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241-26345 viewsNelson Point, Mt Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW sits awaiting partial dismantling before being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's museum at Bassendean, Perth for preservation with two C36-7M units 5506 and 5510 also awaiting removal from site. June 2002.
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190107 0523345 viewsBinduli, following a crew change Mineral Resources empty iron ore train 2034 with Mineral Resources MRL class loco MRL 003 'Southern Cross' with serial R-0113-03/14-506 a UGL Rail Broadmeadow NSW built GE model C44ACi model leads two Pacific National NR class units NR 43 and NR 78 with 53 pairs of MHPYs and 2 single MHLY bottom discharge hopper waggons for 1293 metres and 2258 tonnes.
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190109 1653345 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00035 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-35 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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080304 2175345 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of slave waggon 1209, the yellow circle around the tare weight 22.6 t indicates the rotary coupler end, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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250-19345 viewsWater hole somewhere in the Pilbara around the Dampier - Tom Price railway area. 21st October 2000.
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252-03345 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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267-16345 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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210407 9900345 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RQFY type flat waggon RQFY 119 is a VQFX type skeletal container waggon built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 in a batch of seventy five. Recoded to VQFY in 1985, then to RQFY in 1994, then National Rail RQFF in 1995. Loaded with a 40' curtain sider container FICU 000002.
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130710 1009345 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PQTY 3045 bulkhead flat waggon was originally one of fifty RMX type container flat waggons built 1975-76 by Carmor Engineering SA, recoded through life to AQMX, AQMY and RQMY, seen here coded as PQTY type for SCT service and fitted with bulkheads pallets of gates and a 40' half height curtainsider SCT 1031 and a Macfield 40' flatrack MGCU 6609430.
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100603 9025345 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, ABSY type covered van ABSY 2683, one of a batch of fifty made by Comeng WA as VFX type 75' covered vans in 1977, recoded to ABFX then ABFY type, to SCT then Gemco WA upgraded it to ABSY type in 2004/05, seen here with the silver corrugated roof fitted.
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176-10344 viewsWodonga, V/Line standard gauge up goods train passing the Wodonga Coal Sidings behind the G class G 524 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 86-1237 and C class C 505 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-828 combination, broad gauge track on the left, and the former broad gauge line to Bandiana and Cudgewa curving around to the right.
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125-17344 viewsWandong, V/Line broad gauge B class Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-6 still in Victorian Railways livery leads a sleeper discharge train on the up broad gauge line, running along up platform.
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132-28344 viewsCarwarp, yard overview, Ascom silo complex, ground bunker on the left, station platform remnants at left, points for grain siding.
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131-2-11344 viewsCaldwell rice storage complex and sign.
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136-29344 viewsSeymour station platform view V/Line broad gauge A class A 62 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1183 rebuilt from B 62 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-3 waits in the rain to run the Sunday evening down Cobram pass 8345, cab side shot.
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147-37344 viewsSeymour loco depot, standard gauge V/Line shunt loco and Y class leader Y 101 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 63-291 sits on the standard gauge turntable road, front view, these units ride on former 'Swing Door' motor bogies.
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150-26344 viewsLismore, view of cattle yarding and chute ramp onto loading race.
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161-20344 viewsCobram, station platform and building overview, show well maintained garden, luggage trolley, the way we were.
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182-15344 viewsMurchison, derelict station site looking along mainline with horizontal GEB H style grain bunker.
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216-31344 viewsMoomba, panorama image five.
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