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070529 9395147 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ECA 162 built by Comeng NSW in 1964 for Commonwealth Railways as a BRE type second class, air conditioned, twin berth staggered corridor steel sleeping car. Converted to ECA type crew car in 1991.
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070608 0094147 viewsMidland, AQCY 31002, one of eighteen WFA type container waggons built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1981, recoded to WQCY in 1987, carrying two different types of Cockburn Cement pressurised cement - lime tanktainers.
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070609 0192147 viewsMidland, ATEY 7317 diesel fuel tank waggon in service for BP Oil, former NSW AMPOL NTAF tank, coded WTEY when arrived in WA.
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100602 8592147 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATTY 30674 fuel tanker, one of five units built by AE Goodwin NSW in 1970 as WST type, recoded to WSTY and then ATTY. 78600 litre capacity.
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221-12147 viewsHardie Siding, with the switch now set for the siding, the empty train is reversing out back onto the mainline, the ore cars are Tomlinson Steel built bottom discharge units.
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222-14147 viewsSulphur Springs base metal area, exploration drill rig drilling, this dates from 2000-01 when Sipa Resources had the lease. Location is only approximate GeoData.
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160103 9834147 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 .
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150505 7995147 viewsFMG Solomon Line, view looking east from station location board. Geodata: -22.0222833 118.5092267 .
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150523 8247147 viewsNelson Point Yard, loaded ore waggon 0967, a CNR built QRRS style waggon built in 2012 out of T4003 stainless steel which does away with the need to paint the waggon interiors to prevent wear. The white circle around the corner from the number indicates the rotary coupler end, the number for this waggon also indicates it is filling a gap in the original waggon numbers. Capacity 138.4 T, Tare 21.6 T and Volume 62 m3.
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160527 5516147 viewsKalgoorlie, 5PS6 intermodal train, crew accommodation coach RZEY 3, built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1956 as Tolkini for The Overland, renamed to Malkari in 1957 then coded JTA 3 in 1987, converted to crew coach in 2007 by Bluebird Rail Operations.
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160522 2111147 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, platform 4 of 5 pack Goninan built RRZY 7014 well waggon set, Linfox reefer FCAD 9106115 and half height side door blue SCF SCFU 200543 container.
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160522 2153147 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQJW 60007 container waggon, one of fifty built by EPT NSW as NQJW type in 1984-85, with a pair of 40' containers, SCF sea2rail SCFU 408084 and Royal Wolf RWTU 441643.
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160522 2325147 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train arrives on the mainline behind a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 105 serial 7250-08/97-310 and NR 113 serial 7250-09/97-312 in Pacific National livery, the track in the foreground is the Engineers Siding.
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160522 2326147 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, the motive power of a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 105 serial 7250-08/97-310 and NR 113 serial 7250-09/97-312 and crew accommodation coach BRS 222 all in Pacific National livery.
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160531 9900147 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, container waggon NQSY 35015, one of a hundred built by Goninan NSW as OCY type in 1975, then NQOY, with two 20' Royal Wolf containers, RWMC 815900 and RWMC 815854.
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161109 1889147 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.
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161109 1895147 viewsMoule, train 4DD4 rumbles along the mainline with second unit Genesee & Wyoming locomotive Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C unit 1603 serial 70-730, originally built as the NJ class NJ 3.
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040408 170040147 viewsBing Siding, Difco Ohio USA built side dump waggons, three short and one long all loaded with fines. In 1966 five short side dump waggons were originally built for Goldsworthy Mining, here we see no. 2, 3 and 1 on the rear and Mt Newman Mining long side dump waggon 701.
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244-21147 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still wearing the former owners AN livery, Australian Southern NJ class leader NJ 1 'Ben Chifley' Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C serial 71-728, in multiple unit consist, roster shot. 6th April, 2003.
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22664147 viewsBassendean, during an Open Day at the Goninan workshops, a stripped back ALCo locomotive frame under re-construction which will become a GE CM40-8M. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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