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211-31459 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point bauxite berth, 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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030405 160916459 viewsLock and District Historical Museum, old enamel railway sign. 5th April 2003.
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030406 141408459 viewsKapinnie, end of the line, looking from the terminus of the former continuation for the Mount Hope line back towards Kapinnie. 6th April 2003.
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030409 141411459 viewsWharminda, the engines 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4 shunt along the mainline with the loaded waggons.
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060113 2459459 viewsThevenard, yard view looking west from No. 13 points at the front of the maintenance 'yard' with the disused grain bunker and 6DD3 running along beside the silos as it unloads at GRA, further silos form the background with the maintenance centre with stand-by loco 871 on hand and a couple of ENH hopper waggons. 13th January 2006.
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060603 5241459 viewsMidland, WQDY 30777 one of about sixteen WBAX vans converted for sodium cyanide container traffic, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted 1988 to WQDF, then WQDY, with two AGR empty sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 654 and SD 634.
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222-11459 viewsBHP access road, the Toy Titan has suffered another flat tyre.
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224-16459 viewsBing siding, 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie awaits the road to depart south. GeoData.
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160102 DJI 0032459 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking west of the wall from above Gorge Mine. Geodata.
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160103 9835459 viewsLocated in the bush near Colonial Mill is this relic of a Fordson One Man Power Grader originally supplied by Lynas Motors Ltd. An old newspaper article on these graders can be found here . Geodata: -22.3057767 118.3247750 .
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232-35459 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 with the round tanks it is a rebuild from an AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo 5480. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.
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160524 3768459 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRAY 7232 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, with a 40' Toll box TRRC 410623.
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160525 4497459 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRGY 7129 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of fifty originally built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and coded RRGY, 40' deck with Cronos 40' box TSPD 092102.
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160528 8337459 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RRDY type 60' container waggon RRDY 77 appears to be a former SAR FQX / AQCX type waggon. Loaded with an old Cronos 20' 2EG1 type box CRYU 476415[9] and a GVC 42G1 type 40' box GVCU 402624[8].
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160522 2399459 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, platform 4 of 5 on RRQY 8344 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set the last of a batch of 41 built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 for Pacific National, with a 48' Northline MFSG type curtainsider SCFU 815161[7].
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160522 2401459 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RQJW 21957 80' jumbo container waggon, one of twenty five built by Mittagong Engineering NSW as JCW type in 1980-81, recoded to NQJW, then to National Rail in 1994/95. Carrying a 48' MFG1 type Pacific National box PNXD 4193.
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160601 10086459 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 2246459 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ABSY type ABSY 2466 covered van, originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA in 1971 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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160525 4589459 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), PWWY type PWWY 0035 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with a 48' SCT reefer SCTR 320 and a 48' MFG1 type Rail Containers box SCFU 412532.
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160526 5355459 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, with no lettering visible of this side, ARFY type ARFY 2233 refrigerated van with a Ballarat built Maxi-CUBE fibreglass body that has been fitted to a Comeng Victoria 1971 built RO type flat waggon that was in service with Commonwealth Railways and recoded though ROX - AQOX - AQOY - RQOY codes before conversion.
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