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030407 120502578 viewsPoochera, the loaded train prepares to depart behind 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.

030409 122746578 viewsKielpa, loaded grain train with 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4 rumbles over the north end points heading south.

060109 2116578 viewsKyancutta, ARG's Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C 1200 class unit 1204 serial 65-428 was originally built for the WAGR as their A class unit A 1514. Due to air-conditioning trouble it is in the shafts as they shunt across Museum Terrace to place empty grain waggons on the silo loop. January 9, 2006.

060111 2250578 viewsTooligie, Mac's Road grade crossing at the 110 km, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004 leads an empty grain train north. 11th January 2006.

130705 0525578 viewsLock, HBN type dual use ballast / grain hopper waggons, HBN 5. One of seventeen built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 with a 25 ton capacity, increased to 34 tons in 1974. HBN 1-11 fitted with removable tops and roll-top hatches in 1999-2000. July 5, 2013.

070527 9173578 viewsParkeston, AQCY 30214 container waggon, originally one of forty five built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WFX type, to WQCX in 1980 in Loongana Limestone traffic.

070608 0087578 viewsMidland, AQCY container flat waggon with two 20' Cockburn Cement tanktainers.

191-02578 viewsWandong, O'Gradys Road grade crossing, near former Mathiesons Siding, UP Melbourne Express behind standard early 1990s V/Line G class power of Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT26C-2SS, G 521 serial 85-1234.

160101 9776578 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, mine drive adit No.6 concrete entry structure. Geodata.

160101 9785578 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view inside the drive, mine adit no. 5.

160103 DJI 0072578 viewsColonial Mill and mine ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. Concrete foundations remain of the once impressive crusher, mill, dryer and bagging plant. See images of the site intact here . Geodata: -22.3090405 118.3190116 .

150507 8100578 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bridge over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1842517 118.0346950 .

160128 00878578 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, a view down the side of Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M unit 5661, serial 8412-06, builders no. 94-152, a sharp eye will see that this frame was a Comeng built ALCo M636, while behind it is an AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 frame.

160524 3761578 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, 48' platform of RRGY 7130 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of fifty built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and coded RRGY, RAND Refrigerated Logistics 46' 6" reefer RAND 110.

160525 4517578 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRQY 7327 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 for Pacific National, with a 48' Pacific National curtainsider PNXM 5237.

160523 2992578 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RQGY 34478 63' container waggon, originally built in a batch of one hundred by Tulloch Ltd NSW between 1974 and 75 as an OCY type, recoded to NQOY then NQSY. Loaded with an Allied Pickfords 20' 2NG2 type box KAPU 200431[7] and a 40' Toll half height curtainsider DS 568.

160522 2385578 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, platform 5 of 5 on RRQY 7330 5-pack articulated skel waggon set built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 for Pacific National, with a 48' MFG1 type box PNXD 4187.

160522 2441578 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRAY 7249 platform 2 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 48' deck SCF Rail Containers 48' MFG1 type box SCFU 412523[0].