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160530 913256 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0069 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.
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160530 914256 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, originally built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1984 as one of fifty VQDW type 'Jumbo' Container Flat waggons built, PQDY 42 still in Freight Australia green livery loaded with a pair of SCT 40' reefers SCTR 001 and SCTR 013 with former code FQRU 402012 visible.
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161116 511956 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, ATPF 580 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1976 for Shell as type WJP, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80500 litres, it also spent time in SA in 1985, fitted with type F InterLock couplers, Shell Fleet no. TR715 still visible.
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161116 555056 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443, ATPF type tank waggon ATPF 572, built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1974 for Shell as WJP type 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, old code still visible, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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171121 096756 viewsBarker Siding, Loram rail grinder MPC 2, grinder cart. 21st November 2017.
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241-2656 viewsNelson Point, Mt Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW sits awaiting partial dismantling before being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's museum at Bassendean, Perth for preservation with two C36-7M units 5506 and 5510 also awaiting removal from site. June 2002.
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243-2756 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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080124 163056 viewsChapman Siding, new FMG ore waggon pair 1311 slave and 2312 control, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 24th January 2008.
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080304 2196r56 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, new FMG ore waggon pair 1611 slave and 2612 control, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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080304 219756 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, new FMG ore waggon pair 1059 slave and 2060 control, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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246-3156 viewsCape Lambert, a Robe River loaded Deepdale train on the mainline with waggon 700 a Tomlinson Steel WA build. The ore is a ROM product and will be dumped over the gyratory crusher to be correctly sized. 22nd May 2002.
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249-0556 viewsYule River bridge looking north from the 160 km on the BHP mainline. The third pier from the southern end was undermined by flood waters from Tropical Cyclone John in December 1999. The rail line was closed for two weeks while repairs were effected. Approximate location.
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254-0356 viewsWodgina mine site, bull buggy from a cut down 60 series Toyota Landcruiser from Wallareenya Station.
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245-1156 viewsWudinna's peace is disturbed as the birds take off as an empty down grain train arrives along the mainline to shunt off some waggons. 7th April, 2003.
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245-1356 viewsWudinna, empty grain train behind a trio of former Australian National locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, DA 4 leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial 84140 and 851 serial 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962, to shunt off empty waggons into the grain siding. 7th April 2003.
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245-1656 viewsWudinna, empty grain train shunts back into the grain siding with a trio of former Australian National Co-Co locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial no. 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, DA 4 leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial no. 84140 and 851 serial no. 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962. 7th April, 2003.
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190129 434556 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00222 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-222 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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140601 444856 viewsWoodbridge, empty Carina bound iron ore train #1035, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8028-1 part of a pair of 120 sets built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
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268-2956 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year special, left hand side view of 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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268-3256 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year special, view from the No. 2 End of 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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