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100601 8492386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WN 522, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of thirty units built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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100601 8498386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WNB 544, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of six units built by Bluebird Rail Services SA in 2010 for BHP Billiton.
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227-21386 views30 km area on the Newman mainline, east of the original Quarry 1, an empty train powers along the gentle .17% rising grade behind a pair of Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild units and an General Electric AC6000. GeoData.
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228-30386 viewsYandi Two load-out tunnel, trailing view of empty train about to enter for loading behind a standard pair of Goninan rebuilt GE CM40-8M model units 5649 'Pohang' serial 8412-07/93-140 and 5644 'Kangan' serial 8281-09/92-133. Geodata -22.720824, 119.043410 .
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232-20386 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 loaded Comeng WA built ore waggon 2871 has been re-sheeted with 3CR12 stainless steel side walls, view of broken coupler. February 1997. GeoData.
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235-12386 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 passes out the other side of the loadout tunnel as loading has commenced, the dust extraction equipment and retaining wall culvert frame the loco.
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236-33386 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6077 'Nimingarra' serial 51069 sits out the front.
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238-22386 viewsNelson Point loco overhaul shop, former Union Pacific loco 3523 an EMD SD40-2 model, serial 786170-25 and now numbered 3085 for BHP Billiton Iron One service had only been in operation for eleven days when this shot was taken on the 27th November 2004. Geodata .
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239-13386 viewsOverview of the Yandi One sizing plant looking north from above the middling crushers along CV4 (middle belt) to the screen house which houses six Jaques 'banana screens'. The feed bin and associated feed conveyors, travelling left and right can be clearly seen. The 'new side' is on the left and the 'old side' on the right. The feed along CV10 to the stockpile is obscured by the 'old side' structure and Sub-Station 3 can just be made out. GeoData.
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160523 3294386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 572 fuel tank waggon, built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 for Shell as type WJP, capacity of 80500 litres.
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160523 3345386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30079 with CSA 0109, 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 0109 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160524 4278386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train behind a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 66 serial 7250-12/96-268 and NR 32 serial 7250-06/97-234 starts departing the yard for Perth.
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160524 4287386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKLY 20276, originally build by EPT NSW 1979-81 as part of a batch of two hundred BDY type 14.20 metre open waggons before conversion in the 1990s, loaded with two RH type RH 275 and RH 479 coil containers or 'butter boxes'.
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160524 4290386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKLY 20209, totally unrecognisable from original build by EPT NSW 1979-81 as part of a batch of two hundred BDY type 14.20 metre open waggons, had several recoding's prior to its current guise, loaded with two RH type coil containers or 'butter boxes' RH 458 and RH 390.
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160524 4292386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, NQYY 20884, totally unrecognisable from original build by EPT NSW 1980-81 as part of a batch of two hundred BDY type 14.20 metre open waggons, modified in 1999 to NQYY container waggon, loaded with two RH type coil containers or 'butter boxes' RH 446 and RH 283.
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160522 2074386 viewsBinduli, 5MP2 steel train, RCSF 36 loaded with coils, former VR-V/Line CSX - VCSX coil steel waggon built by Victorian Railways Ballarat Nth Workshops 1972-73.
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110710 7424 PD386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQAY 2273, this orphan waggon started life as a Comeng Vic built GOX type open waggon for Commonwealth Railways in 1970, then coded AOOX. Under AWR ownership is was reduced to this 3 TEU unit container skeletal waggon. Peter Donaghy image.
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040806 102536386 viewsFlash Butt yard, view of the end of test waggon 2703 showing the collection of cables and the Do Not Uncouple sign.
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040806 102928386 viewsFlash Butt yard, rear view of stored out of service LocoTrol waggon 2626 showing number board and the short hood end.
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050518 2133386 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 761, shows bogie detail, ASF Ride Control bogie with CFCLA id of CQFE 111.
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