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030405 165414490 viewsLock, sign on the barracks indicating the current operator, 5th April 2003.
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030409 122953490 viewsKielpa, located at the 185.3 km and opened in July 1913, yard overview looking south from the original end of the siding up to 1970.
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030409 141629490 viewsWharminda, loaded grain train prepares to depart having attached extra loading behind 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, with fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4.
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060109 2107490 viewsKyancutta, Kyancutta Tanks Rd grade crossing, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 lift the empty north bound grain train away from crew change. 9th January 2006.
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160101 9782490 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, mine adit no. 5.
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150522 8188490 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M unit 5657 serial 8412-02/94-148 awaits the shears. Full details of this unit can be seen here .
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208-2-18490 viewsEast Perth Passenger Terminal, looking towards Mt Lawley.
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208-2-37490 viewsKeswick Passenger Terminal, Adelaide, The Ghan with Australian National DL class DL 37 Clyde Engineering EMD model AT42C serial 88-1245 awaits departure time.
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160524 3747490 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRXY 3 platform 2 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a 48' Linfox reefer FTAD 910801 on top of a Royal Wolf 40' box RWVU 400280.
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160528 8329490 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train departs Parkeston behind a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 65 serial 7250-11/96-267 and NR 92 serial 7250-05/97-291.
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160528 8344490 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RRKY container waggon RRKY 4302, originally built as an RMX type 63' flat waggon by Perry Engineering SA in 1975. Recoded to AQMX, then AQMY and RQMY. Loaded with a Linfox 40' flatrack FCCU 4010# with a tarped load.
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160523 2714490 viewsParkeston, view of the end of articulated 5-pack centre well waggon set RQLY 1007, one of fourteen built by AN Rail Islington Workshops 1991 as AQLY, coupled to RZEY 2, train 1PM5.
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160523 2931490 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214 and NR 51 serial 7250-08/97-253 lead the train 'elephant style' out of the dip and along the mainline at the 1776 km. The PN local is in the car at the gantry performing a roll-by, the track on the left is the Engineers Siding.
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160522 2153490 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQJW 60007 container waggon, one of fifty built by EPT NSW as NQJW type in 1984-85, with a pair of 40' containers, SCF sea2rail SCFU 408084 and Royal Wolf RWTU 441643.
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160601 10084490 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal service climbs up the grade from Kalgoorlie across Gateacre Road at the 651 km post behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 19 serial 7250-03/97-221 and a sister unit and 24 waggons for 1464 metres and 3936 tonnes.
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160522 2252490 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ABSY type ABSY 2474 covered van, originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA in 1972 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type recoded to ABFX and then RBFX to SCT as ABFY before being converted by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.
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170726 9429490 viewsRedbank, a loaded BHP iron ore train from Yandi arrives past the arrival signals for Nelson Point yard on the west mainline behind Electro Motive built SD70ACe unit 4331 'Withnell' serial 20066862-060 leading an SD70ACe/LC with another two SD70ACe/LC units in the middle of the 264 waggon consist. 26th July 2017.
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19796490 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. 1 end. Sept 2003.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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180527 1208490 viewsPippingarra, near the 17 km on the former Goldsworthy line, BHP stored redundant service waggons, the two heavy weight waggons, the original Vickers Hoskins built 6004 137.1 tonne capacity Ortner Freight Car Company design, and the much newer Gemco WA built 100 tonnes capacity waggon. 27th May 2018. GeoData.
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180616 1659490 viewsCooya Pooya, 32 km on the Cape Lambert line, Rio Tinto loco 9103 with serial 61941 a GE Erie built GE model ES44ACi from the 1st order in Rio Tinto Stripes livery side view, following a total loss of air, the locomotive's hose bag is chained to the rail in case of movement. The train pulled a coupling around the 45 car position. 16th June 2018. Geodata
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