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130705 055154 viewsLock, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 39, originally an NHB type hopper NHB 1573 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. Fitted with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover. 5th July 2013.
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130705 058254 viewsLock, located at the 148.5 km and originally named Terre when opened in May 1913, later renamed to Lock in December 1921. From the left background is the Ascom silo complex (Block 5), then blocks 2, 1 and 3, the train is on the mainline with the horizontal bunker (Block 4) on the right. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 058354 viewsLock, located at the 148.5 km and originally named Terre when opened in May 1913, later renamed to Lock in December 1921. From the left background is the Ascom silo complex (Block 5), then blocks 2, 1 and 3, the train is on the mainline with the horizontal bunker (Block 4) on the right. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 061154 viewsLock, up end looking down through Lock, Ascom silo block #5 on the left, Viterra fast loader loading train while loaded portion sits on the mainline.
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130705 063454 viewsLock, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 50, 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 078654 viewsCharra, crossing loop, 466.2 km.
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130708 092454 viewsThevenard originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 1, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum crossing Bergmann Drive grade crossing, 434.2 km.
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100731 323554 viewsBinduli, AQHY 30016 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0006, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 at WF type flat waggons, then following several codes and modifications in 1997 seventy five were converted to WQH to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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225-2254 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 6075 serial 51067 second unit to lead sister unit 6074 with another AC6000 unit mid-train. This was before the units were named. GeoData.
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160527 548454 viewsParkeston, loaded lime and cement shunt train 2C71 from West Kalgoorlie to Parkeston for Cockburn Lime. APNY 31163, one of four built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1978 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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160523 361554 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30084 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0097, originally built by 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, part of loaded acid train 2406 arriving back in the yard. CSA 0097 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160523 301954 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRAY 7167 platform 3 of 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000 with an ARLS 46' RFRG type reefer ARLS 475.
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160524 377654 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RQLY 4 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set, 1 of 8 built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1987 as AQJY, Royal Wolf 40' box RWTU 941207.
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160529 881854 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRQY 8314
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160530 928054 viewsBinduli, 7SP3 intermodal service, RQCY 785
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160530 914154 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 62 still in Freight Australia green livery loaded with an SCT 40' reefer SCTR 045 and an 4EG1 type 40' Cronos box CXSU 120522.
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161116 555954 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443, tank waggon NTBF 6119, built by Comeng NSW 1975 as a bitumen tanker type SCA for Shell Bitumen NSW as SCA 270.
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080621 271854 viewsTabba South, one of a batch of six flat waggons converted by Mt Newman Mining workshops by cutting down a pair of ore waggons to make one flat waggon, 6106 in service with the rail recovery and transport train as waggon #4.
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241-2654 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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080124 162854 viewsChapman Siding, new FMG ore waggon pairs 1179 slave and 2180 control and 1259 slave and 2260 control, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 24th January 2008.
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