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236-34327 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 'Chichester' serial 51063 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted.
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160525 4811327 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30057 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0089, 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 empty acid train 4405 departing in the yard. CSA 0089 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160527 5488327 viewsParkeston, loaded lime and cement shunt train 2C71 from West Kalgoorlie to Parkeston for Cockburn Lime. APNY 31166, 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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060530 4846327 viewsParkeston, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 2 'Great Artesian' on train 2PM9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 79, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 361. Recoded to AVDY in October 1982, then to AVDP. Sold to WCR, then in October 2000 overhauled for crew car use and coded VPAY 1 on SCT services and owned by Freight Australia. Was later sold to Pacific National and subsequently scrapped 2016.
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070531 9661327 viewsParkeston, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 223 on train 4PW4, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in March 1949 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress AS 12, in July 1952 converted to ABS type first and second class Spirit of Progress car ABS 1, in October 1972 reverted to AS 1, in June 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 3, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 223. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2005.
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161116 5550327 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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050518 2115327 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 746, rear view.
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050518 2156327 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 537, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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050518 2158327 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 501, the first 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 2163327 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 535, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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050704 3982327 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0015 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons, detail of the A end and bogie and the B end of 0018, both wearing the BHP Billiton Earth livery.
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050704 3993327 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0014 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons.
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050713 4101327 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY class CHRY 752.
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051001 5714327 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #24, 6005, a Scotts of Ipswich Qld built flat waggon from September 1970.
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060429 3726327 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon, built for Mt Newman Mining in 1970 by Scotts of Ipswich, one of a batch of nine, one of a batch of nine in the series 6005-6013.
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060429 3760327 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony waggon 6017, built by Comeng WA in 1971 in a batch of three numbered 6014-6017, view of asset number 6506-017.
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060618 6219327 viewsFlash Butt yard, modified original Magor USA built Oroville waggons 567 and 589, cut down and covered for use as indexing waggons at Finucane Island car dumpers, note the original ODCX marking visible.
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060714 6815327 viewsHesta Siding, view from the rear of the rail recovery and transport train as it snakes around the curves. Crib waggon 665 a former Magor USA built ore waggon, heavily modified by Mt Newman Mining workshops and fitted with an ATCO donga.
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050410 0523327 viewsNelson Point yard hard stand area rear view of brand new having only been delivered the day before, BHP track tamper to become Tamper 3, a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480. 10th April 2005.
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050414 0954327 viewsFlash Butt yard, Speno Australia's RR24 model 24 stone rail grinder serial M20 before it had id stickers fitted, this unit was later stickered as RG 1, view of the second grinding module coupled. 14th April 2005.
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