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232-12374 viewsYandi One backtrack, following a cyclone shutdown of the mainline and severe flooding around Yandi a 'mixed' freight train was operated to Yandi to deliver food, mail and diesel fuel to the mine and camp. Here BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128 idles away in the backtrack awaiting its path back to Port Hedland with flat waggon 6703, four fuel tank waggons and a broken ore waggon. February 1997. GeoData.
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232-22374 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, waggons are standard Comeng WA builds. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.
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236-05374 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP AC6000 class locomotive 6072 'Hesta', a General Electric built AC6000 model, serial 51064, seen here in the shed having the windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted.
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060110 2174374 viewsCummins, empty grain train departing yard on the Penong mainline at the Bratten Way grade crossing behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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160522 2309374 viewsParkeston, APNY 31164, one of four built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1978 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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160523 2797374 viewsParkeston, APKY 30642, one of two built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as WK type pneumatic discharge bulk cement waggon.
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160523 3286374 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 580 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1976 for Shell as type WJP, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80500 litres, it also spent time in SA in 1985, fitted with type F InterLock couplers, Shell Fleet no. TR715 still visible.
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160523 3330374 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30117 with CSA 0096, originally built by the 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 to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth. CSA 0096 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160531 9959374 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 577 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1974 for Shell as type WJP, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80500 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers Shell Fleet no. TR712.
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160523 3600374 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30049 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0104, 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 loaded acid train 2406 arriving back in the yard. CSA 0104 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4487374 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRAY 7203 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck with a Sea Cell Sea Axis 40' container SAXU 491062.
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160523 3023374 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RQGY 35012 63' container waggon, one of a hundred OCY type waggons built by Goninan NSW in 1975, recoded to NQOY, NQSY. Side view of the brake arrangement, code board and number plate with welded numerals.
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160524 4307374 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKAX 13, 2-pack rail transport waggon, this waggon was converted by Port Augusta Workshops from two original FBX type waggons built in 1968-69 by Islington Workshops in a batch of twenty later coded AFCX. AFCX 13 & AKAX 5 where the donors for this waggon. Loaded with a full load of rail strings.
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160529 8861374 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRQY 8313
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160531 9835374 viewsBinduli, 3PM4 steel train, an 80 kph runner with solo Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 94 serial 7250-06/97-300 will enter West Kalgoorlie yard to shunt on a crew coach and more empty waggons.
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051103 6700374 viewsSpencer Junction yard, ECA 162 built by Comeng NSW in 1964 for Commonwealth Railways as a BRE type second class, air conditioned, twin berth staggered corridor steel sleeping car BRE 162. Converted to ECA type crew car in 1991. Seen here under GWA ownership on loan to Pacific National and in use on East-West freighters. Finally it was scrapped at Dry Creek in December 2014.
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070531 9618374 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.
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161111 2496374 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQRY 1001 platform B with two 20' 22G1 type boxes, a Triton TRHU 188479[6] and CAI CAIU 339509[8]. The AQRY are a bar-coupled pair and were used for rail transport as the AFRF type on the Darwin line and are originally former ANR-CR waggons.
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161111 2503374 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQWY 30308 was originally built by Tomlinson Steel WA WFX type container waggon in a batch of one hundred and sixty one in 1970, later recoded to WQCX.
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161116 5553374 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443, tank waggon NTAY 6126, built by Indeng Qld 1976 for Shell as SCA type SCA 277, fitted with conventional couplers.
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