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139-06120 viewsBallarat yard, Ballarat A Signal Box, track view, north west elevation, point rodding easily visible with town below.

139-08120 viewsBallarat East Signal Box looking east across Humffray Street with the interlocked gates for the double track mainline to Warrenheip and another set for the loco tracks protected by Post 6A which was installed following its removal from Beaufort, bluestone goods shed with stored T class locomotives in the distance with the loco depot behind. Disc 6A is for movements across Humffray Street to Loco with Disc 6 for departing movements. Disc signal Post 5A on the left for down trains from No. 1 Road to the Goods Arrival Road or Siding Y, double bracket Post 5 (with removed right Arm) left had Arm is from No. 2 Road to Passenger Line to Post 11 and controlled from A Box, the staff exchange platform is for the former line to Buninyong.

185-13120 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.

186-34120 viewsMidland, standard gauge yard, under the Midland Workshops footbridge, the first completed and built in Bassendean, National Rail NR class NR 61 Goninan GE model Cv40-9i serial 7250-11/96-263 trails new sisters NR 101 and NR 102 as they perform their shunt movement back out towards the mainline.

190-27120 viewsBethungra, located at the 456.04 km on the NSW Main South line, looking south from the north end, ground frame D and yard visible around the curve.

192-31120 viewsCootamundra West, NSW, looking east in the up direction with the Loop Line on the left, Main Line lower quadrant semaphores for up movements to Main Line operated by lever 41 and South Fork to the right from lever 46, with each respective lines down semaphore signals facing away. The signal box and station are in the distance and the siding at right is the Tumut Siding. The house in the distance looks a lot like a NSWGR departmental residence.

140517-4416120 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.

210-22120 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, side view of Comalco ore waggon 3002, shows handbrake, triple valve and piping, side piping and controls, bogies and discharge doors and air receivers, this is one of the compressor equipped waggons.

211-19120 viewsEast Weipa Mine Centre, Komatsu HD1400 with a Tubemakers belly dump trailer.

220-07120 viewsRubin Junction looking west from the eastern end, the line off to the right is the line to Nimingarra Mine with the straight continuing onto Hedland.

220-14120 viewsJust west of the 104.6 km crossing on the Yarrie line, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuilt ALCo C636 5431 into a C36-7M unit 5507 serial number 4839-03 / 87-072 seen here leading its loaded train through the curves.

030409 120856120 viewsKielpa, DA class unit DA 4 a former Australian National locomotive rebuilt from former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839 serial 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class.

060111 2247120 viewsTooligie, Mac's Road grade crossing at the 110 km, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004 leads an empty grain train north. 11th January 2006.

PD 12866120 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 34074 with fleet number 940, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55, seen here in a rake with sister waggons.

060528 4412120 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30020 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0075, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.

060528 4443120 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, OPC 385, originally built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 as an 8300 class brake van numbered 8372 on broad gauge, to standard gauge and recoded in Sept 1982 to AVAY 385, converted to AZXP accident van in c1986 and then in April 1993 recoded to OPC.

191-05120 viewsSeymour station, rationalised yard, V/Line A class unit A 66 Clyde Engineering EMD rebuild model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1186 coupled to stablemate model G8B T class T 410 serial 68-626 with a stabled down Wodonga goods train, Sunday.

191-06120 viewsSeymour station, rationalised yard, V/Line T class unit T 410 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 68-626 coupled behind A class A 66 with a stabled down Wodonga goods train, Sunday.

191-07120 viewsSeymour station yard south end, Australian National 52 tonne capacity open waggon ROOX type ROOX 3007, recoded from AOOX, one of two hundred GOX type open waggons built by Transfield WA in between 1974 and 1976.