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160525 462774 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), ABSY type ABSY 2454 covered van, originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA in 1971 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type recoded to ABFX and then RBFX to SCT as ABFY before being converted by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.

160527 552874 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0043 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.

160527 554674 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0156 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.

160529 887974 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0034 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.

160530 917774 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0041 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.

161109 190774 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 37 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.

161109 196074 viewsThevenard, train 4DD4 enters the yard behind Genesee & Wyoming locomotive Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C unit 1601 serial 71-728 as it is about to snake its way across to the GRA siding balloon loop for unloading.

161109 196174 viewsThevenard, train 4DD4 enters the yard behind Genesee & Wyoming locomotive Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C unit 1601 serial 71-728 as it is about to snake its way across to the GRA siding balloon loop for unloading.

161109 197174 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.

161111 248474 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, container flat waggon AQWY 31037, built by Centrecon Ltd WA in 1981 in a batch of thirty five WFA type container waggons, another eighteen were also built by Westrail, to WQCY in 1987, to RHQY in 1994, back to WQCY in 1995, loaded here with two 20' 22G1 type Maersk boxes for lead nitrate, MSKU 351808 and 825739.

161111 248574 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, container flat waggon AQWY 31006, one of a batch of eighteen built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1981 as WFA type, to WQCY type in 1987, to RHQY in 1994 then back to WQCY in 1995, seen here loaded with two 20' 22G1 type Maersk boxes for lead nitrate, MSKU 336235 and MSKU 438595 and a 20' half height box for Nickel West NIWU 100079 that normally contains quartz for the smelter.

161111 249674 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQRY 1001

161111 253574 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30020 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0115, 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.

161112 301574 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, CQZY type waggon CQZY 1655, built by CIMC at Dalian China for CFCLA and one of fifteen on lease to Aurizon with a pair of un-decaled hard-top 25U0 type containers BISU 100025 and BISU 100068.

040805 09574474 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA CHQY type ballast waggon CHQY 741.

040815 16480074 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA ballast waggon CHQY type 730 having just been offloaded from road transport and placed on rail, view from handbrake end.

050319 014374 viewsNelson Point, rail recovery and transport train, 2nd lead off waggon 6201, built by Comeng WA, the mesh guarding is for the winch cable. The chute arrangement for the discharging and recovery of rail is visible.

050412 075574 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 534, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.

050412 076474 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 533, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.