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160522 2125455 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train departs for Kalgoorlie and Perth, view of crew accommodation coach RZAY 283, built by Comeng NSW in 1972 as type ARJ stainless steel, air conditioned, first class roomette sleeping coach.
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160522 2334455 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train departing up the hill towards Kalgoorlie 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.
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160522 2345455 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, platform 3 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China built RRQY 5816, Linfox 40' flatrack FCCU 401085.
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160529 8764455 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQKY 3083 container waggon, originally built in a batch of fifty by Carmor Engineering SA as RMX type in 1976, recoded to AQMX, then AQSY. Loaded with three small Isuzu cab-chassis trucks.
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160530 9252455 viewsBinduli, 7SP3 intermodal service, container waggon RQJW 22067, one of fifty built by Mittagong Engineering NSW in 1975-76 as JCW type, recoded to NQJW. Loaded with an 40' FD type flatrack with cable drums and a 40' SCF - Austrans sea2rail container AUSU 408190.
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160531 9914455 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKLY 20556
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160601 10096455 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, 5-pack RRRY 7007 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005, double stacked with a range of types and sizes including 53' auto boxes, 40' half height side doors, 46' 6" reefers and 48' boxes.
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160526 5336455 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0121 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.
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160527 5526455 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0022 Greater Freighter, one of thirty five units built by Gemco WA in 2005 without the Greater Freighter signage but with Big W We Sell For Less logo.
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170726 9461455 viewsBoodarie, a loaded FMG iron ore train round the large curve at the 5 km as the train is passing under the Great Northern Highway behind Progress Rail Muncie USA built SD70ACe/LCi unit 717 serial 20118693-009 and sister 718 as they head for the car dumper unloading balloon loops. 26th July 2017.
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19798455 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, former BHP Iron Ore Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5509, seen here stripped down to being an engine test bed, close up of front pilot. Sept 2003.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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170915 0716455 viewsAt the 18.2 km as part of the empty Roy Hill fuel train, TA type diesel fuel tank waggon TA 1002 built by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co China with a capacity of 96000 litres. 15th September 2017. View map here.
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240-07455 viewsNelson Point, retired Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 sits with the hood removed exposing the ALCo 251F engine prior to removal and being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's Bassendean museum for preservation. 25th June 2002.
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040412 143253455 viewsNelson Point, Comeng WA built ore waggon 1714 one of 288 waggons built in 1974. 12th April 2004.
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190107 0430455 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources Ltd builders plate of MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00368 built by CSR Yangtze Co China in 2014 as a batch of 382 units.
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080621 2799455 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machine BR 34 a Plasser Australia unit model 305 serial M490. 21st June 2008.
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150619 9157455 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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200914 7789455 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Fortescue' was originally built by Clyde Engineering at Granville NSW in 1936 for the NSWGR as a second class railway carriage FS type FS 2141. In 1975 it was purchased by the Society and is named after a local river. 14th September 2020.
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251-33455 viewsBing Siding, BHP ballast waggon 509 sits in a dead end siding very much unloved. Originally an ore waggon and built by Magor USA and was one of the original fleet of waggons to come out to WA with the car dumper at the beginning of the Mt Newman project. 22nd April 2000.
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130710 1010455 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PQCY 824 was originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in 1973 as one of four hundred and twenty five FQX type 60' 3TEU container flat waggons, it was recoded to VQCX before private ownership and reclassed PQCY type. PQCY 824 is now fitted with bulkheads and here loaded its own gates, and an SCT half height curtain sider 40' container SCT 1004 double stacked with Hamburg Sud 40' 45G1 type container HASU 411182.
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