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160529 8895499 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, CFCLA lease CQWY type well waggon set CQWY 5030-1 with a 40' 4EG1 type Cronos box CRTU 092421 and an SCF 40' curtainsider SCFU 807054. The CQWY was built by Bluebird Rail Operations in South Australia in 2008 as a batch of sixty pairs.

244-34499 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. Cab side view. 6th April 2003.

180616 1679499 viewsCooya Pooya, instrumented ore waggon 1031, part of a second batch of extra 'J' waggons built by Bradken in September 2008 and painted rather than the plain steel finish. Solar panels adorn the waggon sides. 16th June 2018. GeoData.

190107 0430499 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.

200914 7789499 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.

251-33499 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.

172-16498 viewsBallarat yard view, disc signal post 15, Ballarat A signal box in background.

177-24498 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.

168-11498 viewsBank Box Loop, climbing the grade in the distance looking towards Bacchus Marsh are a pair of V/Line G class units with an Adelaide bound freighter.

128-17498 viewsGisborne, Gisborne Road grade crossing non-interlocked swing gates, station building in the background.

123-1-15498 viewsAvon River steel bridge, trestle bridge over flood plain at right, V/Line broad gauge N class N 451 'City of Portland' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 85-1219 N set, up Bairnsdale pass, distant shot.

123-1-16498 viewsAvon River steel bridge, trestle bridge over flood plain at right, V/Line broad gauge N class N 451 'City of Portland' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 85-1219 N set, up Bairnsdale pass.

138-11498 viewsBendigo station overview looking south past Bendigo A box, workshops at left, yard has been rationalised and mechanical signalling removed, N class arriving with down passenger in the background.

142-2-04498 viewsBarnawartha, super phosphate shed, loading conveyor and waggon unloading contraption, point rodding, track view

144-16498 viewsWangaratta, broad gauge V/Line RT class rail tractor RT 5, now with the Wahgunyah mixed gone can go about its shunt duties with VLBY type bogie louvre van VLBY 148 on No. 5 Rd, this is the Wangaratta parcel waggon and was attached to up trains for the trip back to Melbourne. RT 5 built new by Newport Workshops September 1957. The VLBY which is the Wangaratta parcels waggon started out being built by Newport Workshops in October 1956 as VP type VP 148, in May 1979 re-coded to VLPY, re-coded again in 1982 to VLBY.

146-08498 viewsSeymour, rationalised broad gauge yard view with stabled Wodonga goods 9303 behind V/Line X class X 47 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-794 and T class T 409 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 68-625, trailing view.

150-06498 viewsGeelong, V/Line broad gauge X class X 32 Clyde Engineering EMD model G16C serial 66-485, having run round the consist, it now shunts back onto the consist for the return up passenger to Melbourne.

160-08498 viewsMurchison East, station platform view of down Cobram passenger train pausing for platform duties behind V/Line broad gauge N class locomotive N 465 'City of Ballaarat' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1194 with N set, super phosphate shed at left of image.