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030409 122953107 viewsKielpa, located at the 185.3 km and opened in July 1913, yard overview looking south from the original end of the siding up to 1970.
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030411 110259107 viewsKimba, view looking south with rail stockpile, silos and loadout bin with rail transport train on the left, station building can be just made out, crew barracks middle of frame in the distance.
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030411 154532107 viewsWirrulla , yard overview looking north from the Port Lincoln end.
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060113 2417107 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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060113 2433107 viewsThevenard, at the Gypsum Resources Australian (GRA) gypsum unloading site, 1604 leads a triple consist of 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. 1604 and 1601 both renumbered in 2004. Friday 13th January 2006.
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060117 2717107 viewsBardoc, AQNY 32152, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with two 20' containers Triton TTNU 248351 and Royal Wolf RWTU 0093, train 2029 loaded Malcolm freighter.
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060527 4097107 viewsScotia, AQCY 30214 container waggon, originally one of forty five built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WFX type, to WQCX in 1980. Carrying two COR type nickel residue containers with modified tops, COR 5885 and another.
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070530 9512107 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AZVY type departmental wheel set carrier waggon AZVY 2829, built by Transfield WA 1976 for Commonwealth Railways as one of two hundred GOX type open waggons. Recoded to AOOX, then in 1992 modified to AZVY.
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223-34107 viewsPossum Siding, a loaded train behind a pair of Hamersley Iron General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 7072 serial 47751 and 7074 serial 47753 on a loaded train ex Marandoo with the crew change completed, the empty is rolling past on the passing track. 21st October 2000.
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224-05107 viewsBing siding, the extent of the General Electric AC6000 radiators is evident in this back to back image of a pair of units.
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160102 9816107 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Town Pool in Joffre Creek just south of the Colonial Mine. Geodata.
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150523 8207107 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0031 with safety slogan 'Safety - It's your life', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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150523 8229107 viewsNelson Point Yard, I Area, waggon scrapping by Sims Metal, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M 5665 shunts the waggons, its life also about to come to an end.
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150523 8247107 viewsNelson Point Yard, loaded ore waggon 0967, a CNR built QRRS style waggon built in 2012 out of T4003 stainless steel which does away with the need to paint the waggon interiors to prevent wear. The white circle around the corner from the number indicates the rotary coupler end, the number for this waggon also indicates it is filling a gap in the original waggon numbers. Capacity 138.4 T, Tare 21.6 T and Volume 62 m3.
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232-06107 viewsYandi One balloon loop, mid-train remote units of train no. 1718 which is partway through loading, BHP Iron Ore unit 5659 'Kobe' serial 8412-04 / 94-150 leads cabless unit 5665, both are Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units, 59 is still in the teal and marigold logo livery. 3rd of February 1997. GeoData.
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232-33107 viewsYandi One balloon loop cab-less BHP Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8ML (L for LocoTrol) 5665 'Rotterdam' serial 8412-10 / 94-156 in the mid train consist about to enter the tunnel on the 18th of February 1997. This loco was built cab-less to control remote consists and here is in use as a slave, being controlled by a unit with a cab. GeoData.
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208-2-28107 viewsMidland Workshops, Westrail L class L 255 a Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C, serial 67-545 under overhaul surrounded by various rollingstock including the WSL 30650 bogie transport waggon which was built for this task in 1977 at Midland Workshops.
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239-00107 viewsView inside the diesel power station located at Yandi One of a freshly overhauled Caterpillar 3516 engine and Kato alternator. Genset no. 1. GeoData.
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160526 5197107 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Melbourne bound intermodal train 4PM6 arrives with Binduli in the distance behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 71 serial 7250-01/97-273 and NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214.
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160522 2118107 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train stands at the fuel bay on the mainline with a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 90 serial 7250-05/97-293 and NR 101 serial 7250-07/97-303.
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