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238-25376 viewsNelson Point loco overhaul shop, former Union Pacific loco 3523 an EMD SD40-2 model, serial 786170-25 and now numbered 3085 for BHP Billiton Iron One service had only been in operation for eleven days when this shot was taken on the 27th November 2004. Geodata .

060110 2175376 viewsCummins, empty grain train departing yard on the Penong mainline at the Bratten Way grade crossing behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.

160523 2798376 viewsParkeston, APKY 30642, one of two built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as WK type pneumatic discharge bulk cement waggon.

160525 4475376 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRQY 8516 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of thirty four sets built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2012, 48' deck with a white 48' SCF box SCFU 480484.

160524 4320376 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKBY 20411 loaded with steel rods. RKBY 20411 is the class leader of some six hundred BDY / NODY type open waggons built by EPT in NSW between 1977 and 1981.

160529 8796376 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQJW 22051

070529 9353376 viewsParkeston; Pacific National RZDY type crew accommodation car RZDY 103 'Ibis' on train 2PM6 originally built by SAR Islington Workshops as a Bluebird railcar driving trailer in 1956 named 'Ibis', in 1986 numbered 103, in 1990 converted to locomotive hauled and coded as BR type BR 103, written off in 1995 and sold off. It was owned by a number of owners and finally in 2006 converted to a Pacific National crew car.

160526 5344376 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ABSY type ABSY 3121 covered van, originally built by Comeng WA in 1977 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type, recoded to ABFX and RBFX to SCT as ABFY before conversion by Gemco WA to ABSY in 2004/05.

161109 1918376 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 43 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.

161109 1922376 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 20 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.

161109 1949376 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 52 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.

161112 3020376 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, following a loco and crew change loaded sulphur train 6029 continues onto Malcolm behind the final two Clyde Engineering EMD model GT46C Q class units Q 4019 (originally Q 319) serial 98-1472 and Q 4018 (originally Q 318) serial 98-1471 as it crosses Gateacre Rd.

050412 0766376 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 524, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.

050518 2164376 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 535, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.

050704 3974376 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0012 from 1972, one of three such tank waggons, view of A end and bogie detail.

050315 0241376 viewsRedbank Bridge, elevated view of empty 116 kL fuel tanks all built by Comeng in both NSW and WA, 0011 and others in the BHP blue and white livery.

050724 4243376 viewsNelson Point yard, flat waggons in service on the Pony re-laying train as transport waggons for sleepers, with a gantry car sitting atop a heavily modified and cut down Oroville waggon, with the left waggon a Scotts of Ipswich built flat waggon from in 1970 for then Mt Newman Mining Company.

050410 0512376 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.

050421 1618376 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's RR24 model 24 stone rail grinder serial M20 before they had id stickers fitted, this unit was later stickered as RG 1, rear view of the generator and driving module. 21st April 2005.