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160523 2937352 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRGY 7128 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of fifty built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY with a range of 20', 40' and 48' containers.

160522 2346352 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China built RRQY 5816, 40' KTI 103 flatrack with tarped load.

160609 0474352 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RRZY 7049 platform 1 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of thirty two sets built by Goninan NSW in 1995-96 for National Rail as RQZY type, recoded to RRZY when repaired with a sea2rail 40' 4EG1 type box TSPD 408236[0] and Linfox - FCL 48' MFG1 type container FXDU 328063[4].

160525 4555352 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), SCT crew accommodation coach PDAY 003 'Monica Ivey Smith' converted from former Bluebird 250 class power car #258 'Goshawk' originally built by SAR Islington Workshops in 1957 and seated 56 second class passengers, converted to crew car in 2005.

160525 4565352 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), ARFY type ARFY 2253 refrigerated van with a Ballarat built Maxi-CUBE fibreglass body that has been fitted to an Comeng Victoria built ROX type flat waggon from 1970 that was in service with Commonwealth Railways and recoded to AQOY.

160525 4566352 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), ARBY type ARBY 2837 refrigerated box van converted by Gemco WA from former ANR Carmor Engineering SA 1976 built VFX type covered van which were recoded to ABFX/Y in later years.

161111 2490352 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQRY 1013 platform A, with two 20' 22G1 type boxes, MOL MOAU 580920[7] and Cronos CXDU 158872[8]. The AQRY are a bar-coupled pair and were used for rail transport as the AFRF type on the Darwin line and are originally former ANR-CR waggons.

200412 5554352 viewsBoodarie, part of an FMG loaded train arriving at the port CNR (China Northern) QRRS (Qiqihar Rolling Stock Works) built waggon pair 7419 slave waggon and 8420 control waggon, with both waggons tared at 23.9 tonnes, the yellow circle on 7419 indicates the rotary coupler end. 12th April 2020.

041014 142704352 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, former ALCo built demonstrator locomotive model C-415 serial 3449-1 built April 1966, currently carrying number 1000, it was originally numbered 008 when Hamersley Iron purchased the unit in 1968. It was retired from service on the 24th February 1982. It then spent some time carrying number 2000 while building the Marandoo railway line from Sept 1991. 14th October 2004.

190129 4231352 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00094 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-94 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.

119-09351 viewsNorth Geelong yard, V/Line broad gauge locos G class G 540 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1273 and another G class waiting for shunters to couple up to empty grain rake to form down grain train 9125, ground dwarf signal 20.

121-20351 viewsChiltern station overview, looking north.

177-21351 viewsGheringhap, down V/Line broad gauge goods train to Adelaide 9169 with the quad power combo of a pair of Australian National BL class locomotives BL 27 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1011 and class leader BL 26 'Bob Hawke' serial 83-1010 and V/Line S class S 313 'Alfred Deakin' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 61-230 and X class X 53 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-800, BL 27 had Paul Keating drawn on the LHS cab as it was just after he'd taken the Labor Party leadership and the Prime Ministership off Bob Hawke.

179-14351 viewsGheringhap, V/Line broad gauge X class locomotive X 51 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-798 leads an impressive quad lash-up with G class G 512 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 84-1240 and C classes C 510 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-833 and C 509 serial 76-832 as they stand at the platform with train number 9169 down goods to Adelaide.

180-15351 viewsWangaratta, rationalised yard view looking north from the southern end footbridge, show the removed No.4 Road, with goods shed, water tower and Freight Gate canopy on the left, and station building and platform with signal box and VLBY type bogie louvre parcels van on the right, point rodding is running along No.3 Road.

168-10351 viewsBank Box Loop, trailing view of down V/Line broad gauge goods train to Adelaide with 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 power away from the crossing loop at the Ironbark Road grade crossing.

168-16351 viewsRowsley, double broad gauge Australian National BL class units power another Adelaide bound freighter.

128-02351 viewsBallarat yard, broad gauge V/Line VZBF type bogie brake block transport waggon VZBF 2, a 1990 conversion from what was originally an Victorian Railways BP type steel mail van BP 77 built in 1959 at Newport Workshops as part of a batch of eighty three. It went on to be recoded to BB 222 in December 1960, then BMF 2 in December 1961, BMX 2 in February 1968, recoded to VBAX in 1979, then in 1990 converted to the VZBF along with two other waggons as a group of three. Tait carriages in background.

125-03351 viewsBallan station overview, signal gantry, goods shed, broad gauge V/Line N class N 474 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1203 'City of Traralgon' with down pass, distant shot.

125-05351 viewsBallan broad gauge V/Line N class N 474 'City of Traralgon' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1203 with another N class and N set on a down passenger train departing, early evening shot, signal gantry.

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