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3080 roster lhs 041218 181459584 viewsNelson Point, BHP Billiton yard pilot EMD SD40 unit 3080 serial number 33674 / 7083-4 originally Southern Pacific unit SP 8482 and still wearing former owner IC&E blue and yellow livery seen here off the wheel lathe. 18th of December 2004.
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104-17583 viewsWallan, elevated signal box rear view. Built in 1916 with a 40 lever A pattern frame replacing a 20 lever frame on the Down platform. No. 3 Road is visible running behind the box.
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103-04583 viewsSpringhurst station building overview, staff exchange platform and walkway across tracks, apparatus set up gauge, signal levers visible in windows, staff exchange box on station wall.
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109-11583 viewsDysart, old munitions buildings and loading platform
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135-07583 viewsIpswich yard, narrow gauge QR 1620 class leader 1620, 3/4 roster. Built by English Electric at Rocklea Qld, model RS95C serial A-138.
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213-12583 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops, Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. This unit is almost identical to the GT26C models of the WAGR L class. September 1995.
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213-13583 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops looking east, Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. This unit is almost identical to the GT26C models of the WAGR L class. September 1995.
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060113 2568583 viewsThevenard, the string of ENH and ENHA waggons loaded high with gypsum on train 6DD4 as the snake through the yard destined for the unloader. Bergmann Dr grade crossing. 13th January 2006.
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041225 064521583 viewsNelson Point Ore Car Repair Shops, brand new Bradken NSW built ore waggon and type leader 9100 asset number 2031702. These waggons are the latest additions to the fleet with 20 on order in total. They are made from the same 5Cr12Ti steel that the Goninan Golynx waggons are made. 9100 has been set up for use as a 'test' waggon with load sensors located all over it. 25th December 2004.
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8335 roster rhs 040627 135444583 viewsNelson Point, Ex Southern Pacific SD40T-2 loco 8335 serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, this unit was purchased as a spares source for the other SD40 style units. The T signifies that it is a Tunnel motor with a modified radiator intake to allow 'cool' running through the Sierra Nevada tunnels. And the 'M' with a lighting rod through it meant that it was a master unit for radio controlled helpers, used in the Tehachapi mountains. 27th of June 2004.
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111-15582 viewsGheringhap, broad gauge V/Line A class A 71 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 83-1180 rebuilt from B 71 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-12 and N set departing with the down Ararat via Nth Geelong passenger train 8105, point rodding, signals wires and the former station platform are visible.
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113-04582 viewsBallarat East loco depot, V/Line broad gauge up Adelaide goods train 9150 behind the quad CGCG combo of C class C 506 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-829, G class G 538 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1271, C class C 510 serial 76-833, G class G 513 serial 85-1241, in miserable conditions, poor quality, taken from footbridge.
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135-04582 viewsIpswich yard, narrow gauge Comeng Qld built (under contract for Clyde Engineering) EMD model GL22C, Queensland Rail's 1502 class unit 1523, in 2005 1523 was rebuilt and now operated by FCAB in Chile as their 1455.
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112-14582 viewsNorth Geelong yard, broad gauge V/Line G class G 534 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1264 front view, grain train.
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212-08582 viewsWeipa, a loaded train from Andoom Mine rounds the curve on approach to Lorim Point behind Comalco R 1004 Clyde Engineering EMD JT26C serial 90-1277 which is former Goldsworthy Mining loco GML 10.
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215-20582 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, fuel point roads, AN BL class BL 31 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1015 with 700 class 704 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-2 rest between jobs with V/Line broad gauge N class behind them.
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216-02582 viewsLong Plains, the down passenger train to Alice Springs 'The Ghan' on approach with power from an AN livered DL class DL 37 Clyde Engineering EMD model AT42C serial 88-1245.
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219-30582 viewsGoldsworthy Siding, C36-7M unit 5507 'Nimingarra' serial 4839-03 / 87-072, an original Mt Newman Mining ALCo C636 5461 to GE C36-7M rebuild carried out by Goninan, leads an empty train along the siding at Goldsworthy to cross a loaded.
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051102 6631582 viewsThevenard, left hand side view of NJ class Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit NJ 6 serial 71-733, built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981. Still in AN green but lettered for Australian Southern Railroad.
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107-01581 viewsKyabram track view looking north, 200 km post, Kyabram Co-op Fruit Preserving Company and Southern Can Company sidings on the left, point rodding and points spiked for normal, Kyabram Fruit Packers siding on the right in the background.
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