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030409 084537407 viewsKyancutta, empty grain train runs through the yard behind rebuild DA class unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery leading a pair of AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 830 class units 872 and 871 with a string of grain waggons.

060111 2247407 viewsTooligie, Mac's Road grade crossing at the 110 km, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004 leads an empty grain train north. 11th January 2006.

060113 2416407 viewsCeduna, loaded gypsum train 6DD2 powers along the grades outside of town behind the triple 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604, NJ 3 and 1601 at 08:10 AM on the Friday the 13th January 2006.

060113 2450407 viewsThevenard, originally one of sixty two Kinki Sharyo built NH type waggons for the NAR in 1966 as NH 923, and recoded to ENH type ENH 23 in 1985, with hungry boards and access ladder intact. Exiting the Waratah Gypsum unloader and crossing Innes Avenue en route into the yard. 13th January 2006.

070529 9336407 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30053 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0039, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.

221-01407 viewsHardie Siding, with the days of C36-7M operations numbered, Goninan rebuild 5513 serial 88-078 / 4839-02 from ALCo C636 5453 holds the mainline with a loaded train bound for Finucane Island.

150507 8108407 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bank engines General Electric Dash 9-44CW locomotives, units 006 serial 58183 and 005 serial 58182 run back light to Solomon for their next duty, seen here on the second bridge over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1844217 118.0313467 .

237-24407 viewsTambrey Station ruins. Geodata . More information can be found here .

160524 3636407 viewsKalgoorlie, priority service 2PS7 passes the station environs behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 113 serial 7250-09/97-312, originally built for National Rail now in current owner Pacific National livery, the timber sleepers still in situ for the points to the dock road.

160528 8344407 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RRKY container waggon RRKY 4302, originally built as an RMX type 63' flat waggon by Perry Engineering SA in 1975. Recoded to AQMX, then AQMY and RQMY. Loaded with a Linfox 40' flatrack FCCU 4010# with a tarped load.

160524 3812407 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RQZY 7045 platform 5 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of thirty two sets built by Goninan NSW in 1995-96 for National Rail loaded with two Toll 48' containers MEG1 type TCML 48595 and TERF 48061 ex Macfield.

160522 2173407 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQLY 4 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 8 built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1987 as AQJY, Shipping Container Rentals 20' box FUKU 380899 and Sadleirs 20' box RCSB 5088.

160522 2325407 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train arrives on the mainline behind a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 105 serial 7250-08/97-310 and NR 113 serial 7250-09/97-312 in Pacific National livery, the track in the foreground is the Engineers Siding.

160522 2421407 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RQQY 7079 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 17 built by Qld Rail at Ipswich Workshops in 1995, unmarked Toll 48' box TSPD 481328.

160522 2279407 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ABSY type ABSY 2449 covered van, originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA in 1972 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type recoded to ABFX and then RBFX to SCT as ABFY before being converted by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.

160524 3650407 viewsKalgoorlie, SCT train 2PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0096 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014.

160525 4561407 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), PBHY type covered van PBHY 0059 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.

161111 2402407 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32155 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a Bis Industries 25U0 type sulphur container BISU 100087 and original style sulphur container S163J 978 with original style door and sliding tarpaulin.

171018 0734407 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 15, compressor control waggon with two diesel powered Kaeser M57 Utility air compressors and the receiver waggon with two air tanks or receivers. Note the waggons are modified ore waggon frames. Seen here at Cape Lambert. 18th October 2017.