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127-20438 viewsDeer Park West, signal post 2/10, telephone cabinet and 'CATCH' sign at the Boral quarry junction on the main western line.

140-1-09438 viewsBallarat A Signal Box, view of the point rodding and signal wires, good place to snap an ankle!.

182-02438 viewsWahgunyah, Delarue silo complex located on former station platform, looking north to wards terminus, rake of bogie container waggons for Uncle Tobys at left.

185-23438 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, view of empty grain train returning from the grain loop behind a G class locomotive G 528 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1258 and X class X 41 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 70-704 as they pass searchlight signal post 19 and 19B, ground dwarf disc signal 18 in the foreground.

140517-4421438 viewsA Tutt Bryant rope operated Pacific A.C.E. Equipment Wheel Loader, Fordson powered?? The front end loader which lifts the bucket over the cab to feed the trammel, or dump into a truck, see an historical picture of this unit here at the Battye Library and an image of a similar unit on the manufacturer's website

204-27438 viewsWittenoom Gorge Mine, remains of asbestos mining, narrow gauge rail track section with extra inside rail to prevent derailments.

030406 094331438 viewsCummins, yard view looking south along the grain siding with the points, lever and indicator for the goods loading ramp siding, formation of former triangle can be seen as the mound curving away to the right. 6th April 2003.

030409 113015438 viewsDarke Peake, the end of the triangle looking west is in this cutting.

030409 120804438 viewsKielpa, a few kilometres south of the former Konanda siding loaded grain train with 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4, rebuilt from 830 class unit 839 by Port Augusta Workshops, retains original serial 83730 and model DL531 with the first twelve waggons behind the locos XNW type slows to a stop for a crew change.

030411 154247438 viewsWirrulla , yard view looking south, goods loop rejoining from the right, grain loop on the left.

060113 2446438 viewsThevenard, NJ class unit NJ 3 a Clyde Engineering built EMD model JL22C serial 71-730, originally built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 13th January 2006.

060528 4449438 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WQTY 30337 built by Tomlinson Steel WA in a batch of one hundred and sixty one WFX type container flat waggons, from 1970 it spent a couple of years on the narrow gauge as QWF type. In 1980 re-coded to WQCX and then in 1996 to WQTY.

060530 4934438 viewsParkeston, AHQY 31435 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.

060603 5245438 viewsMidland, WQDY 30728 one of about sixteen WBAX vans converted for sodium cyanide container traffic, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted 1988 to WQDF, then WQDY, with two AGR empty sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 643 and SD 639.

060603 5415438 viewsMidland, AQNY 32202 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic.

100601 8459438 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WN 527, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of thirty units built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.

191-12438 viewsSeymour station, rationalised yard, V/Line broad gauge B class B 65 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial no. ML2-6 still in Victorian Railways livery on the head of a sleeper discharge train stabled in the yard.

191-13438 viewsSeymour station, rationalised yard, V/Line broad gauge B class B 65 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial no. ML2-6 still in Victorian Railways livery on the head of a sleeper discharge train stabled in the yard.

222-01438 viewsAt the 105.7 km grade crossing near Gillam Siding, a loaded Yandi train approaches behind two General Electric AC6000 units built by GE at their Erie plant. This road was also the original road into Lynas Find Gold Project, back in the day. GeoData.