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189-30133 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.
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193-37133 viewsGympie station overview looking north in the Down direction from the station access footbridge. GeoData.
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220-16133 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.
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100729 01507133 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31300 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-011 and fleet number 501 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity and a replacement for a WO type waggon number, for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance, Binduli, 29th July 2010.
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060109 2092133 viewsKyancutta at the 198 km, 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 across a dry salt soak with a north bound empty grain train. 9th January 2006.
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070608 0101133 viewsMidland, AZDY 30711, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted late 1988/9 to WQDF.
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222-05133 viewsAt the 105.7 km grade crossing near Gillam Siding, a loaded Yandi train's remote units 5649 'Pohang' serial 8412-07 / 93-140 and sister unit 5639 both Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units. This road was also the original road into Lynas Find Gold Project, back in the day. GeoData.
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160101 9787133 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view inside the drive, mine adit no. 5.
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160101 DJI 0002133 viewsWittenoom Gorge, looking north across fourth crossing back along Bolitho Rd, pool in Joffre Creek. Geodata.
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060110 2152133 viewsPillana, former station site, 59 km, 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.
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160523 2723133 viewsParkeston, 1PM5 intermodal train, RQZY 7057 one of thirty two 5-pack well waggon sets built by Goninan in 1995 for National Rail in 1995-96, with mostly 46' double stacked reefers.
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WTT West 1984-05-20133 viewsWorking Time-Table Western and South Western Districts, 20th May 1984, complete 177 page PDF download, 7.5 MB.
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22453133 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, partially built BHP Iron Ore GE CM40-8M unit, possibly 5645 coupled to the 'on loan' ARHS ex WAGR B class shunt loco. November 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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240-33133 viewsSeven Mile, trailing view of Pilbara Rail, Robe River owned, General Electric built Dash 9-44CW unit 9470 serial 53455. This and sister units 9471 and 9472 were the first painted in the Pilbara Rail livery. 31st August 2002.
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242-21133 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5497 serial C6096-2, view of bogie. May 2002.
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151206 9655133 viewsBoodarie, parked up in a parking bay just out of town on a Sunday awaiting delivery on the following day, on a Gavin Transport Drake float, BHP's new track recording vehicle which is a Mermec ROGER 800 imported from Italy. ROGER is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control.
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200914 7778133 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, PWT 1 the water gin waggon used with the steam locomotive Pendennis Castle, this waggon had a proportional valve fitted to control the Westinghouse brake system on the train via the vacuum brake on the Pendennis Castle. 14th September 2020.
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041014 142544133 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, former Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates RSD-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 October 2004.
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105-23132 viewsWallan, station platform 2 waiting room, door detail.
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120-06132 viewsSeymour loco depot, V/Line broad gauge S class S 317 'Sir John Monash' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 61-240, pilot detail shot, No.2 end.
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