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211-24422 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, front view of Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 while is sits at the fuel point, items of note are the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also as the Weipa locomotives don't work in MU there is only the train brake hose and the main res hose for charging the belly dump discharge doors.
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216-33422 viewsMoomba, panorama image seven.
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100602 8568422 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33374 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Goninan WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-079 and fleet number 873 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a build date of 02/2006 and a revised load of 82.5 tonnes with PORTMAN painted out, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.
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100602 8694422 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31484 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-056 and fleet number 547 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity build date 07/2000, for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance, loaded with fines ore West Kalgoorlie, 2nd June 2010.
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030405 145612422 viewsWarramboo, track view across to loading ramp located at the northern end of the sidings, 5th April 2003.
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030406 095944422 viewsCummins, view inside the concrete train control booth, shows writing desk and box on wall with phone inside. 6th April 2003.
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060108 2074422 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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PD 12859422 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 34073 with fleet number 935, 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.
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060528 4449422 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WQTY 30337 built by Tomlinson Steel WA in a batch of one hundred and sixty one WFX type container flat waggons, from 1970 it spent a couple of years on the narrow gauge as QWF type. In 1980 re-coded to WQCX and then in 1996 to WQTY.
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060531 5075422 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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060603 5233422 viewsMidland, APKY 30642, one of two built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as WK type pneumatic discharge bulk cement waggon.
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060603 5251 WTEY7314J422 viewsMidland, WTEY 7314 diesel fuel tank waggon, former NTAF in service for BP Oil, former AMPOL tank, coded WTEY when arrived in WA.
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060603 5415422 viewsMidland, AQNY 32202 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic.
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100608 9712422 viewsMidland, AQNY 32204, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S81A with a replacement lower door and roll top tarpaulin and S90W in original condition on train 2430 empty Malcolm freighter.
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100608 9714422 viewsMidland, AQNY 32210, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S163J with original door and sliding tarpaulin and S149B with replacement door and roll top tarpaulin, on train 2430 empty Malcolm freighter.
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100731 3207422 viewsBinduli, WN 508, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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150523 8220422 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0043 with safety slogan 'ASAP - As safe as possible', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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231-04422 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 an Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M GE unit loads a train at 1.2 km/h with second unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141, note the difference in the liveries, 50 is in the teal and marigold logo and logo on the hood while 52 has the silver logo on the front only and no logo on the hood. GeoData.
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239-36422 viewsYandi Two, train loading is under way with a pair of Goninan rebuild units, CM40-8MEFI unit 5668 'Dunkirk' serial 8412-01/95-159 and CM40-8M unit 5644 'Kangan' serial 8281-09/92-133. The lead unit was originally Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 5489 serial C6084-5, while second unit 5644 was originally a AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 5471 serial G6047-3.
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060110 2192422 viewsYeelanna, the second person watches ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 as it shunts forward to cut out the empty cars for the siding. Approx. location of image.
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