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233-02351 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. An empty train can be seen about to enter the tunnel. GeoData.
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233-18351 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. A loading train lead by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 as it drags the train through at 1.2 km/h with assistance from two sister units. GeoData.
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234-03351 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5640 'Ethel Creek' serial 8281-05 / 92-129 is on the rear of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. View of front pilot. Circa 1998.
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060110 2227351 viewsKarkoo, empty grain train behind 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 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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160523 3574351 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 538, one of a further ten built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WN type in 1975 for WMC.
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160523 3585351 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 506, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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160525 4399351 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter, train 3029, AZKY type anhydrous ammonia tank waggon AZKY 32235, one of twelve built by Goninan WA in 1998 as type WQK for Murrin Murrin traffic, fitted with Bis Industries anhydrous ammonia tank A7S.
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060528 4517351 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 221, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1940 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress as AS 6, in April 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 1, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 221. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2004.
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161111 2513351 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon ATPY 593 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1976 as one of four WJP type for AMPOL, capacity of 80500 litres, here in Caltex service.
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161112 2998351 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, AQNY type waggon AQNY 32175 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a Bis Industries roll-top type UA55 container SBIU 200626 and an un-decaled hard-top type 25U0 container BISU 100057.
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161116 5548351 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443, AQWY 30224 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 with two locomotive sand tanktainer pods, CTC 2201 and CTC 2203 for the Esperance workshops, these pods have replaced the 'Sputnik' that supplied the former Kalgoorlie depot.
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050518 2171351 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 503, one of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.
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050518 2180351 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 517, one of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.
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050518 2183351 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 534, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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050704 3992351 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0014 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons.
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060501 3877351 viewsTabba Siding, originally built by Difco USA for Goldsworthy Mining Ltd in 1967 as a batch of five, prefixed with 870 in BHP service, 8702 side dump waggon loaded with ballast.
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050414 0939351 viewsFlash Butt yard, builders plate of Barclay Mowlem track tamper a Fairmont Jackson model 6700 tamper serial 153172. 14th April 2005.
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050421 1143351 viewsGillam Siding backtrack, BHP's ballast regulator BR 31 a Plasser Australia SSP 110SW model serial 401, rear view. 21st April 2005.
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050421 1625351 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's two 24 stone rail grinders coupled together before they had id stickers fitted, the front unit was later stickered as RG 2, the rear unit was stickered as RG 1 and is serial M20. 21st April 2005.
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050625 3816351 viewsNode 2 at the 38 km on the GML or former Goldsworthy mainline, a Barclay Mowlem sleeper inserter track machine off clear of the running lines. 25th June 2005.
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