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100611 0391395 viewsMidland, AQNY 32188, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, running empty on train 5426 up Kalgoorlie Freighter.
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051101 6484395 viewsParkeston, AHBY 0003 one of sixty five AHBY type ballast hoppers built by EDI Rail at their Port Augusta Workshops for ARG in 2001-02 for the Darwin line, also the FMG construction in 2008, here in limestone quarry products service.
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221-28395 viewsYandi One mine loadout balloon loop, a pair of General Electric AC6000 units lead a train being loaded around the balloon, overview of the stockpile with stacker fill the hole from loading.
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224-19395 viewsBing siding, 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie awaits the road to depart south, cab side shows new nameplate, steerable bogie and taper in cab side. GeoData.
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229-26395 viewsYandi Two loadout exit side, as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 with sister unit 5642 drag a loading train at 1.2 km/h, the massive pile of ore is gravity fed into the waggons via two sets of hydraulic chutes, the original pedestal radial stacker is visible above the ore along with the extraction fan. GeoData.
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230-03395 viewsYandi Two switch looking east with the Three Sisters forming the background. Empty BHP train heading for the balloon loop for loading, grade crossing is the YT 311.5 km. Geodata -22.713725, 119.055762 .
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234-09395 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5640 'Ethel Creek' serial 8281-05 / 92-129 is on the rear of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. View of engine hood and fuel tank. Circa 1998.
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239-14395 viewsOverview of the Yandi One Jaques J-Cone secondary crusher and scalping screen as viewed from above the middling crushers, looking down CV6. The conveyor from the right is CV3 from the primary crusher and reclaim tunnel. The bus in the background is parked at the offices and was usually driven by 'Tangles' the sampler. GeoData.
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060110 2200395 viewsYeelanna, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 stands with a rake of waggons into the grain siding with the 5 ton crane also visible as the locos as cut off. Approx. location of image.
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060110 2208395 viewsOn the curve near the 85 km between Yeelanna and Karkoo, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 leads an empty grain train. Approx. location of image.
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160523 3609395 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30006 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0131, originally built by 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, part of loaded acid train 2406 arriving back in the yard. CSA 0131 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4466395 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRAY 7190 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck with a 40' PLUS Breeze Logistics reefer BRZC 6.
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160523 3024395 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRKY 2766 container waggon, one of fifty five built by Perry Engineering SA in 1974 as type RMX, recoded to AQMX, AQSY, RQKY. With a 40' flatrack FD 91 loaded with steel pipe.
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160524 4320395 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKBY 20411 loaded with steel rods. RKBY 20411 is the class leader of some six hundred BDY / NODY type open waggons built by EPT in NSW between 1977 and 1981.
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160522 2066395 viewsBinduli, 5MP2 steel train, RKQF 60229, originally built by Tulloch NSW as part of a batch of one hundred and thirty five JLY/JLX type louvre vans in 1969-70. Fifty six were converted at Bathurst to NQRX before further conversion to NKQX type steel plate waggon in 1989-90. Seen here loaded with steel plates.
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160529 8832395 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRXY 3 platform 3 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a 48' Royal Wolf box RWTU 922010.
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160529 8852395 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRGY 7130
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160529 8853395 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRGY 7130
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070529 9352395 viewsParkeston; Pacific National RZDY type crew accommodation car RZDY 103 'Ibis' on train 2PM6 originally built by SAR Islington Workshops as a Bluebird railcar driving trailer in 1956 named 'Ibis', in 1986 numbered 103, in 1990 converted to locomotive hauled and coded as BR type BR 103, written off in 1995 and sold off. It was owned by a number of owners and finally in 2006 converted to a Pacific National crew car.
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070529 9353395 viewsParkeston; Pacific National RZDY type crew accommodation car RZDY 103 'Ibis' on train 2PM6 originally built by SAR Islington Workshops as a Bluebird railcar driving trailer in 1956 named 'Ibis', in 1986 numbered 103, in 1990 converted to locomotive hauled and coded as BR type BR 103, written off in 1995 and sold off. It was owned by a number of owners and finally in 2006 converted to a Pacific National crew car.
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