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030409 080908529 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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030411 102054529 viewsKimba Grain Bunker, looking towards Kimba with Aerodrome Rd in the distance, ALCo DL531G/1 model rebuilt from an AE Goodwin made ALCo DL531 48 class 4813 serial 83713, issued to Eyre Peninsula from new in March 1966, and two 830 class units, 871 and 872 prepare to depart with a loaded. 11th April 2003. Geodata here.
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150505 7979529 viewsFMG Solomon Line, waggon 4006, tare weight of 22 tonnes, built in 2009 by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co. Ltd, loaded with fines ore. Geodata: -22.0187350 118.5850917 .
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107-19528 viewsEchuca station yard overview looking south, cement siding at left, rakes of bogie grain waggons, semaphore signal post 4, and Ricegrowers Co-Op Mills sidings and more bogie grain waggons on the right, taken in between the Toolamba and Bendigo lines.
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112-07528 viewsViolet Town station building, signal bay and platform overview, semaphore signal post 9 on platform, looking north from No.3 Road, March 1994.
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190-03528 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, looking north, platform and main lines on the left, yard tracks on the right with Ascom silo complex in the background.
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197-33528 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, builders plate for Mancha type MB1 controller, serial number M6 1700.
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212-14528 viewsWeipa, a loaded train ex-Andoom Mine runs along the main with thirty two waggons at Lorim Point towards the dump station behind Comalco R 1004 Clyde Engineering EMD JT26C serial 90-1277 which is former Goldsworthy Mining loco GML 10.
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060108 2042528 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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232-26528 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, waggon 2502 is a standard Comeng WA build from the third batch of 180 waggons built in 1970. Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 leads a LocoTrol remote unit built with no cab, a CM40-8ML 5665. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.
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170730 0701528 viewsPippingarra, out near the speedway CFCLA CD class lease units sit stored in between hire jobs in a lay down / hardstand yard. CD 4303 and CD 4305 with CD 4302 and CD 4301 behind them. 30th July 2017. GeoData.
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179-10527 viewsGheringhap, V/Line broad gauge G class locomotive G 515 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1243 leads a another G class with up loaded grain train 9122 as the fireman or 2nd person leans out the cab window to swap electric staves with the signaller to continue non-stop to North Geelong gain loop, while Gheringhap is equipped with automatic staff exchange apparatus, they are not used and the G class has no exchanger.
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153-2-01527 viewsBacchus Marsh, rear view of elevated signal box from car park.
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153-3-12527 viewsMininera, the peace is shattered as V/Line broad gauge goods to Adelaide train 9169 is lead by C class C 507 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-830, C 502 serial 76-825 and an S class, bit out of focus as it caught the photographer by surprise.
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196-22527 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, view inside of side opening ore waggon, shows how much ore the waggons could carry.
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196-26527 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view of power station generating hall with pump house and diesel storage tanks.
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200-02527 viewsMoorine Rock, Westrail L class 271 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 69-620 runs through the loop with the ballast cleaning train, known as the Circus Train while a Perth bound freighter sits in the mainline, 22nd June 1997.
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211-10527 viewsWeipa, view from bottom of the kaolin silos looking towards the mouth of the Embley River with the bauxite wharf and kaolin feed conveyor associated infrastructure.
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041014 122512527 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, former ALCo built demonstrator locomotive model C-415 serial 3449-1 built April 1966, currently carrying number 1000, it was originally numbered 008 when Hamersley Iron purchased the unit in 1968. It was retired from service on the 24th February 1982. It then spent some time carrying number 2000 while building the Marandoo railway line from Sept 1991. 14th October 2004.
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122-02526 viewsMorwell Industrial Estate siding, Victorian Railways yellow liveried rail tractor, RT class RT 41, bitumen storage tanks. RT 41 started life as I type waggon I 7565 from December 1905. Converted to IA type in the 1930s then in June 1967 it was converted by Ballarat North Workshops into the underframe for RT 41.
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