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223-18173 viewsPossum Siding, trailing view of Hamersley Iron loco 7080 a General Electric built Dash 9-44CW serial 47759 second unit behind sister locomotive 7082 looking south. 21st October 2000.

160103 9839173 viewsLocated in the bush near Colonial Mill is this relic of a Fordson One Man Power Grader originally supplied by Lynas Motors Ltd. An old newspaper article on these graders can be found here . Geodata: -22.3057767 118.3247750 .

160522 2219173 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth departs for West Kalgoorlie and eventually Perth behind EDI Downer built EMD model GT46C-ACe unit SCT 007 'Geoff (James Bond) Smith' serial 97-1731 with 76 waggons for 5382 tonnes and 1800 metres length.

161111 2412173 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32200 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with an original style sulphur container S197A 947 with original style door and sliding tarpaulin and an undecorated Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur container BISU 100037.

030404 130919173 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, a couple of AFRF type rail transport waggons await shunting back to Whyalla for reloading during the Darwin line construction. 4th April 2003.

030415 135257173 viewsKingoonya, located at the 426.5 km on the Trans Australian Railway, interlocking hut with solar panel, searchlight signal and local indicator. Eastern end looking south. GeoData location.

242-04173 viewsNelson Point, BHP Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5509 serial 4839-05 / 87-074 about to be trucked to United Goninan Perth for eventual cutting down to the frame and heading to United Goninan Broadmeadow NSW as an engine test bed. May 2002.

180615 1497173 viewsMooka Yard, cab side of named BHP's Progress Rail built EMD SD70ACe unit 4486 'Jenny Parkinson' serial 20148001-019. 15th June 2018.
Roland Depth photo.

190107 0421173 viewsParkeston, cab side view of Mineral Resources MRL class loco MRL 002 'Spirit of Yilgarn' with serial R-0113-03/14-505 a UGL Rail Broadmeadow NSW built GE model C44ACi in 2014 stands in the Engineers Siding.

190107 0427173 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources Ltd MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00367 built by CSR Yangtze Co China in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.

200914 7796173 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Bellary' was originally built by Clyde Engineering at Granville NSW in 1936 for the NSWGR as a second class railway carriage FS type FS 2143. In 1987 it was purchased by the Society and is named after a local river. 14th September 2020.

041014 142704173 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.

119-07172 viewsNth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge light engines G class G 540 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1273 handing up the electric staff from Nth Geelong B, safeworking, point rodding, signal box.

174-12172 viewsAlbury loco depot, fuel point area, NSWSRA standard gauge 44 class locomotives in Red Terror livery 4458 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500B serial 83748 and 4456 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500B serial 83746.

176-23172 viewsWodonga, a pair of V/Line standard gauge G class units, lead by G 520 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1233 power an up goods train bound for Melbourne, the rails in the foreground are the former broad gauge Cattle Sidings 4 and 5 and the Amoco Siding, the standard gauge Cattle Siding track is visible running to the left off the mainline, the semaphore signals are for the broad gauge yard and the colour search light signal post for the standard gauge Wodonga Loop.

178-13172 viewsMaroona, station platform, Australian National BL class locomotive BL 27 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1011 with Paul Keating chalked on runs along the platform with V/Line's broad gauge down goods train to Adelaide, 9169.

179-11172 viewsGheringhap, yard view looking east towards Geelong, V/Line broad gauge goods train 9169 is approaching the station, taken from form up platform, point rodding can be seen leaving the signal box.

179-16172 viewsGheringhap, V/Line broad gauge X class locomotive X 51 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-798 has been removed from train 9169 and is running light engine to stable in Siding C, the disc for Siding C on signal post 4 can just be made out above the loco's cab, 9169 holds the mainline at the station and a rake of gypsum waggons sits in Sidings B on the right.

179-20172 viewsGheringhap, station yard overview looking east from the Ballarat line and Siding C, the line to Maroona is on the right, in the back ground semaphore signal post 4 is pulled of for down goods train 9169 to depart, V/Line broad gauge X class locomotive X 51 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-798 is awaiting light engines from Geelong to come and retrieve it.