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160522 2359243 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RQGY 14944 container waggon, 20' Air Liquide WA tanktainer AFLU 100128 and 40' red curtainsider IS#U 41030.

160529 8767243 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRZY 7049 platform 1 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of thirty two sets built by Goninan NSW in 1995-96 for National Rail as RQZY type, recoded to RRZY when repaired, notice difference between this waggon and the one in front which is in original condition, loaded with a Rand 46' MFR3 type reefer RAND 359 and Toll 40' half height curtainsider 5TC 213.

160531 9926243 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKYY type wide steel plate tilt waggon RKYY 7108, one of twenty seven units built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1995-96. Loaded with steel plate.

160601 10096243 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, 5-pack RRRY 7007 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005, double stacked with a range of types and sizes including 53' auto boxes, 40' half height side doors, 46' reefers and 48' boxes.

110710 7431 PD243 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.

160522 2263243 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0015, one of forty units built by Gemco WA loaded with two SCT 40' reefers SCTR 036 and SCTR 133 showing the original and newer paint schemes.

160522 2277243 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ABSY type ABSY 2489 covered van, originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA in 1972 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.

160523 2838243 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0105 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA.

160523 2844243 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0107 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA.

160524 3650243 viewsKalgoorlie, SCT train 2PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0096 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014.

160526 5290243 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, with 76 waggons for 5709.8 tonnes and 1795 metres with EDI Downer built EMD model GT46C-ACe unit SCT 012 serial 08-1736 as second unit to sister unit SCT 014 with the signal green they start the 650 kilometre run to Perth.

160530 9229243 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0046 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.

161112 2976243 viewsBinduli, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029 runs through the dip behind Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT46C Q class unit Q 4009, (originally Q 309) serial 97-1462 as it passes signals 4 and 6 on approach to West Kalgoorlie.

040809 164158243 viewsNelson Point yard, ballast regulator BR 31 a Plasser Australia model SSP 110SW unit serial 401. 9th August 2004.

170729 0303243 viewsMaitland Siding on the former Robe River line an empty Mesa A bound train behind the standard Rio Tinto motive power for this line, double General Electric built ES44ACi units, 9117 serial 63830 and sister unit 9115 pull out of the passing siding and onto the mainline. 29th July 2017. GeoData.

5942 001 Welshpool 1986Sept243 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. In the September 1986 view the process has started and it is on shop bogies, by July 1987 it would become 5509. Sept 1986.
Jim Bisdee photo.

5948 001 Welshpool 1987Jan243 viewsBuilders plate on Goninan rebuilt GE C36-7M unit 5506 'Mt Whaleback' serial 4839-01 / 87-071 rebuilt using Mt Newman Mining AE Goodwin ALCo C636 5455 serial G6012-4. January 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.

23143243 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin built ALCo model M636 5482 serial G6061-3 is undergoing rebuilding into a GE CM40-8M unit, it would emerge rebuilt in September 1993 as 5652. March 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.

240-15243 viewsWickham, right hand side number two end view of former Robe River and NSWGR MLW built ALCo RSC3 serial 77737 of October 1951, was originally 40 class 4006. Shows modified bogie to convert the A1A to a BO bogie type. 31st August 2002.