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254-15363 viewsFlash Butt yard, stored with no engine Goninan ALCo to GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5506 with serial number 4839-01 / 87-071. This was the first unit in the world to be built into a C36-7 from an ALCo C636 locomotive. It was rebuilt 1987 from AE-Goodwin built ALCo C636 numbered 5455 with serial number G6012-4.
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256-27363 viewsMaitland Siding, Robe River CM40-8M unit 9419 on an empty train. 9419 was built by ALCo Schenectady NY USA as an ALCo C630 model in October 1967 with serial number 3486-03 for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company (USA) with road number 2102. It was purchased by Morrison Knudsen for Robe River (along with three sister units) and delivered in January 1975 and repainted and renumbered as 9419 on arrival. 9419 was rebuilt by Goninan WA in October 1990 to become an CM40-8M model with serial number 8109-10 / 90-117. May 2002.
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140601 4471363 viewsWoodbridge, empty Carina bound iron ore train #1035, CFCLA leased CHCH type waggon CHCH 7688 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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140601 4631363 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8043 one pair of 120 bar coupled pairs built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
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140601 4682363 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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267-08363 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, BHP's 1230 empty departure behind General Electric AC6000 unit 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial number 51068 leads CM40-8MEFI 5669 on the point with two CM40-8M mid-train units an 208 waggons powers along the Newman mainline with the Goldsworthy line to Yarrie curving away directly in front of 6076. 1247 hrs 12th of April 2002.
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140406 IMG 1926363 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTBF 6119 fuel tank waggon, originally built by Comeng NSW in 1975 as SCA type SCA 270 69000 litre bitumen tank waggon for Shell NSW, diesel capacity of 62700 litres. Peter Donaghy image.
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110620 2320r363 viewsWalla, loaded BHP ore waggon 4508, one of eighteen built by Transfield WA in 1976 with a tapered floor. 20th of June 2011.
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100603 8997363 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, ABSY type covered van ABSY 3109, originally built by Comeng WA in a batch of fifty in 1977 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type, recoded to ABFX and ABFY before being sold to SCT as ABFY and before conversion by Gemco WA to ABSY in 2004/05.
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250501 0547363 viewsAt the 88.448 km, just south of HPPL crossing loop on the Roy Hill line, empty Roy Hill waggon pair GA 2857 - GA 2858, built in China by CSR Yangtze as an CCK138 model ore waggon. May 1, 2025.
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179-36362 viewsGheringhap, track view looking east back towards Geelong with V/Line broad gauge G class G 521 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1234 locked away with down empty grain train 9121 in Siding A, semaphore signal post 2 is the down home for the mainline, the points and point indicator are set for in the reverse for Siding B.
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148-24362 viewsWangaratta, Signal Post 11, Disc Signal from Sidings 'H' or 'E' to No. 3 Road towards Post 17; or to Nos. 4 or 5 Roads towards Post 19; or to No. 6 Road. Signal Post 12 to the right.
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131-1-23362 viewsBurraboi Aquila silo complex, V/Line Grain bogie grain waggons, looking south.
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153-2-32362 viewsArarat station yard, ground dwarf disc signals 14 from 9-16 Rds New Goods Yard, and 15 from 8 Rd New Goods Yard, with a point indicator, side view shows interlocking, rodding and wires.
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198-26362 viewsPort Hedland Port, view of Port Control Tower, grassed area with shed is for helicopter operator, the Esplanade Hotel can also be seen along with the lookout tower behind the visitors centre.
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060528 4504362 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 34101, fleet number 968, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55, 28th May 2006.
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060528 4590362 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33349 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Goninan WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-054 and fleet number 848 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations loaded with fines at Bonnie Vale 28th May 2006.
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060528 4595362 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31489 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-061 and fleet number 552 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity build date 07/2000, for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance. Seen here loaded with fines in train 413 at Bonnie Vale, 28th May 2006.
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070529 9379362 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 31067 is one of a batch of one hundred and thirty built by Goninan WA between March and August 2001 with serial number 950092-057 and fleet number 653 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, West Kalgoorlie, 29th May 2007.
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100605 9350362 viewsWOC type iron ore waggon WOC 31352 is one of a batch of thirty built by Goninan WA between October 1997 to January 1998 with fleet number 412 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity and lettered for KIPL, Koolyanobbing Iron Pty Ltd with repainting of the middle panels leaving only the L visible, Binduli Triangle, loaded with fines, 5th June 2010.
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