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135-02563 viewsLoaded coal train sneaks past Ipswich signal box behind QR 2400 class units 2503 and 2500.
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112-11563 viewsViolet Town, looking north across Cowslip Street, standard gauge NSWSRA 81 class 8174 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1093 in candy livery with an up goods heads south, station building behind camera, broad gauge track on the left, March 1994.
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205-05563 viewsHooley Station front gate turn off sign, Roebourne - Wittenoom Road, 22 km, 'Cattle With Altitude'.
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213-18563 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops, Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like you see on the GT26C models of WAGR L or VR C classes.
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8335 roster rhs 040627 135444563 viewsNelson Point, Ex Southern Pacific SD40T-2 loco 8335 serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, this unit was purchased as a spares source for the other SD40 style units. The T signifies that it is a Tunnel motor with a modified radiator intake to allow 'cool' running through the Sierra Nevada tunnels. And the 'M' with a lighting rod through it meant that it was a master unit for radio controlled helpers, used in the Tehachapi mountains. 27th of June 2004.
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103-10562 viewsSpringhurst station yard view looking north, mainline points on No.2 Rd for the Wahgunyah line have been spiked and clipped normal, standard gauge flyover on right, yard being rationalised, note redundant disc signal post 5 on ground.
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190-16562 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, departmental waggon W 1569, a loaded NHBF type bogie ballast waggon NHBF 1569 with a Comeng plate.
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160525 4943562 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1. Inline fuelling waggon QQFY 4271, originally built for Commonwealth Railways in 1976 by Perry Engineering SA as type RMX, recoded to AQMX, 70 tonne bogies became AQMY, then RQMY, to QR National in 2007. Seen here with two 30' diesel fuel tanktainers from Nantong Tank Container Company, NTTU 330006 and NTTU 330001 each with a 30800 litre capacity, and fuel transfer or pump unit QRIP 06.
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111-13561 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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113-05561 viewsBallarat East loco depot, Queen St bridge in distance, line at right is the former Eureka line, V/Line broad gauge up Adelaide goods train 9150 behind the quad CGCG combo of C class C 506 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-829, G class G 538 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1271, C class C 510 serial 76-833 and G class G 513 serial 85-1241, in miserable conditions, poor quality.
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107-01561 viewsKyabram track view looking north, 200 km post, Kyabram Co-op Fruit Preserving Company and Southern Can Company sidings on the left, point rodding and points spiked for normal, Kyabram Fruit Packers siding on the right in the background.
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135-01561 viewsIpswich yard, narrow gauge Comeng Qld built (under contract for Clyde Engineering) EMD model GL22C, Queensland Rail's 1502 class unit 1523, in 2005 1523 was rebuilt and now operated by FCAB in Chile as their 1455.
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114-14561 viewsTocumwal station yard, Malcolm Moore trans-shipping grab crane, looking south on broad gauge, standard gauge tracks on far right.
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192-09561 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot roundhouse, a trio of ALCo RSD-20 or DL-541 models built by AE Goodwin for NSWGR as the 45 class are in the stages of being sealed up for long term storage, 4539 serial 84181 is already done, 4533 serial 84175 and 4537 serial 84179 wait their turn.
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198-10561 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Crossing Pool.
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207-18561 viewsBHP General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 serial 51063 brand new and unnamed on the loaded side of Yandi One load-out loop as a remote mid-train unit, showing roof view and the original style windscreen protectors.
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060111 2411561 viewsWudinna, 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, 1203 and two ALCo units 850 and 905 shunt back down the mainline at Wudinna as they run round their consist. 11th January 2006.
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104-09560 viewsBuangor crossing loop, detail shot of point rodding changing direction and passing under the tracks.
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103-05560 viewsSpringhurst station building overview, staff exchange platform and walkway across tracks, apparatus set up gauge, signal levers visible in windows, staff exchange box on station wall.
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109-16560 viewsSeymour, rationalised yard view with V/Line broad gauge stabled grain train, X class X 47 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-794 and S class S 307 'John Pascoe Fawkner' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 57-171, V/Line Grain VHGF type bogie grain waggons, trailing view.
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