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160531 9920395 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RQMF 2072

160601 10089395 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal service climbs up the grade from Kalgoorlie, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 19 serial 7250-03/97-221, as the sun goes down.

160609 0398395 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, VLEY 16 louvre van, started life as Victorian Railways Ballarat North Workshops built VSX type louvre van VSX 1048 in 1976, recoded to VLEX in 1979, VLEY in 1980, and to VLNX 2 in 1981 for newsprint traffic, again recoded for rice traffic to VLRX in 2003 and then possibly back to VLEY sometime after 2005. In Freight Australia green with yellow band.

160609 0405395 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RQSY 34421 built by Tulloch Ltd NSW as an OCY type container waggon in a batch of one hundred in 1974-75, recoded to NQOY, NQGY and RQGY. Toll 40' curtainsider 3NW 983 and a Grace 20' 2EG1 type box GRRU 230691[1].

160522 2250395 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0006 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.

160522 2258395 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ARBY type ARBY 2833 refrigerated van, originally built by Carmor Engineering SA in 1976 as a VFX type covered van for Commonwealth Railways, recoded to ABFX, ABFY, RBFX and finally converted from ABFY by Gemco WA in 2004/05 to ARBY.

160525 4559395 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), PBHY type covered van PBHY 0034 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.

160525 4617395 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), PBGY type covered van PBGY 0107 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA.

160529 8889395 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWXY type PWXY 0002 one of twelve well waggons built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co of China for SCT in 2008, loaded with a 48' SCT reefer SCTR 314 and a 48' MFG1 type SCT box SCTDS 4817.

WTT West 1984-05-20395 viewsWorking Time-Table Western and South Western Districts, 20th May 1984, complete 177 page PDF download, 7.5 MB.

030403 152758395 viewsGladstone dual gauge waggon weighbridge.

5946 001 Welshpool 1986Sept395 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining C636 ALCo unit 5452 serial G6012-1 built by AE Goodwin in May 1968 is undergoing a world first as it gets rebuilt into a GE C36-7M locomotive, by July 1987 it would become 5509. Sept 1986.
Jim Bisdee photo.

23711395 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, 'on loan' the ARHS B class shunt engine is coupled to Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin built ALCo model M636 unit 5472 serial G6047-4 undergoing rebuilding into a GE CM40-8M unit, 5472 would emerge rebuilt as 5651 in August 1993. December 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.

200914 7799395 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, Comeng WA ALCo rebuild C636R locomotive 3017 serial WA-135-C-6043-04. The improved Pilbara cab was fitted as part of the rebuild in April 1985. Donated to Society in 1996. 14th September 2020.

210510 1151395 viewsNear Galah on the Rio Tinto Dampier - Tom Price line at the 89.5 km, RTS type straddle crane carrying rail waggon RTS 002 on Rio Tinto's Gemco Rail built rail train consist. 10th May 2021. Location.

130710 1050395 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1, ABSY type ABSY 4460 covered van, originally built by Comeng WA in 1977 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type, recoded to ABFX and RBFX to SCT as ABFY before conversion by Gemco WA to ABSY in 2004/05.

107-25394 viewsEchuca yard view, Sidings A, broad gauge V/Line Grain VHGF type bogie grain waggon VHGF 575, hand brake end and roof detail, elevated view, weighbridge road.

115-02394 viewsHurstbridge, old stabling sidings being removed to make new stabling yard, new fencing, timber traction poles, new sleepers and rail being placed, workers and backhoe, station in the background.

115-17394 viewsSomerton, staff exchange platforms for Ford's Siding / Upfield line, far platform for the broad gauge, with the standard gauge using the near platform, lines converge to dual gauge around curve, looking across the North East broad and standard gauge running lines.