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160525 4952207 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1. Inline fuelling waggon QQFY 4271, originally built for Commonwealth Railways in 1976 by Perry Engineering SA as type RMX, recoded to AQMX, with 70 tonne bogies became AQMY, then RQMY, to QR National in 2007. Seen here with a 30' diesel fuel tanktainer from Nantong Tank Container Company, NTTU 330001 with a 30800 litre capacity. The Perry Engineering plate is also visible.
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244-04207 viewsPort Augusta yard, a pair of ALF class units on the Darwin line construction shunt a rail transport waggon as an SP service wait for departure time with a pair of NR class units. ALF 20 and ALF 18 are both Morrison Knudsen rebuilds, model JT26C-2M serials 94-AN-020 and 94-AN-018.
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162-2-02206 viewsSouth Dynon Motive Power Depot broad gauge fuel point, V/Line diesel electric locomotives 'on shed' are new and re-build passenger train motive power in the form of Bulldog A class A 73 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 83-1179 rebuilt from B class B 73 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-14, and N class N 458 'City of Maryborough' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 85-1226 front view at the fuel point.
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162-3-07206 viewsMelbourne Yard, V/Line broad gauge VQDW type 80 foot bogie container waggon, built by Newport Workshops in September 1975 as an FCF Bogie Jumbo Container Flat, VQDW 23 with TNT Contrans 40 foot containers, PTC Open Day.
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141-1-15206 viewsSunshine, Wright Street / Sunshine Road grade crossing, 66 cents a litre for fuel?? Must have been 1992, and broad gauge V/Line X class and S class with the down Corio - Wodonga oil (fuel) train.
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188-07206 viewsWagga Wagga, located 521 km from Sydney on the NSW Main South, view from station platform at historical display. Geo Data.
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199-04206 viewsMeckering, National Rail NR class units NR 19 and NR 20 both being Goninan built GE Cv40-9i models head up train 7PM5 as they wait for a cross with the Prospector in the loop 1400 hrs 21st June 1997.
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199-08206 viewsMeckering, National Rail NR class units NR 19 and NR 20 both being Goninan built GE Cv40-9i models head up train 7PM5 as they wait for a cross with the Prospector in the loop 1400 hrs 21st June 1997.
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208-1-06206 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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209-07206 viewsEast Perth Passenger Terminal, Westrail L class L 272 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 69-621 shunts away from the loading dock.
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210-19206 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, railway workshops, front view of Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 while is sits at the fuel point, items of note are the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also as the Weipa locomotives don't work in MU there is only the train brake hose and the main res hose for charging the belly dump discharge doors.
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212-16206 viewsWeipa, Mission River road and rail bridge from the Andoom and rail side.
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060116 2679206 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 30252 is one of a batch of one hundred and thirty built by Goninan WA between March and August 2001 with serial number 950092-002 and fleet number 602 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a built date April 2001 in the current style of 83 tonne load capacity WOE type waggon built for Portman Mining on Koolyanobbing iron ore train service, West Kalgoorlie 16th January 2006.
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030405 132832206 viewsWudinna, yard view looking along the mainline south with Naylor Tce in the background with grain shed on the left and silo complex and loading spout on the right, 5th April, 2003.
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030406 084350206 viewsTooligie, elevation view of the concrete style silo complex and outflow spout, Block 1, station train control cabin and loading ramp visible on the left. 6th April 2003.
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030414 154644206 viewsPenong , view looking west at yard across grade crossing, shelter on the left. Last train was in March 1997.
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051102 6620206 viewsThevenard, left hand side view of NJ class Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit NJ 6 serial 71-733, 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.
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051102 6631206 viewsThevenard, left hand side view of NJ class Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit NJ 6 serial 71-733, 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.
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060108 2055206 viewsLock, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, final of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1514, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started on the Eyre Peninsula in August 2004.
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223-22206 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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