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102-02739 viewsBirchip station building platform, overview.
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105-08739 viewsWallan, broad gauge V/Line N class loco N 456 'City of Colac' with serial 85-1224 a Clyde Engineering Somerton Victoria built EMD model JT22HC-2 arrives with an up Albury passenger train, gangers trolley shed, crib crossing and semaphore signal post 12 for down movements.
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150523 8204739 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton SD70ACe unit 4368 is on the fuel tank shunt, is a unit from the last order of eighteen SD70ACe units for BHP Billiton built at Electro-Motive in London Ontario, serial 20098203-013.
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242-07739 viewsNelson Point, BHP Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5508 serial 4839-04 / 87-073 about to be trucked to United Goninan Perth for eventual overhaul and repainting into the Pilbara Rail livery and leased to Pilbara Rail re-numbered 5052 as a shunt unit at Dampier. May 2002.
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102-08738 viewsWoomelang station yard overview, original platform on left is for up trains, platform at right on No. 2 Rd looks new and is for down trains, looking south, Geelong style and new and old style Ascom silo complexes and goods and super phosphate sheds in distance.
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131-2-19738 viewsThomson Dam overflowing, possibly 1992, with spillway flooding into the Thomson River. GeoData.
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194-20738 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, battery module over a Mancha hauler, titled WITTENOOM_EXPRSS inside the workshops. This item was relocated to the Pilbara Railways Historical Society museum near 7 Mile Karratha in 2004.
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215-07738 viewsPeterborough, an SP service awaits line clear behind the AN liveried quad combination of Clyde Engineering EMD model AT26C CL class Bulldog CL 11 serial 71-739 which in later life became CLF 2, ALCo model DL541 600 class 605 serial G6015/04 which went on to become BU 1, and EMD model A16C GM class Bulldogs units GM 43 serial 67-529 and GM 46 serial 67-532.
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101-10737 viewsMaryborough, broad gauge V/Line G class leader G 511 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 84-1239 and G 541 serial 89-1274 cab side shot.
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110-16737 viewsSpringhurst, V/Line broad gauge N class N 468 'City of Bairnsdale' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1197 with D van and N set operate an up Albury passenger about to exchange the electric staff 'on the auto' express on the mainline, at speed, point rodding, staff exchange apparatus.
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203-31737 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, 5 cylinder diesel motor with drive pulley and fly wheel, possibly an air compressor.
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100609 09981737 viewsMidland, AQWY 31051 container waggon, built by Centrecon Ltd WA in 1981 in a batch of thirty five WFA type container waggons, another eighteen were also built by Westrail. In 1987 it was converted to WFAP for motor vehicle transport. Loaded with three 20' Colemans' 25B0 containers for carrying ammonium nitrate, CCBU 0037, CCBU 0039 and CCBU 0024.
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0202 USA 040419 102309737 viewsAbydos back track, riveted flat waggon 202 with three water tanks fitted, side view, shows access ladder profiles, originally part of the 'camp train', modified by Mt Newman Mining railway workshops.
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213-11736 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops yard, ground throw point or switch operating unit with the number 5 identification.
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195-37735 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Australian Blue Asbestos or ABA Colonial Mill, view of primary crushing building, shows metal slide chute from upper lever were the waggons are emptied, top building is the underground offices, change rooms etc.
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Sundowner EG Budd USA 050624 3351735 viewsGoldsworthy, train end and hand brake of the Sundowner coach, originally built by E. G. Budd in 1939 numbered 301 as the Silver Star as a diner-parlour-observation coach on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's General Pershing Zephyr train from the 1930s and 1940s. Donated to Mt Newman Mining Co. by AMAX an original joint venture partner to commemorate the projects first 100 million tonnes of iron ore railed between Mount Whaleback mine and the Port Hedland port.
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103-27734 viewsBenalla station yard overview, V/Line broad gauge stabled down Wodonga goods train 9303, locomotives V/Line X class loco X 53 with serial 75-800 a Clyde Engineering Rosewater SA built EMD model G26C and T class T 403 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 67-498, rail recovery rake beside stabled train, ground dwarf and disc signal posts, yard still intact.
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113-11734 viewsWarrenheip, V/Line broad gauge up Adelaide goods train 9150 behind the quad CGCG combo of C class C 506 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-829, G class G 538 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1271, C 510 serial 76-833 and G 513 serial 85-1241, departing for Melbourne via Bacchus Marsh, semaphore signal post 9 pulled off for move, signal box and overview, in miserable conditions, poor quality.
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106-19734 viewsSeymour broad gauge passenger stabling yard, V/Line B class loco B 65 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-6 still in VR or Victorian Railways blue and gold livery, side view.
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160526 5234734 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, 5-pack RRRY 7004 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005 double stacked with a range of 40' and 48' boxes and 46' 6" reefers.
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