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178-16435 viewsArarat, track view looking east as V/Line broad gauge goods train 9169 to Adelaide powers up along the mainline off the Portland line under the signal gantry with semaphore signal post 4 pulled off behind Australian National BL class locomotives BL 27 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1011 and class leader BL 26 'Bob Hawke' serial 83-1010 and V/Line S class S 313 'Alfred Deakin' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 61-230 and X class X 53 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-800, taken from the former Works and Cattle Sidings area, the Aradale Asylum is in the background.
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107-09435 viewsTongala station, former old platform, looking north.
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107-12435 viewsTongala station yard, Nestle factory siding with staff locked points looking north, 20 MPH speed board.
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101-19435 viewsDonald station building and platform overview.
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186-13435 viewsMidland, Westrail standard gauge up Kalgoorlie loaded acid train 428 crosses Lloyd Street behind a pair of L class locomotives L 258 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 68-548 and L 256 serial 67-546, with the dual gauge track to the Flashbutt Yard in the foreground. The empty return working of this train was 027 empty acid.
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203-27435 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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150522 8193435 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M units 5659 serial 8412-04/94-150, 5640 serial no. 8281-05/92-129 and 5638 serial 8281-02/92-127 await the shears. Full details of these units can be seen here .
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1046 001435 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. Brand new GE CM39-8 locomotive 5632 serial 5831-11 / 88-081 under construction for Mt Newman Mining.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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118-18434 viewsCobram station yard overview, stabled up passenger train, V/Line broad gauge A class A 70 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1187 rebuilt from B 70 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-11 with PH class power van PH 451, D van and Z set Z 56, D van in yard and silos in distance.
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134-14434 viewsThe Risk, station overview, ground frame, platform, signal box, waiting room, 853 km post, signal man's house.
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112-17434 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, Separation Street grade crossing, V/Line broad gauge grain train departing North Geelong Yard behind G classes G 534 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1264 and sister unit, signaller handing up electric staff for section to Gheringhap, ground dwarf signal 18 pulled off for departure, semaphores and searchlight signal posts, grade crossing, point rodding and signal box, safeworking.
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190-16434 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, departmental waggon W 1569, a loaded NHBF type bogie ballast waggon NHBF 1569 with a Comeng plate.
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195-30434 viewsWittenoom, West Gorge, Australian Blue Asbestos or ABA Colonial Mine, sealed up underground drive adits or entry points 27, 28 and 29, shows tramway tracks and points for entry into adit 29, entries have been sealed closed.
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197-18434 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view of the drivers side of Mancha battery locomotive #4 showing general arrangement.
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060527 4090434 viewsScotia, AQHY 30023 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0017, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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150523 8201434 viewsNelson Point Yard, parked beside the Locomotive Service Shop, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0035 with safety slogan 'Take time to work safety', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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080116 1368434 viewsChapman Siding, view of the hand brake end with F type Interlock coupling and hand brake wheel arrangement, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 16th January 2008.
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105-13433 viewsWallan, gangers trolley shed, front 3/4 view, shows track timber work, crib crossing.
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153-2-01433 viewsBacchus Marsh, rear view of elevated signal box from car park.
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195-14433 viewsWittenoom, Bee Gorge, view from top of cat walk looking south towards Karijini National Park.
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