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230-3778 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, 3/4 view from no. 2 end of Goninan rebuilt GE CM40-8M model 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03/92-128 from AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 5459. Shows the silver BHP Australia logo, the logo on the hood has been painted out. Geodata -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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232-2578 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, waggons are standard Comeng WA builds. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.
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233-1678 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. A loading train lead by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 as it drags the train through at 1.2 km/h with assistance from two sister units. GeoData.
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234-1278 viewsYandi Two, loaded BHP Iron Ore waggon #4316 a Goninan built 3CR12 style stainless steel construction from 1997. Handbrake and bogie view.
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234-1678 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 left hand side rear bogie. Circa 1998.
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235-0578 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 arrives with the afternoon 240 waggon empty train, the hydraulic lines and dust extraction equipment frame the loco.
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236-3678 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 'Chichester' serial 51063 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted, cab side and bogie view.
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238-2478 viewsNelson Point loco overhaul shop, former Union Pacific loco 3523 an EMD SD40-2 model, serial 786170-25 and now numbered 3085 for BHP Billiton Iron One service had only been in operation for eleven days when this shot was taken on the 27th November 2004. Geodata .
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239-3678 viewsYandi Two, train loading is under way with a pair of Goninan rebuild units, CM40-8MEFI unit 5668 'Dunkirk' serial 8412-01/95-159 and CM40-8M unit 5644 'Kangan' serial 8281-09/92-133. The lead unit was originally Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 5489 serial C6084-5, while second unit 5644 was originally a AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 5471 serial G6047-3.
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060110 220978 viewsOn the curve near the 85 km between Yeelanna and Karkoo, 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 leads an empty grain train. Approx. location of image.
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160522 230778 viewsParkeston, APNY 31155 one 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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160525 443778 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train downgrade over the hill behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 64 serial 7250-11/96-266 and NR 11 serial 7250-02/97-213.
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160526 520178 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Melbourne bound intermodal train 4PM6 arrives with Binduli in the distance behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 71 serial 7250-01/97-273 and NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214.
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160526 521978 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, RQLY 1009 articulated 5-pack centre well waggon set, one of fourteen sets built by AN Rail Islington Workshops SA in 1991, loaded with 40' containers and two 20' high glass plate containers in well.
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160523 297878 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRGY 7142 platform 5, RRGY type is a 2-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 Patricks 40' curtainsider SPD? 45.
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160523 297978 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRGY 7142 platform 1, 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 half height 20' 28T9 type special tank for compressed helium WCGU 000275 [0] for Aire Liquide and a 20' 25G1 type Royal Wolf container RWPU 203225 [0].
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160524 402278 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 68 serial 7250-12/96-270.
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160524 402878 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKWY 2289, empty, built by Comeng Victoria in 1970 as type GOX, recoded to AOOX, then ROOX.
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160524 404378 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKMY 51, originally an ELX waggon, heavily modified to cart butter boxes, possibly ex Victorian Railways ELX / VOBX waggon 1961-63 vintage.
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160524 404778 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKQF 60229, empty slab steel waggon, originally a Tulloch NSW built louvre van type JLY/X from 1969-70, NLJY/X, converted at Bathurst Workshops to NQRX in 1988, then in 1989/90 to NKQF.
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