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233-0470 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. An empty train can be seen about to enter the tunnel. GeoData.
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234-2870 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. Cab front on view. Circa 1998.
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234-3170 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. View looking from 5658 back to the ore stockpile at the loadout. Circa 1998.
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234-3670 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. View looking across the YT315.8 km grade crossing and 5658 back to the ore stockpile at the loadout. Circa 1998.
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235-3170 viewsYandi One, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11 / 93-145 sits on a loaded train awaiting departure time and also has the late marigold style BHP logo, cab side and Alco Hi-Ad bogie.
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236-3270 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 'Chichester' serial 51063 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted next to sister unit 6077.
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160523 358370 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 508, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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160525 480770 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30023 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0105, originally built by 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, part of empty acid train 4405 departing in the yard. CSA 0105 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 483770 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 576 fuel tanker, one of nine built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 for Shell, with a capacity now of 80,000 litres.
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160528 836570 viewsParkeston, near the quarantine station, stored former Mobil Oil NSW NTAF waggons, from left: NTAF 5454, 5451, 5450, 5453 and 5449. I think these are Indeng Qld built NTAF waggons from a batch of seven such tanks built for Mobil of NSW in 1981 and numbered NTAF 449 to 455.
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160531 987270 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, diesel fuel tanker ATKY 545, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW for ESSO Australia 1975 as a WJK type capacity of 105000 litres, sold to BP Oil in 1986, current capacity is probably 80500 litres in line with the rest of the fleet.
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160524 375770 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RQFY 122 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded in April 1994 RQFY and 2CM bogies fitted August 1995. K+S 40' flatrack loaded over length .
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160524 376070 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, 48' platform of RRGY 7130 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, Toll 40' curtainsider 4TL135.
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160525 452870 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRQY 8344 platform 3 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set the last of a batch of 41 built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 for Pacific National, with a Pacific National 48' curtainsider stencilled for Bluestar Logistics PNXC 4491.
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160525 453870 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRAY 7229 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck empty.
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160526 523970 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, RRKY 4201 container waggon, one of fifty built by Carmor Engineering SA in 1976 as RMX class, to AQMY then AQSY, RQKY, with a Pacific National 48' curtainsider PNXC 4475.
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160528 831970 viewsParkeston, priority service 6PS7, RLSY 18671 louvre van, one of a one hundred and fifty batch order from Comeng NSW as KLY type built in 1975-76, recoded to NLKY, then NLUY and RLUY.
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160528 832470 viewsParkeston, priority service 6PS7, RQQY 7083 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of seventeen sets built by Qld Rail at Ipswich Workshops in 1995, with an FCL 20' Pocket Jumbo 50 m3 box FPJG 201008.
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160528 832770 viewsParkeston, priority service 6PS7, RRQY 7332 platform 4 of 5-pack RRQY articulated skel waggon, built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2012 with a 48' Simon National Carriers curtainsider TFD 95.
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160528 840370 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RQJW 22061 container waggon built by Mittagong Engineering NSW as JCW type in 1975/76 in a batch of fifty, loaded with two 40' FD flatracks, one loaded with chlorine gas cylinders and the other with a Simon tarped load.
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