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030414 153424628 viewsPenong very end of the line looking west.
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160101 9767628 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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160522 2196628 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth arrives on the mainline behind EDI Downer built EMD model GT46C-ACe unit SCT 010 serial 97-1734 with 76 waggons for 5382 tonnes and 1800 metres length.
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162-3-12627 viewsMelbourne Yard, No.10 Goods Shed, PTC Open Day, V/Line broad gauge VCSX type bogie coil steel waggon VCSX 38 with tarpaulin fitted, originally coded CSX and built at Ballarat North Workshops 01-1973.
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110-15627 viewsBenalla, up home semaphore signal post 29B Yarrawonga line into Benalla yard and End of Train Order Working sign, triple disc signal posts 29 and 32 are in the background, taken on the 14th July 1991. Only a couple of weeks later and these signals would be reduced in number greatly as Benalla yard was heavily rationalised, all in the name of progress!
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160-19627 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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112-01627 viewsViolet Town broad gauge track view, looking north, up home semaphore signal post 3 pulled off for up passenger train, standard gauge line on right, March 1994.
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192-11627 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot roundhouse, a pair of ALCo RSD-20 or DL-541 models built by AE Goodwin for NSWGR as the 45 class are in the stages of being sealed up for long term storage, 4511 serial 84153 is already done while 4528 serial 84170 wait its turn.
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193-06627 viewsWamuran, looking north west in the Down direction towards Wamuran. Catch point to protect runaway waggons out of Wamuran.
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197-24627 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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197-25627 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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210-18627 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, observer's side of Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 while is sits at the fuel point, items of note are the second 'tropical roof', CCTV looking down the driver's 'off side' and the five chime horn cut into the hood. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like the WAGR L or VR C classes which are also GT26C models and the fire extinguisher cut in below the radiator.
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211-06627 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view of the shiploading stockpile area with the calcification bunker just visible on the right of frame.
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216-16627 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, Australian National CL class locomotive CL 17 'William McMahon' Clyde Engineering EMD model AT26C serial 71-757.
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030407 082440627 viewsWudinna, detail view of HCN type bogie wheat waggon HCN 31, modified at Islington Workshops in 1978-80 which started life as a Tulloch built NHB type iron ore hopper for the CR on the North Australia Railway in 1968-69, showing a spoke wheel and disc wheel sets in the bogie. 7th April 2003.
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030414 154153627 viewsPenong, looking west, the crossover from the main to the grain loop is running left to right, Ascom silo loadout gantry with horizontal grain bunker behind it.
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030414 154516627 viewsPenong , goods loop off to the left, grain loop on the right in the grass. Concrete silo block 2 with newer Ascom style complex behind that as Block 1.
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030414 154644627 viewsPenong , view looking west at yard across grade crossing, shelter on the left. Last train was in March 1997.
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051101 6406627 viewsParkeston, AZYF 932 is a CCE compressor waggon, originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55 for Commonwealth Railways, converted to RGB type, then current code in 1989. Seen here in use with ARG on the Loongana Limestone service.
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150505 7936627 viewsFMG Solomon Line, looking east across valley at massive earth fill for rail line. Geodata: -22.0351433 118.7568750 .
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