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051101 6423535 viewsParkeston, AHQF 31424 seen here in Loongana Limestone service, originally built by Goninan WA for Western Quarries as a batch of twenty coded WHA type in 1995. Purchased by Westrail in 1998.

151111 9480535 viewsCape Lambert Yard, Chinese built QRRS - CNR ore cars, control car 30299 and slave car 35299.

150523 8270535 viewsFinucane Island, empty train heading back to Boodarie behind Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe unit 4379 serial 20108424-006 and a newly arrived and named sibling 4474 'Raymond White' serial 20148001-007. View of 4474 looking south across grade crossing and new Roy Hill conveyor and road bridge. Geodata: -20.3341700 118.5504083 .

160524 3734535 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train splits the outer home signal posts #4 and #6 as it arrives behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 101 serial 7250-07/97-303 and NR 105 serial 7250-08/97-310, originally built for National Rail now in current owner Pacific National livery.

160524 3759535 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, 40' platform of RRGY 7130 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of fifty built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and coded RRGY, with two 20' boxes Cronos Bulker BSPD 084123 and Furniture Freighters FFA 12.

160522 2168535 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, NQKY 34644 container waggon, originally built by EPT NSW as a CDY type open waggon in a batch of two hundred units in 1975-76, recoded to NOCY type, then converted to current form in 1997, loaded with a Cronos 20' 22T6 ISO tank CRXU 864685[0].

160522 2169535 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQLY 4 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 8 built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1987 as AQJY, plain blue SCF 40' box SCFU 408006.

160523 2831535 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, CFCLA lease CQWY type well waggon set CQWY 5038-2 with a two SCF 48' MFG1 boxes SCFU 415202 and SCFU 415201. The CQWY was built by Bluebird Rail Operations in South Australia in 2008 as a batch of sixty pairs.

160529 8886535 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0010 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with a 40' RFRA type SCT reefer SCTR 132 and a 48' MFG1 Rail Containers unit SCFU 912321 with SCT decals.

WTT West 1968-11-04 - linked535 viewsWorking Time-Table Western and South Western Districts, 4th November 1968, complete 277 page PDF download, 12.3 MB.

6020 Gemco WA 100717 0652535 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6020, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.

030403 132402535 viewsEudunda, sign on the road weighbridge for the grain silos.

8416 Goninan 040409 121940535 viewsBoodarie, Goninan built Golynx waggon 8416 with serial number 950088-326 from November 2011, which is a modified version of the BHP mainline waggons for service on the Goldsworthy system as a bottom discharge waggon. 9th of April 2004.

Bradken bogie 040413 165902535 viewsNelson Point, ore waggon bogie, Bradken cast SSRC bogie which stands for Super Service Ride Control.

200914 7757535 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, Australian built by Comeng NSW an MLW ALCo M636 unit formerly owned by BHP 5502 serial C6096-7 built in July 1976, retired in 1994, donated to Society in November 1995. 14th September 2020.

200914 7779535 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, former Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates RSC-3 model ALCo locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1951 for NSWGR as the 40 class 4002 serial 77733, purchased by CRRIA in 1971 and numbered 261.002, then 1705 and finally 9405. 4002 is preserved in an operational state and another claim to fame is it run the Royal Train in NSW February 1954. Donated to the Society in 1979. 14th September 2020.

WTT Combined Regions General-Instructions 1986-11-11 535 viewsGeneral Instructions for the Combined Regions working timetable 11th November 1986.
Complete 154 pages, 15.5 MB download.

103-22534 viewsBenalla, broad gauge W type four wheel workman's sleeper waggon W 348, built new by the Victorian Railways in June 1936.

119-00534 viewsNth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge locos N class N 461 'City of Ararat' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1190 and X class X 47 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-794 work an empty grain train onto the mainline to Gheringhap from the Nth Geelong grain loop, crossing Separation Street, semaphore signals, point rodding and signal box.