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242-07248 viewsNelson Point, BHP Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5508 serial 4839-04 / 87-073 about to be trucked to United Goninan Perth for eventual overhaul and repainting into the Pilbara Rail livery and leased to Pilbara Rail re-numbered 5052 as a shunt unit at Dampier. May 2002.
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102-18247 viewsHattah Lakes view of lake.
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122-02247 viewsMorwell Industrial Estate siding, Victorian Railways yellow liveried rail tractor, RT class RT 41, bitumen storage tanks. RT 41 started life as I type waggon I 7565 from December 1905. Converted to IA type in the 1930s then in June 1967 it was converted by Ballarat North Workshops into the underframe for RT 41.
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108-03247 viewsMurchison East silo complex, detail photos Ascom Jumbo silo rail outflow spout, left side elevation.
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186-14247 viewsMidland, Westrail standard gauge up Kalgoorlie loaded acid train 428 crosses Lloyd Street behind a pair of L class locomotives L 268 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 68-617 and L 256 serial 67-546, with the dual gauge track to the Flashbutt Yard in the foreground. The empty return working of this train was 027 empty acid.
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196-23247 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, looking north out of East Gorge towards the power station site.
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196-32247 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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197-10247 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view looking south west of the open air service pit with gantry and locomotive storage roads with the battery off-take racks. The track used to continue around to the mine adits in the background.
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203-36247 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, former roadway over grown with sign from the National Parks Board of WA.
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207-13247 viewsBHP General Electric built AC6000 unit 6074 serial 51066, brand new and unnamed at Yandi One load-out loop as a remote mid-train unit view of left hand side rear steerable bogie and air intakes below radiator.
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207-28247 viewsHardie Siding, the days of the C36-7M or Dash 7 units running the Goldsworthy line are almost over, as the CM40-8M or Dash 8 variants take up the task following the arrival of the AC6000 class units. Here, CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Beilun' takes the passing track with an empty as C36-7M unit 5513 holds the mainline with a loaded.
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030407 082231247 viewsWudinna, north bound empty grain train arrives behind a trio of former Australian National locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, DA 4 leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial 84140 and 851 serial 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962, to shunt off empty waggons into the grain siding. 7th April 2003.
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030415 065626247 viewsKevin, loading is almost complete 0700 hrs. as gypsum train 3DD2 stands behind triple NJ class Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model units NJ 5 serial 71-732, NJ 6 serial 71-733 and NJ 3 serial 71-730, these units built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville workshops started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981. At the Kevin loading point.
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150522 8177247 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M unit 5663 serial 8412-08 / 94-154, this unit was rebuilt without a cab and this cab was later retrofitted, was originally AE Goodwin NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5476 serial C6087-8. Photo of the removed cab can be seen here .
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WTT Nor East 1984-05-20 - reprint247 viewsWorking Time-Table North-Eastern District, 20th May 1984, Passenger Reprint Pages, complete 23 page PDF download, 3.4 MB.
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040409 123108247 viewsBoodarie, Goldsworthy service bottom discharge Gunderson USA built ore waggon 8317 is one of forty five that was purchased second hand in 1992 from Phelps Dodge Copper Mine, believed to be built in 1970s. 9th April 2004.
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103-37246 viewsSeymour loco depot, V/Line broad gauge RT class rail tractor RT 15 and DRC class Tulloch built DRC 42 diesel railcar.
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108-13246 viewsMurchison East looking towards Melbourne, yard and station overview, gravity track on the left, station platform on the right, Murphy silo and horizontal grain bunker at left.
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112-03246 viewsViolet Town broad gauge track view, looking north, double compound points, Siding A is removed, Siding B bottom left running behind lens, station in background, March 1994.
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186-10246 viewsMidland, empty narrow gauge grain train 283 rumbles past Midland Workshops behind a pair of Westrail P class locomotives P 2011 'Shire of Narembeen' Goninan GE model CM25-8 serial 6320-09/90-096 and P 2006 'Shire of Quairading' serial 6320-05/90-091.
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