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160524 4299424 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKYY type wide steel plate tilt waggon RKYY 7091, one of twenty seven units built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1995-96. Loaded with steel plate.

110710 7426 PD424 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQAY 2273, this orphan waggon started life as a Comeng Vic built GOX type open waggon for Commonwealth Railways in 1970, then coded AOOX. Under AWR ownership is was reduced to this 3 TEU unit container skeletal waggon. Peter Donaghy image.

060107 1783424 viewsSpencer Junction yard, Pacific National FAM type crew accommodation coach FAM 2389 on train 6MP4, built for the NSWGR by Comeng NSW in 1976 as part of a batch of ten FAM type twinette sleeper cars, FAM 2389 was also the Lithgow breakdown train accommodation car for a time, converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail at Islington in September 2005.

060530 4842424 viewsParkeston, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 2 'Great Artesian' on train 2PM9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 79, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 361. Recoded to AVDY in October 1982, then to AVDP. Sold to WCR, then in October 2000 overhauled for crew car use and coded VPAY 1 on SCT services and owned by Freight Australia. Was later sold to Pacific National and subsequently scrapped 2016.

161109 1903424 viewsMoule, former BHP RSK type iron ore waggon, modified by G&W Port Lincoln to cart gypsum and coded RSG type, RSG 3, note the riveted body, fitted with hungry boards and loaded with gypsum.

161109 1908424 viewsMoule, originally Kinki Sharyo built NHA type NHA 992 for the NAR in 1968, to EP Division 1978, rebuilt with extended sides for gypsum traffic and recoded to ENHA type ENHA 4 in 1984. Shows signs of heavy patching to the body, loaded with gypsum.

161111 2475424 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, diesel fuel tank waggon ATEY 4725, BP Oil service, ex Ampol, other codes include ex NSW NTAF, WTEF and WTEY.

161111 2489424 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, container flat waggon AQWY 31032, built by Centrecon Ltd WA in 1981 in a batch of thirty five WFA type container waggons, another eighteen were also built by Westrail, to WFAP in 1989, loaded here with three 20' Westrail roll top COR type containers COR 5874, COR 5548 and COR 5773.

161111 2419424 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32203 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with an undecorated Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur container BISU 100066 and a Bis Industries roll-top 55UA type sulphur container SBIU 200611.

8705 Difco USA 040810 145007424 viewsShaw Siding backtrack, Difco Ohio USA 1967 build short side dump waggon 5, originally built for Goldsworthy Mining, but not yet renumbered by BHP Iron Ore, it should be 8705, one five waggons built for Goldsworthy Mining.

CHQY 744 050518 2079424 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 744.

0538 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 051001 5643424 viewsFlash Butt yard, side view of ballast plough converted from Magor USA built Oroville ore waggon 538, still visible is the ODCX 82160 number from original service building the Oroville Dam, through brake pipe is visible over the top of waggon.

6702 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 051001 5731424 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #30, 6702, heavily cut down and modified Magor USA ore waggon by Mt Newman Mining workshops, converted to a 50 tonne waggon and designated the winch waggon with generator set to power the winch and the crib car.

060429 3754424 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon, originally built for Goldsworthy Mining as one of a batch of six with a 55 tonne rating by Tomlinson Steel in 1966.

050414 0937424 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem track tamper a Fairmont Jackson model 6700 tamper serial 153172. 14th April 2005.

050421 1620424 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's two 24 stone rail grinders coupled together before they had id stickers fitted, the left unit was later stickered as RG 2, the right unit was stickered as RG 1 and is serial M20. 21st April 2005.

050917 5518424 viewsCoon Siding, on the truncated passing siding following a derailment Switch Tamper SW 02 is a Plasser Australia model Unimat S4 switch tamper. 17th September 2005.

060710 6232424 viewsAt the Broome Rd grade crossing Port Hedland, track machine BR 33 a Plasser Australia ballast regulator model SSP 302 serial M486. 10th July 2006.

6214 Gemco WA 110208 9434424 viewsFlash Butt yard, new Lead-Off Lead-On waggon STTR class STTR 6214 on the end of the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, built by Gemco Rail WA, the height adjustable lead roller guide is upright, squeeze rollers behind the mesh.