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161109 1945381 viewsMoule, originally Kinki Sharyo built NHA type NHA 978 for the NAR in 1968, to EP Division 1978, rebuilt with extended sides for gypsum traffic and recoded to ENHA type ENHA 2 in 1984 with heavy patch repairs and hungry boards fitted loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1971381 viewsThevenard, train 4DD4 rumbles across Bergmann Drive with lead unit Genesee & Wyoming locomotive Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C unit 1601 serial 71-728, 1601 was originally built as the class leader of the NJ class NJ 1 and name 'Ben Chifley' and after starting life on the Central Australia line was transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981.
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161111 2524381 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30082 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0112, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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161112 3014381 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, CQZY type waggon CQZY 1650, built by CIMC at Dalian China for CFCLA and one of fifteen on lease to Aurizon with a pair of original style sulphur containers with sliding tarpaulins, S68B G861 with what look to be fork pockets in the top sill, and S86W G988.
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161116 5104381 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, tank waggon ATPF 606, built by Westrail Midland Workshops 1982 for Shell as type WJP 80.66 kL one compartment one dome. Shows type F InterLock couplers between ATPF 606 and ATPF 575.
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040805 095721381 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA CHQY type ballast waggon CHQY 741.
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040806 091220381 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, weighbridge test waggon 510 originally built by Magor USA and ex Oroville Dam, converted by Mt Newman Mining into a test waggon.
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050518 2179381 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 520, the last of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.
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050704 3973381 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0017 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons.
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050315 0240381 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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060429 3753381 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon 6704 flat waggon, unsure of history or who built it or where it came from, it looks to be heavy duty with riveted side frames and an odd handbrake arrangement.
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060429 3757381 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon, 6002 originally built for Goldsworthy Mining as one of a batch of six with a 55 tonne rating by Tomlinson Steel in 1966 of which three were sold to Mt Newman Mining in 1967 and numbered 6001-6003.
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060429 3762381 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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050410 0512381 viewsNelson Point yard hard stand area sees 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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050625 3602381 viewsMooka North, BHP's new Tamper 3 track machine a Plasser Australia 09-3X model serial M480. 25th June 2005.
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060710 6240381 viewsAt the Broome Rd grade crossing Port Hedland, track machine BR 33 a Plasser Australia ballast regulator model SSP 302 serial M486. 10th July 2006.
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100717 0686381 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6046, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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110411 10034381 viewsNelson Point, empty 82 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0004 one of six such tank waggons built in 1970-71.
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150619 9102381 viewsFlash Butt yard, CNR-QRRS of China built side dump waggons, built and delivered around 2011-12, waggon 0713 loaded with fines for sheeting.
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030404 104454381 viewsPort Augusta, Spencer Junction yard, RQZY type five unit bar coupled well container waggon RQZY 7050 built as one of a batch of thirty two by Goninan NSW for National Rail, detail of the bar coupling arrangement. 4th April, 2003.
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