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160102 DJI 0032324 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking west of the wall from above Gorge Mine. Geodata.

160103 9835324 viewsLocated in the bush near Colonial Mill is this relic of a Fordson One Man Power Grader originally supplied by Lynas Motors Ltd. An old newspaper article on these graders can be found here . Geodata: -22.3057767 118.3247750 .

150523 8232324 viewsNelson Point Yard, I Area, waggon scrapping by Sims Metal, a fork lift carries waggon no. 3340, one of 350 waggons built in Romania of which only about 60 made it into service, the rest rusting away in a caged embargo area out on the Broome Road until they were scrapped some years ago. There is a connection with these waggons and Lang Hancock and his former mine McCamey's Monster, now known as Jimblebar.

208-2-26324 viewsMidland, The York Jazz Festival special train departs behind Westrail DA class unit DA 1571 a Clyde Engineering EMD G26C serial 72-758.

060110 2154324 viewsPillana, former station site, 59 km, empty grain train behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 then sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004, and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of photo.

060110 2163324 viewsCummins, view across Railway Terrace of empty grain train shunting the Cummins Bunker track to pick up empty hoppers, behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.

060110 2168324 viewsCummins, trailing view of empty grain train running down the yard along the Penong mainline behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.

160523 3332324 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30060 with CSA 0084, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth. CSA 0084 is one of twelve units built by Acid Plant Management Services, WA in 2015.

160525 4452324 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRAY 7244 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck with two Cronos 20' bulker boxes TINT 123179 and TSPD 122198.

160523 2958324 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRYY 34 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated low profile skel waggon set, one of fifty two such sets built by Bradken Rail Braemar from a Williams-Worley design, based on the TNT TRAY type for moving automotive carrying containers, 48' Toll TCML 48498 box.

160522 2367324 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRAY 7244 platform 2 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 48' deck, Breeze Logistics 46' 6" reefer BRZC 14.

160522 2436324 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRAY 7203 platform 2 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 48' deck SCF Rail Containers 48' MFG1 type box SCFU 412551[7].

160530 9262324 viewsBinduli, 7SP3 intermodal service, RQGY 14912 container waggon orginally built by Comeng NSW in a batch of fifty OCY type container waggons in 1974/75, recoded to NQOY in 1Carrying PIL 45G1 type 40' container PCIU 997605 and a Grace 20' 2EG1 type container GRRU 230520.

160531 9854324 viewsBinduli, 3PM4 steel train, RKLY 20918

160531 9938324 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 3PM4 steel train crew accommodation coach RZEY 2 'ALLAMBI' built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1972 as a corten steel roomette sleeper Allambi to replace original, coded in 1987 as JRB 1.

160609 0393324 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, VLEY 2 louvre van, started life as Victorian Railways Newport Workshops built VSX type type louvre van VSX 906 in 1974, recoded to VLEX in 1979 and to VLNX 2 in 1981 for newsprint traffic, then RLNX in 1995, again recoded for rice traffic to VLRX in 2003 and then possibly to VLEY sometime after 2005. In Freight Australia green with yellow band.

160609 0457324 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RRYY 22, 5-pack articulated low profile skel waggon set, one of fifty two such sets built by Bradken Rail Braemar NSW from a Williams-Worley design, based on the TNT TRAY type for moving automotive carrying containers, with four Patrick 53' automotive containers and a 40' box on platform 3.

160522 2227324 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, CQWY type CQWY 5007-2 with a former Macfield MGCU 40' reefer MGCU 681005 and an SCT 48' MFG1 unit SCTDS 4841 on top. The CQWY was built by Bluebird Rail Operations in South Australia in 2008 as a batch of sixty pairs.

160522 2229324 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0111 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA with Independent Brake signage.

160522 2267324 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, CQMY type 80' container flat CQMY 3017, a CFCLA lease waggon built by Bluebird Rail Operations in a group of one hundred loaded with two original liveried SCT 40' reefers SCTR 009 originally FORU 402008 and SCTR 014.

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