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130720 1438384 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA ballast waggon CHTY class CHTY 715, modified from a similar CHQY class with the end framing removed attached to an SD40R unit 3091.
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130720 1558384 viewsFlash Butt yard, rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon 6702, heavily cut down and modified Magor USA ore waggon by Mt Newman Mining workshops, converted to a 50 tonne waggon and designated the winch waggon with generator set to power the winch and the crib car.
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150619 9079384 viewsFlash Butt yard, CNR-QRRS of China built side dump waggons, built and delivered around 2011-12, waggon 0706 loaded with fines for sheeting, B end and bogie detail.
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150620 9328384 viewsQuarry 8 ballast loading area, CNR-QRRS of China built 99 tonne ballast waggon 0209 waits to be loaded.
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170728 09906384 viewsWestern Creek, the disabled Mesa A train gets underway with relief power from General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8137 serial 59140 and Dash 9-44CW unit 7082 as the operate the train with the two ES44ACi units isolated. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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190109 1594384 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00176 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-176 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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247-36384 viewsNear Cooya Pooya at the 37.5 km on the Robe River Cape Lambert line an empty train passes under the town water supply pipeline and pass through Lockyer Gap behind the standard Robe power of quad CM40-8M or Dash 8 locomotives led by 9425 with 9410, 9420 and last unit 9414 which is a Goninan WA ALCo to GE rebuild CM40-8M with serial 8206-11 / 91-124 from November 1991 riding on Dofasco bogies and was originally an AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo built new for Robe in December 1971 and numbered 262.005, later numbered 1714. Location is here.22nd May 2002.
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251-35384 viewsWalla Siding, two examples of BHP's ore waggon fleet of Comeng built waggons. The waggon closet to the camera has a new coupler fitted.
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253-01384 viewsDugite near the 64 km on the Dampier - Tom Price railway, a loaded Hamersley Iron train headed up by General Electric 9-44CW units 7078, from the original order, serial number 47757 and 7096, from the second order, serial number 52843 arrive taking the mainline to cross an empty which is in the passing track.
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254-09384 viewsWodgina mine site, bull buggy from a cut down FJ45 series Toyota Landcruiser from Wallareenya Station.
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268-28384 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year service agreement special, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5653 'Chiba' serial number 8412-10 / 93-144 stands on the Newman mainline with The Sundowner and 5634 on the rear of the train as the party conducts an inspection of the site. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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160710 iPh5S 2810384 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine, a pile of old underground 'jumbo' boxes for power distribution to electric pumps and drills. Jumbo is a modern mining term, so these would have been called something else…
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160409 IMG 7099384 viewsParkeston, Aurizon rail grinder MMY type MMY 034, built in the USA by Loram as RG331 ~2004, imported into Australia by Queensland Rail, now Aurizon, in April 2009, detail picture. Peter Donaghy image.
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283-01384 viewsNelson Point, BHP wheel lathe sees BHP's big GE AC6000 unit 6073 'Fortescue' serial number 51065 on shed having wheel attention to the leading bogie. May 2002.
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283-20384 viewsHarding Siding, quad Robe River CM40-8M units 9414, 9420, 9410 and 9425 lead 202 loaded ore waggons at Siding 1 (Harding). The siding has recently been renamed Harding and extended at the north end to accommodate the new West Angelas trains of up to 240 waggons. Wednesday 22nd May 2002.
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110620 2027r384 viewsWalla Siding, empty BHP ore waggon 8422 is a Goninan WA build of the Golynx design built in May 2005 as a bottom discharge waggon for Goldsworthy service with serial number 950141-002. Now converted to rotary dump operation. 20th of June 2011.
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030712 143315384 viewsNelson Point, empty BHP ore waggon 9026 with drop belly floor, originally built by Comeng in Mittagong NSW as a part of seven prototype ore waggons made from low carbon 301 stainless steel with an higher volume and aerodynamic flat sides and were bogieless with four independent radial wheel sets. Of the seven waggon, the first four had a flat floor and final three had a drop belly floor. The radial wheel sets were later replaced with conventional bogies. 12th of July 2003.
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180-33383 viewsWodonga turntable radial roads finds V/Line broad gauge X class loco X 41 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 70-704 resting between jobs, cab front view.
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201-25383 viewsMidland, the first Perth built NR class NR 61 Goninan GE model Cv40-9i serial 7250-11/96-263 shunts at Midland with two brand new NR units NR 101 and NR 102 with waggon RQRX 60177.
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100602 8550383 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33558 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-098 and fleet number 9055 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.
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