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199-24370 viewsMeckering, interlocking arrangement for the grain siding, east end points.
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219-24370 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 into the siding at Goldsworthy as the second driver sets the road.
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030405 160936370 viewsLock and District Historical Museum, original Peachna railway station sign on the side of the former lock portable station office building. 5th April 2003.
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030406 105948370 viewsCoomunga, station located at the 21.6 km, opened in November 1907, used these days as a track maintenance siding. Yard overview looking north from the south end points, water tank on the left, track machines in the distance on the right. 6th April 2003.
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060108 2086370 viewsLock, grain train loading almost completed as 830 class unit 851 an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model serial 84137 and repainted into Australian Railroad Group livery with EMD 1200 class unit 1204 and sister 830 class 842 prepare their train for departure. 8th January 2006.
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060109 2149370 viewsWannamana, view looking towards the front of the train along a string of seven HCN type bogie wheat waggons, modified at Islington Workshops in 1978-80 which started life as a Tulloch built NHB type iron ore hopper for the CR on the North Australia Railway in 1968-69, an SAR built HAN type HAN 16 is following them on the curve. 9th January 2006.
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060111 2401370 viewsWudinna, 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, shunts through the yard.
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130708 0713370 viewsCharra,
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PD 12859370 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 34073 with fleet number 935, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55.
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060117 2712370 viewsBardoc, Q 317 leads the loaded Malcolm freighter train 2029, AQCY type container waggon with nickel residue container COR 5727. The AQCY type waggons were built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WFX class between 1969 and 1974.
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060531 5075370 viewsParkeston, OPC 381, originally built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1964 as an 8300 type brake van numbered 8365 on broad gauge, to standard gauge and recoded in Sept 1982 to AVAY 381, converted for LCL traffic Peterborough and Broken Hill in June 1987 as ABLP and then in April 1992 modified and recoded to OPC stores van.
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221-17370 viewsHardie Siding, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild unit CM40-8MEFI 5669 the last Dash 8 rebuilt for BHP and one of four fitted with an EFI prime mover, serial 95-160/8412-02, passes the Hardie Station 71 location cases and continues on the mainline bound for loading at Yarrie.
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224-12370 viewsBing siding, the extent of the General Electric AC6000 radiators is evident in this back to back image of a pair of units.
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227-28370 views30 km area, mid-train lead remote 5659 'Kobe' serial 8412-04/94-150 a Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild. GeoData.
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230-10370 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, empty car line, mid-train remote units side view, two Goninan GE CM40-8M rebuilds from different ALCo builders. 5657 'Fukuyama' serial 8412-02/94-148 is from Comeng ALCo M636 unit 5492 while 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03/92-128 is from an AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5459. Geodata -22.713725, 119.055762 .
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151111 9549370 viewsSide view of empty train led by General Electric ES44DCi units 8162 serial 60226 and 8167 serial 60231 both in the Rio Tinto tiger strip livery leading Dash 9-44CW 7093 serial 47772, the last of the original build of Dash 9 units at the 53 km.
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160101 9804370 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, looking north west, at the old waggon dump area and workshops. GeoData.
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160102 9815370 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Town Pool in Joffre Creek just south of the Colonial Mine. Geodata.
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160102 DJI 0047370 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking north east of Magazine Pool. Geodata.
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060110 2155370 viewsPillana, former station site, 59 km, empty grain train behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 then sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004, and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of photo.
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