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160525 4946600 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1. Inline fuelling waggon QQFY 4271, originally built for Commonwealth Railways in 1976 by Perry Engineering SA as type RMX, recoded to AQMX, 70 tonne bogies became AQMY, then RQMY, to QR National in 2007. Seen here with two 30' diesel fuel tanktainers from Nantong Tank Container Company, NTTU 330006 and NTTU 330001 each with a 30800 litre capacity, and fuel transfer or pump unit QRIP 06.
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190109 1572600 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00106 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-106 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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103-24599 viewsBenalla, broad gauge V/Line VFLX type bogie bulk end flat waggon VFLX 49 loaded with rail, Benalla B signal box in background. VFLX 49 was built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops as an SFX type bulkhead flat waggon in 1968. This waggon was recoded to VQLX 138 in May 1991.
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110-09599 viewsBenalla yard view, NSW louvre vans, looking north from goods shed loading platform.
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186-16599 viewsMidland, Westrail standard gauge WQH type bogie flat waggon WQH 30117 with CSA 0025 tank, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WF type in 1965/66 and one of seventy five such waggons converted in 1997 to WQH from former WFDF/RFDF type waggons to carry CSA type sulphuric acid tanks, train number 428 loaded service, the empty train number was 027.
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194-27599 viewsYandi campsite for Henry Walker operated iron ore mine owned and managed by BHP, view from man cage during indoor cricket pitch installation .
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150505 7963599 viewsFMG Solomon Line, a pair of General Electric Dash 9-44CW locomotives 005 serial 58182 and 006 serial 58183 struggle upgrade with a loaded train at the 227 km bound for Port Hedland, the bank engines assisting in the rear can just be seen. Geodata: -22.0189283 118.5861050 .
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160522 2039599 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, view from rear looking at NQOY 15056 and RQCY 701 loaded with bogies for Trans-Perth B set 116. NQOY type waggon built by Comeng NSW in batch of seventy OCY type container waggons in 1974/75. Recoded to NQOY in 1979-80.
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170915 0712599 viewsAt the 18.2 km as part of the empty Roy Hill fuel train, TA type diesel fuel tank waggon TA 1006 built by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co China with a capacity of 96000 litres. 15th September 2017. View map here.
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180616 1847599 viewsMaitland Siding, a loaded Mesa A train runs along the mainline behind the standard double General Electric ES44ACi units that operate the Robe Valley trains, Rio Tinto loco 9113 with serial 62544 a GE Erie built GE model ES44ACi from the 2nd order in Rio Tinto Stripes livery leads sister unit 9114 serial 62545 at the 96 km. 19th June 2018. GeoData.
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113-08598 viewsWarrenheip, 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, in miserable conditions, wait as a down passenger train with N class N 472 'City of Sale' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1201 and double N set passes.
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123-2-04598 viewsMaffra, broad gauge V/Line RT class rail tractor RT 49, has a very long rest between tasks out here! RT 49 started out as I waggon 7507 built by Victorian Railways 21-02-1905, converted to IA in 1936, then K 85 in April 1955 and in 1969 to the underframe of RT 49 by Ballarat North Workshops.
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101-04598 viewsDandenong, Boral Quarry overview of new plant being constructed.
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197-21598 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view of the accident statistic board located at the main mine adit.
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030414 154350598 viewsPenong, 505.6 km looking east with the goods loop coming in on the right to join the mainline. The car is on the grain loop. Station shelter on the right is where the original barracks were located.
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160128 00406598 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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1050 001598 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. Brand new GE CM39-8 locomotive 5633 serial 5831-12 / 88-082 is only in the early stages of construction for Mt Newman Mining.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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111-32597 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, V/Line down broad gauge goods train 9169 to Adelaide via Cressy with C class C 508 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-831, S class S 307 'John Pascoe Fawkner' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 57-171 and S 317 'Sir John Monash' serial 61-240 powers west past the grain arrivals, VSCX type bogie coil steel waggon.
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140517-4316597 viewsEginbah Siding area, of the Marble Bar railway, former locomotive watering stop alongside the Talga River (closed in 1951), view of concrete slabs, the line alignment can just be made out from the cutting. Location here.
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196-32597 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, side tipping ore waggons, one can be seen in the background in the tipped position.
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