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161111 2396146 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029 to service the Murrin Murrin nickel mine passes Twin Dams with a pair of Clyde Engineering EMD model GT64C Q class units Q 4019 serial 98-1472, the last of class and renumbered from Q 319 and Q 4018 serial 98-1471 also renumbered from Q 318.

040419 102228146 viewsAbydos back track, riveted flat waggon 202 with three water tanks fitted, 3/4 view from non-handbrake end, shows access ladder profiles, originally part of the 'camp train', modified by Mt Newman Mining railway workshops.

060714 6813146 viewsHesta Siding, view from the rear of the rail recovery and transport train as it snakes around the curves. Crib waggon 665 a former Magor USA built ore waggon, heavily modified by Mt Newman Mining workshops and fitted with an ATCO donga.

170727 9630146 viewsWoodstock Siding, a Roy Hill ballast train works north General Electric Erie built model ES44ACi unit RHA 1006 serial 62578 leads a side dump. 27th July 2017. GeoData.

22667146 viewsBassendean, during an Open Day at the Goninan workshops, ALCo 251 engine test facility. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.

030415 140420146 viewsKingoonya, located at the 426.5 km on the Trans Australian Railway, looking east along the loop siding with the mainline on the right and points and sidings off to the left, loading ramp and crane in distance, town located to the right. GeoData location.

190107 0428146 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources Ltd MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00368 built by CSR Yangtze Co China in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.

150619 9144146 viewsMooka, BHP Iron Ore's track recording vehicle, EM80 which is a Plasser & Theurer EM-80 model and still wearing the old BHP blue and white livery, this unit was delivered in Mt Newman Mining orange and white, Mermec fitted a Tecnogamma system as part of a refurbishment.

200914 7772146 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.

200914 7780146 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.

8335 roster rhs 040627 135444146 viewsNelson Point, Ex Southern Pacific SD40T-2 loco 8335 serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, this unit was purchased as a spares source for the other SD40 style units. The T signifies that it is a Tunnel motor with a modified radiator intake to allow 'cool' running through the Sierra Nevada tunnels. And the 'M' with a lighting rod through it meant that it was a master unit for radio controlled helpers, used in the Tehachapi mountains. 27th of June 2004.

119-15145 viewsSunshine, looking towards Tottenham, broad gauge down goods train 9149 is passed by down standard gauge goods train.

119-17145 viewsSunshine, Australian National broad gauge loco BL class BL 31 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1015 and V/Line C class C 509 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-832 with down Adelaide goods train 9149, on the Independent Goods Lines, about to cross passenger lines, Brooklyn loop line with semaphore signal post 49 at right, signal gantry is for the now removed Sunshine standard gauge loop.

120-30145 viewsWodonga yard, stabled passenger consists, V/Line broad gauge loco N class N 474 'City of Traralgon' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1203, next to a D van.

172-02145 viewsSunshine, broad gauge Melbourne metropolitan electric service operated by 'The Met', this up Hitachi 6 car 'spark' or electric train rounds the curve east of Sunshine as it heads to Tottenham, signal post 49 controls up trains on the Sunshine - Newport Loop Line, with the disc controlling access to the GEB sidings, the points facing the camera leads to the main running lines and the Sunshine yard or what remained of it.

173-08145 viewsMurchison East, V/Line broad gauge track machine, asset no. 6-54-018, which is a Tamper BE VR ballast regulator.

173-10145 viewsMurchison East, V/Line broad gauge track machine, asset no. 6-57-003, which is a Tamper CSC-2 crib and shoulder compactor.

177-21145 viewsGheringhap, down V/Line broad gauge goods train to Adelaide 9169 with the quad power 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.

178-18145 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.

168-07145 viewsBank Box Loop, down V/Line broad gauge goods train to Adelaide with G class G 540 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1273 and Australian National 700 class 704 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-2 power away from the crossing loop at the Ironbark Road grade crossing.

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