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217-21262 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, fuel point roads, AN BL class BL 31 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1015 with 700 class 704 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-2 rest between jobs with V/Line broad gauge N class behind them.
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030409 080852262 viewsWarramboo, empty grain departs following a crew change. Rebuild unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery leads a pair of AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 830 class units 872 and 871, the SACBH concrete silo and Ascom silo complexes behind it.
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051102 6615262 viewsThevenard Maintenance Centre overview, with NJ class Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit NJ 3 serial 71-730, built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981. Still in AN green but lettered for Australian Southern Railroad and a lone ENH type hopper standing around 'on-shed'. Behind the sanding plant and shed are the no longer rail serviced grain silos.
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051101 6412262 viewsParkeston, AHQF 31422 seen here in Loongana Limestone service, originally built by Goninan WA for Western Quarries as a batch of twenty coded WHA type in 1995. Purchased by Westrail in 1998.
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150505 7979262 viewsFMG Solomon Line, waggon 4006, tare weight of 22 tonnes, built in 2009 by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co. Ltd, loaded with fines ore. Geodata: -22.0187350 118.5850917 .
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150523 8199262 viewsNelson Point Yard, with only another month to operate, BHP Billiton CM40-8M locomotive 5666 'Taranto' is a trailing unit as the loaded rake waits to head to the car dumpers for unloading. 5666 started life as a Comeng NSW built M636 ALCo 5487 before Goninan rebuilt it in 1995 to a CM40-8MEFI as it was the first unit to trial an electronic fuel injection system. Come the 1st of July 2015 all these units were all stored.
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160128 00882262 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, view looking at the inside of the cab front wall and the ALCo Hi-Ad bogie shows the external coil secondary suspension.
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180616 1826262 viewsEmu Siding, Bradken NSW built S series ore waggon pair 1830 'master' and 6840 'slave' with HI ownership marks setup as an instrumented ore waggon pair, seen here in an empty train. 16th June 2018.
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161-10261 viewsKatunga, V/Line broad gauge VOFX type bogie open waggon VOFX 36 with tarpaulin for fertiliser transport, ratchet style hand brake, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in September 1962 as an ELF type, in 1964 to ELX, in 1980 to VOCX and in 1987 to VOFX.
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190-08261 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, looking from the mainlines across the yard in a north direction, two mechanical lower quadrant semaphore signal posts protect up movements from the yard.
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192-16261 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot, the cab of a Comeng built ALCo CE615A sits amongst the flowers.
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140517-4355261 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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193-16261 viewsGympie station yard overview looking south in the Up direction from the Stewart Terrace overbridge, zoomed in, station and platform in the middle, loco turntable to the right. GeoData.
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196-20261 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, view inside of side opening ore waggon, shows how much ore the waggons could carry.
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198-02261 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, rear view of battery box and battery locomotive GEMCO Hauler serial 12304-05/10/65, motor H.P. 2/11, volts 80, drawbar pull (lbs.) 1250 built by George Moss Pty Ltd Leederville, WA.
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199-09261 viewsMeckering, National Rail NR class unit NR 20 Goninan built GE Cv40-9i model, cab side view on train 7PM5 as it waits for a cross with the Prospector in the loop 1400 hrs 21st June 1997.
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205-01261 viewsRoebourne - Wittenoom Road, Chichester Downs, camp located 4 km east of Rio Tinto railway, sign says it all.
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209-02261 viewsEast Perth Passenger Terminal, Westrail L class L 272 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 69-621 shunts flat waggons around the Indian Pacific consist.
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212-04261 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view of articulated haulpak on haul road from overbridge.
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030411 105041261 viewsKimba Grain Bunker site with the Cortlinye shelter placed beside the line for crews to occupy.
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