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160524 380171 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRXY 8 platform 4 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a 40' unmarked Railroad Transport box RTPH 4041 in the well and a Linfox 46' MFR3 type reefer FCBD 910612 on top.

160524 404271 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, NQYY 20444 with two butter box containers RH296 and RH22, NQYY 20444 originally built by EPT NSW in 1977-78 as an BDY type open waggon, recoded to NODY after 1979, before being heavily modified by ANI Engineering in 1998 to the current guise.

160524 405271 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, NQYY 20897 container waggon, originally built by EPT NSW in 1980-81 as an NODY open waggon before being heavily modified by ANI Engineering in 1998. Two 20' Pacific National Royal Wolf containers RWLU 814956 and 814895.

160524 424371 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RRKY 2723, originally built by Perry Engineering SA in 1974 part of a batch of forty five RM type motor vehicle flat waggons, recoded to AQPY container waggon, then AQMP and RQKY, riding on aligned bogies, loaded with two Royal Wolf 20' 22G1 type boxes RWMC 815896 and 815921.

160529 907971 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train powers around the curve as it climbs the grade to Kalgoorlie behind a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 84 serial 7250-04/97-286 and NR 80 serial 7250-03/97-282. NR 84 wears the Southern Spirit livery and is known as the Minty. Off to the left is Loongana Lime shunt loco DE 49, a former BHP 37 class unit built by Goninan in 1961 based on GE 80 ton switcher, serial 4970-013.

160531 991871 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, NQYY 20897

160531 994171 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 3PM4 steel train, empty container waggon RQGY 34430.

160601 1011871 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRXY 9 platform 3 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a 40' Rail Containers box SCFU 410103 in the well with a 53' Linfox box DRC 391 on top.

160601 1013371 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRGY 7133 48' platform 2 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of fifty built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and coded RRGY, with 46' RAND Refrigerated Logistics reefer RAND 225.

160609 047971 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, platform 2 of 5-pack RRRY 7012 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005, a 40' Railroad Transport box RRTU 004082 and a K+S Freighters 40' curtainsider ISKU 400650.

060107 178371 viewsSpencer Junction yard, Pacific National FAM type crew accommodation coach FAM 2389 on train 6MP4, built for the NSWGR by Comeng NSW in 1976 as part of a batch of ten FAM type twinette sleeper cars, FAM 2389 was also the Lithgow breakdown train accommodation car for a time, converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail at Islington in September 2005.

060528 425571 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.

060528 444571 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Australian Southern Railroad ECA type crew accommodation car ECA 98, originally built for the Commonwealth Railways by Wegmann & Co. in West Germany in 1955 as the ARF type first class air conditioned sleeper with rounded observation end ARF 98, rebuilt and recoded in 1972 without the observation end as BB type BB 98. Converted to a crew car in 1991.

060529 471971 viewsParkeston, South Spur Rail AVDP type crew accommodation coach AVDP 277, built for the Commonwealth Railways by Comeng NSW as a brake van with sleeping accommodation as HRD type HRD 277 in 1971, modified for relay working in 1977, recoded to AVDY in 1983, then in 2002 leased for MurrayLander service before being sold to South Spur Rail and in this livery from mid 2005.

060530 484371 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.

060530 484571 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.

060602 515571 viewsMidland, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 223, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in March 1949 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress AS 12, in July 1952 converted to ABS type first and second class Spirit of Progress car ABS 1, in October 1972 reverted to AS 1, in June 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 3, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 223. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2005.

070529 935471 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.

070607 1004071 viewsMidland, Pacific National RZBY type crew accommodation car RZBY 911 on train 2SP5, built by Comeng NSW as ER type stainless steel air conditioned crew dormitory car ER 211 in 1969, renumbered to ER 911 in 1974, sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997.

160522 222671 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0096 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014.

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