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030405 140236698 viewsKyancutta, track view of timber and steel sleepers with bolted rail joins, and a 10 km/h speed restriction, April 5, 2003.
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030407 082751698 viewsWudinna, empty grain train shunts back into the grain siding, former Australian National Co-Co locomotives AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial no. 84140 and 851 serial no. 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962. April 7, 2003.
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051102 6619698 viewsThevenard, right 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.
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150505 7978698 viewsFMG Solomon Line, waggon 3005, tare weight of 21.8 tonnes, yellow circle indicates rotary coupling, built in 2009 by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co. Ltd, loaded with fines ore. Geodata: -22.0187350 118.5850917 .
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160527 5538698 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in 1973 as one of four hundred and fifty five FQX type 60' 3TEU container flat waggons built over ten years, it managed to be recoded several times carrying FQF - VQCX - VQCX - RQCX before private ownership and reclassed PQCY type, PQCY 733 is now fitted with bulkheads and here loaded with a portable building.
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161111 2397698 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32159 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with two Bis Industries 25U0 type sulphur containers BISU 100100 and BISU 100107.
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19795698 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, former BHP Iron Ore Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5509, seen here stripped down to being an engine test bed, view from the no. 2 end. Sept 2003.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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104-22697 viewsWallan, gangers trolley shed, semaphore signal post 12, looking from up platform, water tank in background.
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119-19697 viewsSunshine, Australian National broad gauge loco BL class BL 31 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1015 and V/Line C class C 509 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-832 with down Adelaide goods train 9149, on the Independent Goods Lines, crossing the passenger lines, semaphore signal post 31.
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122-08697 viewsTraralgon loco depot, V/Line broad gauge locos, S class S 317 'Sir John Monash' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 61-240, X class X 45 'Edgar H Brownbill' Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-792 and T class T 407 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 68-623.
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174-24697 viewsAlbury, yard view from station dock area, V/Line standard gauge G class locomotives G 523 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 86-1236 and a sister lead an up Melbourne bound goods train away from the north yard, the broad gauge track and diamond can be seen running across the dock road.
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167-03697 viewsWallan Loop, north bound standard gauge goods hauled by NSWSRA 81 class loco 8175 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1094 in the brand new Freight Rail 'Stealth' livery.
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165-22697 viewsAlbury loco depot fuel point, NSWSRA standard gauge 81 class loco 8175 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1094 in the new Freight Rail 'Stealth' livery.
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107-18697 viewsEchuca turntable deck and pit, looking south.
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114-25697 viewsBenalla signal gantry, semaphore signal post 28 pulled off for up Albury passenger train, looking north, yard still fully interlocked and signalled, disc signal post 22 facing away from camera, post 27 facing camera, signal gantry features from left, disc post 23, 24, semaphore post 25, 26 and 28.
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129-1-21697 viewsSomerville yard view, looking towards Melbourne, broad gauge V/Line VCSX type bogie coil steel waggons VCSX 70 and VCSX 39 both examples of second batch of sixty CSX type coil steel transport waggons constructed by Ballarat North Workshops to add to the original thirty built at Newport. CSX re-classed to VFSX in 1979 then to VCSX in 1987.
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190-03697 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, looking north, platform and main lines on the left, yard tracks on the right with Ascom silo complex in the background.
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199-02697 viewsToodyay West, empty grain train with standard gauge Westrail L class L 263 Clyde Engineering EMD GT26C serial 68-553 and forty empty waggons at Northam-Toodyay Rd Katrine. 1316 hrs on June 21, 1997.
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208-1-02697 viewsBassendean, Rail Heritage WA Museum, exhibit #6, Es class Pacific 4-6-2 steam engine Es 308 built by the Vulcan Foundry in 1901 as an E class, once superheated the classes became Es, ES 308 was the one of the last of the class in service and travelled over 1.25 million miles, it was donated to the Museum in 1972.
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030407 085725697 viewsYaninee, station located at the 237.6 km, opened in April 1915, train control booth and shelter. April 7, 2003.
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