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150522 8194414 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M units lined up awaiting the chop, 5659, 5640, 5638, 5649, 5645, 5635, 5663, 5656, 5657, 5647 with 5646 out of view.
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040419 102034414 viewsAbydos back track, riveted flat waggon 202 with three water tanks fitted, 3/4 view from handbrake end, originally part of the 'camp train', modified by Mt Newman Mining railway workshops.
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103-20413 viewsBenalla Workshops, Victorian Railways broad gauge G type four wheel open waggon G 130, originally built by Ballarat North Workshops December 1939 as a GY type GY 130, recoded to G November 1981, and 'Off Register' 1986. Photo date 12-08-1990.
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110-05413 viewsBenalla yard view, broad gauge V/Line T class loco T 403 with serial 67-498 a Clyde Engineering Granville NSW built EMD model G18B stabled down Wodonga goods train 9303, point rodding, VLCX type bogie louvre van.
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110-19413 viewsAlbury station platform, V/Line standard gauge C class C 503 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-826 and NSWSRA 81 class 8171 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1090 with an up goods train waits departure time south, signal at right of frame is for the broad gauge passenger platform.
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186-16413 viewsMidland, Westrail standard gauge WQH type bogie flat waggon WQH 30117 with CSA 0025 tank, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WF type in 1965/66 and one of seventy five such waggons converted in 1997 to WQH from former WFDF/RFDF type waggons to carry CSA type sulphuric acid tanks, train number 428 loaded service, the empty train number was 027.
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198-10413 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Crossing Pool.
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213-25413 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point fuel point, Comalco R 1004 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT42C built 1990 serial 90-1277, weight 132 tonne, engine 12-710G3A, generator AR11-WBA-CA5, traction motors D87ETR, rated power 2460 kW/3300 hp. The body is similar to a V/Line N class while the components are the same as the Australian National AN class. Originally built for Goldsworthy Mining as GML 10 for use at their Western Australian iron ore railway and locally known as Cinderella. Purchased by Comalco in 1994 following the takeover of Goldsworthy by BHP.
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150505 7950413 viewsFMG Solomon Line, looking west along elevated section of track, repeater tower in distance. Geodata: -22.0398833 118.6280733 .
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242-07413 viewsNelson Point, BHP Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5508 serial 4839-04 / 87-073 about to be trucked to United Goninan Perth for eventual overhaul and repainting into the Pilbara Rail livery and leased to Pilbara Rail re-numbered 5052 as a shunt unit at Dampier. May 2002.
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102-18412 viewsHattah Lakes view of lake.
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111-13412 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge up Mt Gambier goods train 9192 heads around the Loop Line bound for Melbourne behind X class X 48 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-795 and X 42 serial 70-705, trailing view.
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110-15412 viewsBenalla, up home semaphore signal post 29B Yarrawonga line into Benalla yard and End of Train Order Working sign, triple disc signal posts 29 and 32 are in the background, taken on the 14th July 1991. Only a couple of weeks later and these signals would be reduced in number greatly as Benalla yard was heavily rationalised, all in the name of progress!
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114-14412 viewsTocumwal station yard, Malcolm Moore trans-shipping grab crane, looking south on broad gauge, standard gauge tracks on far right.
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186-09412 viewsMidland, empty narrow gauge grain train 283 rumbles past Midland Workshops behind a pair of Westrail P class locomotives P 2011 'Shire of Narembeen' Goninan GE model CM25-8 serial 6320-09/90-096 and P 2006 'Shire of Quairading' serial 6320-05/90-091.
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197-09412 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view looking south west of the open air locomotive storage roads with the battery off-take racks. The track used to continue around to the mine adits in the background.
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215-19412 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, fuel point roads, AN BL class BL 31 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1015 with 700 class 704 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-2 rest between jobs with V/Line broad gauge N class behind them.
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112-19411 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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210-10411 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops. Comalco shunt engine R 1003 coupled to a Difco side dump waggon. R 1003 is an Electro Motive built NW2 model with serial number 4114 and frame number of E761-8 was built in November 1946 at La Grange originally for Canadian National with road number 7943. Sold to Comalco in December 1975 and entered service in 1976. This unit was subsequently scrapped in 2000.
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060116 2676411 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33328 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Goninan WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-033 and fleet number 827 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, West Kalgoorlie 16th January 2006.
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