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070529 9326442 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WGLA 30027 originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1965 as WF type bogie flat waggon, to WFW in 1974, then converted to bagged nickel matte traffic WGLA type in 1984.
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100601 8496442 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WN 512, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of thirty units built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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100611 0368442 viewsMidland, ATPY 602, fuel tanker, built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1976 as WJP type for BP Oil, capacity of 80500 litres.
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100731 3219442 viewsBinduli, AQHY 30110 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0013, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 at WF type flat waggons, then following several codes and modifications in 1997 seventy five were converted to WQH to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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222-20442 viewsSomewhere on the original single line section between Gull and Rosella Hamersley Iron 7071 serial 47750 a General Electric Dash 9-44CW built by GE at Erie.
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225-04442 viewsBing siding, the afternoon empty train to Yandi was a double AC6000, 112 waggons, AC6000 and 112 waggons for a long time, here's one on approach behind General Electric AC6000 6074 serial 51066 built by GE at Erie. Flashbutt yard is to the right. GeoData.
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226-04442 viewsYule River bridge showing new piles and deck to replace flood damaged piles after a cyclone that closed the line for two weeks in the late 1990s. GeoData.
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226-22442 viewsShaw siding back track at the 219 km, Speno RR 24 M-1 rail grinder stabled in back track, side view. GeoData.
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229-17442 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking at the exit portal of the tunnel as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 and sister 5642 drag a loading train at 1.2 km/h, the red and amber lights control entry to the tunnel and the steel pipe is for dust extraction. GeoData.
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151111 9525442 viewsA loaded train behind General Electric ES44DCi units 8113 serial 59105 in the original silver livery and 8145 serial 58726 in the tiger strip Rio livery and Dash 9-44CW 9433 serial 54766 in ROBE Pilbara Iron livery runs over the 54.04 km culvert on the West Mainline bound for Cape Lambert viewed from Table Hill.
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238-19442 viewsNelson Point loco overhaul shop sees former Southern Pacific loco 3079 EMD model SD40, serial number 7861-52 with the long hood removed due to the 645 prime mover failing not long after arrival in Australia. 27th January 2004. Geodata .
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060110 2212442 viewsOn the curve near the 85 km between Yeelanna and Karkoo, 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 leads an empty grain train. Approx. location of image.
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160524 4305442 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKAX 13, 2-pack rail transport waggon, Platform 2, 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. AFCX 13 & AKAX 5 where the donors for this waggon. Loaded with a full load of rail strings.
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160524 4326442 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RQWW 22027 container waggon, one of thirty two built by Comeng NSW in 1973-75 as JCW type 80' container waggon, recoded to NQTW, then NQWW. These differ from the follow on batches of the JCW type. Loaded with two 4EG1 type 40' boxes, RSSU 099649 and RWTU 941129.
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110710 7422 PD442 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQAY 2273, this orphan waggon started life as a Comeng Vic built GOX type open waggon for Commonwealth Railways in 1970, then coded AOOX. Under AWR ownership is was reduced to this 3 TEU unit container skeletal waggon. Peter Donaghy image.
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060528 4151442 viewsParkeston, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 221, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1940 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress as AS 6, in April 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 1, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 221. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2004.
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070527 9237442 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation coach RZAY 986 on train 6SP6 originally built by Comeng NSW in 1972 as a stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car, renumbered to 986 for Indian Pacific service, sold to National Rail Corporation in 1997 and converted to a crew car.
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161109 1908442 viewsMoule, originally Kinki Sharyo built NHA type NHA 992 for the NAR in 1968, to EP Division 1978, rebuilt with extended sides for gypsum traffic and recoded to ENHA type ENHA 4 in 1984. Shows signs of heavy patching to the body, loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1913442 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 46 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161111 2523442 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30056 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0083, 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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