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196-05500 viewsYandi Two, builders plate for BHP Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149. Originally AE Goodwin built ALCo M636C unit 5480 serial G6061-1. May 1998.
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193-02500 viewsWamuran station building from the western end. The line through Wamuran opened on December 6, 1909 and was extended to Kilcoy by 1914, then Wamuran became the terminus on the July 1, 1964. This station building now resides at the Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Society in Woodford.
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030409 121202500 viewsKielpa, a few kilometres south of the former Konanda siding loaded grain train with 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4, rebuilt from 830 class unit 839 by Port Augusta Workshops, retains original serial 83730 and model DL531 with the first twelve waggons behind the locos XNW type powers away from a crew change.
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19794500 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, former BHP Iron Ore Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5509, seen here stripped down to being an engine test bed, view from the no. 2 end. Sept 2003.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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106-30499 viewsNagambie station yard overview, station platform at right, Murphy silo complex with super phosphate shed beyond them, looking south.
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101-03499 viewsDandenong, Boral Quarry overview of new plant being constructed.
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186-05499 viewsMidland, empty standard gauge down grain train 051 powers along behind Westrail L class locomotive L 268 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 68-617 with forty WW and WWA type bogie grain waggons.
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190-04499 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, looking south along the mainlines, South box in the distance.
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193-01499 viewsWamuran, PHOA type flat waggon PHOA 37130 awaits loading on the goods loop, originally a HO type open waggon built by Comeng Qld, one of 100 such waggons in 1973-74. Behind it is a cut down WHX type former grain waggon built by Comeng Qld in 1959-60, one of 300 built, now coded PWH type PWH 31350.
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060113 2568499 viewsThevenard, the string of ENH and ENHA waggons loaded high with gypsum on train 6DD4 as the snake through the yard destined for the unloader. Bergmann Dr grade crossing. 13th January 2006.
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150523 8199499 viewsNelson Point Yard, with only another month to operate, BHP Billiton CM40-8M locomotive 5666 'Taranto' is a trailing unit as the loaded rake waits to head to the car dumpers for unloading. 5666 started life as a Comeng NSW built M636 ALCo 5487 before Goninan rebuilt it in 1995 to a CM40-8MEFI as it was the first unit to trial an electronic fuel injection system. Come the 1st of July 2015 all these units were all stored.
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160128 00416499 viewsView of the cab roof of Goninan rebuild GE model CM40-8M 5654, serial 8412-11, builders no. 93-145, shows tropical roof, marker and head lights, aerials, sand filling hatch covers wipers and strobe light in place of single trumpet horn.
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8335 roster rhs 040627 135444499 viewsNelson Point, Ex Southern Pacific SD40T-2 loco 8335 serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, this unit was purchased as a spares source for the other SD40 style units. The T signifies that it is a Tunnel motor with a modified radiator intake to allow 'cool' running through the Sierra Nevada tunnels. And the 'M' with a lighting rod through it meant that it was a master unit for radio controlled helpers, used in the Tehachapi mountains. 27th of June 2004.
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105-16498 viewsWallan, station platform 2 waiting room, brick chimney, rear side elevation, point rodding and signal wires in grass view.
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118-18498 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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101-17498 viewsSt Arnaud station yard overview looking north, station platform and building on right, corrugated iron Aquila silo complex on left.
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110-05498 viewsBenalla yard view, broad gauge V/Line T class loco T 403 with serial 67-498 a Clyde Engineering Granville NSW built EMD model G18B stabled down Wodonga goods train 9303, point rodding, VLCX type bogie louvre van.
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135-06498 viewsIpswich yard, narrow gauge QR 1620 class leader 1620, cab front. Built by English Electric at Rocklea Qld, model RS95C serial A-138.
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114-16498 viewsTocumwal station yard, looking south, on standard gauge track, cranes to the right.
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203-35498 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, former roadway over grown with sign from the National Parks Board of WA.
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