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129-2-04593 viewsLang Lang station yard, goods shed.
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160-19593 viewsShepparton, V/Line broad gauge VTQY type bogie fuel tank waggon VTQY 91 on the stabled down fuel train, note the disc and spoke wheel sets on the RHS bogie, this tank waggon was built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in April 1928, coded to TWF in 1961 then to VTQY in November 1981.
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187-09593 viewsMonkland, Gympie Queensland. View looking south east in the Up direction with molasses VMO type waggons on the unloading siding, station to the right. GeoData.
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197-25593 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, top of control stand for locomotive with No.1 battery box, English Electric Co. D.B.1. Form M3, Dick Kerr System, commonly referred to as the Dick Kerr DB1 controller.
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030409 083158593 viewsKyancutta, station located at the 203.1 km and originally opened in March 1916, yard overview looking north, grain loop, mainline and goods / grain loop, Ascom silo complex on the left and SACBH concrete silo complex on the right.
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060113 2545593 viewsKevin, narrow gauge locos 1604, NJ 3 and 1601 take the mainline to Thevenard, having reversed train 6DD3 on the Kevin triangle as they prepare to load, 1600 class unit 1604 in Australian Railroad Group livery a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-731, originally built as NJ class NJ 4 and built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 13th January 2006.
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103-37592 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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129-2-00592 viewsLang Lang station building overview.
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112-05592 viewsViolet Town broad gauge track view, station platform, looking north, March 1994.
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140517-4427592 viewsA Tutt Bryant rope operated Pacific A.C.E. Equipment Wheel Loader, Fordson powered?? The front end loader which lifts the bucket over the cab to feed the trammel, or dump into a truck, see an historical picture of this unit here at the Battye Library and an image of a similar unit on the manufacturer's website
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030409 080908592 viewsWarramboo, empty grain departs following a crew change. Rebuild unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery leads a pair of AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 830 class units 872 and 871, the SACBH concrete silo and Ascom silo complexes behind it.
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110-10591 viewsBenalla yard view, broad gauge V/Line B class B 64 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-5, side view, stabled down Wodonga goods train 9303, ground dwarf disc signals.
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112-00591 viewsViolet Town broad gauge track view, looking north, down home semaphore signal post 2, road and signals cleared for up passenger train, calling on semaphores have been removed, standard gauge on the right, March 1994.
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197-15591 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, Mancha battery locomotive #4 looking south east, demolished workshops and office on the right with the battery charging shed remains in the distance. Drivers seat, brake wheel and controller.
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197-24591 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, top of control stand for locomotive with No.1 battery box, English Electric Co. D.B.1. Form M3, Dick Kerr System, commonly referred to as the Dick Kerr DB1 controller.
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199-03591 viewsToodyay West, empty grain train with standard gauge Westrail L class L 263 Clyde Engineering EMD GT26C serial 68-553 and forty empty waggons at Northam-Toodyay Rd Katrine. 1316 hrs on 21st June 1997.
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030415 065626591 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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160525 4862591 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1, crew accommodation coach QCBY 10, started life as Victorian Railways Newport Workshops 1952 build as AS class no. 15, first class air conditioned corridor car, then AS 210, BS 210 and BS 10. Sold to West Coast Railway, then RTS / Gemco and finally to Aurizon.
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19794591 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, former BHP Iron Ore Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5509, seen here stripped down to being an engine test bed, view from the no. 2 end. Sept 2003.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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242-08591 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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