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219-37288 viewsGoldsworthy Siding, C36-7M unit 5507 'Nimingarra' serial 4839-03 / 87-072, an original Mt Newman Mining ALCo C636 5461 to GE C36-7M rebuild carried out by Goninan, leads an empty train away from Goldsworthy, the waggon behind 5507 is numbered 352 and is one of ten Portec USA built waggons originally from Phelps Dodge Copper Mine.
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220-03288 viewsTaplin Siding, located between the 135 and 137.5 km on the former Goldsworthy Mining Ltd line, now part of the BHP Iron Ore network looking west at the points, indicator and shelter located at the 136 km or Hedland end.
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030406 114422288 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still wearing the former owner's AN livery, Australian Southern locomotive 830 class 871 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G3422-01 with the check letter of G, this unit has been on the Eyre Peninsula Division since new in January 1966, seen here coupled to sister units. 6th April 2003.
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030406 141806288 viewsKapinnie, station yard overview looking east towards Yeelanna, dwarf point lever and indicator, concrete silo complexes with outflow spouts. 6th April 2003.
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030409 124518288 viewsRudall, located at the 172.7 km and opened in July 1913, station building view of the new one built in 1966.
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030409 152433288 viewsUngarra, the peace is shattered as a loaded grain train storms upgrade through the station 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 trailing view as the continue south.
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030409 153916288 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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060111 2253288 viewsTooligie, Mac's Road grade crossing at the 110 km, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004 leads an empty grain train north. 11th January 2006.
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130708 0721288 viewsCharra,
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060117 2718288 viewsBardoc, AQNY 32159, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with two 20' containers Royal Wolf RWTU 2247 and Triton TTNU 248450, train 2029 loaded Malcolm freighter.
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060603 5276288 viewsMidland, ABAY 30878 covered goods waggon originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA as part of a third batch of one hundred and thirty five WVX type covered vans, recoded to WBAX in 1980.
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060527 4095288 viewsScotia, AOAY 33188, originally built at WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as one of a batch of fifty WGX type open waggons, recoded to WOAX in c.1980.
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191-07288 viewsSeymour station yard south end, Australian National 52 tonne capacity open waggon ROOX type ROOX 3007, recoded from AOOX, one of two hundred GOX type open waggons built by Transfield WA in between 1974 and 1976.
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191-09288 viewsSeymour, looking south at the northern most Goulburn River bridge, end of Gordon Crescent Seymour, quarry to the left. V/Line G class G 519 with down Sydney Express on the standard gauge, broad gauge lines on the right, Seymour behind photographer.
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222-12288 viewsFlat tyre on the BHP access road, the off cut of rail is used to get the axle high enough to fit the factory jack under it, Oh What a Feeling…
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222-15288 viewsLalla Rookh gold mine head frame at sunset.
In the 1924 WA Mines Department report, it states there was a ten head battery and five cyanide vats for leaching located here GeoData.
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160103 DJI 0069288 viewsColonial Mill and mine ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. The large concrete area on the upper level is the former mining offices and railway workshops, a sharp eye will see the sealed mine entry with a red door. See images of the site intact here , 194-08 shows the sealed red entry point. Geodata: -22.3112605 118.3190326 .
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150507 8104288 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 between the bridges over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1844217 118.0313467 .
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160128 00568288 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, the sparks fly as the remains on an ALCo frame are thermal lanced into smaller manageable pieces, a GE V16 7FDL-16 engine is also cut in half.
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208-2-24288 viewsMidland, The York Jazz Festival special train pulls away from the platform behind Westrail DA class unit DA 1571 a Clyde Engineering EMD G26C serial 72-758.
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