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151111 9577386 viewsAn empty train is still struggling upgrade at the 98 km post on the Tom Price line behind double General Electric Dash 9-44CW units 9403 serial 53457 wearing ROBE Pilbara Rail livery and 7087 serial 47766 wearing the original Hamersley Iron livery.
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238-16386 viewsNelson Point, ex Southern Pacific tunnel motor locomotive 8335 an EMD SD40T-2 unit, serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, purchased as a spare parts source for the other SD40 style units BHP Billiton purchased in 2003/04. 19th November 2003. Geodata .
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239-33386 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 2214386 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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160523 2796386 viewsParkeston, APKY 30641, type leader of two built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as WK type pneumatic discharge bulk cement waggon.
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160525 4461386 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRAY 7243 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 48' deck with Pacific National 46' 6" reefer PNXR 4893.
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160525 4464386 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRAY 7243 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck with a 40' PLUS Breeze Logistics reefer BRZC 7.
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160526 5242386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, RRGY 7119 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of fifty originally built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as class RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and coded RRGY, 48' deck with a 40' KT class flatrack with concrete panels.
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160528 8356386 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RQSY 34493 container waggon, part of one hundred built by Tulloch NSW in 1974/75 as OCY type. Loaded with a 20' Royal Wolf 25G1 type box RWLU 739016[9] and a Simon 40' flatrack FD 66 with cable drums.
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160523 2977386 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRGY 7142 platform 3, 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 Pedemonts 40' 4EG1 type container PHR 419.
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160523 3031386 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRGY 7136 platform 2 of 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon, one of fifty originally built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and coded RRGY, RAND Refrigerated Logistics 46' 6" MFR3 type reefer RAND 346.
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160529 8794386 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQAY 21894 container waggon, one of a hundred waggons built in 1981 by EPT NSW as type NQAY, recoded to RQAY in 1994 with a Pacific National 48' curtinsider PNXC 4460.
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160529 8811386 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRGY 7125
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160529 8825386 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRGY 7144
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160529 8844386 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQQY 7076
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160530 9280386 viewsBinduli, 7SP3 intermodal service, RQCY 785
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160601 10109386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRZY 7019 platform 2 of 5-pack well waggon set of twenty six waggon sets built by Goninan in 1995-96 for National Rail as RQZY, later rebuilt and recoded as RRZY, double stacked with Rail Containers 40' 4EG1 type box TSPD 411018[4] and Linfox 46' 6" MFR3 type reefer FCAD 9106128.
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110710 7421 PD386 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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060107 1863386 viewsWinninowie, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 1 'Federation Straight' on train 6MP9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 78, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 360. Sold to WCR, then in October 2000 overhauled for crew car use and coded VPAY 1 on SCT services and owned by Freight Australia. Was later sold to Pacific National and subsequently scrapped 2016.
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060529 4721386 viewsParkeston, South Spur Rail AVDP type crew accommodation coach AVDP 277, built for the Commonwealth Railways by Comeng NSW as a brake van with sleeping accommodation as HRD type HRD 277 in 1971, modified for relay working in 1977, recoded to AVDY in 1983, then in 2002 leased for MurrayLander service before being sold to South Spur Rail and in this livery from mid 2005.
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