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100602 8580157 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33237 is one of a batch of twenty seven built by Goninan WA between September and October 2002 with serial number and fleet number 736 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations but now has revised 82.5 tonne load and PORTMAN painted out. See image titled 060528 4544, Binduli 2nd June 2010.
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100602 8697157 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31378 is one of a batch of twenty five built by Comeng WA between 1974 and 1975 and converted from Mt Newman high sided waggons by WAGR Midland Workshops with a capacity of 67 tons with fleet number 303 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, loaded with fines, West Kalgoorlie 2nd June 2010.
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060109 2117157 viewsKyancutta, 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 as they shunt across Museum Terrace to place empty grain waggons on the silo loop. 9th January 2006.
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060113 2543157 viewsKevin, narrow gauge locos 1604, NJ 3 and 1601 take the mainline to Thevenard, having reversed train 6DD3 on the Kevin triangle as they prepare to load, 1600 class unit 1604 in Australian Railroad Group livery a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-731, originally built as NJ class NJ 4 and built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 13th January 2006.
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060113 2587157 viewsCeduna, or Denial Bay area, empty gypsum train 6DD5 blasts up hill at the 440 km, west of Carpenter Corner Rd with power from triple 1600/NJ class units 1604, NJ 3 and 1601. 1601 in Australian Railroad Group livery is a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-728, originally built as NJ class NJ 1. Location approximation. 13th January 2006.
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130703 0132157 viewsMurdinga, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 20, originally an NHB type hopper built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Seen here being loaded with grain between two HAN type waggons with Moose Metalworks roll-top cover.
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060528 4679157 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AZWY 30373 'Sputnik' loco oil and sand waggon, originally built as an WFX type flat waggon by Tomlinson Steel in a batch of one hundred and sixty one in 1969-70. Recoded to WQCX type in 1980 and to WSP type waste oil and sand waggon in 1986.
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060530 4931157 viewsParkeston, AHQF 31437 seen here in Loongana Limestone service, originally built by Goninan WA for Western Quarries as a batch of twenty coded WHA type in 1995. Purchased by Westrail in 1998.
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070608 0094157 viewsMidland, AQCY 31002, one of eighteen WFA type container waggons built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1981, recoded to WQCY in 1987, carrying two different types of Cockburn Cement pressurised cement - lime tanktainers.
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070608 0111157 viewsMidland, WTEY 4725 fuel tank waggon, ex NSW and former NTAF in service carting petrol for BP Oil, former AMPOL tank, coded WTEY when arrived in WA.
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070608 0114157 viewsMidland, WJHY 521, leader of two WJH type fuel tank waggons built by Comeng NSW in 1971 for Caltex with a 90,000 litre capacity three compartment and three domes, now a single compartment unit and still with Caltex.
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100608 9722157 viewsMidland, AQNY 32189, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S98C with original door and sliding tarpaulin and S162A with replacement door and roll top tarpaulin on train 2430 empty Malcolm freighter.
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222-14157 viewsSulphur Springs base metal area, exploration drill rig drilling, this dates from 2000-01 when Sipa Resources had the lease. Location is only approximate GeoData.
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151111 9574157 viewsAn empty train is still struggling upgrade at the 98 km post on the Tom Price line behind double General Electric Dash 9-44CW units 9403 serial 53457 wearing ROBE Pilbara Rail livery and 7087 serial 47766 wearing the original Hamersley Iron livery.
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160102 9816157 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Town Pool in Joffre Creek just south of the Colonial Mine. Geodata.
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160102 DJI 0026157 viewsWittenoom Gorge, western wall of gorge view, looking south from Second Crossing. Geodata.
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150523 8207157 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0031 with safety slogan 'Safety - It's your life', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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150523 8248157 viewsNelson Point Yard, loaded ore waggon 8428, a Golynx style waggon built by Goninan in 05-2005 serial no. 950141-008 and asset number of 2002738 out of 5Cr12Ti stainless steel which does away with the need to paint the waggon interiors to prevent wear. This waggon was originally a bottom discharge hopper for use on the Goldsworthy Line prior to the unloader at Finucane Island being replaced with a rotary cell dumper.
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232-00157 viewsYandi Two crushing and screening plant, built and operated by Henry Walker for BHP Iron Ore, overview from the radial stacker feed conveyor. From the left is the primary crusher, the dual secondary crushers can be made out behind the tertiary crushers in the middle and the screenhouse is the large building tot he right, the conveyor leading to the right is CV210. February 1997. GeoData.
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239-27157 viewsYandi Two, conveyor belt CV202 failure of the primary crushing circuit conveyor. GeoData.
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