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160523 2924483 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0092 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA.

160524 3695483 viewsKalgoorlie, SCT train 2PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, ARFY type ARFY 2189 refrigerated van with New Zealand built Fairfax body mounted on an original Commonwealth Railways ROX container waggon built by Comeng Quds in 1970, recoded to AFQX, then AQOX and RQOY before being fitted with the refrigerated body for SCT service circa 1998.

160525 4606483 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), PBHY type covered van PBHY 0077 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014 without the Greater Freighter signage.

160530 9096483 viewsParkeston, return SCT working 1PM9 led by SCT 004 crosses opposing SCT Perth bound train 7GP1 with SCT 013 on the lead waiting on the mainline. Before SCT introduced these AC traction locomotives the original operations were powered by three of four 3000 hp DC locomotives.

160530 9150483 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0117 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.

160530 9217483 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0014 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with two 46' 6" MFRG type former Wilmot Freeze Haul reefers, now in SCF service SCFU 814060 and SCFU 814051.

6702 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 050319 0139483 viewsNelson Point, a heavily cut down and modified Magor USA ore waggon, converted to a 50 tonne waggon and designated the winch waggon with generator set to power the winch and the crib car.

030404 141457483 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, MKA (Morrison Knudsen Australia) rebuilt AL class AL 24 into EMD JT26C-2M model for Australian National in 1993 as the ALF class, here ALF 20 serial 94-AB-020 shunts empty rail transport waggon sets from the Darwin construction. 4th April, 2003.

170728 09805483 viewsEmu Siding, a loaded train rolls down grade at the 81 km West Mainline behind Rio Tinto stripe liveried General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8144 serial 58725 and sister and final unit 8199 and a Dash 9-44CW stablemate 9403. 28th July 2017. GeoData.

19800483 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, former BHP Iron Ore Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5509, seen here stripped down to being an engine test bed, front on view of cab remains. Sept 2003.
Jim Bisdee photo.

22651483 viewsBassendean, during an Open Day at the Goninan workshops, an up turned ALCo frame is in the process of being converted to a GE CM40-8M. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.

030415 171358483 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking east along the Central Australia line at the western end of the loop and Trans Australian is the right road. Tarcoola is the junction for the TAR and CAR railways situated 504 km from the 0 km datum at Coonamia. 15th April 2003.

030416 110228483 viewsManguri Siding station nameboard, located 706.5 km from the 0 datum at Coonamia and 200 km north of Tarcoola between Wirrida and Cadney Park on the Tarcoola - Alice Springs line. 16th April 2003.

6988 001483 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. Front on view of Mt Newman Mining's Goninan new build GE CM39-8 model loco 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079.
Jim Bisdee photo.

6994 001483 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. Builders Plate detail for Mt Newman Mining's Goninan new build GE CM39-8 model loco 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079.
Jim Bisdee photo.

080621 2793483 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machine TM04 a Plasser Australia unit model 09-3X serial M489. 21st June 2008.

200914 7799483 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.

248-15483 viewsSeven Mile yard, stored Robe River ALCo locomotives at the south end of the Hamersley Iron Seven Mile yard on roads N2 and N3. On road N2 is 9426 a Comeng WA C636R rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania Railroad as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Behind it is sister unit 9427 and ALCo M636 9412. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.

100603 8970483 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0054 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA in 2006/07 without the Greater Freighter signage.