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128-00183 viewsBallarat yard, broad gauge V/Line VZBF type bogie brake block transport waggon VZBF 2, a 1990 conversion from what was originally an Victorian Railways BP type steel mail van BP 77 built in 1959 at Newport Workshops as part of a batch of eighty three. It went on to be recoded to BB 222 in December 1960, then BMF 2 in December 1961, BMX 2 in February 1968, recoded to VBAX in 1979, then in 1990 converted to the VZBF along with two other waggons as a group of three.
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123-2-11183 viewsMaffra, brick Milk Co-op building with rail connection, Sidings A.
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124-07183 viewsSunshine V/Line broad gauge down passenger being lead by T class T 383 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 64-338 and failed P class P 20 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18HBR serial 84-1213 rebuilt from T 337 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 56-112, P class supplying HEP only and H set.
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140-2-14183 viewsBallarat station, V/Line broad gauge N class N 470 'City of Wangaratta' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1199 crosses Lydiard Street as it runs round the carriage set, through the interlocked gates and under the signal gantry on No.4 Rd, semaphore signal post 29 is pulled off for the move, this signal is controlled from A Box, while the signal is across the road from B Box.
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143-04183 viewsWangaratta station yard overview looking south from footbridge, VR liveried Y class Y 133 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 65-399 brings the board gauge down Wahgunyah Special 'Stringybark Express' to a stop at the platform, the fully interlocked yard and 18th century infrastructure clearly on display here, semaphore signal Post 20 is pulled off for departure, station building and platform, elevated signal box, signal posts and interlocking, goods shed and water tower.
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154-17183 viewsLismore, V/Line broad gauge C class locomotive and class leader C 501 'George Brown' Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-824, trailing unit in Adelaide bound goods train 9169.
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185-19183 viewsNorth Geelong C Signal Box, internal view of the miniature electric staff machine for the Gheringhap section with a staff ready in the hoop for V/Line grain train 9123 visible in the window.
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215-35183 viewsDudley Park, the Indian Pacific passenger train on approach with power from an AN livered DL class DL 49 Clyde Engineering EMD model AT42C serial 89-1268.
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218-19183 viewsDe Grey River Bridge, a loaded GML train with the original AE Goodwin designed and Tomlinson Steel Perth and Scotts of Ipswich built waggons.
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100609 09926183 viewsMidland, AQHY 30074 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0007, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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160103 DJI 0059183 viewsColonial Mill ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. Concrete foundations remain of the once impressive crusher, mill, dryer and bagging plant. See images of the site intact here , Geodata: -22.3112605 118.3190326 .
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160103 DJI 0065183 viewsColonial Mill and mine ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. A number of mine adits or entry points are visible on this level along with the large amount of tailings, office structures and railway points and track visible. See images of the site intact here , 194-08 shows the sealed red entry point. Geodata: -22.314205, 118.317905.
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160128 00654183 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M unit 5661 cab has had the drivers side torn out revealing the remains on the control stand.
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160128 00876183 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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160522 2091183 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, VQCY 958 container waggon, former V/Line Ballarat Nth Workshops built VQCX from 1980, Royal Wolf RWPU container and Toll half height 5TC 205.
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160530 9164183 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth departs on the mainline behind SCT class SCT 013 serial 08-1737 an EDI Downer built EMD model GT46C-ACe and sister loco SCT 001 with 71 waggons for 5275 tonnes and 1679 metres.
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240-23183 viewsWickham town entry statement, concrete plinth with plaque outlining the history of the MLW built ALCo model RSC3 units operated by Robe River prior to preservation and on the NSWGR as originally 40 class 4006. 31st August 2002.
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040412 143415183 viewsNelson Point, BHP ore waggon 3295, one of three hundred and fifty waggons built by Astra Vagoane in Arad Romania during 1988, only seventy-five of these waggons found their way into service. 12th of April 2004.
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200914 iPhone IMG 8839183 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, the cab back wall behind the driving position. 14th September 2020.
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111-26182 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge locomotives N class N 461 'City of Ararat' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1190 with X class X 47 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-794 run past semaphore signal post 16 with another loaded grain train from the grain arrival roads bound for the grain loop.
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