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160531 9945331 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 3PM4 steel train, empty container waggon VQCY 539.

160609 0386331 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train arrives at the triangle and splits signal post 82 and 84 with power from Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 35 serial 7250-06/97-237 and a sister unit with 39 waggons for a length of 1791 metres and 3960 tonnes.

160609 0398331 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.

110710 7431 PD331 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQAY 2273, this orphan waggon started life as a Comeng Vic built GOX type open waggon for Commonwealth Railways in 1970, then coded AOOX. Under AWR ownership is was reduced to this 3 TEU unit container skeletal waggon. Peter Donaghy image.

160523 2830331 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, CFCLA lease CQWY type well waggon set CQWY 5038-1 with a RWTU 922042 48' MFG1 box and SCT 48' SCTL 004337 MFGB box on top. The CQWY was built by Bluebird Rail Operations in South Australia in 2008 as a batch of sixty pairs.

160523 2839331 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0116 Multi-Freighter with Independent Brake signage, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA.

160529 8888331 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0034 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with a 48' SCT reefer SCTR 212 and a 48' MFG1 type SCT box SCTDS 4853.

160530 9178331 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, CFCLA lease CQWY type well waggon set CQWY 5038-1 with two 48' MFG1 type boxes, plain blue SCFU 407030 and Rail Containers SCFU 912414 both with SCT decals. The CQWY was built by Bluebird Rail Operations in South Australia in 2008 as a batch of sixty pairs.

161111 2468331 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, diesel fuel tank waggon ATMY 553, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW for BP Oil in 1971 as WJM type, capacity of 102000 litres, diesel capacity of 76000 litres, refurbished by Gemco WA in Oct 2015.

161111 2415331 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32202 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a pair of Bis Industries 55UA type roll-top sulphur containers SBIU 200635 and SBIU 200629.

030404 131510331 viewsPort Augusta, Spencer Junction shunt loco 830 class unit 863 serial 84709 is an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model and entered service in June 1963. 4th April 2003.

170730 0470331 viewsBoodarie, a loaded Roy Hill train approaches the Great Northern Highway grade crossing behind General Electric built ES44ACi units RHA 1013 serial 62585 and sister unit RHA 1014, the third and mid-train unit can be made out at the end of the rack as it curves. 30th July 2017. GeoData.

20845331 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, newly completed BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M rebuild unit 5637 'De Grey' serial 8181-01 / 92-123 sits on a Bell road transport float with a Kenworth SAR bound for Port Hedland. 5637 was rebuilt from AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5456 serial G6012-5. January 1992 image.
Jim Bisdee photo.

20861331 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, sitting outside the locked gates having just been bought down from Port Hedland, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5454 serial G6012-3 on a ninety six wheel road float. 5454 will be rebuilt into CM40-8M unit 5641 by June 1992. Image taken January 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.

030415 145938331 viewsFerguson, located at the 469 km on the Trans Australian Railway, looking west at the east end of the 1800 metre long crossing loop, point work on timber sleepers, indicator and lever with dual control point machine on the right. GeoData location.

242-16331 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, General Electric built AC6000 locomotive 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 with engine and alternator removed. May 2002.

242-34331 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5497 serial C6096-2, view of radiator and roof. May 2002.

190107 0423331 viewsParkeston, UGL plate on Mineral Resources MRL class locomotive bogie.

110620 2283331 viewsChapman, FMG TK type fuel tank waggon TK 02 built by China Southern CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works plant in China in 2008 as part of an order for twelve tanks, is on the loaded fuel train to Cloud Break. 20th June 2011.

200914 7763331 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, 5450 a USA built EMD model F7A serial 8970 and frame 3006-A9, built Jan-1950 for Western Pacific Railroad as 917-A, imported for the Mt Newman Mining Co. to construct their Port Hedland to Newman railway in December 1967. Donated to the Society in 1978. 14th September 2020.

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