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160524 4043328 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKMY 51, originally an ELX waggon, heavily modified to cart butter boxes, possibly ex Victorian Railways ELX / VOBX waggon 1961-63 vintage.

160524 4051328 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, NQFF 21529 container waggon, built by EPT NSW in 1975-76 as CFX type, loaded with three blue butter box containers, was also coded NQFX.

160529 8842328 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQQY 7076

160531 9911328 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKLY 20962

060528 4255328 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.

060529 4726328 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZBY type crew accommodation car RZBY 910 on train 6WP2, built by Comeng NSW as ER type stainless steel air conditioned crew dormitory car ER 210 in 1969, renumbered to ER 911 in 1974, sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997.

060530 4844328 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.

070531 9615328 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZBY type crew accommodation car RZBY 208 on train 3MP4, built by Comeng NSW as ER type stainless steel air conditioned crew dormitory car ER 208 in 1969, sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997.

161109 1916328 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 22 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.

161109 1964328 viewsThevenard, train 4DD4 enters the yard behind Genesee & Wyoming locomotives Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C unit 1601 serial 71-728 and 1603 serial 71-730 as they negotiate the yard to the GRA siding balloon for unloading.

040815 171432328 viewsNelson Point, view of brake valve and reservoirs mounting and piping of fuel tank waggon 0020, 82 kilolitre capacity built by Comeng NSW for BP as RTC 2, used by Mt Newman Mining, unsure when converted to 0020.

050518 2073328 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 741.

050518 2084328 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 755.

050410 0503328 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.

050414 0953328 viewsFlash Butt yard, Speno Australia's RR24 model 24 stone rail grinder serial M20 before it had id stickers fitted, this unit was later stickered as RG 1, view of the first grinding module coupled. 14th April 2005.

050421 1610328 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's two 24 stone rail grinders coupled together before they had id stickers fitted, the front unit was later stickered as RG 2, the rear unit was stickered as RG 1 and is serial M20. 21st April 2005.

050625 3814328 viewsNode 2 at the 38 km on the GML or former Goldsworthy mainline, two Barclay Mowlem sleeper inserter track machines off clear of the running lines. 25th June 2005.

050801 4735328 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem TM 21 a Plasser Australia 09-16 model tamper bar coupled to the clip installing machine. 1st August 2005.

050917 5518328 viewsCoon Siding, on the truncated passing siding following a derailment Switch Tamper SW 02 is a Plasser Australia model Unimat S4 switch tamper. 17th September 2005.