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060110 2223454 viewsAt the Procter Rd grade crossing about halfway between Yeelanna and Karkoo, empty grain train 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. Approx. location of image.
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160524 4303454 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKAX 6, 2-pack rail transport waggon, Platform 1, this waggon was converted by Port Augusta Workshops from two original FBX type waggons built in 1968-69 by Islington Workshops in a batch of twenty later coded AFCX. AKAX 6 and AKCX 14 where the donors for this waggon. Loaded with a full load of rail strings.
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160601 10128454 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RQZY 7036 platform 3 of 5-pack well waggon set one of thirty two waggon sets built by Goninan NSW for National Rail in 1995-96, double stacked with Toll 40' 4FG1 type box TOLH 910107 and Scott's Refrigerated Railways 46' 6" MPR3 type reefer SRR 033.
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110710 7425 PD454 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQAY 2273, this orphan waggon started life as a Comeng Vic built GOX type open waggon for Commonwealth Railways in 1970, then coded AOOX. Under AWR ownership is was reduced to this 3 TEU unit container skeletal waggon. Peter Donaghy image.
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160530 9159454 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, ABSY type ABSY 2792 covered van, originally built by Carmor Engineering SA in 1976 as a VFX type covered van for Commonwealth Railways, recoded to ABFX and converted from ABFY by Gemco WA in 2004/05 to ABSY.
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161116 5553454 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443, tank waggon NTAY 6126, built by Indeng Qld 1976 for Shell as SCA type SCA 277, fitted with conventional couplers.
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CHQY 741 040805 095752454 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA CHQY type ballast waggon CHQY 741.
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0507 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 040806 091212454 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, weighbridge test waggon 507, originally built by Magor USA and ex Oroville Dam, converted by Mt Newman Mining into a 20 ton axle load test waggon.
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0013 Comeng WA 050315 0240454 viewsRedbank Bridge, elevated view of empty 116 kL fuel tanks all built by Comeng in both NSW and WA, 0013 and others in the BHP blue and white livery.
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6013 Scotts of Ipswich Qld 050522 2729454 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #19, 6013, built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld in 1970.
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6015 Comeng WA 050522 2736454 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #26, 6015, built by Comeng WA in November 1971.
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060429 3720454 viewsFlash Butt yard, view of Harsco 'Pony' track resleeping and relaying machine. Originally owned by Barclay Mowlem.
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060429 3762454 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon, #2, originally built for Goldsworthy Mining as one of a batch of six with a 55 tonne rating by Tomlinson Steel in 1966.
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Pony Harsco 060429 3766454 viewsFlash Butt yard, view of Harsco 'Pony' track resleeping and relaying machine. Originally owned by Barclay Mowlem.
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050409 0410454 viewsShell Swagman Roadhouse, Lampson eighty wheel float ready to deliver BHP's new mainline tamper a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480 view of front trolley and tarp protecting windscreen. 9th April 2005.
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050410 0524454 viewsNelson Point yard hard stand area rear view of brand new having only been delivered the day before, BHP track tamper to become Tamper 3, a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480. 10th April 2005.
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050421 1612454 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's 24 stone rail grinder before they had id stickers fitted, this front unit was later stickered as RG 2, side view of the driving cab on the generator module. 21st April 2005.
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050801 4721454 viewsNelson Point yard, ballast regulator BR 33 a Plasser Australia model SSP 302 unit serial M486. 1st August 2005.
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030404 125115454 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, a Perth bound intermodal awaits departure time on 13 Road behind National Rail NR class units built by Goninan as GE Cv40-9i models, NR 50 serial 7250-08 / 97-252. 4th April 2003.
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060723 7825454 viewsOriginal Hamersley Iron compressor waggon sets IC-1 and IC-3 which were made from cutting down condemned ore waggons and then fitting Atlas Copco XAS 97 air compressors, receiver tanks and fuel tanks. The compressors have been fitted to a swing cradle to limit the in-train forces during the unloading process. 7 Mile 23rd July 2006.
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