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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.

040419 102104147 viewsAbydos back track, riveted flat waggon 202 with three water tanks fitted, view of handbrake end, originally part of the 'camp train', modified by Mt Newman Mining railway workshops.

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.

244-25147 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still wearing the former owners AN livery, Australian Southern 830 class 869 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G6016-05 coupled to NJ class NJ 4 Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C serial 71-731. 6th April 2003.

030404 141617147 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, Australia Southern decal on the side of ALF 18.

170730 0470147 viewsBoodarie, a loaded Roy Hill train approaches the Great Northern Highway grade crossing behind General Electric built ES44ACi units RHA 1013 serial 62585 and sister unit RHA 1014, the third and mid-train unit can be made out at the end of the rack as it curves. 30th July 2017. GeoData.

23760147 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, a stripped back ALCo locomotive frame under re-construction which will become a GE CM40-8M. January 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.

240-14147 viewsWickham, right hand side number one end view of former Robe River and NSWGR MLW built ALCo RSC3 serial 77737 of October 1951, was originally 40 class 4006. Shows modified bogie to convert the A1A to a BO bogie type. 31st August 2002.

242-23147 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.

6981 001147 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. View from No.2 end of under construction GE CM39-8 locomotive 5631 serial 5831-10 / 88-080 being built for Mt Newman Mining, masked up ready for painting.
Jim Bisdee photo.

080116 1364147 viewsChapman Siding at the 69 km on FMG's under construction line to Cloud Break mine, new waggons stabled in the passing track awaiting service, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007, here slave waggon 1395 and master waggon 2396 sit in the arvo sunlight. The yellow circle indicates the rotary coupler end and the tare weight of the slave waggon at 22.6 tonnes, while the master weighs 22.9 tonnes as it hosts the brake control equipment. 16th January 2008.

200914 7785147 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, former Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates RSC-3 model ALCo locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1951 for NSWGR as the 40 class 4002 serial 77733, purchased by CRRIA in 1971 and numbered 261.002, then 1705 and finally 9405. 4002 is preserved in an operational state and another claim to fame is it run the Royal Train in NSW February 1954. Donated to the Society in 1979. 14th September 2020.

250-30147 viewsCape Lambert yard in the Load Box is recently stored Robe River AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 unit 9415 serial G6060-6 from February 1973 and was an extension of the original order and delivered with cab side numbering of 86-14-1715 and number boards as 1715. The ducting on the hood is the air to air intercooler modifications. 22nd October 2000.

122-22146 viewsSale station yard overview, Freightgate at right, original Stratford Junction line.

169-03146 viewsNorth Dynon, V/Line broad gauge G class locos G 538 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1271 and a sister have just arrived with 9150 up goods train from Adelaide, second person walking back to loco.

176-10146 viewsWodonga, V/Line standard gauge up goods train passing the Wodonga Coal Sidings behind the G class G 524 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 86-1237 and C class C 505 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-828 combination, broad gauge track on the left, and the former broad gauge line to Bandiana and Cudgewa curving around to the right.

180-31146 viewsWodonga turntable radial roads finds V/Line broad gauge X class loco X 41 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 70-704 resting between jobs.

126-33146 viewsWallan Loop, standard gauge relief light locos on the loop, V/Line Clyde Engineering EMD G6B model Y classes Y 151 serial 67-571 and Y 102 serial 63-292 and G18B T class T 411 serial 68-627, waiting to return to Melbourne.