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060107 1782431 viewsSpencer Junction yard, Pacific National FAM type crew accommodation coach FAM 2389 on train 6MP4, built for the NSWGR by Comeng NSW in 1976 as part of a batch of ten FAM type twinette sleeper cars, FAM 2389 was also the Lithgow breakdown train accommodation car for a time, converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail at Islington in September 2005.
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160522 2230431 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0029 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.
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160523 2922431 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0048 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.
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160524 3681431 viewsKalgoorlie, SCT train 2PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, ABSY type ABSY 2826 covered van, originally built by Carmor Engineering SA in 1976 as a VFX type covered van for Commonwealth Railways, recoded to ABFX and converted from ABFY by Gemco WA in 2004/05 to ABSY.
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160526 5324431 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0009 Greater Freighter, one of thirty five units built by Gemco WA in 2005 without the Greater Freighter signage.
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160526 5350431 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0115 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.
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160526 5353431 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0077 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.
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160527 5544431 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0108 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.
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160527 5546431 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0156 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.
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160527 5549431 viewsBlamey crossing loop at the 1692 km, SCT train 5PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, originally built by V/Line's Bendigo Workshops in June 1986 as one of fifty VQDW type 'Jumbo' Container Flat waggons built, PQDY 56 still in Freight Australia green livery loaded with an SCT 40' reefer SCTR 146 and a former Macfield 40' flatrack MGCU loaded with underground vent fans.
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160529 8877431 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0048 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.
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160530 9213431 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0005 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with two 48' MFG1 type boxes, Rail Containers SCFU 412559 and SCT SCTDS 4845.
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161111 2476431 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, diesel fuel tank waggon ATPY 587 built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1978 for Mobil, later sold to BP, as type WJP then recoded to WJPY, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, original code and fleet no. visible, with a capacity now of 80000 litres.
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161116 5124431 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, ATLF 562 tank waggon, built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1973 for Shell as type WJL 86.49 kL one compartment one dome with a capacity of 80500 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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040805 095638431 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA CHQY type ballast waggon CHQY 734.
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050518 2124431 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 750, shows ownership plaque.
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060429 3749431 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon 6703 is a heavily cut down and modified Magor USA ore waggon done by Mt Newman Mining workshops, converted to a 50 tonne flat waggon.
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080621 2720431 viewsTabba South, one of a batch of six flat waggons converted by Mt Newman Mining workshops by cutting down a pair of ore waggons to make one flat waggon, 6105 in service with the rail recovery and transport train as waggon #2.
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170728 09855431 viewsWestern Creek - Emu area, Rio Tinto's General Electric built ES44DCi class leader 8100 serial 57996 leads two sister units, in 8176 and 8143 both in the later Rio Tinto stripe livery, with a loaded train running down from Emu Siding on the line to Dampier. The disabled Mesa A train is still on the bridge, the line to the left of the loaded is the Robe River Western Creek - Emu interconnecting line. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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5942 001 Welshpool 1986Sept431 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining C636 ALCo unit 5452 serial G6012-1 built by AE Goodwin in May 1968 is undergoing a world first as it gets rebuilt into a GE C36-7M locomotive. In the September 1986 view the process has started and it is on shop bogies, by July 1987 it would become 5509. Sept 1986.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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