot fuel point, V/Line broad gauge H class H 5 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 68-632 and X class X 34 Clyde Engineering EMD model G16C serial 66-487 wait to run the Sunday evening up Albury slab steel train.
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128-20393 viewsGisborne, Gisborne Road grade crossing, non-interlocked swing gates, looking south in the Up direction from middle of the road, station buildings, track view.
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147-25393 viewsSeymour loco depot, broad gauge V/Line Rail Tractor RT 40 in yellow livery coupled to RY class open waggon RY 615. RT 40 was built in June 1967 at Ballarat North Workshops using the underframe of 1905 built I type I 7539 with was recoded to IA type in 1936. The RY started life in 1933 built as an IZ type, July 1966 recoded to RY.
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153-2-29393 viewsArarat signal box, mainline in from of box, rear view from yard tracks.
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156-24393 viewsNumurkah, Picola Junction looking north from the end of Numurkah yard, line to Strathmerton is straight, Picola line branches off to the left, double doll semaphore signal post pulled off for Strathmerton line.
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190-33393 viewsUranquinty, located at the 535.72 km on the NSW Main South line, looking south at platform and remains of station.
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198-23393 viewsPort Hedland Port, view of the hard stand and overview of the PHPA, manganese is stockpiled around the former Cockburn Cement silos, new bulk loader under construction, tug pen visible along with single berth at BHP Finucane Island.
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198-24393 viewsPort Hedland Port, overview of the hard stand area, salt conveyor at very bottom of image. New bulk loader under construction, tug pen and BHP Transport admin building visible at top right. Circa 2001.
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200-31393 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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206-33393 viewsAn empty train on the Yarrie (former Goldsworthy) line with a string of Golynx ore waggons, built by Goninan WA to a Lynx Engineering design, and then the two types of the waggons from the Phelps Dodge Copper Mine, the ribbed units are built by Portec USA and the smooth ones built by Gunderson USA and finally the Tomlinson Steel WA built hopper waggons. All of these are belly dump waggons as opposed to the BHP fleet of rotary dump bodies.
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060528 4498393 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32408, fleet number 4937, the 4 being a recent addition, is one of 70 ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF and AOJFs by Bluebird Engineering, SA. Now in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be longer by two panels. Prior they were GH's. West Kalgoorlie, 28th May 2006.
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