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160-36564 viewsWunghnu, track view from former station building site looking across tracks to Williamstown style silo complex with steel annex, train load-out spouts, HK Holden, truck sampling platform.
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161-27564 viewsTocumwal, V/Line broad gauge KMQ type four wheel container waggon KMQ 85 with a loaded VWS type sleeper transport container VWS 014, KMQ 85 started life as a T type fixed wheel base ice refrigerated van built in January 1924 at Newport by Craig and Party, in March of 1976 it was converted to the KMQ type at Bendigo Workshops.
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183-02564 viewsDeer Park, an Adelaide bound down broad gauge goods train behind Australian National BL class BL 31 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1015 and 700 class 705 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-3 crosses Fitzgerald Road.
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182-02564 viewsWahgunyah, Delarue silo complex located on former station platform, looking north to wards terminus, rake of bogie container waggons for Uncle Tobys at left.
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140517-4395564 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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140517-4416564 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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140517-4424564 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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204-22564 viewsWittenoom Gorge Mine, remains of asbestos mining, underground tipping ore cars, detail view of wheels and underside of car.
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204-29564 viewsPort Hedland, 42 Kingsmill Street, this house was bought for $102,000 in 2000, and sold for $900K 10 or 11 years later.
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220-35564 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, empty train with the trailing loco a Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8ML model 5664 'Kaohsiung' serial 8412-09 / 94-155 was originally rebuilt without a driving cab for use as a LocoTrol II controlling remote, then one was retrofitted following improvements in the size of the required LocoTrol equipment and for operational purposes. Seen here as the trailing remote during a period of trials on Yandi trains where the consist was two leads units, 112 waggons, one loco, 112 waggons and the final loco.
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100602 8538564 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33436 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Group Rail WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-141 and fleet number 8935 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with the 8 being an addition as the fleet size has increased beyond 1000 waggons, 82.5 ton capacity and build date of 04/2006 waggon for Portman Mining, seen here loaded with fines west of Binduli, June 2, 2010.
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100602 8695564 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31469 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-041 and fleet number 532 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity and build date 06/2000, for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance, with the letters now painted over, loaded with fines ore, West Kalgoorlie June 2, 2010.
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030406 114738564 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still in former owner AN livery, Australian Southern 830 class locomotive 872 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G3422-02 which has been on the Eyre Peninsula Division since being built in March 1966, cab side shot coupled to the B end of DA 7. April 6, 2003.
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030406 141408564 viewsKapinnie, end of the line, looking from the terminus of the former continuation for the Mount Hope line back towards Kapinnie. April 6, 2003.
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030406 142210564 viewsKapinnie, yard view of former goods shed, loading ramp, concrete silo complex beside it. April 6, 2003.
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030406 142926564 viewsKapinnie, brand new AusBulk sign for Kapinnie silos. April 6, 2003.
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030409 115618564 viewsDarke Peake, at the 195 km Dog Fence Road grade crossing 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, rebuilt from 830 class unit 839 by Port Augusta Workshops, retains original serial 83730 and model DL531 with the first twelve waggons behind the locos XNW type.
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030409 123253564 viewsKielpa, looking south along the mainline at the 185 km post, grain siding coming in from the left.
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051102 6634564 viewsThevenard, No. 2 end right hand side of Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit and class leader 1601, originally NJ 1 'Ben Chifley' serial 71-728, built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981, repainted and renumbered to 1601 in November 2004.
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060111 2395564 viewsWannamana, 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 here leading a north bound empty grain train heading to Wudinna. Wannamana was located at the 210 km and opened in January 1927, this scene is some 79 years later. The siding was closed in April 1957. 11th January 2006.
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