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171-04560 viewsBallarat, Linton Junction signal box Gillies St, work site view, interlocked gates being replaced by boom barriers, view of signal box, triple doll semaphore signal Post 20, Timken's Siding disc signal Post 21, staff exchange platform and auto exchange apparatus cover open, track view, point rodding, exchange apparatus gauge leaning against toilet building, standing on Linton line.
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060113 2428560 viewsCeduna, originally one of forty six Kinki Sharyo built NHA type waggons NHA 978 for the NAR in 1968, now coded ENHA type ENHA 2 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum on loaded train 6DD2 near the 436 km post.
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050624 3348560 viewsGoldsworthy, view from the observation end 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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109-21559 viewsViolet Town, V/Line broad gauge A class A 66 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1186 rebuilt from B 66 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-7 and N set work a down Albury passenger train off the main an onto No.1 Rd past semaphore signal post 3, the standard gauge line is on the far left, semaphore signal post 2 in the background.
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195-15559 viewsWittenoom, view from the Devil's Staircase of Colonial Mill and Mine with piles of tailings, the building and yard at the bottom of the frame is the warehouse or store and gated yard with the workshop being the larger of the two, the buildings at the top level are the locomotive and underground mining offices and workshops, with the crusher and milling and bagging plant using gravity to its advantage.
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213-37559 viewsWeipa, an empty train departs Lorim Point behind Comalco R 1004 a Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT42C built 1990 serial 90-1277 originally as GML 10 for Goldsworthy Mining in Western Australia, bought by Comalco in 1994.
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160128 00386559 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, upturned bogie from recently scrapped new built Goninan CM39-8 unit 5632. Bogie is of a GE floating bolster design, serial 1-10-87.
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160128 00393559 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, General Electric V16 7FDL-16 prime mover from CM40-8M 5664.
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102-07558 viewsWoomelang yard view, station platform edge, goods shed and super phosphate shed, Geelong style and new and old style Ascom silo complexes, taken from down platform.
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190-19558 viewsDemondrille, NSW Main South, looking south toward the North Box and platforms from the Wombat Road overbridge. The Dock Siding and platform are visible on the right.
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195-16558 viewsWittenoom, view from the Devil's Staircase of Colonial Mill and Mine with piles of tailings, milling site overview, looking south, railway workshops and underground offices are the higher buildings, then the primary crushing shed, holding silo, down to the mill and then the bag house and associated sheds, tailings line the gorge side.
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193-00558 viewsWamuran station building from the eastern end. The line through Wamuran opened on December 6, 1909 and was extended to Kilcoy by 1914, then Wamuran became the terminus on the July 1, 1964 This station building now resides at the Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Society in Woodford.
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1062 001558 viewsWelshpool, Goninan, Mt Newman Mining's GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5509 serial 4839-05 / 87-074 being road hauled to Port Hedland by Bell on a ninety four wheel float. This unit was rebuild from AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5452 serial G6012-1. May 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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203-29557 viewsDrillers Ridge, Wittenoom, Toyota HJ75, the road up to this little spot is actually sealed.
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160101 2299557 viewsWittenoom Gorge, location of former power station, shows old concrete foundations with tress growing through them, looking south west, geodata: -22.3222056 118.3328944 , iPhone 5S image.
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160101 9757557 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Joffre Creek, Fourth Crossing Pool on the west side of the gorge on Bolitho Road. Geodata: -22.2804483 118.3212850
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150523 8280557 viewsFinucane Island, loaded with Yandi Fines Comeng built original style ore waggon number 1483 dates from 1974. It has had the end sills filled in as a capacity improvement and show signs of having been re-sheeted and repaired, it is also riding on light weight 38 tonne bogies. Geodata: -20.3363567 118.5497550 .
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106-21556 viewsSeymour loco depot, broad gauge V/Line VZMF type bogie ballast waggon VZMF 38, side view.
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104-14555 viewsBuangor crossing loop, yard view looking east, mechanical somersault semaphore signal post 3, Up Home, facing camera for Melbourne bound trains, mechanical somersault semaphore signal post 2, Down Home, in the distance for Ararat bound traffic.
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102-12555 viewsSpeed radio repeater site.
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