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186-28275 viewsMidland, standard gauge yard, brand new Perth built National Rail NR class locomotive NR 102 Goninan GE model Cv40-9i serial 7250-07/97-302 leads sister NR 101 as they shunt into the yard off the mainline.
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192-27275 viewsCootamundra West, NSW, view looking in the up direction from the end No.1 Goods Siding and points can just be seen for No.2 Goods Siding. Taken from the Refuge Siding. The timber storage box behind the 50 km/h sign is a fettler's tool box.
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192-33275 viewsCootamundra West, NSW, signal box diagram and lever pull list.
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197-29275 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, builders plate for Mancha type MB1 controller, serial number M6 3165.
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211-26275 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.
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030409 140809275 viewsWharminda, the engines 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4 shunt back into the grain loop to pick up loaded waggons.
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030411 160748275 viewsCungena, yard overview looking north from Dickson Drive.
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060109 2101275 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.
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060113 2422275 viewsCeduna, loaded gypsum train 6DD2 stirs up the dust behind the triple Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 08:10 AM on the Friday the 13th January 2006.
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060113 2430275 viewsThevenard, GCF type weighbridge test waggon GCF 7083, originally built by SAR Islington Workshops as an CFN type cattle waggon CFN 7083 in 1945 and sent new to EP Division, converted in 1969 to GCF sleeper transport waggon, then to a Shunters Runner c.1975 and to the current guise c.1996. More details can be found for this waggon here. Seen here next to one of the silo complexes.
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060603 5415275 viewsMidland, AQNY 32202 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic.
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160102 9818275 viewsWittenoom Gorge, pool in Joffre Creek just across the road from Colonial Mine, Magazine Pool. Geodata.
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208-2-22275 viewsMidland, a containerised grain train speed through behind Westrail A class A 1506 a Clyde Engineering EMD G12C serial 62-274. The workshops and 'Mid-Sig' are behind the train.
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060110 2151275 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 2925275 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214 and NR 51 serial 7250-08/97-253 lead the train 'elephant style' out of the dip and along the mainline at the 1776 km. The PN local is in the car at the gantry performing a roll-by, the track on the left is the Engineers Siding.
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160523 2933275 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 51 serial 7250-08/97-253 originally built for the National Rail Corporation in 1997 and now wearing current owner Pacific National's livery.
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160522 2174275 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRKY 4337 container waggon, built by Perry Engineering SA in 1976 as RMX, to AQMX, AQSY, RQKY. Pacific National 48' curtainsider PNXC 5647.
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030403 111921275 viewsKapunda station yard, north end looking north, old standpipe, taken from Railway Pde. GeoData.
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170726 9424275 viewsRedbank on the edge of Nelson Point, a loaded BHP iron ore train from Yandi arrives on the west mainline behind Electro Motive built SD70ACe unit 4331 'Withnell' serial 20066862-060 leading an SD70ACe/LC with another two SD70ACe/LC units in the middle of the 264 waggon consist. 26th July 2017.
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170726 9447275 viewsFinucane Island, running around the balloon loop with an empty BHP iron ore train behind Progress Rail Muncie USA built SD70ACe/LCi unit 4413 serial 20118685-011 with a sister unit as they head back to be provisioned at Boodarie. 26th July 2017.
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