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238-04118 viewsPort Hedland Harbour, heavy lift ship Happy Buccaneer (IMO: 8300389) sits at Finucane Island D Berth delivering a new shiploader for BHP Billiton. 1st November 2003. Geodata . Back in time here the ship cranes were only 550 tonne each, these are now 700.
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060110 2174118 viewsCummins, empty grain train departing yard on the Penong mainline at the Bratten Way grade crossing behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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060110 2178118 viewsNear the 73 km and Cockaleechie Road grade crossing, empty grain train with ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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060110 2185118 viewsNear the 78 km, empty grain train with ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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060110 2200118 viewsYeelanna, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 stands with a rake of waggons into the grain siding with the 5 ton crane also visible as the locos as cut off. Approx. location of image.
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060110 2217118 viewsOn the curve near the 85 km between Yeelanna and Karkoo, trailing view of 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962 and 842 serial 84140, ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 leads an empty grain train. Approx. location of image.
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060110 2225118 viewsAt the Procter Rd grade crossing about halfway between Yeelanna and Karkoo, empty grain train behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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060110 2240118 viewsLock, grain train loading underway behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. An Ascom silo complex is closest to camera. Approx. location of image.
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160531 9872118 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, diesel fuel tanker ATKY 545, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW for ESSO Australia 1975 as a WJK type capacity of 105000 litres, sold to BP Oil in 1986, current capacity is probably 80500 litres in line with the rest of the fleet.
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160531 9883118 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, diesel fuel tank waggon ATEY 4725, BP Oil service, ex Ampol, other codes include ex NSW NTAF, WTEF and WTEY.
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160528 8389118 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RMOY 01010, one of thirteen RMOY type double deck automobile waggons built in China by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works in 2014, top deck loaded with four vehicles.
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160523 2985118 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].
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160523 2997118 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RQSY 35038 63' container waggon, one of a hundred OCY type waggons built by Goninan NSW in 1975, recoded to NQOY, then NQSY. Loaded with an Austrans leased Sea2Rail 40' 4EG1 type box AUSU 407227 [4] and a Sadleirs 20' 2EB0 type box RCSB 5111.
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160524 4048118 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKQF 60243, empty slab steel waggon, originally a Tulloch NSW built louvre van type JLY/X from 1969-70, NLJY/X, converted at Bathurst Workshops to NQRX in 1988, then in 1989/90 to NKQF.
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160524 4299118 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKYY type wide steel plate tilt waggon RKYY 7091, one of twenty seven units built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1995-96. Loaded with steel plate.
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160524 4304118 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKAX 6, 2-pack rail transport waggon, this waggon was converted by Port Augusta Workshops from two original FBX type waggons built in 1968-69 by Islington Workshops in a batch of twenty later coded AFCX. AKAX 6 and AKCX 14 where the donors for this waggon. Loaded with a full load of rail strings.
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160522 2396118 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, platform 1 of 5 on RRQY 8344 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set the last of a batch of 41 built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 for Pacific National, with a 48' Pacific National curtainsider PNXM 5210.
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160522 2397118 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, platform 2 of 5 on RRQY 8344 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set the last of a batch of 41 built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 for Pacific National, with a 48' Pacific National box PNXD 010.
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160530 9264118 viewsBinduli, 7SP3 intermodal service, RQFY 71 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 RQFF April 1994, May 1995 to RQFY and 2CM bogies fitted.
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160531 9841118 viewsBinduli, 3PM4 steel train, ROOX 2622, one of forty open waggon built by Transfield WA in 1974 as type GOX, recoded AOOX, doors sealed and coded RKTX in 1994, then 1995 to ROKX for pipe traffic.
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