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160523 3294412 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 572 fuel tank waggon, built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 for Shell as type WJP, capacity of 80500 litres.
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160524 4291412 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKLY 20220, totally unrecognisable from original build by EPT NSW 1979-81 as part of a batch of two hundred BDY type 14.20 metre open waggons, had several recoding's prior to its current guise, loaded with two RH type coil containers or 'butter boxes' RH 127 and RH 441.
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060528 4181412 viewsParkeston, South Spur Rail AVDP type crew accommodation coach AVDP 277, built for the Commonwealth Railways by Comeng NSW as a brake van with sleeping accommodation as HRD type HRD 277 in 1971, modified for relay working in 1977, recoded to AVDY in 1983, then in 2002 leased for MurrayLander service before being sold to South Spur Rail and in this livery from mid 2005.
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060528 4257412 viewsParkeston, SCT PDAY type crew accommodation car PDAY 001 'Robert Mervin Yates', built by SAR Islington Workshops as a 250 type Bluebird second class railcar number 253 and named 'Pelican' in 1955, written off in 1995 and sold and eventually converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail Services in 2005.
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161109 1950412 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 41, refurbished and wearing current owner Genesee & Wyoming orange and decal with matching hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161111 2420412 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQWY 30377 originally built by Tomlinson Steel WA as WFX type in 1970 from a batch of 161 carrying three TEU with two being 22G1 type 20' containers RSSU 211680 and ZIMU 283192 and a 20' 25N8 type tanktainer VRHU 002607 for Vintage Road Haulage.
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161112 3026412 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, AQNY type waggon AQNY 32169 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with two original style sulphur containers S14R G827 and S158A G910 both with the siding tarpaulins.
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161112 3459412 viewsBinduli, loaded Hampton acid train 7406 with AQHY 30090 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0092, 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. CSA 0092 was built by VCare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions.
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161116 5123412 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, ATPF 577 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1974 for Shell as type WJP, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80500 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers Shell Fleet no. TR712.
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161116 5127412 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442 is also used to convey waggon components between the Esperance workshops and Forrestfield, two wheel set waggons are on the rear, a purpose built unit and a standard 63' container flat.
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CHQY 745 050518 2082412 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 745.
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CHRY 758 050518 2093412 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 758.
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0504 Magor USA 050518 2195412 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 504, one of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.
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0015 Comeng WA 050704 3981412 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0015 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons, detail of the A end and bogie, wearing the BHP Billiton Earth livery.
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0206 USA 051001 5624412 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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6010 Scotts of Ipswich Qld 051001 5704412 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, builders plate detail of flat waggon #20, 6010, a Scotts of Ipswich Qld built flat waggon on 03-09-1970.
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0010 Comeng NSW 050315 0242412 viewsRedbank Bridge, elevated view of empty 116 kL fuel tanks all built by Comeng in both NSW and WA, 0010 and others in the BHP blue and white livery.
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6702 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 050522 2740412 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, 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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6705 Comeng WA 060501 3945412 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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050421 1614412 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's 24 stone rail grinder before they had id stickers fitted, this unit was later stickered as RG 2, side view of the first grinding module. 21st April 2005.
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