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224-14145 viewsBing siding, 6073 'Fortescue' serial 51065 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie awaits the road to depart south, radiator, steerable bogie and taper in cab side. GeoData.
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151111 9579145 viewsAn empty train is still struggling upgrade at the 98 km post on the Tom Price line behind double General Electric Dash 9-44CW units 9403 serial 53457 wearing ROBE Pilbara Rail livery and 7087 serial 47766 wearing the original Hamersley Iron livery.
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160523 2930145 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214 and NR 51 serial 7250-08/97-253 lead the train 'elephant style' out of the dip and along the mainline at the 1776 km. The PN local is in the car at the gantry performing a roll-by, the track on the left is the Engineers Siding.
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160523 2931145 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214 and NR 51 serial 7250-08/97-253 lead the train 'elephant style' out of the dip and along the mainline at the 1776 km. The PN local is in the car at the gantry performing a roll-by, the track on the left is the Engineers Siding.
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160522 2061145 viewsBinduli, 5MP2 steel train, NQYY 20897 container waggon, originally built by EPT NSW in 1980-81 as an BDY / NODY open waggon before being heavily modified with a pair of Royal Wolf 20' 22G1 type containers with Pacific National decals, RWLU 815065 and RWLU 815037.
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160522 2075145 viewsBinduli, 5MP2 steel train, Trans-Perth electric B set 116 on the rear of the train.
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160522 2116145 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, platform 2 of 5-pack RRRY 7016 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005 with Linfox reefer FCAD 9106113 and Toll half height curtainsider container 5TC216
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160522 2123145 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, crew accommodation coach RZAY 283, built by Comeng NSW in 1972 as type ARJ stainless steel, air conditioned, first class roomette sleeping coach.
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160522 2119145 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 2180145 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRAY 7232 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' flatrack with chlorine gas cylinders.
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160529 8766145 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQZY 7052 five unit bar coupled well container waggon set built by Goninan NSW in a batch of thirty two during 1995-6 loaded with an array of different double stacked containers.
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160601 10096145 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, 5-pack RRRY 7007 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005, double stacked with a range of types and sizes including 53' auto boxes, 40' half height side doors, 46' reefers and 48' boxes.
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160524 3658145 viewsKalgoorlie, SCT train 2PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0146 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.
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160525 4566145 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), ARBY type ARBY 2837 refrigerated box van converted by Gemco WA from former ANR Carmor Engineering SA 1976 built VFX type covered van which were recoded to ABFX/Y in later years.
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161111 2468145 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, diesel fuel tank waggon ATMY 553, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW for BP Oil in 1971 as WJM type, capacity of 102000 litres, diesel capacity of 76000 litres, refurbished by Gemco WA in Oct 2015.
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030404 125253145 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, a Perth bound intermodal awaits departure time on 13 Road behind National Rail NR class unit built by Goninan as GE Cv40-9i models, NR 37 serial 7250-06 / 97-239. 4th April 2003.
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030404 141132145 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, MKA (Morrison Knudsen Australia) rebuilt AL class AL 24 into EMD JT26C-2M model for Australian National in 1993 as the ALF class, here ALF 20 serial 94-AB-020 shunts empty rail transport waggon sets from the Darwin construction. 4th April, 2003.
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5945 001 Welshpool 1987April145 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining C636 ALCo unit 5453 serial G6012-2 built by AE Goodwin in 1969 is undergoing a world first as it gets rebuilt into a GE C36-7M locomotive. In this April 1987 view the process has started with the bogies and fuel tank removed. By February 1988 it would be the final C36-7M built for Mt Newman Mining as 5513. April 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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030415 154518145 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking west along the eastern leg of the triangle, power station on the left, loop line running to the right. Tarcoola is the junction for the TAR and CAR railways situated 504 km from the 0 km datum at Coonamia. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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030415 171358145 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking east along the Central Australia line at the western end of the loop and Trans Australian is the right road. Tarcoola is the junction for the TAR and CAR railways situated 504 km from the 0 km datum at Coonamia. 15th April 2003.
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