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060528 4492318 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32394 with fleet number 921, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55, 28th May 2006.
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100731 03133318 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33565 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-105 and fleet number 9057 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, empty train arriving at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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030406 110950318 viewsCoomunga, station located at the 21.6 km, opened in November 1907, used these days as a track maintenance siding. Yard overview looking south from the north end points, track machines on the left. 6th April 2003.
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030411 160350318 viewsCungena, loading ramp on grain loop with Ascom silo complex.
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060109 2106318 viewsKyancutta, Kyancutta Tanks Rd grade crossing, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 lift the empty north bound grain train away from crew change. 9th January 2006.
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060111 2410318 viewsWudinna, 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, 1203 and two ALCo units 850 and 905 shunt back down the mainline at Wudinna as they run round their consist. 11th January 2006.
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130708 0715318 viewsCharra,
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060527 4104318 viewsScotia, AQNY 32166, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S83S and S14R both with original style doors and sliding tarpaulins, train 6029 loaded Malcolm freighter.
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060527 4110318 viewsScotia, AQNY 32179, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S38A and S73K with original doors and modified top tarpaulins, S38A also stencilled 'OPEN BY HAND', train 6029 loaded Malcolm freighter.
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060528 4519318 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, RQFY 14 number board detail, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo workshops in April 1978 in a batch of forty QMX type skeletal container waggons, in July 1980 re-coded to VQFX, in October 1994 re-coded to RQFX and 2CM bogies fitted.
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060531 5075318 viewsParkeston, OPC 381, originally built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1964 as an 8300 type brake van numbered 8365 on broad gauge, to standard gauge and recoded in Sept 1982 to AVAY 381, converted for LCL traffic Peterborough and Broken Hill in June 1987 as ABLP and then in April 1992 modified and recoded to OPC stores van.
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070529 9405318 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, diesel fuel tanker ATDY 4619, ex NSW NTAF AMPOL tank, now in service with BP Oil, capacity of 67000 litres.
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070529 9410318 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATTY 30675 fuel tank waggon, one of five built by AE Goodwin NSW in 1970/71 as WST class, recoded to WSTY and then ATTY. 78600 litre capacity.
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070609 0186318 viewsMidland, AZDY 30719, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68 and converted to VWV type for narrow gauge in 1967 and recoded back in 1968. Converted late 1988/9 to WQDF.
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100602 8668318 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATQF 612 diesel fuel tanker, Shell Fleet No. TR721, one of two such waggons built by Indeng Qld in 1982 for Shell as type WJQ with an original capacity of 79000 litres, current diesel capacity of 72000 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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222-03318 viewsAt the 105.7 km grade crossing near Gillam Siding, a loaded Yandi train approaches behind two General Electric AC6000 units built by GE at their Erie plant, BHP 6071 serial 51063 leads sister unit 6074, 6071 has not been named as yet. This road was also the original road into Lynas Find Gold Project, back in the day. GeoData.
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160101 9799318 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view of old plant footings looking down from third level. GeoData.
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160101 9803318 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, old building slabs and foundations looking east. GeoData.
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160102 DJI 0029318 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view up looking west up a side gorge after Third Crossing. Geodata.
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208-2-28318 viewsMidland Workshops, Westrail L class L 255 a Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C, serial 67-545 under overhaul surrounded by various rollingstock including the WSL 30650 bogie transport waggon which was built for this task in 1977 at Midland Workshops.
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