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190-21187 viewsDemondrille, NSW Main South, a signal for Up trains running through to Goulburn, looking north from Wombat Road, the North Shunting Neck is on the left.

189-31187 viewsAlbury yard view, double NSWSRA 81 class locomotives 8178 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1097 and 8170 serial 85-1089 wearing the candy livery on the point of an Victorian bound goods train, stabled locos stand in the depot to the right of the train.

207-31187 viewsHardie Siding, BHP locomotive 5513 is the final member of Goninan rebuilds from ALCo C636 5453 into a GE C36-7M serial 4839-02 / 88-078, cab front view, with rear of empty train in siding.

211-26187 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, 3/4 RHS or observer's side view of Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 while is sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the CCTV camera looking down the long hood, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like you see on the WAGR L or VR C classes which are also GT26C models.

211-27187 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, 3/4 RHS or observer's side view of Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 while is sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the CCTV camera looking down the long hood, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like you see on the WAGR L or VR C classes which are also GT26C models.

220-16187 viewsJust west of the 104.6 km crossing on the Yarrie line, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuilt ALCo C636 5431 into a C36-7M unit 5507 serial number 4839-03 / 87-072 seen here leading its loaded train through the curves.

060530 4969187 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31395 is one of a batch of twenty five built by Comeng WA between 1974 and 1975 and converted from Mt Newman high sided waggons by WAGR Midland Workshops with a capacity of 67 tons with fleet number 325 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations. This waggon was also converted to a WSM type ballast hopper by re-fitting the cut down top section and having bottom discharge doors fitted, converted back to WOB in 1997. This is the first one to be repainted in ARG yellow, shows capacity of 32M³, loaded with lump ore at Binduli, 30th May 2006.

100602 8543187 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31378 is one of a batch of twenty five built by Comeng WA between 1974 and 1975 and converted from Mt Newman high sided waggons by WAGR Midland Workshops with a capacity of 67 tons with fleet number 303 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.

030406 115158187 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still in former owner AN livery, Australian Southern 830 class locomotive 865 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84711, roster shot coupled to sister unit. 6th April 2003.

051102 6634187 viewsThevenard, No. 2 end right hand side of Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit and class leader 1601, originally NJ 1 'Ben Chifley' serial 71-728, built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981, repainted and renumbered to 1601 in November 2004.

060109 2102187 viewsKyancutta, Kyancutta Tanks Rd grade crossing, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 as the empty north bound grain train pauses for a crew change. 9th January 2006.

060109 2103187 viewsKyancutta, Kyancutta Tanks Rd grade crossing, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 as the empty north bound grain train pauses for a crew change. 9th January 2006.

060111 2258187 viewsTooligie, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004 and its grain train. 11th January 2006.

223-14187 viewsPossum Siding, Hamersley Iron loco 7082 a General Electric built Dash 9-44CW serial 47761 leads sister unit 7080 with an empty train just inside the loop waiting to effect a crew change. 21st October 2000.

160101 9785187 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view inside the drive, mine adit no. 5.

150505 7990187 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bank engines Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe/LCi unit 716 serial 20118693-008 and EMD SD90MAC unit 901 serial 976833-1, this unit has been repowered with an 16-710G3 prime mover, at the 227 km as they bank the loaded train upgrade into the cutting, the train speed is now increasing as the front of the train has topped the grade. Geodata: -22.0187117 118.5850933 .

060110 2160187 viewsNear the 64 km between Pillana and Cummins, empty grain train behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 then sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004, and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of photo.

160522 2114187 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, 5-pack low profile skel waggon set RRYY 52, the last of 52 such waggons built by Bradken at Braemar NSW in 2004-05, loaded with 48' containers and a wall of double stacks.

22472187 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Robe River's Comeng NSW built ALCo model M636 9422 serial C6103-2 is undergoing rebuilding into a GE CM40-8M unit, it would emerge rebuilt in March 1993. Image September 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.