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0017 Comeng WA 050315 0236456 viewsRedbank Bridge, elevated view of empty 116 kL fuel tanks all built by Comeng in both NSW and WA, 0017 and 0012 and others in the BHP blue and white livery.
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CC3 060414 3467456 viewsNelson Point yard, compressor waggon set No. 3, consisting of a weighted 'ballast' waggon closest to camera and the compressor car. Modified from former original Magor USA build ore waggons 673 and 683 and used on the end of rakes to keep the brakes of as they are run through the dumpers.
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6705 071202 1232456 viewsTurner Siding, CFCLA flat waggon AQPY type AQPY 2916, also carrying BHP road number 6705, a 55 tonne capacity waggon.
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060326 3217456 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, BHP track machine Tamper 3 a Plasser Australia unit model 09-3X serial M480 runs towards Nelson Point on the mainline with the new duplicated line being constructed in the foreground. 26th March 2006.
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030404 131510456 viewsPort Augusta, Spencer Junction shunt loco 830 class unit 863 serial 84709 is an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model and entered service in June 1963. 4th April 2003.
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170729 0065456 viewsCape Lambert South yard, a loaded train heads towards car dumper 7 behind General Electric built Dash 9-44CW unit 7043 serial 57094 wearing Pilbara Iron livery with HI reporting marks and two General Electric built ES44DCi units 8153 and 8107. 29th July 2017. GeoData.
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060715 6949456 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 03, compressor control waggon with two diesel powered Atlas Copco XAS 97's behind the loco and the receiver waggon with two air tanks or receivers closet to camera. Note the waggons are cut down ore waggons. Seen here just outside of 7 Mile. 15th July 2006.
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22657456 viewsBassendean, during an Open Day at the Goninan workshops, a stripped back ALCo locomotive frame under re-construction which will become a GE CM40-8M. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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030415 155314456 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking south east at the remains of the head shunt off the Camp Train and No. 1 Water Roads. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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170915 0717456 viewsAt the 18.2 km as part of the empty Roy Hill fuel train, TA type diesel fuel tank waggon TA 1010 built by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co China with a capacity of 96000 litres. 15th September 2017. View map here.
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171018 0959456 viewsTad Yard and Roy Hill's General Eclectic ES44ACi model unit RHA 1020 serial number 64301 idles away on the fuel train with tank waggons TA 1010 and TA 1003 which were built by China Southern Rail at their Zhuzhou works. This ES44ACi unit was built in February 2016 as Erie Pennsylvania, USA. 18th October 2017.
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240-19456 viewsWickham, left hand side number one end view of former Robe River and NSWGR MLW built ALCo RSC3 serial 77737 of October 1951, was originally 40 class 4006. Shows modified bogie to convert the A1A to a BO bogie type. 31st August 2002.
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190107 0620456 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00187 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-187 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190107 0629456 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00204 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-204 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190107 0636456 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00330 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-330 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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200914 7809456 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, Australian built by Comeng NSW an MLW ALCo M636 unit formerly owned by BHP 5502 serial C6096-7 built in July 1976, retired in 1994, donated to Society in November 1995. 14th September 2020.
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252-04456 viewsCockatoo Siding 273 km on the Hamersley Iron line to Yandi, General Electric built 9-44CW unit 7088 with serial number 47767 from the original 1994 build idles away on the eastern end of the ballast train as it is loaded and slowly progresses into the back track siding Ballast plough BP 02 is behind the locomotive. Location is roughly here. 24th November 2001.
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267-16456 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, the Sundowner Special is on the Newman mainline leg of the Goldsworthy Junction and triangle, with the Sundowner coach in between CM40-8M GE unit 5634 'Boodarie' serial number 8151-07 / 91-120 and sister CM40-8M 5653. This train, and the empty before it, were delayed due to a jamming switch for the transfer road where Tamper 2 and Ballast Regulator 31 can be seen holding track. The road curving around to the left is the Goldsworthy mainline to Boodarie and Finucane Island. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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130710 1026456 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1, ABSY type covered van ABSY 4479, originally built by Comeng WA in 1977 in a batch of one hundred for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type. Recoded to ABFX, then to ABFY in April 1996. To SCT as ABFY before being converted by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.
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231020 8257456 viewsParkeston, 20th of October 2023. Aurizon's Tronox mineral sands train 4UP1 from Ivanhoe / Broken Hill (NSW) to Kwinana (WA) runs along the mainline as it heads for Perth and then Kwinana.
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