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156-17150 viewsShepparton station, former car dock, now Train Examiners Siding, track realigned away from platform, VOCX type bogie open waggon, grounded B vans used as examiners workshop and storage, station building behind.
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156-19150 viewsTallygaroopna, station yard overview looking south, mainline points for siding with lever and staff lock interlocking, point rodding for derail, Williamstown style silo complex.
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161-12150 viewsKatunga, yard overview looking north from former station site, grade crossing for Picola Road, derailed V/Line VOFX type bogie open waggon covered with tarpaulin, road vehicle weighbridge and train control phone cabin middle right of frame.
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183-15150 viewsViolet Town, a V/Line broad gauge up Albury passenger train behind N class N 452 'Rural City of Wodonga' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 85-1220 pauses at the platform, trailing view.
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183-18150 viewsBenalla station yard overview with removed rails and partially stripped signal gantry as the yard goes about being rationalised, waggon workshops visible at left, along with B Signal Box, station building, A Signal Box in the distance, goods shed and Freight Gate canopy.
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139-16150 viewsBallarat station junction, track view of the junction at Ballarat B signal box or Lydiard Street box, looking east from the Armstrong Street bridge, double track to triple track which used to then become four tracks on the other side of the gates before No. 2 Road was removed. The shadow of Disc Post 33 can be seen along with the interlocking of the points with the signal pulleys.
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139-20150 viewsBallarat, Australian National broad gauge BL class BL 32 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1016 leading a down Adelaide goods pauses at Ballarat station under the canopy and clock tower, view of Lydiard Street Ballarat B signal box, interlocked gates and semaphore signal gantry, 119 km post, looking east.
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185-14150 viewsNorth Geelong Yard, V/Line light engines, G classes G 534 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1264 leads older sister and class leader G 511 serial 84-1239 as they run from North Geelong B Box past semaphore signal post 17 before shunting back into the sorting roads, the Loop Line to Melbourne and the Grain Loop roads can be seen to the left of the loco.
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197-33150 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, builders plate for Mancha type MB1 controller, serial number M6 1700.
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207-27150 viewsHardie Siding, BHP unit 5669 'Builen' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 is the highest numbered CM40-8MEFI rebuild by Goninan in the BHP roster, leading an empty train as it takes the passing track to effect a cross.
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209-25150 viewsMidland, the midday east bound freighter with Westrail's Clyde Engineering built EMD GT26C model L class unit L 269 serial 68-618 as second unit.
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100729 01490150 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31400 is one of a batch of twenty five built by Comeng WA between 1974 and 1975 and converted from Mt Newman high sided waggons by WAGR Midland Workshops with a capacity of 67 tons with fleet number 324 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations. This waggon was also converted to a WSM type ballast hopper by re-fitting the cut down top section and having bottom discharge doors fitted, converted back to WOB in 1998, on a loaded train at Binduli, 29th July 2010.
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070527 9218150 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ALHX 34 louvre van waggon originally built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1973-74 as a batch of thirty five SLX type louvre vans, recoded to ALHX.
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070608 0081150 viewsMidland, string of AQHY with CSA sulphuric acid tanks, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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160101 9794150 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, mine adit 3 is behind this pile of rubble. Geodata.
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170726 9424150 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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20846150 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, newly completed BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M rebuild unit 5637 'De Grey' serial 8181-01 / 92-123 sits on a Bell road transport float bound for Port Hedland. 5637 was rebuilt from AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5456 serial G6012-5. January 1992 image.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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22473150 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Robe River's Comeng NSW built ALCo model M636 9422 serial C6103-2 is undergoing rebuilding into a GE CM40-8M unit, it would emerge rebuilt in March 1993. Image September 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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150619 9156150 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machines BR 33 and Tamper 3 both Plasser Australia units, BR33 is a ballast regulator model SSP302 serial M486 while Tamper 3 is a model 09-3X serial M480. 19th June 2015.
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150619 9158150 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machine BR 33 a Plasser Australia unit, BR 33 is a ballast regulator model SSP302 serial M486. 19th June 2015.
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