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130705 0623405 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 0636405 viewsLock, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 4, 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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130708 0848405 viewsPenong Junction, [url=https://goo.gl/maps/45FyW]429.7 km[url].
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100611 0343405 viewsMidland, AOXY 33075 open waggon, converted to carry nickel matte bulk bags similar to the WGL type traffic, AOXY 33075 was originally built by WAGR Midland Workshop between 1966-67 as one of a batch of one hundred, was recoded to WGS for superphosphate traffic in 1969 till 1980.
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100611 0359405 viewsMidland, AQCY 30242 container flat waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops in a batch of forty five WFX type container flats in 1974, recoded to WQCX in 1980. Loaded with three 20' 2EG9 type boxes used to convey ammonium nitrate.
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221-22405 viewsYandi One mine loadout balloon loop, General Electric AC6000 class emerges from the loadout portal at 0.9 km/h as it leads a train through the loading vaults, the dust extraction ducting is also visible.
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225-24405 viewsAt the 24.1 km grade crossing on the BHP Newman line, General Electric AC6000 model unit 6073 serial 51065 built at GE Erie is the mid-train remote for the afternoon empty Yandi mine train as it heads south. This was before the units were named. GeoData.
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229-01405 viewsYandi Two balloon switch looking east with the Three Sisters forming the background. Empty BHP train heading for the balloon loop for loading, grade crossing is the YT 311.5 km. GeoData.
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236-19405 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuilt CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 sits out the front awaiting attention, with sister 5652 behind it and the rear of an AC6000 visible.
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238-15405 viewsNelson Point, ex Southern Pacific tunnel motor locomotive 8335 an EMD SD40T-2 unit, serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, purchased as a spare parts source for the other SD40 style units BHP Billiton purchased in 2003/04. 19th November 2003. Geodata .
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060110 2206405 viewsYeelanna, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 shunts back onto its train of empties on the mainline as the second person prepares to re-join the train, a rake of waggons in grain siding await loading. Approx. location of image.
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160525 4833405 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATKY 541 fuel tanker, originally built for H C Sleigh (Golden Fleece) in 1975 by Tulloch Ltd NSW as WJK type. Capacity now of 73000 litres in service with Caltex.
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160525 4839405 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTBF 6119 fuel tanker, originally built by Comeng NSW in 1975 as SCA type SCA 270 69000 litre bitumen tanker for Shell NSW, diesel capacity of 62700 litres.
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160525 5190405 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 4438, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 521, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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160531 9956405 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, diesel fuel tanker ATPF 572, Shell Fleet No. TR707, built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 for Shell, capacity of 80500 litres.
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060528 4181405 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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161112 3459405 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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0535 Magor USA 050412 0770405 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 535, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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6209 Comeng WA 051001 5685405 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #12, 6209, a Comeng WA built flat waggon from January 1977 under order no. 07-M-282 RY.
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6010 Scotts of Ipswich Qld 051001 5702405 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #20, 6010, a Scotts of Ipswich Qld built flat waggon from September 1970.
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