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161109 1961377 viewsThevenard, train 4DD4 enters the yard behind Genesee & Wyoming locomotive Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C unit 1601 serial 71-728 as it is about to snake its way across to the GRA siding balloon loop for unloading.
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161111 2428377 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32160 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a Bis Industries roll-top 55UA type sulphur container SBIU 200601 and an undecorated Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur container BISU 100015.
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161116 5111377 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, tank waggon ATBY 14592, built by Westrail Midland Workshops 1981 for Bain Leasing as type JPB, 82 kL, on narrow gauge as JPBA, then SG WJPB, note vacuum brake pipe and type F InterLock coupler, 6130 has conventional style coupler.
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161116 5130377 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, container flat waggon AQWY 30329, built by Tomlinson Steel WA in a batch of 161 WFX type waggons between 1969 and 1970. Fitted with three 20' wheel set carrying frames.
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040815 171420377 viewsNelson Point, view of access ladder, brake valve and discharge piping of fuel tank waggon 0020, 82 kilolitre capacity built by Comeng NSW for BP as RTC 2, used by Mt Newman Mining, unsure when converted to 0020.
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041012 082946377 viewsBing Siding, one of twenty original Oroville Dam waggons built by Magor USA in 1963, sold to Mt Newman Mining in 1968, ballast waggon 509 (of 501-520) still in near delivered condition. Note the access ladder and the weld line where the internal plates are for bottom discharge of ballast.
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050518 2122377 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 746, rear view with shipping decal.
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060429 3741377 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon 6702 is a heavily cut down and modified Magor USA ore waggon done by Mt Newman Mining workshops, converted to a 50 tonne flat waggon.
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050412 0816377 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, view of cab side and the tamper mechanism of BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 12th April 2005.
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050421 1176377 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Barclay Mowlem track tamper a Fairmont Jackson model 6700 tamper number board detail view. 21st April 2005.
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050801 4724377 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem tamping machine TM 8644 a Tamper HSTR 130 model serial 3581011. 1st August 2005.
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050801 4735377 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem TM 21 a Plasser Australia 09-16 model tamper bar coupled to the clip installing machine. 1st August 2005.
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110208 9437377 viewsFlash Butt yard, one of a batch of six flat waggons converted by Mt Newman Mining workshops by cutting down a pair of ore waggons to make one flat waggon, 6101 in service with the rail recovery and transport train.
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150314 7752377 viewsBing Siding, empty 82 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0004 one of six such tank waggons built in 1970-71.
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030404 103000377 viewsPort Augusta, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 30 serial 7250-05 / 97-232 was painted in a Bessie Liddle of Alice Springs designed aboriginal livery titled 'Warmi' or the snake, John Moriarty of Balarinji Design did the artwork.
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170729 0135377 viewsGreen Pool, an empty Rio Tinto iron ore train runs along the Lyndon River behind General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8184 serial 60782 and a pair of Pilbara Iron liveried with HI reporting marks General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 7045 and 7049. 29th July 2017. GeoData.
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170729 0163377 viewsFortescue River Bridge on the Robe River line at the 115.8 km, a loaded Deepdale train heading for Cape Lambert behind the standard motive power for this line, double General Electric built ES44ACi units, 9114 serial 62545 and sister unit 9101 serial 61939 run over the largest rail bridge in the Pilbara. 29th July 2017. GeoData.
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060723 7762377 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 03, compressor control waggon with two diesel powered Atlas Copco XAS 97's. These are built on former ore waggons that have been cut down. Seen here just outside of 7 Mile. 23rd July 2006.
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5944 001 Welshpool 1987April377 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining C636 ALCo unit 5453 serial G6012-2 built by AE Goodwin in 1969 is undergoing a world first as it gets rebuilt into a GE C36-7M locomotive. In this April 1987 view the process has started with the bogies and fuel tank removed. By February 1988 it would be the final C36-7M built for Mt Newman Mining as 5513. April 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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030415 154708377 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking south east along the No. 1 Water Road, first set of points is the Camp Train Road, then the two Loco Roads No. 1 and No. 2. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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