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051001 5621324 viewsFlash Butt yard, BHP flat waggon 6705 with EDI decal and ROA code of AQPY 2916, 55 tonne capacity, unsure of original owner, possible AN AOOX, then cut down to the Pilbara through CFCLA.
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100717 0672324 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6030, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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110411 10035324 viewsNelson Point, empty 82 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0004 one of six such tank waggons built in 1970-71.
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110619 1887324 viewsSouth of Mooka Siding, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #17, 6016 with registered number 6506-016, a Comeng WA built flat waggon from 1971.
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110602 8604324 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 04, compressor control waggon with two diesel powered Atlas Copco XAS 97's and the receiver waggon with two air tanks or receivers. Note the waggons are cut down ore waggons. Seen here on the causeway just outside of 7 Mile. 2nd June 2011.
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170510 8285324 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 09, air receiver waggon with two air tanks or receivers. Note the waggons are modified ore waggon frames. Seen here at Cape Lambert. 10th May 2017.
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080304 2196r324 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 2205324 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of slave waggon 1527, the yellow circle around the tare weight 22.6 t indicates the rotary coupler end, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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080304 2207324 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of slave waggon 1523, the yellow circle around the tare weight 22.6 t indicates the rotary coupler end, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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252-02324 viewsCockatoo Siding 273 km on the Hamersley Iron line to Yandi, ballast plough waggon BP 02 is on the end of a ballast rake being loaded. BP 02 has been converted from an Nippon Sharyo ore waggon with the mounting of an air compressor on top and the fitting of a plough blade, the waggon is also loaded with ballast to ballast the plough. Location is roughly here. 24th November 2001.
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254-18324 viewsFlash Butt yard, stored Mt Newman Mining 5499 was the last active ALCo on the BHP roster. Cab side shows ownership details and bogie. Built in November 1975 by Comeng NSW as an ALCo M636 model with serial number C6065-4. Unit was donated to Rail Heritage WA in 2001.
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257-18324 viewsFlash Butt yard Mount Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW awaits its fate. Late 2021.
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245-15324 viewsWudinna, empty grain train shunts over Gooch Terrace as it takes a rake of waggons into the grain siding, former Australian National locomotive AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 851 serial 84137 has been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962. 7th April 2003.
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190129 4244324 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00064 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-64 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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140601 4614324 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8037 one pair of 120 bar coupled pairs built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
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268-17324 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year special, 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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160708 iPh5S 2784324 viewsWittenoom, view looking south at the fog hanging over Mount Watkins and the Hammersley Range from 53 Fifth Avenue Wittenoom, taken at 3:15pm, 8th of July 2016. Geodata.
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140413 IMG 1956324 viewsSulphuric Acid placard on CSA 0057 acid tank which was built by Acid Plant Management Services, WA in 2015. Peter Donaghy image.
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160409 IMG 7271324 viewsParkeston, Aurizon rail grinder MMY type MMY 034, built in the USA by Loram as RG331 ~2004, imported into Australia by Queensland Rail, now Aurizon, in April 2009, detail picture. Peter Donaghy image.
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160412 IMG 7461324 viewsParkeston, Aurizon rail grinder MMY type MMY 034, built in the USA by Loram as RG331 ~2004, imported into Australia by Queensland Rail, now Aurizon, in April 2009, detail picture. Peter Donaghy image.
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