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140517-4388587 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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204-23587 viewsWittenoom Gorge Mine, remains of asbestos mining, underground tipping ore car, shows side doo that opens when tipped to allow ore out of car.
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205-16587 viewsWittenoom, Bee Gorge, rock carving.
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205-24587 viewsDrillers Ridge, Wittenoom, the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) tower (located at 957 metres) was a navigation aid for the Department of Civil Aviation for the Wittenoom airport, the site was also used by Telecom for providing 'radio links' for phones into Wittenoom prior to the current tower located at the eastern edge of town which links back to Auski Roadhouse.
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206-17587 viewsThe western wall of Carawine Pool.
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207-29587 viewsHardie Siding, BHP Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Builen' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 runs down the passing track, USA built Gunderson smooth sided ore cars ex Phelps Dodge Copper Mine.
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215-27587 viewsKeswick, the Australian National Adelaide interstate passenger terminal with the Indian Pacific arriving behind an EL class, DL class in the distance.
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060530 4969587 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31395 is one of a batch of twenty five built by Comeng WA between 1974 and 1975 and converted from Mt Newman high sided waggons by WAGR Midland Workshops with a capacity of 67 tons with fleet number 325 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations. This waggon was also converted to a WSM type ballast hopper by re-fitting the cut down top section and having bottom discharge doors fitted, converted back to WOB in 1997. This is the first one to be repainted in ARG yellow, shows capacity of 32m³, loaded with lump ore at Binduli, 30th May 2006.
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030409 112332587 viewsDarke Peake, view looking north from the south end of the triangle, point lever with rail just visible heading into the bush, goods and grain siding with loading ramp at far right.
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060108 2045587 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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060528 4518587 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, RQFY 14 loaded with two Orica ORA tanktainers and riding on NSW type bogies, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo workshops in April 1978 in a batch of forty QMX type skeletal container waggons, in July 1980 re-coded to VQFX, in October 1994 re-coded to RQFX and 2CM bogies fitted.
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232-08587 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 cab-less 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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160524 3760587 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, 48' platform of RRGY 7130 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of fifty built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and coded RRGY, Toll 40' curtainsider 4TL135.
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160528 8336587 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RRQY 8517 5-pack RRQY articulated skel waggon, built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2013 loaded with a mix of 20' and 48' boxes.
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160523 2731587 viewsParkeston, 1PM5 intermodal train, RRZY 7013 one of twenty six 5-pack well waggon sets built by Goninan in 1995-96 for National Rail, with a mix of 48' full and half height containers.
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160524 3775587 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RQLY 4 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set, 1 of 8 built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1987 as AQJY, Linfox 20' 2EG9 type box with roof hatches FSWB 9635052 and an empty slot.
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160522 2118587 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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160522 2133587 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, 5-pack low profile skel waggon set RRYY 52, the last of 52 such waggons built by Bradken at Braemar NSW in 2004-05, loaded with 48' containers looking from platform 5.
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160522 2402587 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRAY 7208 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set, part of one hundred built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck with Royal Wolf 40' curtainsider RWTU 9020580.
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160522 2413587 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RQDY 2 container waggon, originally built by SAR Islington Workshops in 1973/74 in a batch of sixteen as SFCW type container waggons, to AQDW, with a 48' Pacific National box PNXD 4178.
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