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160609 0458373 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RRYY 22, platform 1 of 5-pack articulated low profile skel waggon set, one of fifty two such sets built by Bradken Rail Braemar NSW from a Williams-Worley design, based on the TNT TRAY type for moving automotive carrying containers, with a Patrick 53' automotive container A 135.
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160522 2257373 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ARBY type ARBY 2682 refrigerated van, originally built by Comeng NSW in 1973 as a VFX type covered van for Commonwealth Railways, recoded to ABFX, RBFX and finally converted from ABFY by Gemco WA in 2004/05 to ARBY.
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160525 4619373 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), PBGY type covered van PBGY 0116 Multi-Freighter with Independent Brake signage, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA.
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160525 4630373 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), looking east from the rear with ABSY type ABSY 3089 covered van, originally built by Comeng WA in 1977 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type, recoded to ABFX and ABFY before conversion by Gemco WA to ABSY.
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160526 5345373 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ABSY type ABSY 2680 covered van, originally built by Comeng NSW in 1973 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type, recoded to ABFX and RBFX to SCT as ABFY before conversion by Gemco WA to ABSY in 2004/05.
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160530 9139373 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, Gemco WA built PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0021 loaded with two 40' 4GE1 type Cronos boxes CRTU 092400 and CXSU 114773.
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160530 9206373 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0039 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.
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161111 2464373 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon APNY 31159, one of twelve built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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060714 6813373 viewsHesta Siding, view from the rear of the rail recovery and transport train as it snakes around the curves. Crib waggon 665 a former Magor USA built ore waggon, heavily modified by Mt Newman Mining workshops and fitted with an ATCO donga.
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050801 4738373 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem TM 21 a Plasser Australia 09-16 model tamper. 1st August 2005.
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080621 2720373 viewsTabba South, one of a batch of six flat waggons converted by Mt Newman Mining workshops by cutting down a pair of ore waggons to make one flat waggon, 6105 in service with the rail recovery and transport train as waggon #2.
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030404 141132373 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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030404 141628373 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, City of Port Pirie name plate on the side of ALF 18.
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170730 0589373 viewsIndee, at the 55 km on the BHP line a loaded train from Yandi is heading north behind mid-train unit Electro-Motive London Ontario built SD70ACe/LC unit 4338 'Pepper' with 4481. 30th July 2017. GeoData.
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23879373 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, a stripped back ALCo locomotive frame under re-construction which will become a GE CM40-8M. July 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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242-10373 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, General Electric built AC6000 locomotive 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 with engine and alternator removed. May 2002.
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190109 1564373 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00220 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-220 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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080621 2808373 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machine BR 34 a Plasser Australia unit model 305 serial M490. 21st June 2008.
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200914 7807373 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, former ALCo built demonstrator locomotive model C-415 serial 3449-1 built April 1966, currently carrying number 1000, it was originally numbered 008 when Hamersley Iron purchased the unit in 1968. It was retired from service on the 24th February 1982. It then spent some time carrying number 2000 while building the Marandoo railway line from Sept 1991. 14th September 2020.
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246-20373 viewsCape Lambert, a Robe River loaded Deepdale train arrives on the main behind the standard quad Dash 8 power with 202 waggons. 9414 which is a Goninan WA ALCo to GE rebuild CM40-8M with serial 8206-11 / 91-124 from November 1991 riding on Dofasco bogies and was originally an AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo built new for Robe in December 1971 and numbered 262.005, later numbered 1714. 22nd May 2002.
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