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130703 0146343 viewsMurdinga, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 11, originally an NHB type hopper built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Seen here loaded with grain with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover.
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130703 0160343 viewsMurdinga, overview of the station yard looking north, siding point lever and indicator, Mallee style shelter train control building in the far distance on the left beside train, grain train loading on the siding, eight cell concrete grain silo complex with Ascom single cell behind it. Geo location. 3rd July 2013.
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130703 0267343 viewsKaldow, type leader of the HBN type dual use ballast / grain hopper waggons, HBN 1, one of seventeen built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 with a 25 ton capacity, increased to 34 tons in 1974. HBN 1-11 fitted with removable tops and roll-top hatches in 1999-2000.
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130703 0292343 viewsKaldow, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 20, originally an NHB type hopper built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Seen here loaded with grain with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover.
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130704 0423343 viewsKyancutta, south bound loaded grain train has stopped here to collect a loaded rack of grain waggons, seen here backing up to re-join the rest of the train on the mainline with one of only three electric signals on the network with the original goods siding closest to the camera, behind EMD 1204 and twin ALCo 830 units 873 and 851. 4th July 2013.
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130705 0623343 viewsLock, with loading finished, 1203 leads 846, 859 and the final portion along goods siding #1 as it prepares to shunt back onto the loaded portion on the mainline for departure to Port Lincoln.
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130705 0635343 viewsLock, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 27, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.
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130708 0807343 viewsMoule, Mewett Rd grade crossing, 470.1 km.
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130708 0827343 viewsMoule, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 29, with hungry boards painted in corporate orange of Genesee Wyoming, loaded with gypsum, Mewett Rd grade crossing, 470.1 km.
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PD 12611343 viewsBinduli, WO type iron ore waggon WO 31232 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 124 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity. This unit was converted to WOS superphosphate in the late 1980s till 1994 when it was re-classed back to WO. Seen here with the body top lip also fitted.
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PD 12612343 viewsBinduli, WO type iron ore waggon WO 31240 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 131 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, this unit was converted to WOC for coal in 1986 till 1994 when it was re-classed back to WO. Seen here with the body top lip also fitted.
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060530 4926343 viewsParkeston, AHLY 0061 one of sixty five AHBY class ballast hoppers built by EDI Rail at their Port Augusta Workshops for ARG in 2001-02 for the Darwin line construction, now in limestone quarry products service.
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070609 0196343 viewsMidland, ATPY 593 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1976 as one of four WJP type for AMPOL, capacity of 80500 litres, here in Caltex service.
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100609 09928343 viewsMidland, AQHY 30089 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0038, 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.
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100609 09972343 viewsMidland, AQRY 1010 two-pack loaded with two 20' Mediterranean Shipping 22G1 type boxes containing lead, MSCU 213250 and MSCU 614053. 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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100731 3191343 viewsBinduli, WN 519, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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225-18343 viewsAt the 24.1 km grade crossing on the BHP Newman line, the afternoon departure for Yandi mine heads south behind the standard double General Electric AC6000 units with GE Erie built 6074 serial 51066 leading sister unit 6075 with another AC6000 unit mid-train. This was before the units were named. GeoData.
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226-24343 viewsShaw siding at the 219 km a loaded train with standard double CM40-8M power blasts along the mainline with the rear portion still on a .55 percent grade as it passes the Speno rail grinder in the back track. GeoData.
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227-12343 viewsNelson Point, view from rear of Shiploader 2, salt pile, manganese stockpile in the distance, stacker 3, the Port Hedland water tower, then 101-102 sample station and Tertiary Crushing Building One or TCB1, stacker 4 and reclaimer 3 with the under harbour portal in the foreground. GeoData.
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227-22343 views30 km area on the Newman mainline, east of the original Quarry 1, an empty train powers along the gentle .17% rising grade behind Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuilds 5649 'Pohang' serial 8412-07/93-140 and 5651 with third unit an General Electric AC6000. GeoData.
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