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160529 8801425 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRXY 8 platform 1 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a 48' Pacific National box PNXD 4143.
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160529 8824425 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRGY 7144
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160531 9905425 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, container waggon RQWW 22022, one of thirty two JCW type waggons built by Comeng NSW in 1973-74, loaded with two 20' Royal Wolf containers, RWMC 815948 and RWMC 815868.
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160601 10118425 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRXY 9 platform 3 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a 40' 4Eg1 type Rail Containers box SCFU 410103[2] in the well with a 53' Linfox box DRC 391 on top.
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160609 0389425 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train arrives at the triangle and splits signal post 82 and 84 with power from Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 35 serial 7250-06/97-237 and a sister unit with 39 waggons for a length of 1791 metres and 3960 tonnes. Behind the crew coach are the Sadleirs louvre vans and an RMEY triple deck articulated car carrying waggon.
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160609 0417425 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, platform 3 of 5-pack RRRY 7008 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005, FCL 48' box FBGU 480096 and SCF 48' SCFU 415192 on top.
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051101 6526425 viewsParkeston, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 225, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1937 as a rivetted second class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress, in August 1939 coded to BS type BS 4, in July 1977 converted to a mini buffet and coded MRS 1 and then in October 1983 recoded to BRS 225. Painted in V/Line livery in 1992. Ended up with West Coast Railway in the late 1990s, painted in WCR livery Sept 2001, prior to Pacific National ownership and conversion to a crew car.
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060107 1776425 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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160526 5367425 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ABSY type ABSY 3121 covered van, originally built by Comeng WA in 1977 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type, recoded to ABFX and RBFX to SCT as ABFY before conversion by Gemco WA to ABSY in 2004/05.
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160530 9187425 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0050 Greater Freighter, one of a second batch of thirty units built by Gemco WA without the Greater Freighter signage.
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161109 1959425 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 39, rust holes in end plates with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161111 2486425 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, container flat waggon AQWY 30203, one of a batch of forty five built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WFX type, to WQCX in 1980, seen here loaded with three 20' Westrail COR roll top containers, COR 5876 stencilled for BHP Traffic and also Salt Traffic Only, COR 5830 and COR 5869.
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161111 2507425 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQNY 32186 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, carrying two AGR 20' 22K2 type Eurotainer ISO tanks EURU 112062[8] and EURU 112056[7] containing sodium cyanide solution.
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161111 2538425 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AZDY 30705, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted late 1988/9 to WQDF.
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040806 102718425 viewsFlash Butt yard, rear view of stored out of service LocoTrol waggons, 2626 closest to camera.
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040912 142144425 viewsNelson Point, Silver Star observation coach, 'Sundowner', 3/4 view of rear end, shows lighting arrangement, end of train markers. 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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041012 082953425 viewsBing Siding, one of one hundred and forty four original Oroville Dam 91 ton ore waggons built by Magor USA in 1963, sold to Mt Newman Mining in 1968, 527, seen here converted to a ballast car. Note the weld line where the internal plates are for bottom discharge of ballast.
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071202 1232425 viewsTurner Siding, CFCLA flat waggon AQPY type AQPY 2916, also carrying BHP road number 6705, a 55 tonne capacity waggon.
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170728 09990425 viewsBenson Falls, 91 km curve, as empty train climbs up the steep grade as a loaded screams down the grade under dynamic brakes led by General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8124 serial 59116 in Rio Tinto stripes with a Dash 9-44CW unit 7094 and a sister ES44DCi 8186. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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170729 0065425 viewsCape Lambert South yard, a loaded train heads towards car dumper 7 behind General Electric built Dash 9-44CW unit 7043 serial 57094 wearing Pilbara Iron livery with HI reporting marks and two General Electric built ES44DCi units 8153 and 8107. 29th July 2017. GeoData.
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