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080116 1380245 viewsChapman Siding 69 km, the Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works cast bogie underneath FMG master waggon 2372, bogie has a cast date of 08-07 for August 2007 and is riding on Timken AP Glass G 7 x 17 bearings. 16th January 2008.
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080124 1621245 viewsChapman Siding, view looking north of a rake of new CSR Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works China built waggons stabled in the passing track to free up yard room. 24th January 2008.
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110620 2282245 viewsChapman, FMG TK type fuel tank waggon TK 03 built by China Southern CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works plant in China in 2008 as part of an order for twelve tanks, is on the loaded fuel train to Cloud Break. 20th June 2011.
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247-17245 viewsCape Lambert overview of the fuel point, with a brace of four CM40-8M rebuilds finishing up refuelling before departing with another empty train. The workshops are to the left of the picture. Where I'm standing to take the picture is now all stockpile. Approximate location of photo is here. 22nd May 2002.
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250-19245 viewsWater hole somewhere in the Pilbara around the Dampier - Tom Price railway area. 21st October 2000.
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255-05245 viewsSiding Three looking south across the 133.3 km grade crossing with Tamper 1 and a sleeper inserter machine stabled in the back track. Both machines are Fairmont Tamper units. Geodata location here. May 2002.
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140601 4455245 viewsWoodbridge, empty Carina bound iron ore train #1035, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8054-2 part of a pair of 120 sets built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
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140601 4461245 viewsWoodbridge, empty Carina bound iron ore train #1035, CFCLA leased CHCH type waggon CHCH 7668 these waggons were rebuilt between 2010 and 2012 by Bluebird Rail Operations SA from former Goldsworthy Mining hopper waggons originally built by Tomlinson WA and Scotts of Ipswich Qld back in the 60's to early 80's. 1st June 2014.
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267-37245 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year service agreement special, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' serial number 8151-07 / 91-120 stands on the Newman mainline with the train as the party alight for an inspection of the site.
Friday 12th of April 2002.
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130710 1011245 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PQCY 657 was originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in 1971 as one of two hundred FQX type 60' 3TEU container flat waggons, it was recoded to VQCX before private ownership and reclassed PQCY type. PQCY 657 is now fitted with bulkheads and here loaded its own gates, and an SCT half height curtain sider 40' container SCT 1033 double stacked with Hamburg Sud 40' 45G1 type container HASU 404941.
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040804 155643245 viewsNelson Point, builders plate on Astra Vagoane of Arad in Romania built ore waggon 3307. Shows the date year of 1988 and what looks like a serial number. Three hundred and fifty waggons built during 1988 for Lang Hancock as part of a waggons for iron ore arrangement, only 75 found their way into service with BHP. 4th of August 2004.
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100603 8975245 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0022, one of forty units built by Gemco WA loaded with an SCT 40' flat rack MGCU 6609580 double stacked with SCT 40' half height curtain sider SCT 1002 and another 40' flat rack.
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150-32244 viewsLismore station yard overview from Melbourne end, goods loading platform on No.3 road at left, grain bunker in the distance, station building on the right, taken from No.1 road.
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157-30244 viewsKilmore East, Apex Quarry Siding, V/Line broad gauge locomotives N class N 471 'City of Benalla' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1200 and T class T 390 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 65-420 with train under the loading bins during loading operations, view from Broadford - Kilmore Road.
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161-23244 viewsCobram station building north west corner, signal lever behind post.
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161-32244 viewsTocumwal, overview of the overgrown standard gauge NSWGR yards taken looking south from turntable and pit, silos on the left, derelict flour mill, station building and platform and V/Line broad gauge sleeper transport waggons, standard gauge fettlers shed is at this end of platform.
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127-34244 viewsElmore yard overview, looking towards Melbourne, points, point lever and interlocking facing up trains, near 207 km post, station building beyond grade crossing, silos in distance.
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140517-4380244 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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206-33244 viewsAn empty train on the Yarrie (former Goldsworthy) line with a string of Golynx ore waggons, built by Goninan WA to a Lynx Engineering design, and then the two types of the waggons from the Phelps Dodge Copper Mine, the ribbed units are built by Portec USA and the smooth ones built by Gunderson USA and finally the Tomlinson Steel WA built hopper waggons. All of these are belly dump waggons as opposed to the BHP fleet of rotary dump bodies.
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220-28244 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, an empty train on the Newman line approaches having departed Nelson Point. The line merging in from the right is the Goldsworthy line to Yarrie and Nimingarra, which can then be made out diverging to the left just after the interlocking room in front of the train.
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