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030407 105011377 viewsPoochera, rotating jib crane on plinth, view looking north. 7th April 2003.
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030407 105517377 viewsPoochera, track view and side view of HCN type bogie wheat waggon HCN 36, modified at Islington Workshops in 1978-80 which started life as a Tulloch built NHB type iron ore hopper for the CR on the North Australia Railway in 1968-69, showing the roll top covers. 7th April 2003.
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030411 110227377 viewsKimba, rail recovery winch waggon EZWL 2, shows cabin mounted above motor and winch, built using underframe of broad gauge horse box BH 4331. To Eyre Peninsula 1992, recoded then from AZWL. Scrapped in 2005.
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030411 142313377 viewsNunjikompita, a section where new ballast has started about a kilometre east of the yard.
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060111 2288377 viewsWarrachie, 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 leads an empty grain train between Murdinga and Lock. 11th January 2006.
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060111 2325377 viewsWarramboo, Kimba Road grade crossing, 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, here shunting off the grain siding and back to the mainline to resume the journey north. 11th January 2006.
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060111 2373377 viewsKyancutta, 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.
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060111 2390377 viewsKyancutta, ARG 900 class unit 905, originally built by AE Goodwin as 830 class unit 836 serial 83727, converted to DA class DA 6 by Australian National at Port Augusta workshops for driver only operation in 1996. Trailing unit in a north bound grain train. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2438377 viewsThevenard, at the Gypsum Resources Australian (GRA) gypsum unloading site, 1604 leads a triple consist of Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 1604 and 1601 both renumbered in 2004. Friday 13th January 2006.
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060113 2522377 viewsKevin, empty train 6DD3 is heading onto the south leg and original gypsum loading siding to continue the reversing process. 13th January 2006.
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060113 2552377 viewsKevin, standing on the mainline to Thevenard, and the train now identified as 6DD4 has commenced loading of gypsum but the 988 Cat front end loaders which takes about one and half hours to load. As the train reversed on the triangle the consist is the same heading back loaded with 1604 leading NJ 3 and 1601. 13th January 2006.
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130704 0506377 viewsMoule, view of the massive silo complex of Thevenard in the distance across the water, they are approximately 13 km away, location here. 4th July 2013.
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130705 0527377 viewsLock, 1203, 846 and 859 shunt their loading grain train out of the siding onto the mainline. Genesee & Wyoming locomotive AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 unit 859 'City of Port Lincoln' serial 84705, built in 1963, 859 started life at Peterborough, spent some years in Tasmania and even spent time in Perth on standard gauge in 2002 before being repainted and transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 2003. 5th of July 2013.
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130708 0814377 viewsMoule, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 36 U, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Mewett Rd grade crossing, 470.1 km.
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130708 0832377 viewsMoule, crossing loop, 445.6 km.
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130708 0856377 viewsPenong Junction, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 33 Q, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum [url=https://goo.gl/maps/45FyW] located at the 429.7 km[url].
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130708 0975377 viewsThevenard,
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PD 12608377 viewsBinduli, WO type iron ore waggon WO 31208 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 104 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, this unit was converted to WOC for coal in 1986 till 1994 when it was re-classed back to WO. Seen here re-sheeted and painted with the body top lip also fitted.
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PD 12848377 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32382 with black and white fleet number of 904, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55.
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060527 4103377 viewsScotia, AQNY 32212, final member of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S44S and S40F both with original style doors and sliding tarpaulins, train 6029 loaded Malcolm freighter.
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