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236-06389 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Dash 8 class locomotive 5653 'Chiba', a Goninan 1994 rebuild to GE CM40-8M model, serial 8412-10 / 93-144.

236-18389 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuilt CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 sits out the front awaiting attention.

060110 2220389 viewsAt the Procter Rd grade crossing about halfway between Yeelanna and Karkoo, empty grain train behind 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 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units with the road competition from a Llewelyn Transport road train with a Freightliner prime mover. Approx. location of image.

060110 2222389 viewsAt the Procter Rd grade crossing about halfway between Yeelanna and Karkoo, empty grain train behind 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 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.

160523 3342389 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30090 with CSA 0092, 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 to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth. CSA 0092 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.

160524 4373389 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 3438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 531, first of a further ten built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WN type in 1975 for WMC.

160523 3017389 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRAY 7167 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, with a Sadleirs 40' 4FG1 type box RCS 4073.

160524 4040389 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKLY 20512 with two butter box containers RH139 with new lid RH307 and RH250. Originally built by EPT NSW in 1977-78 as an BDY type open waggon before being heavily modified by ANI Engineering in 1998. Also coded NODY, NCMY and RCMY prior to 1998.

160524 4294389 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKLY 20310, totally unrecognisable from original build by EPT NSW 1979-81 as part of a batch of two hundred BDY type 14.20 metre open waggons, had several recoding's prior to its current guise, loaded with two Royal Wolf 22G1 type 20' boxes RWLU 814966 and RWLU 814909.

060603 5451389 viewsMidland, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation car RZAY 940 on train 7PS6 was built by Comeng NSW as an ARJ type stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car ARJ 240 in 1968, allocated to the Indian Pacific Joint Stock in 1970, renumbered to ARJ 940 in 1974 and sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997.

070531 9615389 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZBY type crew accommodation car RZBY 208 on train 3MP4, built by Comeng NSW as ER type stainless steel air conditioned crew dormitory car ER 208 in 1969, sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997.

161109 1948389 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 50 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.

161111 2492389 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQRY 1000 platform A, with two 20' 22G1 type boxes, MOL MOAU 581721[8] and Cronos CXDU 158371[0]. The AQRY are a bar-coupled pair and were used for rail transport as the AFRF type on the Darwin line and are originally former ANR-CR waggons.

161111 2535389 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30020 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0115, 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.

050412 0763389 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA ballast waggon 515.

050518 2178389 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 520, the last of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.

060501 3873389 viewsTabba Siding, originally built by Difco USA for Goldsworthy Mining Ltd in 1967 as a batch of five, prefixed with 870 in BHP service, 8703 side dump waggon loaded with ballast.

060713 6545389 viewsBoodarie Yard, modified original Magor USA built Oroville waggon 576, cut down and covered and in use as indexing waggons on the front of each rake for Finucane Island car dumpers, note the original ODCX marking visible.

050412 0812389 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, view of the rear of BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 12th April 2005.