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160609 0468478 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RRZY 7008 platform 1 of 5-pack well waggon set, the prototype of the RQZY type, first of twenty six sets built by Goninan in 1995-96 for National Rail, later rebuilt and recoded RRZY, double stacked with Austrans 40' 4EG1 box without logo and two 20' boxes, a Royal Wolf 2EG1 type RWTU 989056[0] and Linfox FSWB 963442[1].

160522 2235478 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0150 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA with Independent Brake signage.

160522 2270478 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0001 Multi-Freighter, waggon type leader of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.

160523 2893478 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0092 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014 without the Greater Freighter signage.

160524 3673478 viewsKalgoorlie, SCT train 2PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0074 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.

160525 4616478 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), PBHY type covered van PBHY 0084 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014 without the Greater Freighter signage.

160527 5529478 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0088 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014 without the Greater Freighter signage.

160529 8877478 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0048 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.

160530 9157478 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0014 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.

161109 1894478 viewsMoule, train 4DD4 rumbles along the mainline behind Genesee & Wyoming locomotives Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C units 1601 serial 71-728 and 1603 serial 71-730 and a pair of AE Goodwin ALCo model DE531 units 859 serial 84705 and 850 serial 84136 with 62 loaded waggons. 1601 was originally built as the class leader of the NJ class NJ 1 and name 'Ben Chifley' and after starting life on the Central Australia line was transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981.

161109 1902478 viewsMoule, former BHP RSK type iron ore waggon, modified by G&W Port Lincoln to cart gypsum and coded RSG type, RSG 5, fitted with hungry boards and loaded with gypsum.

161111 2456478 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, AQWY 30348 container waggon, originally built by Tomlinson Steel WA as WFX type in 1970 from a batch of one hundred and sixty one waggons, to narrow gauge as QWF type in 1970, back to SG in 1972 as WFX, recoded in 1979 to WQCX type. Loaded with two Cockburn Cement Convair type 20' tanktainers 1109 and 1108.

050801 4741478 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem track tamper a Fairmont Jackson model 6700 tamper. 1st August 2005.

030403 111511478 viewsKapunda view south from the station building looking at the silos.

170729 0076478 viewsCape Lambert South yard, a loaded train heads towards car dumper 5 behind General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8103 serial 57999 in original Rio Tinto silver with a Dash 9-44CW unit 7076 and sister ES44DCi unit 8129 in the later Rio Tinto stripe livery. 29th July 2017. GeoData.

23721478 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 unit, 5481 serial G6061-2 awaiting rebuilding into CM40-8M 5650 in July 1993. December 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.

030415 141326478 viewsKingoonya, located at the 426.5 km on the Trans Australian Railway, looking south with loading ramp, cattle yards and loading race, power station, standpipe and tanks stand. GeoData location.

030415 160138478 viewsTarcoola, station nameboard original style, is the junction for the TAR and CAR railways situated 504.5 km from the 0 km datum at Coonamia. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.

242-29478 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved Goldsworthy Mining B class unit #2 serial number A-105, these units of Bo-Bo design with a 6CSRKT 640 kW prime mover were built at the English Electric Rocklea Qld plant in 1965 and primarily used for the construction of the Mt Goldsworthy to Finucane Island railway. May 2002.