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160529 8780564 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQFY 80 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFY c1985, then RQFY May 1994, May 1995 to RQFF, then 2CM bogies fitted in Aug 1995 and current code Feb 1996, loaded with a 40' 4EG1 type Cronos box CXSU 103748[8] and a 20' 2EG1 type Pedemonts box PHR 529.
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160601 10144564 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRAY 7163 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck with a K&S 40' flatrack KT 140 loaded with reo mesh.
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060528 4255564 viewsParkeston, SCT PDAY type crew accommodation car PDAY 001 'Robert Mervin Yates', built by SAR Islington Workshops as a 250 type Bluebird second class railcar number 253 and named 'Pelican' in 1955, written off in 1995 and sold and eventually converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail Services in 2005.
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160526 5337564 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0152 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.
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160530 9153564 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0154 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.
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161111 2403564 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32187 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with a Bis Industries roll top 55UA type sulphur container SBIU 200636 and original style sulphur container S61H 829 with original style door and sliding tarpaulin.
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050421 1178564 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Barclay Mowlem track tamper a Fairmont Jackson model 6700 tamper side view. 21st April 2005.
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20846564 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, newly completed BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M rebuild unit 5637 'De Grey' serial 8181-01 / 92-123 sits on a Bell road transport float bound for Port Hedland. 5637 was rebuilt from AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5456 serial G6012-5. January 1992 image.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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23666564 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, view of several Mt Newman Mining AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 units, 5481 serial G6061-2, 5473 serial G6047-5 and 5477 serial G6047-9 awaiting rebuilding. December 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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030415 160010564 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, works compound see old livestock waggons converted to storage shed for gas bottles and the like. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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030416 083850564 viewsCarnes Siding located at the 566.4 km on the Central Australian line from Tarcoola to Alice Springs. Looking south from the goods siding off the loop with dead-end siding to loading ramp, communications tower at left. GeoData location. 1April 6, 2003.
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6989 001564 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. Mt Newman Mining's Goninan new build GE CM39-8 model loco 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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080621 2795564 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machine TM04 a Plasser Australia unit model 09-3X serial M489. 21st June 2008.
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210407 9847564 viewsParkeston, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 221, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1940 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress as AS 6, in April 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 1, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 221. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2004.
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130710 1052564 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0094 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty waggons from the second order built by Gemco WA for SCT.
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100603 8967564 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0046 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA in 2006/07 without the Greater Freighter signage.
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170-05563 viewsDookie, yard overview looking west, crossover with hand locking bar to mainline on the right, gravitational road runs along the front of the Williamstown style silo complex with steel annex visible, GEB sub-terminal in the background.
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166-19563 viewsHeathcote Junction, down V/Line broad gauge passenger service to Seymour consisting of Tulloch Ltd built DRC class diesel rail car climbing up hill to the summit.
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115-13563 viewsSomerton signal box, LHS elevation view, shows stair case.
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130-10563 viewsElmore up home semaphore signal located 460 metres before the up home points, looking south.
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