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160523 298783 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, PQYY 7083 platform 5, PQYY type is a 5-pack articulated well waggon set built in September 1995 by AN Islington Workshops as one of a pair of RQYY for Boxcar/Cubico and recoded in the late '90s to PQYY. Loaded with a 40' 42G1 type GVC container GVCU 4011542 [8].
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160523 300083 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRGY 7149, the RRGY type is a 5-pack articulated skeletal container waggon, fifty were 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 48' boxes on the intermediate platforms and two by 20' boxes each end.
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160523 300583 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RQBY 15021 63' container waggon, one of seventy that Comeng NSW built as OCY type container flat waggon in 1974-75, recoded to NQOY, then NQSY and NQBY. Loaded with a 20' Royal Wolf 25G1 type box RWPU 203894 [2] and a 40' Cronos 4EG1 type box CXSU 114740 [1].
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160523 301283 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RQKY 2693 container waggon, built by Perry Engineering SA in 1974 in a batch of seventy four RM type motor vehicle flat waggons, converted to AQPY container waggon, then fitted with aligned bogies and recoded to AQMP. April 1994 to RQKY. Loaded with two Norwest Shipping 20' 2CG9 type containers NWSU 8019 and NWSU 8032.
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160524 405283 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, NQYY 20897 container waggon, originally built by EPT NSW in 1980-81 as an NODY open waggon before being heavily modified by ANI Engineering in 1998. Two 20' Pacific National Royal Wolf containers RWLU 814956 and 814895.
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160524 430383 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKAX 6, 2-pack rail transport waggon, Platform 1, this waggon was converted by Port Augusta Workshops from two original FBX type waggons built in 1968-69 by Islington Workshops in a batch of twenty later coded AFCX. AKAX 6 and AKCX 14 where the donors for this waggon. Loaded with a full load of rail strings.
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160529 877783 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRQY 7324 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 in a batch of twenty nine for Pacific National with a 40' 4PSG type curtinsider Royal Wolf RWTU 903123.
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160530 926483 viewsBinduli, 7SP3 intermodal service, RQFY 71 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFY c1985, then RQFF April 1994, May 1995 to RQFY and 2CM bogies fitted.
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160531 986483 viewsBinduli, 3PM4 steel train, RKLY 20589
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160531 987883 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, RQGY type container waggon RQGY 34496, one of one hundred built by Tulloch Ltd In 1974/75 as an OCY type, recoded NQOY, then converted to NQSY and NQGY early 1990s. Loaded with three 22G1 type 20' Royal Wolf boxes, RWMC 815947, RWMC 817992 and RWMC 815903. 31st of May 2016.
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160531 994183 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 3PM4 steel train, empty container waggon RQGY 34430.
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160601 1015183 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRYY 22 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated low profile skel waggon set, one of fifty two such sets built by Bradken Rail Braemar from a Williams-Worley design, based on the TNT TRAY type for moving automotive carrying containers, 46' RAND Refrigerated Logistics reefer RAND 143.
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160609 045683 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RQGY 34425 container waggon built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1974/75 as type OCY, then NQOY. FCL 20' orange box FCBU 963215 and an Air Liquide 20' tanktainer IS 16-8.
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160609 048283 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RRAY 7180 platform 2 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of a hundred built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 48' deck with a Pacific National 48' curtainsider PNXC 002.
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060528 425583 viewsParkeston, SCT PDAY type crew accommodation car PDAY 001 'Robert Mervin Yates', built by SAR Islington Workshops as a 250 type Bluebird second class railcar number 253 and named 'Pelican' in 1955, written off in 1995 and sold and eventually converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail Services in 2005.
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060528 425883 viewsParkeston, SCT PDAY type crew accommodation car PDAY 001 'Robert Mervin Yates', built by SAR Islington Workshops as a 250 type Bluebird second class railcar number 253 and named 'Pelican' in 1955, written off in 1995 and sold and eventually converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail Services in 2005.
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060530 484483 viewsParkeston, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 2 'Great Artesian' on train 2PM9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 79, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 361. Recoded to AVDY in October 1982, then to AVDP. 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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060608 588283 viewsMidland, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation car RZAY 940 was built by Comeng NSW as an ARJ type stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car ARJ 240 in 1968, allocated to the Indian Pacific Joint Stock in 1970, renumbered to ARJ 940 in 1974 and sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997.
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160522 227483 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ARBY type ARBY 4430 refrigerated van, originally built by Comeng WA in 1977 as a VFX type covered van for Commonwealth Railways, recoded to ABFX and converted from ABFY by Gemco WA in 2004/05 to ARBY.
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160523 284583 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, ABSY type van ABSY 4431, one of a batch of fifty made by Comeng WA as VFX type 75' covered vans 1977, recoded to ABFX type, seen here with the silver corrugated roof fitted when Gemco WA upgraded it to ABSY type.
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