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197-29420 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, builders plate for Mancha type MB1 controller, serial number M6 3165.
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211-35420 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point overview of no. 2 bauxite berth looking south east, tug boats, no. 2 ship loader and the TNT Capricornia, a coal fired 75,500-dwt bulk carrier built by Italcantieri for TNT Bulkships trade run between Gladstone and Weipa.
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100605 9334420 viewsWOC type iron ore waggon WOC 31360 is one of a batch of thirty built by Goninan WA between October 1997 to January 1998 with fleet number 420 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity and lettered for KIPL, Koolyanobbing Iron Pty Ltd, with the non-handbrake end repainted, seen here loaded with fines ore, Binduli, 5th June 2010.
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030409 084537420 viewsKyancutta, empty grain train runs through the yard behind rebuild DA class unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery leading a pair of AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 830 class units 872 and 871 with a string of grain waggons.
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030409 153916420 viewsMoody Tank, a loaded grain train storms around the curve behind 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt DA class unit DA 4.
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060113 2450420 viewsThevenard, originally one of sixty two Kinki Sharyo built NH type waggons for the NAR in 1966 as NH 923, and recoded to ENH type ENH 23 in 1985, with hungry boards and access ladder intact. Exiting the Waratah Gypsum unloader and crossing Innes Avenue en route into the yard. 13th January 2006.
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070529 9336420 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30053 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0039, 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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150507 8108420 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bank engines General Electric Dash 9-44CW locomotives, units 006 serial 58183 and 005 serial 58182 run back light to Solomon for their next duty, seen here on the second bridge over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1844217 118.0313467 .
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150518 8120420 viewsBHP Iron Ore old and retired ore stacker #4 and bucket wheel reclaimer #4 are blown apart to aid in the scrapping process.
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160128 00876420 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, the almost unmarked front of Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M unit 5661, serial 8412-06, builders no. 94-152 is surrounded by the twisted scrap that earlier formed the rest of the locomotive.
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160524 3636420 viewsKalgoorlie, priority service 2PS7 passes the station environs behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 113 serial 7250-09/97-312, originally built for National Rail now in current owner Pacific National livery, the timber sleepers still in situ for the points to the dock road.
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160522 2177420 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQQY 7076 platform 3 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 17 built by Qld Rail at Ipswich Workshops in 1995, FCL 48' container FBGU 480093.
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160601 10095420 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RQGY 34488 container waggon, one of a hundred built by Tulloch Ltd NSW as OCY type in 1974/75, recoded to NQOY, then modified to NQGY, with FCL 40' box FCGU 324614[0] and Linfox 20' 2EG9 type box FSWB 9635156.
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160522 2261420 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ARFY type ARFY 2198 refrigerated van with a Ballarat built Maxi-CUBE body mounted on an original Commonwealth Railways ROX container waggon built by Comeng Qld in 1970, recoded to AQOX, AQOY and RQOY before having the Maxi-CUBE refrigerated body added circa 1998 for SCT service.
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160523 2841420 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in August 1973 as one of four hundred and fifty five FQX type Container Flat waggons built over ten years, now in private ownership and reclassed PQCY type, PQCY 778 is now fitted with bulkheads and here loaded with timber products.
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160529 8884420 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0039 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with an SCT 48' reefer unit SCTR 323 and an SCT 40' reefer unit SCTR 125.
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160530 9126420 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, ARFY type ARFY 2396 refrigerated van with a New Zealand built Fairfax body mounted on an original Commonwealth Railways ROX container waggon built by Perry Engineering SA in 1971, recoded to RQX, AFQX, AQOY, and RQOY before having the Fairfax refrigerated body added circa 1998 for SCT service.
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160530 9170420 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, SCT crew accommodation coach PDAY 002 'Peter Terence Mason' converted from former Bluebird 250 class power car #260 'Corella' originally built by SAR Islington Workshops in 1959 and seated 56 second class passengers, converted to crew car in 2005.
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040627 080053420 viewsNelson Point, fuel tank waggon 0020 82 kL capacity, built by Comeng NSW for BP as RTD 2, last of two such tanks, used on Mt Newman line, unsure when converted to 0020.
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170726 9457420 viewsBoodarie, FMG ore waggon pair 2800 (control) and 1799 (slave) of the original design and loaded with fines ore shows evidence of side wall panel replacement and new relining dates. 26th July 2017.
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