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100611 0345416 viewsMidland, WNC 31181, one of two WNC type waggons built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1978 as a pneumatic discharge bulk cement waggon.

100731 3194416 viewsBinduli, WNB type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WNB 542, one of six units built by Bluebird Rail Services SA in 2010 for BHP Billiton.

100731 3205416 viewsBinduli, WN 528, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.

100731 3206416 viewsBinduli, WN 533, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of a further ten built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WN type in 1975 for WMC

100731 3219416 viewsBinduli, AQHY 30110 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0013, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 at WF type flat waggons, then following several codes and modifications in 1997 seventy five were converted to WQH to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.

227-37416 viewsNelson Point, tug boat Warilla, 50 ton bollard pull Z-Peller type, built by Tamar Steel Boats in Launceston in 1982, pulls a loaded carrier clear of B berth as a sister vessel Warang passes behind.

229-16416 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking at the exit portal of the tunnel as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 drags a loading through at 1.2 km/h, the massive pile of ore is gravity fed into the waggons via two sets of hydraulic chutes, the red and amber lights control access through the tunnel and the steel pipe is for dust extraction. GeoData.

229-23416 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking at the exit portal of the tunnel as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 drags a loading train through at 1.2 km/h, the massive pile of ore is gravity fed into the waggons via two sets of hydraulic chutes, the original pedestal radial stacker is visible above the ore along with the extraction fan. GeoData.

150523 8215416 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0034 with safety slogan 'Thank Safe + Work Safe = Go Home Safe', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.

150523 8216416 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0032 with safety slogan 'Start with safety', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.

235-16416 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 leads the afternoon 240 waggon train with second unit Goninan built CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus' as the exit the loadout tunnel, notice the fuel tank differences between the lead unit an ALCo rebuild and the second unit built new.

060110 2231416 viewsKarkoo, 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.

160531 9872416 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, diesel fuel tanker ATKY 545, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW for ESSO Australia 1975 as a WJK type capacity of 105000 litres, sold to BP Oil in 1986, current capacity is probably 80500 litres in line with the rest of the fleet.

160601 10073416 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, APTF type diesel fuel tanker ATPF 582, Shell Fleet No. 694, built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1976 for Shell. Converted to narrow gauge 1986 and recoded JPC. Capacity now 80,500 litres.

160524 3766416 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRAY 7232 platform 3 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, with a 46' 6" RAND Refrigerated Logistic reefer RAND 267.

160525 4533416 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RQSY 15042 container waggon, one of seventy built by Comeng NSW in 1974-75 as OCY type, to NQOY type, then NQBY, 48' Toll box TDDS 48645.

160528 8452416 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, platform 1 of 5-pack RRRY 7012 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005, double stacked with a Intermodal Solutions 48' box RCS 4839 and RAND Refrigerated Logistics 46' 6" reefer RAND 400 on top.

160524 4035416 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKLY 20202 with two butter box containers RH109 and RH144, originally built by EPT NSW in 1979-81 as an BDY type open waggon before being heavily modified by ANI Engineering in 1998, was also coded NKHY, RKHY prior to 1998.

160529 8788416 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQFY 119 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFY in 1985, recoded in April 1994 RQFY, May 1995 to RQFF and 2CM bogies fitted August 1995, loaded with a 48' Pacific National curtainsider PNXC 4455.