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160522 2343108 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China built RRQY 5816, Sadleirs 20' box RCS 3410.

160522 2358108 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRAY 7243 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' W.A.. Freightlines curtainsider WAFL 491008.

160523 3203108 viewsBinduli, Perth bound 7SP3 intermodal train, a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214 and NR 51 serial 7250-08/97-253 lead the train 'elephant style' near the 641 km.

160609 0485108 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RRAY 7180 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of a hundred built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck with two 20' boxes, Royal Wolf RWTU 965616 and Linfox FSWB 963508.

160523 2830108 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, CFCLA lease CQWY type well waggon set CQWY 5038-1 with a RWTU 922042 48' MFG1 box and SCT 48' SCTL 004337 MFGB box on top. The CQWY was built by Bluebird Rail Operations in South Australia in 2008 as a batch of sixty pairs.

160527 5537108 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PWWY type PWWY 0037 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with two 48' MFG1 type SCT containers SCTDS 4838 and SCTDS 4856.

161109 1890108 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.

161112 3448108 viewsBinduli, loaded Hampton acid train 7406 with AQHY 30012 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0120, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana. CSA 0120 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions.

161116 5103108 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.

030404 104443108 viewsPort Augusta, Spencer Junction yard, RQZY type five unit bar coupled well container waggon RQZY 7050 built as one of a batch of thirty two by Goninan NSW for National Rail, with a Mayne Logistics 48' box DRC 180 on top of a TNT tarped 40' half height unit. 4th April, 2003.

6996 001 Welshpool 19880819108 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, under construction Mt Newman Mining's GE model CM39-8 loco 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079, 19th August 1988 image.
Jim Bisdee photo.

170915 0721108 viewsAt the 18.2 km as part of the empty Roy Hill fuel train, TA type diesel fuel tank waggon TA 1004 built by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co China with a capacity of 96000 litres. 15th September 2017. View map here.

170915 0722108 viewsAt the 18.2 km as part of the empty Roy Hill fuel train, TA type diesel fuel tank waggon TA 1003 built by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co China with a capacity of 96000 litres. 15th September 2017. View map here.

240-18108 viewsWickham, left hand side number two end view of former Robe River and NSWGR MLW built ALCo RSC3 serial 77737 of October 1951, was originally 40 class 4006. Shows modified bogie to convert the A1A to a BO bogie type. 31st August 2002.

180615 1574108 viewsWalla Siding, BHP took delivery of two new ballast ploughs in December 2017. They were built by CRRC Yangtze China in 2017 and weigh in at 65 tonnes. The ploughs are numbered BP 01 and BP 02. We finally caught up with them top and tail on a ballast consist, here's BP 02.
Roland Depth photo.

180615 1607108 viewsWalla Siding, BHP ballast waggon 0207 built from JFE410RW steel by CNR QRRS China. 15th June 2018. Roland Depth image.

190109 1624108 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00146 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-146 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.

6988 001108 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. Front on view of Mt Newman Mining's Goninan new build GE CM39-8 model loco 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079.
Jim Bisdee photo.