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151-05450 viewsGheringhap, broad gauge V/Line VOJF type bogie open gypsum waggon VOJF 24 in B Sidings awaiting unloading. The VOJF type waggons were conversions from ELF/ELX types, not much more is known on the histories.
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153-3-03450 viewsMaroona, station platform, signal levers chained in position, closest to camera Outer Ararat, Inner Ararat, Hamilton Dep, Geelong Dep, Hamilton Arr and Geelong Arr.
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160-23450 viewsShepparton, V/Line broad gauge VDSF type bogie safety waggon VDSF 2, started life as a Flexi-Van transport waggon FV 2 built by South Australian Railways' Islington Workshops in July 1961, then became FVF in 1962 on standard gauge, in the 1980s back to broad gauge and coded VQAY, VDSY and became VSDF in 1988, hand brake end showing ratchet style hand brake.
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183-06450 viewsRockbank, an Adelaide bound down broad gauge goods train behind Australian National BL class BL 31 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1015 and 700 class 705 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-3 at the grade crossing for Station Road.
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182-06450 viewsWahgunyah, view of mainline looking past redundant points for former Mobil Oil Company Siding to Uncle Tobys plant with bogie waggons, line curves away to the right back to Rutherglen.
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114-32450 viewsBenalla yard broad gauge V/Line S class leader S 300 'Matthew Flinders' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 57-164 and T classes T 404 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 67-499 and T 376 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 64-331, stabled on No. 5 Road with the down Wodonga goods train 9303, trailing view.
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117-22450 viewsSeymour loco depot, fuel and sanding point, V/Line N class N 472 'City of Sale' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1201, front view of windscreens, Clarence name plate.
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203-25450 viewsBing Siding, min-train unit on an empty Yandi working BHP General Electric built AC6000 6077 'Nimingarra' serial 51069.
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205-23450 viewsDrillers Ridge, Wittenoom, the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) tower (located at 957 metres) was a navigation aid for the Department of Civil Aviation for the Wittenoom airport, the site was also used by Telecom for providing 'radio links' for phones into Wittenoom prior to the current tower located at the eastern edge of town which links back to Auski Roadhouse.
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220-03450 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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030407 092829450 viewsYaninee, empty grain train behind a trio of former Australian National Co-Co locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial no. 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial no. 84140 and 851 serial no. 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962, run through express on the mainline. 7th April, 2003.
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030409 112555450 viewsDarke Peake, the apex of the triangle looking west with the remains of the ballast loading ramp still in situ.
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130708 0722450 viewsCharra,
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060528 4642 ATPF578A450 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 578 fuel tank waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 for Shell as type WJP, it also spent time in SA in 1985, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80350 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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100608 9709450 viewsMidland, AQNY 32208, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S97Q with original style door and sliding tarpaulin, and S64L with replacement door and roll top tarpaulin on train 2430 empty Malcolm freighter.
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160101 9780450 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, site of milling building on left, access ramp to mine adits on the right. Geodata.
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150505 7996450 viewsFMG Solomon Line, view looking west from station location board. Geodata: -22.0222833 118.5092267 .
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150523 8265450 viewsFinucane Island, empty train heading back to Boodarie behind Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe unit 4379 serial 20108424-006 and a newly arrived and named sibling 4474 'Raymond White' serial 20148001-007. Geodata: -20.3341700 118.5504083 .
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236-07450 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Dash 8 class locomotive 5653 'Chiba', a Goninan 1994 rebuild to GE CM40-8M model, serial 8412-10 / 93-144.
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238-18450 viewsNelson Point loco overhaul shop sees former Southern Pacific loco 3079 EMD model SD40, serial number 7861-52 with the long hood removed due to the 645 prime mover failing not long after arrival in Australia. 27th January 2004. Geodata .
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