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150619 9102321 viewsFlash Butt yard, CNR-QRRS of China built side dump waggons, built and delivered around 2011-12, waggon 0713 loaded with fines for sheeting.
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030416 095258321 viewsWirrida Siding, looking south towards Tarcoola with the goods siding and points rejoining the loop, notice the points are on timber sleepers while the loop and mainlines are on concrete, train control 'pillbox' in the distance. Located at the 641 km from the 0 datum at Coonamia and 137 km north of Tarcoola between Carnes and Manguri on the Tarcoola - Alice Springs line. GeoData location. 16th April 2003.
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240-21321 viewsWickham, left hand side number one end view of former Robe River and NSWGR MLW built ALCo RSC3 serial 77737 of October 1951, was originally 40 class 4006. Shows modified bogie to convert the A1A to a BO bogie type. 31st August 2002.
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190107 0479321 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources MRL class loco MRL 002 'Spirit of Yilgarn' with serial R-0113-03/14-505 a UGL Rail Broadmeadow NSW built GE model C44ACi in 2014 is pushed back along the loop to as the power consist of Pacific National NR 60 and NR 8 runs around the waggon rake.
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190107 0549321 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00098 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-98 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190107 0596321 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00351 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-351 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190109 1554321 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL 005 'Carina Flyer' with serial number R-0113-05/14-508 and is a UGL Rail Broadmeadow NSW built GE C44ACi model locomotive, one of six such units built for Mineral Resources in 2014.
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190109 1568321 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHLY type iron ore waggon MHLY 00139 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-139 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons have been split from the 'married' pairs the rest of the fleet are operated as and are single waggons, of which only four exist.
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190109 1639321 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00231 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-231 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190109 1660321 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00382 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-382 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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080304 2172321 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of control waggon 2242, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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246-34321 viewsCape Lambert, a Robe River loaded Deepdale train on the mainline with waggon 458 a Tomlinson Steel WA build. The ore is a ROM product and will be dumped over the gyratory crusher to be correctly sized. 22nd May 2002.
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268-12321 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year service agreement special, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5653 'Chiba' serial number 8412-10 / 93-144 stands on the Newman mainline with The Sundowner and 5634 on the rear of the train as the party conducts an inspection of the site. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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160409 IMG 7010321 viewsParkeston, Aurizon rail grinder MMY type MMY 034, built in the USA by Loram as RG331 ~2004, imported into Australia by Queensland Rail, now Aurizon, in April 2009, detail picture. Peter Donaghy image.
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160409 IMG 7022321 viewsParkeston, Aurizon rail grinder MMY type MMY 034, built in the USA by Loram as RG331 ~2004, imported into Australia by Queensland Rail, now Aurizon, in April 2009, detail picture. Peter Donaghy image.
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210407 9847321 viewsParkeston, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 221, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1940 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress as AS 6, in April 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 1, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 221. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2004.
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210407 9849321 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, CQWY type well waggon pair CQWY 5015, platform 1 with Aurizon 48' MFGB type container AEHQ 100608. 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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100603 8980321 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PQCY type waggon PQCY 532 fitted with bulkheads for tarped loading. Originally built by Victorian Railways Newport workshops as an FQX type container waggon in a batch of two hundred in June 1969, recoded to FQF November 1977 and to VQCY in August 1979. Loaded with timber products.
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100603 8981321 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PQCY type waggon PQCY 979 fitted with bulkheads for tarped loading. Originally built by Victorian Railways Ballarat Nth Workshops as a VQCX type container waggon in a batch of seventy five in June 1980. Loaded with timber products.
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100603 9030321 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, ARFY type ARFY 2394 refrigerated van with the original style short side doors Fairfax (NZL) built fibreglass body that has been fitted to a Perry Engineering SA 1971 built ROX type flat waggon that was in service with Commonwealth Railways and recoded though RQX - AFQX - AQOY - RQOY codes before conversion.
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