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030406 110950256 viewsCoomunga, station located at the 21.6 km, opened in November 1907, used these days as a track maintenance siding. Yard overview looking south from the north end points, track machines on the left. 6th April 2003.
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030409 110624256 viewsCaralue, loaded grain train working south of the former station site 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, it leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4, rebuilt from 830 class unit 839 by Port Augusta Workshops, retains original serial 83730 and model DL531.
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030409 122746256 viewsKielpa, loaded grain train with 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4 rumbles over the north end points heading south.
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060113 2423256 viewsCeduna, loaded gypsum train 6DD2 stirs up the dust behind the triple Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 08:10 AM on the Friday the 13th January 2006.
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060603 5241256 viewsMidland, WQDY 30777 one of about sixteen WBAX vans converted for sodium cyanide container traffic, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted 1988 to WQDF, then WQDY, with two AGR empty sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 654 and SD 634.
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222-08256 viewsGreen Tank Pool, Pilbara, Western Australia. Geo Data.
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222-15256 viewsLalla Rookh gold mine head frame at sunset.
In the 1924 WA Mines Department report, it states there was a ten head battery and five cyanide vats for leaching located here GeoData.
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160101 9782256 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, mine adit no. 5.
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150507 8104256 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bank engines General Electric Dash 9-44CW locomotives, units 006 serial 58183 and 005 serial 58182 run back light to Solomon for their next duty, seen here between the bridges over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1844217 118.0313467 .
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150522 8191256 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M unit 5645 serial 8281-11/93-134 awaits the shears. Full details of this unit can be seen here .
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160528 8340256 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RRZY 7031, originally built by Goninan NSW during 1995/95 as part of thirty four sets of five unit bar coupled well container waggons coded RQZY, recoded to RRZY as repairs were carried out to strengthen them. Loaded with 48' containers, five for FCL FBCU conatiners and one Linfox DRC 931.
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160522 2346256 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China built RRQY 5816, 40' flatrack with tarped load.
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160525 4569256 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), Gemco WA built PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0029 loaded with an SCT 40' RFRA type reefer SCTR 143 and an SCT 40' container SCT 40205.
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170726 9430256 viewsRedbank, a loaded BHP iron ore train from Yandi arrives into Nelson Point yard on the west mainline with mid-train remote units built by Progress Rail as SD70ACe unit 4377 serial 20108424-004 leading an SD70ACe/LC unit 4345. 26th July 2017.
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170729 0076256 viewsCape Lambert South yard, a loaded train heads towards car dumper 5 behind General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8103 serial 57999 in original Rio Tinto silver with a Dash 9-44CW unit 7076 and sister ES44DCi unit 8129 in the later Rio Tinto stripe livery. 29th July 2017. GeoData.
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190107 0430256 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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200914 7804256 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.
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120-29255 viewsWodonga V/Line broad gauge loco N class leader N 451 'City of Portland' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 85-1219, cab side, nameplate and emblem, bogie.
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120-33255 viewsWodonga loco depot, V/Line broad gauge loco X class X 36 Clyde Engineering EMD model G16C serial 66-489, RHS cab view showing bogie and staff exchanger.
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121-31255 viewsMorwell station yard overview and station building and platform, looking towards Melbourne, bogie louvre vans on No. 3 Road.
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