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160527 5533276 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0016 Greater Freighter, one of thirty five units built by Gemco WA in 2005 without the Greater Freighter signage.
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160527 5540276 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in 1973 as one of four hundred and fifty five FQX type 60' 3TEU container flat waggons built over ten years, it was recoded to VQCX before private ownership and reclassed PQCY type, PQCY 778 is now fitted with bulkheads and here loaded with a portable building.
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160529 8885276 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0032 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with an SCT 48' reefer unit SCTR 309 and a 48' MFG1 Rail Containers unit SCFU 411198 with SCT decals.
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160530 9138276 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, Gemco WA built PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0006 loaded with two 40' RFRA type SCT reefers SCTR 029 and SCTR 133.
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160530 9217276 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0014 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with two 46' MFRG type former Wilmot Freeze Haul reefers, now in SCF service SCFU 814060 and SCFU 814051.
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161109 1893276 viewsMoule, train 4DD4 rumbles along the mainline behind Genesee & Wyoming locomotives Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C units 1601 serial 71-728 and 1603 serial 71-730 and a pair of AE Goodwin ALCo model DE531 units 859 serial 84705 and 850 serial 84136 with 62 loaded waggons.
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161112 3011276 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, AQNY type waggon AQNY 32154 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a pair of original style sulphur containers with sliding tarpaulins, S38A G830 and S154K G937.
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040806 103206276 viewsFlash Butt yard, heavily modified Magor USA built ex-Oroville Dam ore waggon 661, seen here modified for LocoTrol service and testing.
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041225 064817276 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 746, side view from the ore car repair shop roads.
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030404 104048276 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, RQKY type 60' container flat waggon fitted with aligned bogies RQKY 2690 was originally built by Perry Engineering SA in 1974 in a batch of forty five RM type container waggon, fitted with aligned bogies and recoded to AQPY type. Seen here with a Mayne Logistics 48' DRC 382 container on top of a 40' half height tarped load. 4th April 2003.
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170728 09819276 viewsWestern Creek, a disabled train from Mesa A on the right behind ES44ACi unit 9103 has relief locos 7082 serial 47761 a General Electric built Dash 9-44CW and a General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8137 ease up to couple onto 9103s disabled train. This image shows all these models of locomotive on the Rio Tinto mainline roster as an empty train climbs upgrade under the bridge. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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24902276 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 5504 serial C6104-2 sits out the back in a partially stripped state with fellow unit 5503. Both of these units was subsequently scrapped. July 1995.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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200914 7762276 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, Goldsworthy Mining Ltd B class unit 1, an English Electric built ST95B model, originally built in 1965 serial A-104, due to accident damage rebuilt on new frame with serial A-232 in 1970. These units of Bo-Bo design with a 6CSRKT 640 kW prime mover and built at the Rocklea Qld plant. Donated to Society in 1995. 14th September 2020.
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250-33276 viewsCape Lambert South Yard and Robe River's 9426 a Comeng WA rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Seen here in the South Yard dragging a loaded rake down to the car dumper. 22nd October 2000.
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130710 1012276 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PQCY 777 was originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in 1973 as one of one hundred and twenty five FQX type 60' 3TEU container flat waggons, it was recoded to VQCX in 1980, then to National Rail in November 1994 as RQCX before private ownership and reclassed PQCY type. PQCY 777 is now fitted with bulkheads and here loaded its own gates, and an SCT half height curtain sider 40' container SCT 1009 double stacked with Hamburg Sud 40' 45G1 type container HASU 574817.
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180-27275 viewsWodonga loco depot fuel point, V/Line broad gauge X class X 34 Clyde Engineering EMD model G16C serial 66-487 and H class H 5 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 68-632 wait to run the Sunday evening up Albury slab steel train.
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115-22275 viewsSomerton signal box, station overview, track view.
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123-2-21275 viewsSunshine track view, Newport - Sunshine Loop Line, looking towards Sunshine, double doll semaphore signal posts 36 and pulled off semaphore signal post 49, G class arriving with an up Brooklyn bound Apex quarry train.
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126-24275 viewsBroadford Loop, V/Line G class G 518 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1231, loco failure, up standard gauge pass Melbourne Express, loco shunting back onto train.
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131-2-07275 viewsMoulamein yard overview, rice storage and Ascom silo complex, grain waggons, points and point lever.
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