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160528 834173 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RRZY 7031 platform 4, originally built by Goninan NSW during 1995/95 as part of thirty four sets of five unit bar coupled well container waggons coded RQZY, recoded to RRZY as repairs were carried out to strengthen them. With FCL commemorative 48' container FBGU 480031 which was the first official double-stacked container from Parkes to Perth 22 May 1997, now relegated to single stacked...

160523 298573 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, PQYY 7083 platform 4, PQYY type is a 5-pack articulated well waggon set built in September 1995 by AN Islington Workshops as one of a pair of RQYY for Boxcar/Cubico and recoded in the late '90s to PQYY. Loaded with a 40' 4EG1 type Cronos container CXSU 118596 [8].

160523 299173 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RQPW 60078 jumbo container waggon, 80' waggon built by Victorian Railways' Bendigo Workshops as a VQDW October 1984. Leased to NSW State Rail as NQMW type in 1986, recoded to RQDF in 1994, RQDW later in 1994 before RQPW in 1995. Loaded with a Austrans leased Rail Containers 40' 4EG1 type box AUSU 410187 [6] and Pedemonts 40' 4EG1 type box PHR 412.

160523 299573 viewsParkeston, intermodal train 7SP3, RQFY 90 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFY c1985, then RQFY May 1994, May 1995 to RQFF, then 2CM bogies fitted in Aug 1995 and current code Dec 1995.

160524 403473 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKMY 57, recently recoded from RKMX, originally an ELX waggon, heavily modified to cart butter boxes, either ex Victorian Railways or SAR ELX type waggon.

160529 907773 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train powers around the curve as it climbs the grade to Kalgoorlie behind a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 84 serial 7250-04/97-286 and NR 80 serial 7250-03/97-282. NR 84 wears the Southern Spirit livery and is known as the Minty. Off to the left is Loongana Lime shunt loco DE 49, a former BHP 37 class unit built by Goninan in 1961 based on GE 80 ton switcher, serial 4970-013.

160531 989373 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, NR 79

160531 995273 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 3PM4 steel train, empty RQFY 98 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFY c1985, then RQFY May 1994, May 1995 to RQFF, then 2CM bogies fitted in Aug 1995 and current code Jan 1997.

051101 652773 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.

051101 660873 viewsParkeston, Australian Southern Railroad JRA type crew accommodation coach JRA 6, originally built in 1958 by SAR Islington as corten steel V&SAR Joint Stock roomette sleeping car Tarkinji for The Overland. Recoded to JRA 6 1987. Written off and sold in 1995. Converted to ASR crew car 1999. It is now ADFY 6 with GWA and no longer has the fluted sides.

160522 224873 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0093 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA.

160522 225173 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0039 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.

160522 226373 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0015, one of forty units built by Gemco WA loaded with two SCT 40' reefers SCTR 036 and SCTR 133 showing the original and newer paint schemes.

160522 228273 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0014 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.

160525 460273 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), PBHY type covered van PBHY 0099 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014 without the Greater Freighter signage.

160526 528773 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, with 76 waggons for 5709.8 tonnes and 1795 metres with EDI Downer built EMD model GT46C-ACe unit SCT 014 serial 08-1738 on the point holds the mainline as the Kalgoorlie bound Prospector three car set led by WDA 003 passes on the loop.

161111 242473 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32198 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a Bis Industries roll-top 55UA type sulphur container SBIU 200627 and an undecorated Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur container BISU 100041.

161111 242673 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32177 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a Bis Industries roll-top 55UA type sulphur container SBIU 200622 and an undecorated Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur container BISU 100072.

161112 301673 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, AQNY type waggon AQNY 32206 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, showing signs of recent workshops attention, new bogies and white paint, with an original style sulphur container with a sliding tarpaulin S40E with newly applied fleet no. 849 and Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type container BISU 100099.

161112 302373 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, following a loco and crew change loaded sulphur train 6029 continues onto Malcolm behind the final two Clyde Engineering EMD model GT46C Q class units Q 4019 (originally Q 319) serial 98-1472 and Q 4018 (originally Q 318) serial 98-1471 as it crosses Gateacre Rd.

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