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218-11558 viewsDe Grey River Bridge, a loaded Yarrie train crosses the river behind an original Mt Newman Mining ALCo to GE rebuild carried out by Goninan, originally ALCo C636 5458 to GE model C36-7M unit 5510 'Newman' serial 4839-07 / 87-075.
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223-22558 viewsPossum Siding, Hamersley Iron loco 7082 a General Electric built Dash 9-44CW serial 47761 leads sister unit 7080 with an empty train just inside the loop waiting to effect a crew change. 21st October 2000
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223-28558 viewsPossum Siding, trailing view of Hamersley Iron General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 7072 in the lead and 7074 serial 47753 with a loaded train ex Marandoo having just completed a crew change with an empty train. 21st October 2000.
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151111 9481558 viewsCape Lambert Yard, Chinese built Bradken ore cars, control car 20292 and slave car 25292.
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150522 8156558 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the first batch of BHP Billiton Dash 8 locos to be scrapped, 5646 serial 8244-11/92-135 one of a pair of new Goninan WA built CM40-8 units has already had most of the hood removed and the V16 7FDL prime mover is visible, sister unit 5647 sit along side with the same fate coming up next.
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160525 4863558 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1, crew accommodation coach QCBY 10, started life as Victorian Railways Newport Workshops 1952 build as AS class no. 15, first class air conditioned corridor car, then AS 210, BS 210 and BS 10. Sold to West Coast Railway, then RTS / Gemco and finally to Aurizon.
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178-16557 viewsArarat, track view looking east as V/Line broad gauge goods train 9169 to Adelaide powers up along the mainline off the Portland line under the signal gantry with semaphore signal post 4 pulled off behind Australian National BL class locomotives BL 27 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1011 and class leader BL 26 'Bob Hawke' serial 83-1010 and V/Line S class S 313 'Alfred Deakin' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 61-230 and X class X 53 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-800, taken from the former Works and Cattle Sidings area, the Aradale Asylum is in the background.
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129-2-11557 viewsNyora, 70' turntable deck and pit, radial roads, former loco depot.
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205-11557 viewsWittenoom, Bee Gorge, rock carving.
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208-1-07557 viewsBassendean, Rail Heritage WA Museum, exhibit #14, Pr class Pacific 4-6-2 steam engine Pr 521 'Ashburton', one of ten units built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1937 as class leader Pr 138 'Ashburton' and renumbered to 521 in 1946. Pr 521 'Ashburton' was also the first of the class to be withdrawn in 1969 and then condemned in 1970 and donated to the Museum in 1971.
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208-1-11557 viewsToodyay, emus at the Free Range Emu Farm.
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209-13557 viewsAshfield station, narrow gauge Perth to Midland service arrives with an Goninan NSW built ADC class railcar ADC 852 leading an ADL class.
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211-00557 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view from the top of the kaolin storage silos looking north at the kaolin conveyor and ship loader, with red legs and the No.2 bauxite loader straight ahead in the cyclone tie-down position. The bauxite conveyors can be seen passing under the road.
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030405 140102557 viewsKyancutta, yard view looking south along the narrow gauge mainline with the siding point levers and indicators with the Eyre Highway grade crossing and one of only three electrically lit signals on the Eyre Peninsula Division. The cast iron 'Yard Limit' sign can be made out in the distance, 5th April 2003.
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030407 082321557 viewsWudinna, empty grain train shunts forward with a trio of former Australian National locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, DA 4 leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial 84140 and 851 serial 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962, to shunt off empty waggons into the grain siding. 7th April 2003.
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051102 6629557 viewsThevenard, left hand side of Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit and class leader 1601, originally NJ 1 'Ben Chifley' serial 71-728, 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, repainted and renumbered to 1601 in November 2004 coupled to NJ 6 in Australian National green and yellow.
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150505 7953557 viewsFMG Solomon Line, looking west with cutting to the right, 227.5 km grade crossing in the distance, track is curving away to the left in the background. Geodata: -22.0200283 118.5880600 .
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150522 8153557 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the first batch of BHP Billiton Dash 8 locos to be scrapped, 5646 serial 8244-11/92-135 one of a pair of new Goninan WA built CM40-8 units has already had most of the hood removed and the V16 7FDL prime mover is visible, sister unit 5647 sit along side with the same fate coming up next.
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160522 2030557 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RKCX type open waggon RKCX 1001, originally built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1974 as a member of the ELX type open waggons, in 1979 recoded to VOBX and then VOCX in 1980. To NRC in 1994, ROBX, then current code in 1995.
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160522 2100557 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, platform 2 of 5-pack RRRY 7006 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005, SCF SCFU 200557 half height side door container and Linfox DRC 366 53' container.
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