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051101 6582134 viewsParkeston, Australian Southern Railroad JRA type crew accommodation coach JRA 6, originally built in 1958 by SAR Islington as corten steel V&SAR Joint Stock roomette sleeping car Tarkinji for The Overland. Recoded to JRA 6 1987. Written off and sold in 1995. Converted to ASR crew car 1999. It is now ADFY 6 with GWA and no longer has the fluted sides.
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060529 4721134 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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160524 3654134 viewsKalgoorlie, SCT train 2PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0006 Greater Freighter, one of thirty five units built by Gemco WA in 2005 with the 'Greater Freighter' signage.
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161109 1899134 viewsMoule, former BHP RSK type iron ore waggon, modified by G&W Port Lincoln to cart gypsum and coded RSG type, RSG 4, fitted with hungry boards and loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1903134 viewsMoule, former BHP RSK type iron ore waggon, modified by G&W Port Lincoln to cart gypsum and coded RSG type, RSG 3, note the riveted body, fitted with hungry boards and loaded with gypsum.
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161111 2538134 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AZDY 30705, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY 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.
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050624 3330134 viewsGoldsworthy, train end and hand brake of the Sundowner coach, originally built by E. G. Budd in 1939 numbered 301 as the Silver Star as a diner-parlour-observation coach on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's General Pershing Zephyr train from the 1930s and 1940s. Donated to Mt Newman Mining Co. by AMAX an original joint venture partner to commemorate the projects first 100 million tonnes of iron ore railed between Mount Whaleback mine and the Port Hedland port.
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050704 3978134 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0018 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons, detail of the A end and bogie, wearing the BHP Billiton Earth livery.
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030403 162241134 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 103013134 viewsPort Augusta, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 30 serial 7250-05 / 97-232 was painted in a Bessie Liddle of Alice Springs designed aboriginal livery titled 'Warmi' or the snake, John Moriarty of Balarinji Design did the artwork.
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030404 104006134 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, National Rail Goninan built GE Cv40-9i model NR class unit NR 34 serial 7250-06 / 97-236 sits in the yard in between jobs. 4th April 2003.
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060723 7825134 viewsOriginal Hamersley Iron compressor waggon sets IC-1 and IC-3 which were made from cutting down condemned ore waggons and then fitting Atlas Copco XAS 97 air compressors, receiver tanks and fuel tanks. The compressors have been fitted to a swing cradle to limit the in-train forces during the unloading process. 7 Mile 23rd July 2006.
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23713134 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin built ALCo model M636 unit 5473 serial G6047-5 being scrapped to frame level, cab section on truck. December 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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242-29134 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved Goldsworthy Mining B class unit #2 serial number A-105, these units of Bo-Bo design with a 6CSRKT 640 kW prime mover were built at the English Electric Rocklea Qld plant in 1965 and primarily used for the construction of the Mt Goldsworthy to Finucane Island railway. May 2002.
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190107 0444134 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources Ltd MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00355 built by CSR Yangtze Co China in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190107 0452134 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources Ltd bogie on MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00014 built by CSR Yangtze Co China in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190107 0534134 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources empty iron ore train 2034 with second unit Pacific National NR class loco NR 43 with serial 7250-07 / 97-245 a Goninan Broadmeadow NSW built GE model Cv40-9i model locomotive with 4000 horsepower originally built for the National Rail Corporation.
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190107 0650134 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Mineral Resources MRL class loco MRL 002 'Spirit of Yilgarn' with serial R-0113-03/14-505 a UGL Rail Broadmeadow NSW built GE model C44ACi model locomotive sits on a rake of fuel waggons awaiting its' transfer run to Esperance on the overnight fuel train.
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190109 1580134 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00041 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-41 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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150619 9150134 viewsMooka, side section 5 of 5, BHP Iron Ore's track recording vehicle, EM80 which is a Plasser & Theurer EM-80 model and still wearing the old BHP blue and white livery, this unit was delivered in Mt Newman Mining orange and white, Mermec fitted a Tecnogamma system as part of a refurbishment.
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