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238-06348 viewsPort Hedland Harbour, heavy lift ship Happy Buccaneer (IMO: 8300389) sits at Finucane Island D Berth delivering a new shiploader for BHP Billiton. 1st November 2003. Geodata . Back in time here the ship cranes were only 550 tonne each, these are now 700.
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160523 3290348 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 578 fuel tank waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 for Shell as type WJP, it also spent time in SA in 1985, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80350 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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160523 3345348 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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160523 3578348 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 501, type leader of thirty such waggons built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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160525 4827348 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTBF type fuel tank waggon NTBF 6118, with former owners name (Freight Australia) visible. Originally built by Comeng NSW in 1975 as an SCA type 69,000 litre bitumen tanker SCA 267 for Shell NSW.
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160527 5486348 viewsParkeston, loaded lime and cement shunt train 2C71 from West Kalgoorlie to Parkeston for Cockburn Lime. APNY 31159, one of twelve built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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160524 4033348 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RQIY 10198 container waggon built by Goninan NSW in 1980-81 as an NQIY type. Two 20' 22G1 type Pacific National Royal Wolf containers RWLU 814960 and RWLU 814907.
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160524 4244348 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RQCY 991, originally built by Victorian Railways Ballarat North Workshops in 1980 as part of a batch of seventy five VQCX type container waggons, recoded to RQCX in 1994, then current code in 1995. Loaded with two Royal Wolf 22G1 type 20' containers RWMC 815876 and RWMC 815860.
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160531 9836348 viewsBinduli, 3PM4 steel train, empty ROOX 2265, a Comeng Victoria built GOX from 1972, recoded to AOOX.
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160601 10124348 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, platform 2 of 5-pack RRRY 7008 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005, Linfox 46' 6" MFR3 type reefer FCAD 910612.
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070529 9484348 viewsParkeston, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 2 'Great Artesian' on train 2PM9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 79, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 361. Recoded to AVDY in October 1982, then to AVDP. Sold to WCR, then in October 2000 overhauled for crew car use and coded VPAY 1 on SCT services and owned by Freight Australia. Was later sold to Pacific National and subsequently scrapped 2016.
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070531 9710348 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation car RZAY 985 on train 4PM6 was built by Comeng NSW as an ARJ type stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car ARJ 285 in 1972. Allocated to the Indian Pacific Joint Stock in 1974 and renumbered to ARJ 985, sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997 by AN Port Augusta Workshops.
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161109 1907348 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 37 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1947348 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 55 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161111 2498348 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQRY 1023 platform B with two 20' 22G1 type boxes, Triton TRHU 192670[0] and Tex TEMU 511658[1]. The AQRY are a bar-coupled pair and were used for rail transport as the AFRF type on the Darwin line and are originally former ANR-CR waggons.
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161116 5119348 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, ATPF 580 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1976 for Shell as type WJP, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80500 litres, it also spent time in SA in 1985, fitted with type F InterLock couplers, Shell Fleet no. TR715 still visible.
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040806 091154348 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, trailing view of the weighbridge test train with the four orange weighbridge test waggons and two Comeng built ore waggons to provide braking, 5666 is the power.
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040806 092042348 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, 5666 runs the weighbridge test train with the four orange weighbridge test waggons and two ore waggons to provide braking.
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040815 171406348 viewsNelson Point, side view of A end and bogie detail view 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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050319 0144348 viewsNelson Point, rail recovery and transport train, 1st lead off waggon 6011, built by Scotts of Ipswich 04-09-1970, the mesh guarding is for the winch cable. The chute arrangement for the discharging and recovery of rail is visible.
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