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030409 080101229 viewsWarramboo, empty grain train arrives just after 0800 and stops for a crew change. Rebuild unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery leads a pair of AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 830 class units 872 and 871 framed between the station building and the SACBH concrete silo complex.
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030411 101856229 viewsKimba Grain Bunker, ALCo DL531 model built by AE Goodwin NSW as 830 class 871 issued to Eyre Peninsula from new in February 1966, trailing view, 11th April 2003. Geodata here.
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030414 154708229 viewsPenong looking from the yard across East Terrace grade crossing. Last train ran in March 1997.
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060108 2051229 viewsLock, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, final of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1514, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started on the Eyre Peninsula in August 2004.
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150505 7959229 viewsFMG Solomon Line, a pair of General Electric Dash 9-44CW locomotives 005 serial 58182 and 006 serial 58183 struggle upgrade with a loaded train at the 227 km bound for Port Hedland, the train is being assisted in the rear. Geodata: -22.0189283 118.5861050 .
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237-12229 viewsJust south of Pilga and the old Cooglegong Mine is this rusting hulk of a Ruston Bucyrus shovel, possibly an RB10, serial RB21269. Geodata .
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160522 2030229 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RKCX type open waggon RKCX 1001, originally built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1974 as a member of the ELX type open waggons, in 1979 recoded to VOBX and then VOCX in 1980. To NRC in 1994, ROBX, then current code in 1995.
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160525 4945229 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1. Coupling between second unit locomotive and the inline fuelling waggon QQFY 4271, shows the MU or Multiple Unit red cable going into the socket with the cream cap on the waggon and the red cap on the loco, behind that is the crimp fitting is the in-line fuel hose between waggon and the loco along with train air pipe and coupling.
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134-02228 viewsKagaru, up departure signals, looking north at the south end, from road over bridge, point and rodding.
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140517-4352228 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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140517-4371228 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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195-08228 viewsWittenoom, Bee Gorge, view from top of cat walk looking north.
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196-07228 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 originally built new by Goninan as a GE CM39-8 in 1988. Drivers side cab view shows hand brake chain and bogie. May 1998.
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193-14228 viewsMoodlu, old grade crossing, looking west in Down direction across what is now Devantier Rd grade crossing, signal is for the Moodlu Quarry junction which is just around the curve. GeoData.
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203-34228 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, chute to move ore down between levels.
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204-02228 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, view across creek to sealed up drive entry No. 7.
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204-05228 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, how foundations were made, buried 44 gallon drums filled with rock.
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216-16228 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, Australian National CL class locomotive CL 17 'William McMahon' Clyde Engineering EMD model AT26C serial 71-757.
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051102 6614228 viewsThevenard Maintenance Centre has NJ class Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit NJ 3 serial 71-730, built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981. Still in AN green but lettered for Australian Southern Railroad.
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051102 6616228 viewsThevenard, AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class locomotive 871 serial G3422-1, issued when built in 1966 to the Eyre Peninsula division of South Australian Railways. Still wearing Australian National green and yellow but with ASR decals as it stands in the yard.
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