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040815 164638601 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA ballast waggon CHQY type 740 just being delivered to BHP Iron Ore as part of the Rail PACE project, 3/4 view from handbrake end.
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109-06600 viewsBroadford Loop, standard gauge track machine, Aresco ballast regulator.
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160128 00394600 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the ALCo remains of Goninan rebuild CM40-8ML (cabless, but cab fitted in 1996) 5664 serial 8412-09 / 94-155, the ALCo Hi-Ad bogies and fuel tanks of original ALCo M636 Comeng NSW built 5491 serial C6084-7.
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198-04599 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view of driving position, throttle and battery box of battery locomotive GEMCO Hauler serial 12304-05/10/65, motor H.P. 2/11, volts 80, drawbar pull (lbs.) 1250 built by George Moss Pty Ltd Leederville, WA. The wheel is the handbrake.
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160101 2300599 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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150523 8204599 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton SD70ACe unit 4368 is on the fuel tank shunt, is a unit from the last order of eighteen SD70ACe units for BHP Billiton built at Electro-Motive in London Ontario, serial 20098203-013.
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104-10598 viewsBuangor station building overview, automatic staff exchanger set up, looking east, point rodding.
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104-16598 viewsWallan, gangers trolley shed, front view from up line.
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112-13598 viewsNorth Geelong yard broad gauge track view, V/Line G class G 534 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1264 and sister loco with an empty grain train awaiting departure on No.1 Rd Sorting Sidings.
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102-07597 viewsWoomelang yard view, station platform edge, goods shed and super phosphate shed, Geelong style and new and old style Ascom silo complexes, taken from down platform.
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101-14597 viewsMaryborough, broad gauge V/Line X class leader X 31 Clyde Engineering EMD model G16C serial 66-484 long end leading, ballast train.
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160128 00385597 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M 5660 serial 8412-05/94-151 surrounded by remains and sibling units.
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101-15596 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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190-19596 viewsDemondrille, NSW Main South, looking south toward the North Box and platforms from the Wombat Road overbridge. The Dock Siding and platform are visible on the right.
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210-14595 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops track maintenance compound, Speno rail grinder model RR 28E, a twenty eight wheel grinder, this unit is very likely to have been originally used by Mt Newman Mining in the Pilbara in the 1970s. Even a 20 km remote railway requires a grinder! September 1995.
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213-16595 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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160101 2296595 viewsWittenoom Gorge, location of former power station, showing old foundations, looking north from approx. engine hall location, geodata: -22.3222833 118.3340833 , iPhone 5S image.
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160128 00000595 viewsSee 5661 reduced to frame level in just over 7 minutes.
A 176 tonnes locomotive is no match for a 40 tonne CAT excavator with a T-Rex type hydraulic set of shears.
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160128 00413A595 viewsView of the stripped out cab - drivers console of Goninan built CM39-8 unit 5631, serial no. 5831-10, builders no. 88-080.
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102-15594 viewsSpeed station platform access, annex silo for Geelong style complex.
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