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150619 9079350 viewsFlash Butt yard, CNR-QRRS of China built side dump waggons, built and delivered around 2011-12, waggon 0706 loaded with fines for sheeting, B end and bogie detail.
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160128 00334350 viewsMooka Siding, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0025, one of a batch of ten built in 2014.
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243-03350 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved locomotives from the early days of the Port Hedland iron ore miners of Goldsworthy Mining and Mt Newman Mining. From left is Mt Newman Mining 5497, a Comeng NSW built M636 ALCo unit, Mt Newman Mining 5451 which was built by EMD as an F7A model and started life with Western Pacific in the USA and Goldsworthy Mining B class unit #2 built by English Electric serial number A-105. August 2003.
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243-19350 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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243-21350 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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255-27350 viewsWestern Creek at the 71 km on the Cape Lambert to Deepdale line an empty Robe River train powers upgrade as it heads to Mesa J for loading behind the standard quad CM40-8M lash up led by Goninan CM40-8M unit 9425 with serial number 6266-08 / 89-85 and sisters 9410, 9420 and 9414. Geodata location here. May 2002.
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256-21350 viewsMaitland Siding, morning empty train arriving into the passing track behind quad CM40-8M working of 9417, 9433, 9418 and 9419. May 2002.
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140601 4487350 viewsWoodbridge, empty Carina bound iron ore train #1035, CFCLA leased CHCH type waggon CHCH 7689 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 4619350 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8045 one pair of 120 bar coupled pairs built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
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140601 4621350 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8040 one pair of 120 bar coupled pairs built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
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269-03350 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year service agreement special, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5653 'Chiba' serial number 8412-10 / 93-144 stands on the Newman mainline with The Sundowner and 5634 on the rear of the train as the party conducts an inspection of the site. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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150326 IMG 4343350 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AZAY type waste oil waggon AZAY 23439, detail image, this waggon usually operates between Merredin Loco and Forrestfield, not normally seen here in the Goldfields. Peter Donaghy image.
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160409 IMG 7097350 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 9881350 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, platform 4 of 5-pack low profile skel waggon set RRYY 13, one of fifty two such waggon sets built by Bradken at Braemar NSW in 2004-05, with a CARU Specialized Leasing 40' 4FG1 type container SLZU 750097.
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231020 8188350 viewsParkeston, QQYY type 40' container waggon QQYY 57965 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 000164 with Tronox decal and CRM 001517 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 9004350 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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162-1-22349 viewsSpencer Street Station, broad gauge Steamrail R class R 766 North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow, Scotland model Hudson serial 27056 departs platform 4 with a down steam hauled passenger train during the PTC open Day, trailing view.
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198-26349 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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220-31349 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, the afternoon empty departure for Yandi mine behind the standard double Dash 8 power consist of 5649 'Pohang' a Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M model serial 8412-07 / 93-140 and a sister unit as the split the sticks, the line merging from the right is the former Goldsworthy line from Yarrie and Nimingarra mines. This area is now fully duplicated with LED signals and the Dash 8 units have been scrapped.
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060528 4580349 viewsWOA type iron ore waggon WOA 31302 is leader of a batch of thirty nine built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1970 and 1971 with fleet number 201 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, seen here with fines ore at Bonnie Vale, 28th May 2006.
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