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204-32380 viewsPort Hedland, 42 Kingsmill Street, this house was bought for $102,000 in 2000, and sold for $900K 10 or 11 years later.

218-27380 viewsYandicoogina or HIY as Hamersley Iron identify it, located 445 km from Parker Point yard in Dampier. Bank engine units General Electric Dash 9-44CW models 7090 serial 47769 and 7089 idle away waiting their next loaded train to push out.

060528 4430380 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32386 with fleet number 4913, the 4 being a recent addition, 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, 28th May 2006.

100731 02292380 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33486 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-??? and fleet number 8987 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.

100731 02854380 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33376 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Goninan WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-081 and fleet number 875 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 7415 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.

030409 104458380 viewsWaddikee station located at the 218.3 km and opened in September 1921, yard overview with the rear waggons of a loaded grain train operating south to Cummins.

030411 142313380 viewsNunjikompita, a section where new ballast has started about a kilometre east of the yard.

060109 2127380 viewsKyancutta, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 as they shunt across Museum Terrace to re-join the train on the mainline. 9th January 2006.

060111 2317380 viewsNantuma, Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C model loco 1203 serial 65-427 leads two ALCo units 850 and 905 as they round the bend just north of the old station site at the 183 km. Their next shunt will be Warramboo. 11th January 2006.

060111 2341380 viewsKyancutta, the concrete and steel silo complexes frame 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 as it leads a north bound empty grain train. 11th January 2006.

060111 2374380 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.

060113 2546380 viewsKevin, narrow gauge locos 1604, NJ 3 and 1601 take the mainline to Thevenard, having reversed train 6DD3 on the Kevin triangle as they prepare to load, 1600 class unit 1604 in Australian Railroad Group livery a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-731, originally built as NJ class NJ 4 and built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 13th January 2006.

060113 2561380 viewsThevenard, loaded gypsum train 6DD4 snakes through the yard as it is about to cross Bergmann Drive behind 1600 class unit 1604 in Australian Railroad Group livery a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-731, originally built as NJ class NJ 4. Bergmann Dr grade crossing. 13th January 2006.

130704 0434380 viewsKyancutta, 1200 class unit 1204 wearing current owner Genesee & Wyoming livery is a Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C model with serial 65-428 heads up a loaded grain train as it undertakes a brake test following shunting to attach a further fourteen waggons. 4th July 2013.

130705 0566380 viewsLock, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 27, originally an NHB type hopper NHB 1598 built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Fitted with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover. 5th July 2013.

130705 0648380 viewsLock, type leader of the HBN type dual use ballast / grain hopper waggons, HBN 1, one of seventeen built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 with a 25 ton capacity, increased to 34 tons in 1974. HBN 1-11 fitted with removable tops and roll-top hatches in 1999-2000.

130706 0682380 viewsPort Lincoln, looking at the port infrastructure and the grain loading system.

130708 0724380 viewsCharra,

130708 0822380 viewsMoule, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 43 B, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Mewett Rd grade crossing, 470.1 km.