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190107 0588237 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00228 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-228 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190107 0631237 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00348 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-348 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190109 1626237 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00236 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-236 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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243-15237 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' a Goninan WA GE rebuild unit serial 8151-07 / 91-120 in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it heads up an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
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080124 1626237 viewsChapman Siding, new FMG ore waggon pair 1313 slave and 2314 control, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 24th January 2008.
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110620 2280237 viewsChapman, FMG TK type fuel tank waggon TK 11 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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248-23237 viewsSeven Mile yard, stored Robe River ALCo locomotives at the south end of the Hamersley Iron Seven Mile yard on roads N2 and N3. On road N2 is 9427 a Comeng WA C636R rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-2 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania Railroad as #6331, Penn Central 6331 and finally Conrail 6781. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in January 1987. This loco also went on to become DR 8403 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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210510 1136237 viewsNear Galah on the Rio Tinto Dampier - Tom Price line at the 89.5 km, RTW type intermediate rail waggon RTB 017 on Rio Tinto's Gemco Rail built rail train consist. 10th May 2021. Location.
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245-18237 viewsWudinna, empty grain train shunts back into the grain siding with a trio of former Australian National Co-Co locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial no. 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, DA 4 leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial no. 84140 and 851 serial no. 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962. 7th April, 2003.
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140601 4449237 viewsWoodbridge, empty Carina bound iron ore train #1035, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8028-2 part of a pair of 120 sets built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
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268-32237 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year special, view from the No. 2 End of the Sundowner coach, originally built by E. G. Budd in 1939 numbered 301 as the Silver Star, a diner-parlour-observation coach on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's General Pershing Zephyr train from the 1930s and 1940s. Donated to Mt Newman Mining Co. by AMAX an original joint venture partner to commemorate the projects first 100 million tonnes of iron ore railed between Mount Whaleback mine and the Port Hedland port. 12th of April 2002.
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120715 IMG P10546237 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, PTLY type gas tank waggon PTLY 6406. Built by Comeng NSW in 1964 as GS type GS 406, 77,000 litre gas tank for Boral Gas, recoded to NTHF 1979, then ATLY in 1996. Peter Donaghy image.
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210407 9850237 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRXY 2, platform 1 with a Linfox 40' LSDU half height side door container. The RRXY type 5-pack well waggon set is one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design.
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210407 9860237 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, CQWY type well waggon 5047 well 2 with a 46' RFRG type reefer ARLS 432. The CQWY well waggon pairs were built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in a batch of sixty pairs in 2008 for CFCLA.
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130710 1049237 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1, ABSY type ABSY 2792 covered van, originally built by Carmor Engineering SA in 1976 as a VFX type covered van for Commonwealth Railways, recoded to ABFX and converted from ABFY by Gemco WA in 2004/05 to ABSY.
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040804 155910237 viewsNelson Point, empty BHP ore waggon 1354 is a Comeng WA build from a batch of two hundred and twenty-six in 1973/74. Side view of waggon with resheeted side walls. 4th of August 2004.
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110620 1965r237 viewsWalla Siding, comparison between two BHP ore waggons loaded with Yandi fines of the Golynx design type, 8410 was built in November 2001 for bottom discharge on the Goldsworthy system with serial number 950088-340, while 6834 was built in 2008. The burn or weld marks are still visible on 8410 from when it was in GML service, now converted for rotary service, noticed the filled in end and the angle section along the top edge for support. 20th of June 2011.
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100603 8968237 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0028 Greater Freighter, one of thirty five units built by Gemco WA in 2005 without the Greater Freighter signage.
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100603 8974237 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0021 Greater Freighter, one of thirty five units built by Gemco WA in 2005 without the Greater Freighter signage but with Big W We Sell For Less logo.
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148-35236 viewsWangaratta, old town water tower, opened in 1929 and was the main storage tank for many years. It is no longer in use, but provides a venue for abseilers.
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