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119-04530 viewsNth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge light locos X class X 47 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-794 and N class N 461 'City of Ararat' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1190 collect the electric staff for the Nth Geelong B Box section, bound for Geelong loco depot after finishing grain loop unloading duties.
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162-2-14530 viewsSouth Dynon Motive Power Depot, restored and statically persevered at the entrance to the depot, broad gauge shunting locomotive F class 211 'Little Trimmer' 0-6-0 built by English Electric, UK serial 1915 entered service May 1957.
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101-20530 viewsDonald Geelong style silo complex with steel annex overview, Freightgate canopy in background, goods shed at right, town water tower in distant background.
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160-19530 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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112-05530 viewsViolet Town broad gauge track view, station platform, looking north, March 1994.
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197-24530 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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197-28530 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, reverse view of 197-27, battery module No.1 with number 10165, shows a slotted drop type hinge arrangement, headlight, coupling pocket and Joy plug for motor, mounted on an English Electric hauler, behind is a Gemco and two Mancha units, the building is the water treatment and compressor sheds.
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204-04530 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, a Bowes Scott & Western Ltd of London jaw crusher.
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030409 080120530 viewsWarramboo, empty grain train stopped for a crew change. Rebuild unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery shows its original heritage body style of an NSWGR 48 class 4813 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 83713, rebuilt by Islington Workshops SA with long hood and parts from former 830 class 870 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G6016-06 in 1998.
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030414 154350530 viewsPenong, 505.6 km looking east with the goods loop coming in on the right to join the mainline. The car is on the grain loop. Station shelter on the right is where the original barracks were located.
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051101 6412530 viewsParkeston, AHQF 31422 seen here in Loongana Limestone service, originally built by Goninan WA for Western Quarries as a batch of twenty coded WHA type in 1995. Purchased by Westrail in 1998.
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160101 9767530 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Joffre Creek, Fourth Crossing Pool view of the western wall gorge, via Bolitho Road. Geodata: -22.2804483 118.3212850
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150505 7936530 viewsFMG Solomon Line, looking east across valley at massive earth fill for rail line. Geodata: -22.0351433 118.7568750 .
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150523 8242530 viewsNelson Point Yard, loaded ore waggon 5073, a Golynx style waggon built by Goninan, serial no. 950126-114 in 2004 with 5Cr12Ti stainless steel which does away with the need to paint the waggon interiors to prevent wear.
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Goods Rates Book Addenda 1980-09-01530 viewsGoods Rates Book Addenda 1980, complete 80 page PDF download, 6.38 MB.
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107-07529 viewsTongala station yard overview factory siding with staff locked points on the left beyond former old platform, looking north.
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129-2-04529 viewsLang Lang station yard, goods shed.
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135-12529 views2400 class QR locos 2503 and 2500 with a loaded coal train, near Ipswich.
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114-20529 viewsGoorambat, broad gauge V/Line Grain VHHF type bogie grain waggon VHHF 822 in front of a Williamstown style silo. VHHF was built by Victorian Railways Ballarat North Workshops in 1982 as a VHHY type; recoded to VHHF in 1987.
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197-10529 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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