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134-10472 viewsThe Risk, up home arrival signal, looking south from north end of loop.
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194-35472 viewsYandi campsite for Henry Walker operated iron ore mine owned and managed by BHP, view of camp are from man cage on Kato 50 tonne hydraulic crane.
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195-21472 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view of the former market garden area and house remains, viewed from the cat walk on the western wall of the gorge.
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195-29472 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Australian Blue Asbestos or ABA Colonial Mill, view of mine adits above the tailings in the west wall of the gorge.
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196-13472 viewsYandi Two loaded car side of the loadout balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M or Dash 8 motive power in the form of 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 rebuilt by Goninan as GE model CM40-8M from ALCo M636C number 5480 and two new Goninan built GE CM39-8 units 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 and 5631 'Apollo' serial 5831-10 / 88-080 are the head end power with another two CM40-8M units mid-train. Train length is 240 waggons with a 120/120 split. Yandi Two ore stockpile and pedestal stacker boom tip visible in the background, the loadout operates via gravity and the train travels through a tunnel. May 1998.
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201-07472 viewsMidland, elevated view from the Workshops Footbridge, RQRX type waggon RQRX 60177 a 53 tonne capacity flat waggon, originally built by Comeng NSW in 1971 as part of a batch of fifty CBX type waggons, later converted from NQBX type NQBX 21782.
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204-16472 viewsWittenoom Gorge Mine area, pool located near mine site.
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210-05472 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, rake of loaded cars with a compressor car on the rear of the consist closest to camera.
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215-22472 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, fuel point shed, standard gauge road on the left with 600 class 606 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL541 serial G6015-5 and dual gauge road on the left with BL class BL 32 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1016.
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215-33472 viewsDudley Park, the south bound Ghan rolls past on the way to Keswick Terminal behind AN livered DL class DL 37 Clyde Engineering EMD model AT42C serial 88-1245.
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030406 084446472 viewsTooligie, yard view looking across mainline to siding and loading ramp, weighbridge scale room in the right background. 6th April 2003.
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030414 154029472 viewsPenong, yard view looking along the goods loop, mainline can be seen in the grass on the right and the grain loop in the clear on the far right. Car is parked at Ascom silo block 1 loadout gantry, Pope is looking for more triangle track.
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060113 2418472 viewsCeduna, loaded gypsum train 6DD2 stirs up the dust behind the triple Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 08:10 AM on the Friday the 13th January 2006.
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060527 4094472 viewsScotia, AQHY 30054 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0020, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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237-13472 viewsJust south of Pilga and the old Cooglegong Mine is this rusting hulk of a Ruston Bucyrus shovel, possibly an RB10, serial RB21269. Geodata .
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244-16472 viewsPort Augusta, Spencer Junction NR class NR 22 leads an UP short four waggon steel train off the Whyalla line. NR 22 is a Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i serial 7250-04/97-224.
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041014 142128472 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, Comeng WA ALCo rebuild C636R locomotive 3017 serial WA-135-C-6043-04. The improved Pilbara cab was fitted as part of the rebuild in April 1985. Donated to Society in 1996. 14th October 2004.
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174-19471 viewsAlbury, V/Line standard gauge VQAW type leader VQAW 1, three pack articulated container waggon with Gloucester bogies, built new at Ballarat North Workshops and issued to traffic 22-11-1990, middle container platform, empty on a south bound goods train, the disused Dalgety's warehouse is behind the waggon.
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168-09471 viewsBank Box Loop, down V/Line broad gauge goods train to Adelaide with G class G 540 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1273 and Australian National 700 class 704 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-2 power away from the crossing loop at the Ironbark Road grade crossing.
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123-2-07471 viewsMaffra station overview, looking from Tinamba end of yard, broad gauge V/Line RT class rail tractor RT 49 started out as I waggon 7507 built by Victorian Railways 21-02-1905, converted to IA in 1936, then K 85 in April 1955 and in 1969 to the underframe of RT 49 by Ballarat North Workshops, Siding A sheds at right of frame, yard overgrown, motor grader, station building.
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