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211-11800 viewsEast Weipa Mine Centre, Komatsu HD1400 #42805 with a Tubemakers belly dump trailer.
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060111 2411800 viewsWudinna, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004, 1203 and two ALCo units 850 and 905 shunt back down the mainline at Wudinna as they run round their consist. 11th January 2006.
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160101 9757800 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Joffre Creek, Fourth Crossing Pool on the west side of the gorge on Bolitho Road. Geodata: -22.2804483 118.3212850
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103-01799 viewsSpringhurst automatic staff exchanger cover in-between broad gauge running lines, point rodding under tracks.
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172-03799 viewsSunshine, an expanded view of image 141-50, signal Post 49 for Up movements while signal Post 36 is for controlling Down trains off the Sunshine - Newport Loop Line, either towards Sunshine back track, Platform 3 or onto the main down line and Platform 2, a broad gauge push-pull double H set with V/Line P class, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G18HBR rebuilt from Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B on each end is on the down approaching Sunshine.
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162-3-09799 viewsMelbourne Yard, V/Line broad gauge VTQZ type bogie fuel tank waggon VTQZ 209, with Diesel Loco Fuel signage, started life as a Newport Workshops built E type open waggon in 1927, converted to an OT in 1949, then an TW type bogie tank waggon TW 209 in 1961, to a VTQA in 1979. PTC Open Day.
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114-14798 viewsTocumwal station yard, Malcolm Moore trans-shipping grab crane, looking south on broad gauge, standard gauge tracks on far right.
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203-26798 viewsDrillers Ridge, Wittenoom, the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) tower was a navigation aid for the Department of Civil Aviation for the Wittenoom airport, the site was also used by Telecom for providing 'radio links' for phones into Wittenoom prior to the current tower located at the eastern edge of town which links back to Auski Roadhouse.
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160101 2296798 viewsWittenoom Gorge, location of former power station, showing old foundations, looking north from approx. engine hall location, geodata: -22.3222833 118.3340833 , iPhone 5S image.
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160522 2027798 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RKHF 20519 steel transport waggon loaded with steel bar, built by EPT NSW in 1977/78 in the first batch of two hundred BDY open waggons, recoded to NODY after 1979.
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103-03797 viewsSpringhurst station building overview, staff exchange platform and walkway across tracks, apparatus set up gauge laying on No.3 Rd.
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107-02797 viewsKyabram track view, Kyabram Co-op Fruit Preserving Company and Southern Can Company sidings and factory gates, point rodding and derailer.
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104-09796 viewsBuangor crossing loop, detail shot of point rodding changing direction and passing under the tracks.
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103-20796 viewsBenalla Workshops, Victorian Railways broad gauge G type four wheel open waggon G 130, originally built by Ballarat North Workshops December 1939 as a GY type GY 130, recoded to G November 1981, and 'Off Register' 1986. Photo date 12-08-1990.
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110-14796 viewsBenalla yard, GY type four wheel waggons GY 16209 and GY 5514 in super phosphate traffic. GY 5514 built new by AE Goodwin in February 1954, while GY 16209 was built in 1949 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops as an HY type, in September 1964 recoded to GY.
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223-36796 viewsPossum Siding 227 km, a loaded train behind a pair of Hamersley Iron General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 7072 serial 47751 and 7074 serial 47753 on a loaded train ex Marandoo holds the mainline awaiting clearance north. 21st October 2000.
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111-19795 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge shunt loco Y class Y 129 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 65-395 runs back into Geelong Yard light engine from the arrivals, shunters on loco, framed by signal box and signal post 16.
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129-2-00795 viewsLang Lang station building overview.
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210-16795 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point track maintenance compound, Aresco ballast regulator, rear view.
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060113 2452795 viewsThevenard Maintenance Centre overview, AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class locomotive 871 serial G3422-1 was issued when built in 1966 to the Eyre Peninsula division of South Australian Railways. Still wearing Australian National green and yellow but with ASR decals as it stands in the yard with a couple of ENH type hopper waggons. Empty train 6DD3 sneaks beside the no longer rail served grain silos at left. January 13, 2006.
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