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130705 0576394 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 is the Ascom silo complex (Block 5), the train is loading on the grain loop, horizontal bunker (Block 4) on the right. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 0618394 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 0658394 viewsLock, 1203, 846 and 859 depart along the mainline for Port Lincoln with the loaded grain train.
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100601 8460394 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WN 513, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of thirty units built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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100609 09978394 viewsMidland, AQNY 32159, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, running empty on train 3426 up Kalgoorlie Freighter.
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100609 09982394 viewsMidland, AQWY 30231 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' boxes, two Colemans' 25B0 type CCBU 0031 and CCBU 0010 and a Royal Wolf 2EG9 type RWTU 951019 used to convey ammonium nitrate.
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100611 0318394 viewsMidland, AQHY 30095 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0036, 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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225-18394 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 6074 serial 51066 leading sister unit 6075 with another AC6000 unit mid-train. This was before the units were named. GeoData.
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226-26394 viewsShaw siding at the 219 km a loaded train with power from two Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild units 5642 'Wallareenya' serial 8281-07 / 92-131 and sister unit 5636, the mid-train remotes can be seen in the distance topping the grade. GeoData.
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227-06394 viewsNelson Point, view along B berth with Shiploader 1, this loader has since been replaced. In the distance now are berths E and F, Redbank Power Station can be seen in the distance. GeoData.
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232-00394 viewsYandi Two crushing and screening plant, built and operated by Henry Walker for BHP Iron Ore, overview from the radial stacker feed conveyor. From the left is the primary crusher, the dual secondary crushers can be made out behind the tertiary crushers in the middle and the screenhouse is the large building tot he right, the conveyor leading to the right is CV210. February 1997. GeoData.
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236-10394 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP AC6000 class locomotive 6072 'Hesta', a General Electric built AC6000 model, serial 51064, seen here in the shed having the windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted.
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160523 3341394 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30110 with CSA 0118, 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 to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth. CSA 0118 was built by VCare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4830394 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATHY 522 fuel tanker, one of two built by Comeng NSW in 1971 for Caltex as WJH type. With a capacity of 103000 litres but a safe full level of on 72000 litres.
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160527 5489394 viewsParkeston, loaded lime and cement shunt train 2C71 from West Kalgoorlie to Parkeston for Cockburn Lime. APNY 31158, one of twelve built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 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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161112 3012394 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, AQWY type waggon AQWY 30435 container waggon originally one of one hundred and sixty one built by Tomlinson Steel in 1970 as WFX type, to WQCX in 1980, with three TEU 22G1 type containers, RWTQ 818750, RWLU 813403 and RWLU 811167.
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161116 5559394 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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0520 Magor USA 050412 0759394 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA ballast waggon 520.
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0513 Magor USA 050421 1386394 viewsQuarry 8, Magor USA built ballast waggon 513, originally built in 1963 for the Oroville Dam project, before coming to BHP second hand as a ballast waggon in January 1968.
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0529 Magor USA 050518 2159394 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 529, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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