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195-15532 viewsWittenoom, view from the Devil's Staircase of Colonial Mill and Mine with piles of tailings, the building and yard at the bottom of the frame is the warehouse or store and gated yard with the workshop being the larger of the two, the buildings at the top level are the locomotive and underground mining offices and workshops, with the crusher and milling and bagging plant using gravity to its advantage.
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102-25531 viewsWangaratta signal box, houses a 74 lever frame and dates from the late 1880s and was an electric staff location, note the auto exchanger gauges against the south wall of the building.
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106-21531 viewsSeymour loco depot, broad gauge V/Line VZMF type bogie ballast waggon VZMF 38, side view.
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101-10531 viewsMaryborough, broad gauge V/Line G class leader G 511 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 84-1239 and G 541 serial 89-1274 cab side shot.
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213-16531 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops building, looking south east at the rear of the building and yard. From the left, R 1003, waggons, R 1001 and the Canron Rail Group Mk I switch tamper.
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150522 8162531 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the first batch of BHP Billiton Dash 8 locos to be scrapped, 5646 serial 8244-11/92-135 one of a pair of new Goninan WA built CM40-8 units has already had most of the hood removed and the V16 7FDL prime mover is visible. To right are units 5647, 5657, 5656, 5663, 5635, 5645, 5649, 5638, 5640 and 5659.
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102-12530 viewsSpeed radio repeater site.
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111-01530 viewsNorth Geelong grain arrivals yard, V/Line broad gauge locos N class N 461 'City of Ararat' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1190 and X class X 47 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-794 with a loaded grain rake, semaphore signal post 13 and ground dwarf disc signal 12 and 14 with another loaded grain rake.
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101-21530 viewsDonald loco depot, broad gauge V/Line locos T class Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B, G class Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS and Y class Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B.
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186-01530 viewsMidland, Westrail standard gauge up Kalgoorlie loaded acid train 428 crosses Lloyd Street behind a pair of L class locomotives L 263 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C, serial 68-553 and L 274 serial 73-779, with the dual gauge track to the Flashbutt Yard in the foreground. The empty return working of this train was 027 empty acid.
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160526 5234530 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, 5-pack RRRY 7004 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005 double stacked with a range of 40' and 48' boxes and 46' reefers.
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104-13529 viewsBuangor station building overview, front elevation of building, signal box and platform, very dark.
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102-24529 viewsWangaratta yard view, V/Line broad gauge track machine 6-62-001, Plasser Flash-butt Welder, model K 355 PT, Melbourne end of yard in fuel siding, standard gauge line behind in cutting, footbridge over it.
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109-06529 viewsBroadford Loop, standard gauge track machine, Aresco ballast regulator.
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101-15529 viewsMaryborough yard view, four broad gauge V/Line VZTX type bogie manual discharge sleeper waggons VZTX 4, started out as BP type Steel Mail/Baggage Van BP 7 built in 1959 by Newport Workshops, went on to become VBAX 17 in 1979, then converted September 1988 at Bendigo Workshops to VZTX type.
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195-16529 viewsWittenoom, view from the Devil's Staircase of Colonial Mill and Mine with piles of tailings, milling site overview, looking south, railway workshops and underground offices are the higher buildings, then the primary crushing shed, holding silo, down to the mill and then the bag house and associated sheds, tailings line the gorge side.
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203-29529 viewsDrillers Ridge, Wittenoom, Toyota HJ75, the road up to this little spot is actually sealed.
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213-17529 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops, Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like you see on the GT26C models of WAGR L or VR C classes.
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213-37529 viewsWeipa, an empty train departs Lorim Point behind Comalco R 1004 a Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT42C built 1990 serial 90-1277 originally as GML 10 for Goldsworthy Mining in Western Australia, bought by Comalco in 1994.
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160101 2300529 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view inside drive No. 5, formally sealed, erosion has collapsed the sealing door, geodata: -22.3247417 118.3277889 , iPhone 5S image.
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