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184-11572 viewsAlbury loco depot, standard gauge V/Line G class loco G 525 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 86-1238, point lever.
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117-15572 viewsBenalla, stored broad gauge CP type bogie guards van 28 CP. Built by AE Goodwin NSW in February 1958 as CP type, in November 1988 placed on the historical register.
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186-23572 viewsBellevue, Westrail standard gauge light engine movement, train 168 stands in the flashbutt sidings prior to departure back to Forrestfield. NB class locomotive NB 1873 a Comeng built ALCo model CE618 serial WA-79 / C6099-3. This unit was originally a WAGR N class on narrow gauge, then reclassed to NA when fitted with air brakes in 1983, and then fitted with ex Mt Newman Mining ALCo M636 bogies in 1994 and classed NB.
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186-32572 viewsMidland, standard gauge yard, brand new Perth built National Rail NR class units NR 102 Goninan GE model Cv40-9i serial 7250-07/97-302 and NR 101 serial 7250-07/97-303 shunt out of the yard with the first built sister NR 61 serial 7250-11/96-263.
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140517-4419572 viewsA Tutt Bryant rope operated Pacific A.C.E. Equipment Wheel Loader, Fordson powered?? The front end loader which lifts the bucket over the cab to feed the trammel, or dump into a truck, see an historical picture of this unit here at the Battye Library and an image of a similar unit on the manufacturer's website
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197-29572 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, builders plate for Mancha type MB1 controller, serial number M6 3165.
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201-27572 viewsMidland, the first Perth built NR class NR 61 Goninan GE model Cv40-9i serial 7250-11/96-263 shunts at Midland with two brand new NR units NR 101 and NR 102 with waggon RQRX 60177.
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218-37572 viewsYandicoogina or HIY as Hamersley Iron identify it, located 445 km from Parker Point yard in Dampier. Bank engine units General Electric Dash 9-44CW models 7089 serial 47768 and 7090 wait their next loaded train to push out, the tail of which is visible on the left with the mine stockpile in the background.
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030406 114054572 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still wearing the former owner's AN livery, Australian Southern locomotive and NJ class NJ 4, Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C serial 71-731, no. 2 end roster view showing rear door and roof access ladder. April 6, 2003.
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030409 122744572 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.
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030409 154652572 viewsMoody Tank, section of the pipe running from the tank down to the railway line.
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060111 2252572 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.
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130708 0713572 viewsCharra,
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PD 12851572 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32371 with fleet number 905 and of the drop floor type, type leader 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, seen here in a rake with sister waggons.
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060603 5274572 viewsMidland, ABAY 30974 covered goods waggon originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA as part of a third batch of one hundred and thirty five WVX type covered vans, recoded to WVL in 1974 then to WBAX in 1987 and to WBWX in 1992.
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100611 0362572 viewsMidland, AZDY 30777, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to WQDF type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted late 1988/9 to WQDF, then WQDY.
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160103 9838572 viewsLocated in the bush near Colonial Mill is this relic of a Fordson One Man Power Grader originally supplied by Lynas Motors Ltd. An old newspaper article on these graders can be found here . Geodata: -22.3057767 118.3247750 .
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160128 00876572 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, the almost unmarked front of Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M unit 5661, serial 8412-06, builders no. 94-152 is surrounded by the twisted scrap that earlier formed the rest of the locomotive.
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237-33572 viewsDugite Siding, empty train in the passing track behind the standard pair of Hamersley Iron General Electric model Dash 9-44CW units 7066 serial 47745 and 7076. Geodata .
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160525 4475572 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRQY 8516 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of thirty four sets built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2012, 48' deck with a white 48' SCF box SCFU 480484.
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