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268-23348 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year special, the Sundowner coach, originally built by E. G. Budd in 1939 numbered 301 as the Silver Star, a diner-parlour-observation coach on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's General Pershing Zephyr train from the 1930s and 1940s. Donated to Mt Newman Mining Co. by AMAX an original joint venture partner to commemorate the projects first 100 million tonnes of iron ore railed between Mount Whaleback mine and the Port Hedland port. 12th of April 2002.
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190109 1450348 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATLF 562 tank waggon, built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1973 for Shell as type WJL 86.49 kL one compartment one dome with a capacity of 80500 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers. Under Viva Energy ownership.
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160409 IMG 7025348 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 9878348 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, platform 1 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 Toll MEG1 type 48' container TCML 48482.
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210407 9895348 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RQFY type flat waggon RQFY 1 is the class leader of the QMX type skeletal container waggons built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1978 in a batch of forty. Recoded to VQFX in 1979, then to RQFX in 1994.
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210407 9904348 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRQY type articulated five-unit container waggon set RRQY 8316 platform 1, built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works in China as part of a forty one unit order in 2005/06 for Pacific National.
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040804 155709348 viewsNelson Point, BHP ore waggon 3307 is one of three hundred and fifty waggons built during 1988 by Astra Vagoane of Arad in Romania for Lang Hancock as part of a waggons for iron ore arrangement with the then Romanian government, however only 75 found their way into service with BHP. 4th of August 2004.
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110620 2320r348 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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030712 142557348 viewsNelson Point, empty BHP ore waggon 553, one of the original Magor USA build waggons bought out at construction of the Mt Newman project. Visible is the ODCX code and number 82190 from the Oroville Dam Construction company days in the USA. The DZ 11-95 code was the late time it was internally painted to reduce wear and the SL 76 with 90 below it was the last time the Miner SL-76 draft gear was replaced. The orange smiley sticker indicates that this is an original 'Oroville Dam' ore waggon and non relayed AB braked. 12th of July 2003.
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231020 8273348 viewsBinduli, 5029 Malcolm Freighter, AQNY type container waggon AQNY 32171 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a Bis Deliver Every Day 25UA type roll-top sulphur container BICN 105300 and a Bis Industries 55UA roll-top sulphur container SIBU 200636.
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231020 8161348 viewsParkeston, QQYY type 40' container waggon QQYY 57899 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 000261 with Cristal decal and CRM 000729 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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240401 4998348 viewsKalgoorlie, Aurizon's 1029 Malcolm Freighter, waggon AQNY 32180, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as the WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic loaded with two 20' 25U0 type hard top sulphur containers, BISU 100015[2] and BISU 100004[4]. 1st of April 2024.
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131-1-23347 viewsBurraboi Aquila silo complex, V/Line Grain bogie grain waggons, looking south.
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188-23347 viewsJunee, NSW Main South, looking towards Albury with the Junee South Signal Box and the Kemp Street overbridge.
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100605 9362347 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31233 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 125 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, Binduli Triangle, loaded with fines, 5th June 2010. This unit was converted to WOC for coal in 1986 till 1994 when it was re-classed back to WO.
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100731 02276347 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33560 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-100 and fleet number 9050 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02333347 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33267 is one of a batch of thirty five built by Goninan WA between January and April 2005 with serial number 950104-007 and fleet number 766 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02432347 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33412 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Group Rail WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-117 and fleet number 8911 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on empty train 6418 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02515347 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33582 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-122 and fleet number 9076 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on empty train 6418 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02855347 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33366 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 950142-071 and fleet number 865 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 7415 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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