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040530 143906453 viewsNelson Point, compressor waggon set No. 6, made from a pair of cut down Magor USA built 91 ton ore waggons, originally ex Oroville Dam, California.

WTT West 1986-09-03453 viewsWorking Time-Table Western and South Western Regions, 3rd August 1986, complete 107 page PDF download, 5.1 MB.

050410 0521453 viewsNelson Point yard hard stand area rear view of brand new having only been delivered the day before, BHP track tamper to become Tamper 3, a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480. 10th April 2005.

150619 9084453 viewsFlash Butt yard, CNR-QRRS of China built side dump waggons, built and delivered around 2011-12, waggon 0713 loaded with fines for sheeting.

244-37453 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, wearing Australian Southern livery rebuild ALCo DA 7 started life as NSWGR 48 class 4813 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 83713, rebuilt by Islington Workshops with long hood and parts from former 830 class 870 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G6016-06 in 1998. B end roster view looking forward. 6th April 2003.

030403 132556453 viewsEudunda railway station yard looking south, track removed, silo complex, elevated water tank and station building. GeoData.

19799453 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, former BHP Iron Ore Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5509, seen here stripped down to being an engine test bed, view of the radiator section with the lube filter and cooler visible on the no. 2 end. Sept 2003.
Jim Bisdee photo.

180616 1744453 viewsEmu Siding, a loaded train of Q and B series ore waggons behind the lowest numbered Rio Tinto loco 7043 with serial 57094 a GE Erie built GE model Dash 9-44CW from the 10th order in HI Pilbara Iron livery leading an original ES44DCi unit 8108 and sister Dash 9-44CW unit 7058 in the same HI Pilbara Iron livery as they descend the West Mainline past EM7 and EM5 signals at the 74.88 km on they way to Cape Lambert. 16th June 2018. GeoData.

151206 9655453 viewsBoodarie, parked up in a parking bay just out of town on a Sunday awaiting delivery on the following day, on a Gavin Transport Drake float, BHP's new track recording vehicle which is a Mermec ROGER 800 imported from Italy. ROGER is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control.

200914 7772453 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, ALCo built locomotive model S-2 serial 69214 built in 1940 for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle as their #21 and retired in 1964 before coming to Australia in September 1965, numbered 007 and called 'Mabel'. Retired in December 1972 and donated to the Society in 1976. 14th September 2020.

250-25453 viewsCape Lambert South Yard and Robe River's 9426 a Comeng WA rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Seen here in the South Yard dragging a loaded rake down to the car dumper. 22nd October 2000.

210510 1119453 viewsNear Gull on the Rio Tinto Dampier - Tom Price line at the 101.5 km, RTS type chute and straddle crane carrying rail waggon RTS 001 on Rio Tinto's Gemco Rail built rail train consist. 10th May 2021. Location.

121-09452 viewsAlbury yard loco depot, standard gauge NSWSRA 81 class 8170 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1089 in candy livery, with a sister 81 class, V/Line C class in the background, looking south.

169-36452 viewsSeymour, V/Line broad gauge VZSX type bogie sleeper container transport waggon VZSX 106 with loaded VWS type sleeper containers VWS 001 and VWS 053. VZSX should be converted from Bendigo Workshops May 1963 build of VLF / VLX type louvre vans, recoded to VLCX in 1979. No details of the mods to VZSX.

177-24452 viewsGheringhap, down V/Line broad gauge goods train to Adelaide 9169 gets under way towards Ararat via Cressy with semaphore signal post 4 pulled off for the Cressy line, with power of the quad 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.

178-07452 viewsLismore, V/Line broad gauge 9169 goods train to Adelaide powers into the loop heading for Ararat with the quad 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 V/Line X class loco X 53 with serial 75-800 a Clyde Engineering Rosewater SA built EMD model G26C.

178-18452 viewsArarat, track view looking west as V/Line broad gauge goods train 9169 to Adelaide runs along the mainline behind 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 V/Line X class loco X 53 with serial 75-800 a Clyde Engineering Rosewater SA built EMD model G26C, taken from the former Works and Cattle Sidings area, Ararat A Signal Box roof is visible over the S class.

179-19452 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.

180-04452 viewsSeymour loco depot, fuel and sanding point, V/Line broad gauge Tulloch Ltd built DRC class diesel railcar DRC 40 takes on fuel having run a down Saturday morning passenger train from Melbourne.

168-23452 viewsTottenham Yard, an up broad gauge goods train with motive power from V/Line G class G 533 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1263, X class X 49 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-796 and Australian National 700 class 704 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-2 locomotives departs the yard for Melbourne.

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