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230-0099 viewsYandi Two switch looking east with the Three Sisters forming the background. Empty BHP train heading for the balloon loop for loading, grade crossing is the YT 311.5 km. Geodata -22.713725, 119.055762 .
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230-1999 viewsYandi Two load-out tunnel exit side portal, Goninan rebuild GE CM40-8M model 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11/93-145 leads a loading train 1.2 km/h. The ore stockpile and pedestal stacker are visible. The pipe and fan are for the dust extraction system. The livery is the marigold version of the BHP Australia logo. Geodata -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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151111 953399 viewsView north from Table Hill, line curves around to pass through Lockyer Gap.
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232-1499 viewsYandi One backtrack, following a cyclone shutdown of the mainline and severe flooding around Yandi a 'mixed' freight train was operated to Yandi to deliver food, mail and diesel fuel to the mine and camp. Here BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128 idles away in the backtrack awaiting its path back to Port Hedland with flat waggon 6703, four fuel tank waggons and a broken ore waggon. February 1997. GeoData.
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234-0999 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5640 'Ethel Creek' serial 8281-05 / 92-129 is on the rear of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. View of engine hood and fuel tank. Circa 1998.
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060110 219699 viewsYeelanna, trailing shot with two AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 830 class, 851 serial 84137 and 842 serial 84140 as they shunt along the mainline behind 1204. Approx. location of image.
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060110 224099 viewsLock, grain train loading underway behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. An Ascom silo complex is closest to camera. Approx. location of image.
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160523 279799 viewsParkeston, APKY 30642, one of two built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as WK type pneumatic discharge bulk cement waggon.
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160523 280499 viewsParkeston, APNY 31151, type leader of twelve built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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160531 995799 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATMF 551 fuel tank waggon, one of three built by Tulloch Limited NSW as WJM type in 1971 with a capacity of 96.25 kL one compartment one dome, current capacity of 80500 litres. 551 and 552 for Shell and 553 for BP Oil.
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160524 374899 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRXY 3 platform 3 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a 46' RAND Refrigerated Logistics reefer RAND 134 on top of a Railroad Transport Bulk 40' box RTPH 4035.
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160524 374999 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRXY 3 platform 4 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a 46' RAND Refrigerated Logistics reefer RAND 92 on top of a Railroad Transport 40' box RRTU 004058.
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160525 444199 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RQQY 7077 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 17 built by Qld Rail at Ipswich Workshops in 1995, 48' Pacific National box PNXL 4320.
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160525 444099 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, crew accommodation coach RZAY 940, built by Comeng NSW in 1968 as ARJ 240, a stainless steel, air conditioned, roomette sleeping car, rebuilt by AN Rail Port Augusta Workshops to RZAY in 1997.
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160525 444599 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RQQY 7077 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 17 built by Qld Rail at Ipswich Workshops in 1995, 46' Pacific National reefer PNXR 4852.
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160528 833499 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 92 serial 7250-05/97-291, originally built for National Rail now in current owner Pacific National livery.
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160528 838499 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 30 serial 7250-05/97-232, originally built for National Rail now in current owner Pacific National livery.
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160523 297499 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RQFY 47 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in 1978 in a batch of twenty as QMX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFX, RQFX, RQFF, August 1995 2CM bogies fitted and to RQFY. A 40' Simon FD flatrack FD 146 loaded with cable drums and Royal Wolf 20' box RWLU 096014.
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160523 297599 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRGY 7142 platform 5, RRGY type is a 5-pack articulated skeletal container waggon, one of fifty originally built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and recoded to RRGY. Loaded with a 20' ISO 22T8 type tank for coregas CGBU 000003 [6] with argon and a 20' 22G1 type box for Hapag-Lloyd HLXU 205028 [1].
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160524 402099 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4 behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 62 serial 7250-11/96-264 and NR 68 serial 7250-12/96-270.
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