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123-2-07161 viewsMaffra station overview, looking from Tinamba end of yard, broad gauge V/Line RT class rail tractor RT 49 started out as I waggon 7507 built by Victorian Railways 21-02-1905, converted to IA in 1936, then K 85 in April 1955 and in 1969 to the underframe of RT 49 by Ballarat North Workshops, Siding A sheds at right of frame, yard overgrown, motor grader, station building.
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137-1-14161 viewsViolet Town station overview, looking south across Cowslip Street crossing, station building, signal box and platform, points to No. 3 Rd at road crossing.
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140-2-10161 viewsBallarat, Linton Junction or Ballarat D Signal Box, V/Line broad gauge N class loco N 455 'City of Swan Hill' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 85-1223 with N set runs through 'on the auto' as it prepares to pick up the electric staff on the automatic staff exchange apparatus with a down Dimboola passenger train.
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101-35161 viewsBirchip, timber derrick yard crane.
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183-20161 viewsWodonga loco depot fuel point, V/Line broad gauge X class locos X 46 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-793, X 45 'Edgar H Brownbill' serial 75-792 and B class B 75 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-16 which still wears the Victorian Railways livery await their next turn of duty, the station is to the right.
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195-25161 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Australian Blue Asbestos or ABA Colonial Mill, sign shows CSR Australian Blue Asbestos Pty Ltd Colonial Mill.
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199-12161 viewsMeckering, National Rail NR class units NR 19 and NR 20 both being Goninan built GE Cv40-9i models head up train 7PM5 as they wait for a cross with the Prospector in the loop 1400 hrs 21st June 1997.
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202-19161 viewsMeckering, looking east with the grain siding joining the goods loop, then with the goods siding branching off to the left, goods shed and crane on the left, station just visible on the right.
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206-13161 viewsWhere Carawine Creek joins the Oakover River.
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210-25161 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, overview looking east, shunt loco EMD model NW2 R 1003 and Difco side-dump on the left, Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C R 1001 is at the fuel point. Workshop building at the right.
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218-07161 viewsDe Grey River Bridge, a loaded Yarrie train crosses the river behind an original Mt Newman Mining ALCo to GE rebuild carried out by Goninan, originally ALCo C636 5458 to GE model C36-7M unit 5510 'Newman' serial 4839-07 / 87-075.
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219-18161 viewsMunjina Gorge, original facilities at this lookout. The area has now changed and is known as the Albert Tognoli Rest Area these days.
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060527 4070161 viewsLeonora, WN 519, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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151111 9491161 viewsNear the 38 km post, an empty train lead by General Electric ES44DCi units 8160 and 8193 serials 60224 and 61852 and General Electric Dash 9-44CW 7074 serial 47743 power under the water supply pipeline on the Cape Lambert line.
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160128 00876161 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, the almost unmarked front of Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M unit 5661, serial 8412-06, builders no. 94-152 is surrounded by the twisted scrap that earlier formed the rest of the locomotive.
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240-27161 viewsSeven Mile, loaded train heading for Parker Point behind a pair of Pilbara Rail, Robe River owned, General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 9470 serial 53455 and 9471 serial 53456. These and sister unit 9472 were the first painted in the Pilbara Rail livery. 31st August 2002.
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040412 143234161 viewsNelson Point, a Goninan built ore waggon 4384, one of 126 such waggons constructed during 1997 out of 3CR12 stainless steel in an effort to eliminate painting and to reduce wear on the waggon body. Note the rounded bottom edge and tapered floor, this design was designated HC7081. 12th April 2004.
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041014 122804161 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, Mancha battery hauler from the former CSR underground blue asbestos mine at Wittenoom, driving position is at the rear in this shot. Shows misspelling on the side of EXPRSS rather than express. Donated to the Society in 2003. 14th October 2004.
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250-36161 viewsCape Lambert South Yard and Robe River's 9426 a Comeng WA rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Seen here in the South Yard dragging a loaded rake down to the car dumper. 22nd October 2000.
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105-36160 viewsSeymour loco depot turntable roads, broad gauge 2nd series Victorian Railways T class T 357 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 61-242 under SRHC ownership.
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