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110710 7424 PD410 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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060528 4153410 viewsParkeston, bogie detail of Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 221, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1940 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress as AS 6, in April 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 1, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 221. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2004.
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070527 9168410 viewsParkeston; Pacific National RZDY type crew accommodation car RZDY 106 'Bittern' on train 6MP4 originally built by SAR Islington Workshops as a Bluebird railcar driving trailer in 1958 named 'Britten', in 1986 numbered 106, in 1990 converted to locomotive hauled and coded as BR type BR 106, written off in 1995 and sold off. In 1998 it was numbered 812. It was owned by a number of owners and then CFCLA. In 2006 converted to a Pacific National crew car.
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070528 9280410 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation car RZAY 283 on train 4PM6 was built by Comeng NSW as an ARJ type stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car ARJ 283 in 1972, sold to National Rail and converted to a crew car in 1997. Destroyed at the Jumperkine collision in December 2019.
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161109 1935410 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 60, refurbished and wearing current owner Genesee & Wyoming orange and decal with matching hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1974410 viewsThevenard, train 4DD4 rumbles across Bergmann Drive as third unit Genesee & Wyoming locomotive AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 unit 859 'City of Port Lincoln' serial 84705, built in 1963, 859 started life at Peterborough, spent some years in Tasmania and even spent time in Perth on standard gauge before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 2003.
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161111 2522410 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30076 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0076 type leader of the new CSA tanks built by Acid Plant Management Services. AQHY 30076 was 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 type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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161112 3035410 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, AQWY type waggon AQWY 31002, one of eighteen WFA type container waggons built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1981, recoded to WQCY in 1987, roof view of a Jamieson built TEU tanktainer for Vintage Road Haulage with magnafloc, JTSU 012514 with two TEU 22G1 type containers RWLU 812401 and RSSU 153071.
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161116 5126410 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, ATPF 579 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1974 for Shell as WJP type 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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0020 Comeng NSW 040815 171504410 viewsNelson Point, view of hand brake end of fuel tank waggon 0020, 82 kilolitre capacity built by Comeng NSW for BP as RTC 2, used by Mt Newman Mining, unsure when converted to 0020.
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CHRY 753 050518 2075410 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 753.
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CHRY 755 050518 2084410 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 755.
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CHRY 750 050518 2128410 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 750, shows bogie detail, AT & SF CS-3000 bogie casting with CFCLA id of CQFE 093
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0527 Magor USA 050518 2197410 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 527, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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0206 USA 051001 5624410 viewsFlash Butt yard, heavily stripped down riveted waggon 206, possible original ballast waggon, number 206 was originally a waggon in the 'Camp Train' and appears to have USA origin, pushed into an earth bund with 55 tonne flat waggon 6705 behind, view from handbrake end.
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0522 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 060414 3441410 viewsNelson Point yard, weighbridge test waggon 522, originally built by Magor USA and ex Oroville Dam, converted by Mt Newman Mining into a 20 ton axle load test waggon. The others in the fleet are 40, 60 and 100 tons. April 14, 2006.
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6705 Comeng WA 060501 3945410 viewsSpring Siding, flat waggon #5, also marked as 6705 in the back track, originally in service with Goldsworthy Mining as a BC or BCV box van, built by Comeng WA in 1966.
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050411 0600410 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, BHP track machine ballast regulator BR 31 a Plasser Australia SSP 110SW model with serial 401 comes off the former Goldsworthy line with the Newman mainline in the foreground. 11th April 2005.
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060501 3915410 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Speno rail grinder RG 2, third grinding module and driving cab. 1st May 2006.
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6203 Comeng WA 081217 0457410 viewsWoodstock Siding, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #1, rear lead off waggon 6203, built by Comeng WA in January 1977 under order number 07-M-282 RY. The straddle crane is a newish unit built by Vaia Car model no. TCR-V and the four wheels are chain driven, replacing the original Gemco hydraulic unit.
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