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141-1-18153 viewsSunshine, broad gauge V/Line G class loco G 538 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1271 leads the up afternoon Apex Quarry train to Brooklyn as it runs across the passenger lines and onto the Newport Loop Line, the semaphore signal post 36 protects down trains off this line. The dual control point machine is for the points into the GEB sidings, the up home semaphore and disc signal post 49 is pulled off for the train to head towards Brooklyn.
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142-1-22153 viewsBenalla station yard overview from the Yarrawonga line double compound points looking south, signal gantry has disc posts 23 and 24 stripped and post 25 partially stripped, signal post 27 is stripped, workshops at left, B signal box, station and stabled goods train 9303 in the background.
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142-2-06153 viewsBarnawartha station yard overview, platform or No.1 Road removed, station building, goods shed, VZDY type bogie departmental waggon VZDY 25 'Cyclic Gang No. 1' and super phosphate shed. VZDY 25 was built at Bendigo Workshops in June 1972 as a ZF type van, converted in December 1984 to VZDY.
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142-3-02153 viewsAlbury loco depot fuel point, standard gauge V/Line G class G 527 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1257 and C class C 503 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-826 await there call to duty, semaphore signal, overhead pipe line is for fuel delivery.
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143-11153 viewsWangaratta, down Wahgunyah Special 'Stringybark Express' mixed train rolls away towards Springhurst with semaphore signal Post 23 in the foreground, the standard gauge line is on the right, the last two carriages are BCPL class bogie passenger carriages.
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143-17153 viewsSpringhurst, broad gauge VR liveried Y class Y 133 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 65-399 leads the down Wahgunyah mixed 'Stringybark Express' special away from Springhurst as it runs around the curve bound for Lilliput.
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144-16153 viewsWangaratta, broad gauge V/Line RT class rail tractor RT 5, now with the Wahgunyah mixed gone can go about its shunt duties with VLBY type bogie louvre van VLBY 148 on No. 5 Rd, this is the Wangaratta parcel waggon and was attached to up trains for the trip back to Melbourne. RT 5 built new by Newport Workshops September 1957. The VLBY which is the Wangaratta parcels waggon started out being built by Newport Workshops in October 1956 as VP type VP 148, in May 1979 re-coded to VLPY, re-coded again in 1982 to VLBY.
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147-01153 viewsSeymour loco depot turntable roads, V/Line rail tractor RT class RT 15 in VR yellow but lettered V/Line, side view. Built new by Newport Workshops June 1959.
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152-11153 viewsPakenham station, V/Line broad gauge up 9444 goods to Nth Geelong arrives behind G class G 543 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1276 and X class X 43 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 70-706 with their load of briquettes.
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159-06153 viewsBank Box Loop, down Adelaide bound broad gauge goods train hauled by V/Line G class G 540 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1273 and Australian National 700 class 704 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-2, expanded view with loaded TNT container waggons.
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112-25153 viewsNorth Geelong grain loop, V/Line broad gauge H class H 2 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 68-630, LHS view coupled to sister H 5 serial 68-632, grain loop unloading operations.
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112-34153 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge H class locos H 4 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 68-633, H 5 serial 68-632 and H 2 serial 68-630, grain loop shunt engines returning light engine to Geelong loco depot obtain the staff to Nth Geelong B Box from the C Box signaller, safeworking, point rodding, signal box.
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129-1-16153 viewsBaxter, station yard overview, looking towards Melbourne.
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129-1-21153 viewsSomerville yard view, looking towards Melbourne, broad gauge V/Line VCSX type bogie coil steel waggons VCSX 70 and VCSX 39 both examples of second batch of sixty CSX type coil steel transport waggons constructed by Ballarat North Workshops to add to the original thirty built at Newport. CSX re-classed to VFSX in 1979 then to VCSX in 1987.
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184-02153 viewsAlbury station yard, standard gauge NSWSRA 81 class 8161 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 84-1080 in candy livery leads a special 'Phantom of the Opera' passenger train bound for Sydney past 2 lever ground frame H.
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184-12153 viewsAlbury loco depot, standard gauge V/Line locos G class G 520 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1233, C class C 503 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-826 and G class G 527 serial 88-1257 await the call to duty, point levers.
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210-20153 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, Canron Rail Group Mk I switch tamper. Canron was taken over by Harsco in 1990-91.
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100608 9706153 viewsMidland, AQNY 32169, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, running empty on train 2430 empty Malcolm freighter.
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160103 DJI 0054153 viewsColonial Mill and mine 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: -22.3107554 118.3185943 .
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040616 162128153 viewsNelson Point, the Sundowner coach, originally built by E. G. Budd in 1939 numbered 301 as the Silver Star as a diner-parlour-observation coach on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's General Pershing Zephyr train from the 1930s and 1940s. Donated to Mt Newman Mining Co. by AMAX an original joint venture partner to commemorate the projects first 100 million tonnes of iron ore railed between Mount Whaleback mine and the Port Hedland port.
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