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125-14412 viewsWandong passing under Kilmore - Wandong Rd, V/Line broad gauge B class B 65 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-6 still in Victorian Railways livery leads a sleeper discharge train on the up broad gauge line, discharging sleepers.
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144-37412 viewsBoort yard view, silos with loading spouts, containers on waggons, Holden HK sedan and broad gauge V/Line RT class rail tractor RT 14. RT 14 was built new by Newport Workshops June 1959.
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162-1-02412 viewsHealesville, view of goods shed, eastern side elevation and loading platform, fenced off compound with track machines, standard Victorian Railways 20 ft goods shed.
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157-29412 viewsKilmore East, Apex Quarry Siding, V/Line broad gauge locomotives N class N 471 'City of Benalla' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1200 and T class T 390 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 65-420 with train under the loading bins during loading operations, view from Broadford - Kilmore Road.
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160-23412 viewsShepparton, V/Line broad gauge VDSF type bogie safety waggon VDSF 2, started life as a Flexi-Van transport waggon FV 2 built by South Australian Railways' Islington Workshops in July 1961, then became FVF in 1962 on standard gauge, in the 1980s back to broad gauge and coded VQAY, VDSY and became VSDF in 1988, hand brake end showing ratchet style hand brake.
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112-22412 viewsNorth Geelong grain loop, V/Line broad gauge locos H class H 2 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 68-630, H 5 serial 68-632 and H 4 serial 68-633 shunt around the grain loop unloading a grain train.
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139-17412 viewsBallarat, looking towards Lydiard St from Armstrong St bridge, semaphore signal Posts 30 and 30A, 30A are 'co-acting' signals for Post 30, operated from Ballarat Signal Box B at Lydiard St, this junction goes from double track to triple and used to be four roads through the station building. The manual interlocked gates of Lydiard St are just visible through the road overbridge. Left hand Arm Up Home Up Line to 'A' to Post 29 for No. 4 Road, middle Arm Up Home Up Line to 'B' to Post 27 or 28 for No. 3 or 2 Roads and the right Arm Up Home Up Line to 'C' to Post 26 for No. 1 Road.
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117-14412 viewsBenalla, stored broad gauge waggons, VHNA type bogie ballast waggon with plate frame bogies VHNA 72, stencilled 'Held for ARHS'. Built by Newport Workshops in June 1913 at QN type, in February 1981 recoded to VHNA type and placed off register in May 1984.
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206-30412 viewsAn empty train on the Yarrie (former Goldsworthy) line behind BHP 5633 'Hephaestus' built new in 1988 by Goninan as a GE CM39-8 model, serial 5831-12 / 88-082. The four CM39-8 units were upgraded to CM40-8 units following overhauls and finally scrapped in January 2016.
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209-22412 viewsMidland, the midday east bound freighter waits for line clear behind Westrail's Clyde Engineering built EMD GT26C model L class units L 262 serial 68-552 and L 269.
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216-23412 viewsMoomba, view of surrounding sand hills
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216-36412 viewsMoomba.
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100729 01490412 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31400 is one of a batch of twenty five built by Comeng WA between 1974 and 1975 and converted from Mt Newman high sided waggons by WAGR Midland Workshops with a capacity of 67 tons with fleet number 324 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations. This waggon was also converted to a WSM type ballast hopper by re-fitting the cut down top section and having bottom discharge doors fitted, converted back to WOB in 1998, on a loaded train at Binduli, 29th July 2010.
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060108 2075412 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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060111 2387412 viewsKyancutta, 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.
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060113 2463412 viewsThevenard, narrow gauge loco 1604 with a fresh crew depart the yard with empty train 6DD3, 1604 leads a triple consist of Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 the original class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 1604 and 1601 both renumbered in 2004. 13th January 2006.
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060113 2464412 viewsThevenard, narrow gauge loco 1604 with a fresh crew depart the yard with empty train 6DD3, 1604 leads a triple consist of Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 the original class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 1604 and 1601 both renumbered in 2004. 13th January 2006.
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130703 0140412 viewsMurdinga, bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 47, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.
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130704 0388412 viewsKyancutta, south bound loaded grain train has stopped here to collect a loaded rack of grain waggons, seen here running out of the 'new grain siding' added in 1970 behind EMD 1204 and twin ALCo 830 units 873 and 851. 4th July 2013.
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060528 4656412 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATMF 551 fuel tank waggon, one of three built by Tulloch Limited NSW as WJM type in 1971 with a capacity of 96,250 litres, one compartment, one dome, current capacity of 80,500 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers. WJM's 551 and 552 built for Shell and 553 built for BP Oil.
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