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051101 6455140 viewsParkeston, South Spur Rail AVDP type crew accommodation coach AVDP 277, built for the Commonwealth Railways by Comeng NSW as a brake van with sleeping accommodation as HRD type HRD 277 in 1971, modified for relay working in 1977, recoded to AVDY in 1983, then in 2002 leased for MurrayLander service before being sold to South Spur Rail and in this livery from mid 2005.
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051101 6526140 viewsParkeston, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 225, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1937 as a rivetted second class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress, in August 1939 coded to BS type BS 4, in July 1977 converted to a mini buffet and coded MRS 1 and then in October 1983 recoded to BRS 225. Painted in V/Line livery in 1992. Ended up with West Coast Railway in the late 1990s, painted in WCR livery Sept 2001, prior to Pacific National ownership and conversion to a crew car.
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160523 2823140 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, SCT inline refuelling waggon PQFY type PQFY 4209 originally built by Carmor Engineering SA in 1976 for Commonwealth Railways as RMX type container waggon, with SCT - Logicoil AMT5 type tank-tainers TILU 102033 and TILU 102023.
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160524 3701140 viewsKalgoorlie, SCT train 2PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, ARFY type ARFY 2389 refrigerated van with a Ballarat built Maxi-CUBE body mounted on an original Commonwealth Railways ROX container waggon built by Perry Engineering SA in 1971, recoded to AQOX, AQOY and RQOY before having the Maxi-CUBE refrigerated body added circa 1998 for SCT service.
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161109 1892140 viewsMoule, train 4DD4 rumbles along the mainline behind Genesee & Wyoming locomotives Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C units 1601 serial 71-728 and 1603 serial 71-730 and a pair of AE Goodwin ALCo model DE531 units 859 serial 84705 and 850 serial 84136 with 62 loaded waggons.
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161111 2453140 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, Clyde Engineering EMD model GT64C Q class unit Q 4005 serial 97-1458 renumbered from Q 305.
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161111 2457140 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQWY 30450 loaded with two Cockburn Cement Convair type 20' tanktainers 1001 and 1004. Waggon was originally built by Tomlinson Steel WA WFX type container waggon in a batch of one hundred and sixty one in 1970, later recoded to WQCX.
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161116 5103140 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, tank waggon ATPF 606, built by Westrail Midland Workshops 1982 for Shell as type WJP 80.66 kL one compartment one dome.
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161116 5109140 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, tank waggon ATBY 14592, built by Westrail Midland Workshops 1981 for Bain Leasing as type JPB, 82 kL, on narrow gauge as JPBA, then SG WJPB, still visible on the roof, note vacuum brake pipe and type F InterLock coupler, also Westrail still visible on the side.
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244-30140 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still wearing the former owners AN livery, Australian Southern 830 class 871 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G3422-01, this unit has been on the Eyre Peninsula Division since new in January 1966, seen here coupled to sister units. 6th April 2003.
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244-33140 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, wearing Australian Southern livery rebuild ALCo DA 7 started life as NSWGR 48 class 4813 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 83713, rebuilt by Islington Workshops with long hood and parts from former 830 class 870 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G6016-06 in 1998. B end roster view looking forward. 6th April 2003.
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030403 162110140 viewsCrystal Brook, cab side shot of CLF class leader CLF 1 'City of Whyalla' serial 93-AN-1, rebuilt by MKA to EMD model AT26C-2M from CL class unit CL 2 in 1993. 3rd April 2003.
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030403 162252140 viewsCrystal Brook, view from the A end of former Australian National 600 class AE Goodwin built ALCo DL541 model 603 serial G6015-2.
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030404 131846140 viewsPort Augusta, Spencer Junction shunt loco 830 class unit 863 serial 84709 is an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model and entered service in June 1963. 4th April 2003.
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070908 0595140 viewsRobe River compressor waggon set IC 22 with air receiver and IC 23 with two Ingersoll Rand air compressors. These waggons are ballasted to 100 tonnes each and are modified ore waggons. Cape Lambert 8th August 2007.
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22657140 viewsBassendean, during an Open Day at the Goninan workshops, a stripped back ALCo locomotive frame under re-construction which will become a GE CM40-8M. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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030415 154528140 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking west along loop line, the eastern leg of the triangle running to the left, middle road is the Trans Australian Railway line while the right is the Central Australian Railway line. 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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242-28140 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved locomotives from the early days of the Port Hedland iron ore miners of Goldsworthy Mining and Mt Newman Mining. From left is a Goldsworthy Mining B class unit #2 built by English Electric serial number A-105, Mt Newman Mining 5451 which was built by EMD as an F7A model and started life with Western Pacific in the USA and Mt Newman Mining 5497, a Comeng NSW built M636 ALCo unit. May 2002.
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242-35140 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, a view across the nose of former Western Pacific F7A unit 923A built by EMD in June 1951 with frame number 10805, this unit was purchased by Bechtel in 1967 for use in building the Mt Newman Mining's Port Hedland to Newman railway with M636 ALCo unit 5497 in the background. May 2002.
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190107 0606140 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00012 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-12 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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