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140-1-08473 viewsBallarat station yard view looking towards Ballarat East, rear of disc signal post 15, disc signal post 13 on the left and semaphore signal post 10 with signal post 11 facing away in background.
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143-30473 viewsWahgunyah, broad gauge VR liveried Y class Y 133 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 65-399 sits on the point of the up 'Stringybark Express' mixed special as it awaits departure time. The silo structure on the right stands on the former station building platform.
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143-36473 viewsRutherglen, up Wahgunyah 'Stringybark Express' mixed special under the power of VR liveried broad gauge Y class Y 133 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 65-399 crosses Howlong St through the non-interlocked hand swing gates as the Williamstown and Ascom style silos stand sentinel and the signaller gives a wave.
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148-16473 viewsWangaratta, Signal Post 19 Two Disc Signals, Left-hand Disc from No. 4 or 5 Road to Siding 'C', Right-hand Disc from No. 4 or 5 Road to Main Line.
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129-1-20473 viewsBaxter track view, interlocking, yard points, rodding, point and signal levers, points spiked normal.
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184-11473 viewsAlbury loco depot, standard gauge V/Line G class loco G 525 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 86-1238, point lever.
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117-23473 viewsSeymour loco depot, fuel and sanding point, V/Line N class N 472 'City of Sale' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1201, cab side, name plate and staff exchanger.
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140517-4374473 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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205-29473 viewsKoodaideri, 130 plus km from the Rio mainline, within 10 km of the BHP mainline, go figure.
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219-27473 viewsGoldsworthy Siding, C36-7M unit 5507 'Nimingarra' serial 4839-03 / 87-072, an original Mt Newman Mining ALCo C636 5461 to GE C36-7M rebuild carried out by Goninan, leads an empty train into the siding at Goldsworthy as the second driver watches the roll by under the shade of the shelter.
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030409 110624473 viewsCaralue, loaded grain train working south of the former station site 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, it leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4, rebuilt from 830 class unit 839 by Port Augusta Workshops, retains original serial 83730 and model DL531.
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030409 124502473 viewsRudall, view across the mainline looking at the crew barracks built new circa 1960 with the remains of a standpipe, possible for watering ballast.
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030411 141342473 viewsNunjikompita, aboriginal word for 'burnt hair', located , terminus of line from 14th August 1914 until Thevenard extension opened on the 8th of February 1915, 'station' shelter shed, consignment register desk still in situ.
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060108 2072473 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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060113 2462473 viewsThevenard, narrow gauge loco 1604 with a fresh crew depart the yard with empty train 6DD3, 1604 leads a triple consist of Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 the original class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 1604 and 1601 both renumbered in 2004. A roll-by is also being conducted by an outgoing crew member. 13th January 2006.
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130705 0610473 viewsLock, up end looking down through Lock, Ascom silo block #5 on the left, Viterra fast loader loading train while loaded portion sits on the mainline.
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130708 0725473 viewsCharra,
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060528 4634 ATPF579J473 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 579 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1974 for Shell as WJP type 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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060603 5244473 viewsMidland, WQDY 30713 one of about sixteen WBAX vans converted for sodium cyanide container traffic, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted 1989 to WQDF, then WQDY, with two AGR empty sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 656 and SD 663.
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060603 5275473 viewsMidland, ABAY 30911 covered goods waggon originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA as part of a third batch of one hundred and thirty five WVX type covered vans, recoded to WBAX in 1979 then to WBNX in 1985 and 1995 to RBPX.
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