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060108 2052520 viewsLock, 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model serial 84137 repainted into Australian Railroad Group livery.

030411 105204 Kimba bunkers520 viewsKimba Grain Bunker video overview, power plant running, best viewed in IE as chrome won't support the player.

150522 8165520 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the first batch of BHP Billiton Dash 8 locos to be scrapped, 5646 serial 8244-11/92-135 and 5647 serial 8244-12/92-136 were a pair of new Goninan WA CM40-8 model built in 1992.

160522 2038520 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RQCY type flat waggons RQCY 701 carrying the bogies for Trans-Perth B Set 116. Originally built by the Victorian Railways Newport Workshops as an FQX type container waggon in 1973, recoded to VQCX in 1979, then to NRC as RQCX, then the current code from 1995.

160522 2085520 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train arrives on the mainline behind a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 90 serial 7250-05/97-293 and NR 101 serial 7250-07/97-303.

160531 9878520 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, RQGY type container waggon RQGY 34496, one of one hundred built by Tulloch Ltd In 1974/75 as an OCY type, recoded NQOY, then converted to NQSY and NQGY early 1990s. Loaded with three 22G1 type 20' Royal Wolf boxes, RWMC 815947, RWMC 817992 and RWMC 815903. 31st of May 2016.

160525 4950520 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1, crew accommodation coach QCBY 10, started life as Victorian Railways Newport Workshops 1952 build as AS class no. 15, first class air conditioned corridor car, then AS 210, BS 210 and BS 10. Sold to West Coast Railway, then RTS / Gemco and finally to Aurizon.

160525 4957520 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1, crew accommodation coach QCBY 10, started life as Victorian Railways Newport Workshops 1952 build as AS class no. 15, first class air conditioned corridor car, then AS 210, BS 210 and BS 10. Sold to West Coast Railway, then RTS / Gemco and finally to Aurizon.

160525 4958520 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1, crew accommodation coach QCBY 10, started life as Victorian Railways Newport Workshops 1952 build as AS class no. 15, first class air conditioned corridor car, then AS 210, BS 210 and BS 10. Sold to West Coast Railway, then RTS / Gemco and finally to Aurizon.

244-18520 viewsCoomunga, stabled on the siding, Transfield track machine TMN 02 ballast regulator. 6th April, 2003.

16953520 viewsBassendean, the rear of Goninan's workshops, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 unit 5483 serial G6061-4 being prepped for rebuilding into 5659 with the 251 engine and alternator visible. October 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.

041014 142110520 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, Comeng WA ALCo rebuild C636R locomotive 3017 serial WA-135-C-6043-04. The improved Pilbara cab was fitted as part of the rebuild in April 1985. Donated to Society in 1996. 14th October 2004.

269-23520 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, and the Alstom 25-year service agreement special led by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5653 'Chiba' serial number 8412-10 / 93-144 heads back to Nelson Point with The Sundowner and 5634 on the rear of the train. Friday 12th of April 2002.

108-04519 viewsMurchison East silo complex, looking south, yard layout, early Ascom outflow spout, with Murphy outflow spout further down.

137-1-19519 viewsBenalla station yard overview, Benalla signal box A and up home departure semaphore signal posts 7 and 7B looking south across Nunn St towards Melbourne.

114-23519 viewsBenalla station yard, elevated view of V/Line S class S 300 'Matthew Flinders' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 57-164, VOFX type bogie open waggon VOFX 242 which was built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in April 1969 as an ELX type, recoded to VOFX in 1987.

189-13519 viewsThe Rock, located at the 550.29 km on NSW Main South line, view looking north with the along the Mainline with the Down Loop at right and the Up Loop with the Up Siding and ground frame D just behind the signal bridge.

195-33519 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Australian Blue Asbestos or ABA Colonial Mill, view of the drier.

193-08519 viewsMoodlu quarry junction, looking west in the Down direction, quarry line curves away to the left, line continues around to the right to the site of Moodlu. The overbridge is marked as 5.150 km.