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150523 8212352 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0031, class leader of a second batch delivered in 2015 with safety slogan 'Safety - It's your life'.
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030403 162220352 viewsCrystal Brook, view from rear of CLF class leader CLF 1 'City of Whyalla' serial 93-AN-1, rebuilt by MKA to EMD model AT26C-2M from CL class unit CL 2 in 1993. 3rd April 2003.
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190109 1599352 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00354 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-354 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190109 1620352 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00209 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-209 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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243-19352 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 and built new by Goninan in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it trails an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
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243-23352 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' a Goninan WA GE rebuild unit serial 8151-07 / 91-120 in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it heads up an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
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247-24352 viewsCape Lambert overview of the fuel point, with a brace of four Goninan WA CM40-8M GE rebuilds finishing up refuelling before departing with another empty train as a loaded rake is dragged to the dumper behind them. The workshops are to the left of the picture. Where I'm standing to take the picture is now all stockpile. Approximate location of photo is here. 22nd May 2002.
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210510 1140352 viewsNear Galah on the Rio Tinto Dampier - Tom Price line at the 89.5 km, RTW type intermediate rail waggon RTW 013 on Rio Tinto's Gemco Rail built rail train consist. 10th May 2021. Location.
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255-35352 viewsEmu Siding on the Hamersley Iron Dampier to Tom Price line with the Western Creek Robe River interconnecting line on the left joining the HI Tom Price line. Train Control board for crews to change channels. May 2002.
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140601 4682352 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHCH type waggon CHCH 7673 these waggons were rebuilt between 2010 and 2012 by Bluebird Rail Operations SA from former Goldsworthy Mining hopper waggons originally built by Tomlinson WA and Scotts of Ipswich Qld back in the 60's to early 80's. 1st June 2014.
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160409 IMG 7271352 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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210407 9883352 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RQFY type flat waggon RQFY 90, originally built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as part of a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal flats. Recoded to VQFY in 1985, then RQFY for National Rail in 1994. Loaded with a Sea2Rail SCF 40' 4EG1 type container for Austrans SCFU 408263 and a Kent Removals and Storage 20' 25G1 type container KENU 919295.
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231020 8262352 viewsBinduli, 5029 Malcolm Freighter, AQIY type 40' container waggon AQIY 00005 with two Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur containers BISU 100011 and BISU 100113. The AQIY were originally built as the CQYY but CFCLA did not buy them, Bradken then stored them as KQYY. When Aurizon bought them they had the handbrake relocated to the middle of the waggon from the end.
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231020 8142352 viewsParkeston, ACD class locomotive ACD 6048 built by Goninan NSW as a GE C44ACi model in April 2022, trails on 4UP1 along the mainline at Parkeston enroute to Kwinana, 20th of October 2023.
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231020 8175352 viewsParkeston, QQYY type 40' container waggon QQYY 57888 one of five hundred ordered by Aurizon and built by CRRC Yangtze Group of China in 2022. In service with two loaded 20' half height hard top 'rotainers' lettered CRM, for Cristal Mining before they were absorbed into Tronox, CRM 000379 with Tronox decal and CRM 000737 with Cristal decal, on Aurizon's Tronox mineral sands train 4UP1 from Ivanhoe / Broken Hill (NSW) to Kwinana (WA). 20th of October 2023.
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100603 9004352 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0040, final one of forty units built by Gemco WA in 2009 loaded with SCT Logistics 40' GPR1 type reefer SCTU 03 / CR018 and K+S Freighters 40' GPR1 type reefer RWRU 0003.
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180-33351 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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206-26351 viewsAn empty train on the Yarrie (former Goldsworthy) line behind BHP 5633 'Hephaestus' built new in 1988 by Goninan as a GE CM39-8 model, serial 5831-12 / 88-082. The four CM39-8 units were upgraded to CM40-8 units following overhauls and finally scrapped in January 2016.
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100602 8691351 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31290 is one of a batch of fifteen built by WAGR Midland Workshops between July and October 1968 with fleet number 169 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, West Kalgoorlie loaded with fines, 2nd June 2010.
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100729 01502351 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31258 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 145 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, Binduli Triangle, empty train 29th July 2010. This unit was converted to WOS superphosphate in the late 1980s till 1994 when it was re-classed back to WO.
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