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150507 8104601 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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232-16601 viewsYandi One backtrack, following a cyclone shutdown of the mainline and severe flooding around Yandi a 'mixed' freight train was operated to Yandi to deliver food, mail and diesel fuel to the mine and camp. Here BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128 idles away in the backtrack awaiting its path back to Port Hedland with flat waggon 6703, four fuel tank waggons and a broken ore waggon. February 1997. GeoData.
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239-23601 viewsOverview of Yandi One OHP plant as viewed from the head end of CV2 conveyor which runs from the primary crusher to the reclaim pile. Visible from the left is the radial stacker on the stockpile, power station radiators, new and old side tertiary crushing structures, sub-station 4, the workshops in the background and on the secondary crusher structure. The reclaim tunnels and conveyor CV3 are visible running from the bottom of the image to the secondary crusher. GeoData.
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060110 2166601 viewsCummins, view across Railway Terrace of empty grain train runs into the yard along the mainline having completed its' shunt behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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160525 4449601 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRAY 7244 platform 2 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 48' deck with a 46' 6" Pacific National reefer PNXR 4858.
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160526 5224601 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, RRAY 7260 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of a hundred built by ABB Engineering NSW in 1996-2000, 48' deck with a 48' Pacific National box PNXD 4187 with a Toll half height 40' curtainsider 5TC 528 on top.
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160523 2720601 viewsParkeston, 1PM5 intermodal train, RRAY 7197 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, with two Toll 40' boxes, K+S Freighters 40' box and two 40' flatracks.
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160523 2928601 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214 and NR 51 serial 7250-08/97-253 lead the train 'elephant style' out of the dip and along the mainline at the 1776 km. The PN local is in the car at the gantry performing a roll-by, the track on the left is the Engineers Siding.
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160523 2929601 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214 and NR 51 serial 7250-08/97-253 lead the train 'elephant style' out of the dip and along the mainline at the 1776 km. The PN local is in the car at the gantry performing a roll-by, the track on the left is the Engineers Siding.
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160524 3795601 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRGY 7125 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set, one of fifty originally built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and recoded to RRGY, with a Linfox 40' half height side door LSDU 6940030 double stacked with Toll 40' 4FG1 type box TRRC 410629[1].
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160522 2360601 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RQSY 34975 container waggon, one of one hundred OCY type container waggons built by Goninan in 1975, recoded to NQOY. Loaded with a 40' FCL box FCGU 964372[0] and a 20' Cahill Transport 2FG4 type side door CHLL 200023[7].
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160522 2366601 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRAY 7244 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck empty.
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160529 8824601 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRGY 7144
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160522 2246601 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ABSY type ABSY 2466 covered van, originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA in 1971 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type recoded to ABFX and then RBFX to SCT as ABFY before being converted by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.
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160522 2267601 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, CQMY type 80' container flat CQMY 3017, a CFCLA lease waggon built by Bluebird Rail Operations in a group of one hundred loaded with two original liveried SCT 40' reefers SCTR 009 originally FORU 402008 and SCTR 014.
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160523 2843601 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, ABSY type van ABSY 4431, one of a batch of fifty made by Comeng WA as VFX type 75' covered vans 1977, recoded to ABFX type, seen here with the silver corrugated roof fitted when Gemco WA upgraded it to ABSY type.
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160523 2899601 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0077 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014 without the Greater Freighter signage.
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160525 4605601 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), PBHY type covered van PBHY 0057 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA.
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160527 5545601 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0157 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.
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160530 9102601 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0051 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.
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