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207-19397 viewsBHP General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 serial 51063 brand new and unnamed on the loaded side of Yandi One load-out loop as a remote mid-train unit, showing roof view and the original style windscreen protectors.
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208-1-16397 viewsBassendean, looking towards Perth as a diesel electric multiple unit ADA class ADA 761 runs a two car Midland bound service.
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210-18397 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, observer's side of Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 while is sits at the fuel point, items of note are the second 'tropical roof', CCTV looking down the driver's 'off side' and the five chime horn cut into the hood. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like the WAGR L or VR C classes which are also GT26C models and the fire extinguisher cut in below the radiator.
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060527 4090397 viewsScotia, AQHY 30023 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0017, 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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150505 7937397 viewsFMG Solomon Line, looking east across earth fill abutment with culverts, sign indicating Babangarra Creek. Geodata: -22.0522533 118.7402133 .
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160128 00406397 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, rear view of Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M 5641 serial 8281-06, builders no. 92-130 flanked either side by later rebuilds 5660 and 5668. Note the newer rebuilds have marker lights while 41 has none.
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178-23396 viewsBallarat East, track view looking east towards Warrenheip, V/Line broad gauge down goods train under the power of G class G 532 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1262 and a sister are about to diverge from the down mainline to No.1 Rd, the disc on signal post 3 is pulled off for the move, new electric light signal post at the end of the former Eureka line has its head turned away from the track until commissioned, Ballarat East loco depot is on the right.
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107-08396 viewsTongala station yard, goods platform and loading crane, looking south.
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134-04396 viewsKagaru, station overview, station building, waiting room, signal box, staff exchange platform.
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187-05396 viewsMonkland, Gympie Queensland. View looking in the Up direction east from Brisbane Rd grade crossing with four lever ground frame and interlocking room. GeoData.
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195-18396 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking south down the gorge, the Colonial Mine is on the right and not visible behind the rock. The former market garden area can be just seen at the bottom left of image as Bolitho Rd cuts through the middle.
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210-12396 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, Comeng Qld 1976 build HMAS type bottom discharge ore car 3089, this was the second last car of that order.
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030414 153405396 viewsPenong, looking east from the end of line along the grain loop, 'mainline' peels off to the right, horizontal bunker block 3 on the left with an Ascom silo complex block 1 behind that.
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150523 8199396 viewsNelson Point Yard, with only another month to operate, BHP Billiton CM40-8M locomotive 5666 'Taranto' is a trailing unit as the loaded rake waits to head to the car dumpers for unloading. 5666 started life as a Comeng NSW built M636 ALCo 5487 before Goninan rebuilt it in 1995 to a CM40-8MEFI as it was the first unit to trial an electronic fuel injection system. Come the 1st of July 2015 all these units were all stored.
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105-32395 viewsSeymour loco depot, broad gauge Victorian Railways S class S 303 'C J Latrobe' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 57-167 in withdrawn condition sits at the turntable under SRHC ownership.
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113-07395 viewsWarrenheip, up home semaphore signal post 11, V/Line broad gauge up Adelaide goods train 9150 behind the quad CGCG combo of C class C 506 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-829, G class G 538 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1271, C class C 510 serial 76-833 and G class G 513 serial 85-1241, train 9150 up Adelaide goods, in miserable conditions, poor quality.
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178-16395 viewsArarat, track view looking east as V/Line broad gauge goods train 9169 to Adelaide powers up along the mainline off the Portland line under the signal gantry with semaphore signal post 4 pulled off behind Australian National BL class locomotives BL 27 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1011 and class leader BL 26 'Bob Hawke' serial 83-1010 and V/Line S class S 313 'Alfred Deakin' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 61-230 and X class X 53 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-800, taken from the former Works and Cattle Sidings area, the Aradale Asylum is in the background.
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101-19395 viewsDonald station building and platform overview.
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192-11395 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot roundhouse, a pair of ALCo RSD-20 or DL-541 models built by AE Goodwin for NSWGR as the 45 class are in the stages of being sealed up for long term storage, 4511 serial 84153 is already done while 4528 serial 84170 wait its turn.
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194-25395 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view into the loco workshop - battery charging shed, looking south, Mancha haulers with their battery modules on the racks, switchboard at right, with charging transformer visible in the background.
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