Pilbara Railways Image Collection

The entire photo collection of images scanned from negatives and slides and digital images.


Home Login
Album list Last uploads Last comments Most viewed Top rated My Favourites Search
Most viewed
209-14.jpg
209-14285 viewsAshfield station, narrow gauge Midland to Perth service departs for Perth with Cravens of Sheffield built ADH class railcar ADH 652 leading an ADG class.
210-17.jpg
210-17285 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point track maintenance compound, sleeper handler crane and a sleeper scarifier - inserter beside it numbered R 4015, ballast waggon R 4003 in the background.
150505_7951.jpg
150505 7951285 viewsFMG Solomon Line, looking back east from the same spot as 7950. Repeater tower in distance. Geodata: -22.0398833 118.6280733 .
150522_8153.jpg
150522 8153285 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the first batch of BHP Billiton Dash 8 locos to be scrapped, 5646 serial 8244-11/92-135 one of a pair of new Goninan WA built CM40-8 units has already had most of the hood removed and the V16 7FDL prime mover is visible, sister unit 5647 sit along side with the same fate coming up next.
150522_8194.jpg
150522 8194285 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M units lined up awaiting the chop, 5659, 5640, 5638, 5649, 5645, 5635, 5663, 5656, 5657, 5647 with 5646 out of view.
160525_4946.jpg
160525 4946285 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1. Inline fuelling waggon QQFY 4271, originally built for Commonwealth Railways in 1976 by Perry Engineering SA as type RMX, recoded to AQMX, 70 tonne bogies became AQMY, then RQMY, to QR National in 2007. Seen here with two 30' diesel fuel tanktainers from Nantong Tank Container Company, NTTU 330006 and NTTU 330001 each with a 30800 litre capacity, and fuel transfer or pump unit QRIP 06.
250-21.jpg
250-21285 viewsCape Lambert yard on the Load Box Spur is recently stored Robe River AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 unit 9413 serial G6060-4 from December 1971, originally numbered 262.004 during construction, renumbered to 86-14-1713 with number boards 1713 and finally 9413. The ducting on the hood is the air to air intercooler modifications. 22nd October 2000.
192-08.jpg
192-08284 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot, accident damaged NSWGR 80 class unit 8045 inside the roundhouse on road 25. An ALCo CE615A model with Mitsubishi electrics built by Comeng NSW in 1982 serial C6121-15.
197-23.jpg
197-23284 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view of the points leading to the mine adit on the right, and past the discharge slide chute on the left. The loop road is visible in the distance, with the demolished underground offices and lamp room pushed up against the gorge wall. Mancha #4 in the distance.
197-28.jpg
197-28284 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, reverse view of 197-27, battery module No.1 with number 10165, shows a slotted drop type hinge arrangement, headlight, coupling pocket and Joy plug for motor, mounted on an English Electric hauler, behind is a Gemco and two Mancha units, the building is the water treatment and compressor sheds.
212-15.jpg
212-15284 viewsWeipa, a loaded train ex-Andoom Mine runs along the main with thirty two waggons at Lorim Point towards the dump station behind Comalco R 1004 Clyde Engineering EMD JT26C serial 90-1277 which is former Goldsworthy Mining loco GML 10.
217-05.jpg
217-05284 viewsKeswick Passenger Terminal, Australian National DL class locomotive DL 37 Clyde Engineering EMD model AT42C serial 88-1245 on the pointy end of 'The Ghan' as departure time approaches.
030406_115746.jpg
030406 115746284 viewsPort Lincoln, derailment damaged HCN type bogie wheat waggon HCN 3, modified at Islington Workshops in 1978-80 which started life as a Tulloch built NHB type iron ore hopper for the CR on the North Australia Railway in 1968-69. 6th April 2003.
060113_2420.jpg
060113 2420284 viewsCeduna, loaded gypsum train 6DD2 stirs up the dust behind the triple Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 08:10 AM on the Friday the 13th January 2006.
150523_8280.jpg
150523 8280284 viewsFinucane Island, loaded with Yandi Fines Comeng built original style ore waggon number 1483 dates from 1974. It has had the end sills filled in as a capacity improvement and show signs of having been re-sheeted and repaired, it is also riding on light weight 38 tonne bogies. Geodata: -20.3363567 118.5497550 .
103-37.jpg
103-37283 viewsSeymour loco depot, V/Line broad gauge RT class rail tractor RT 15 and DRC class Tulloch built DRC 42 diesel railcar.
186-13.jpg
186-13283 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.
140517-4321.jpg
140517-4321283 viewsEginbah Siding area, of the Marble Bar railway, former locomotive watering stop alongside the Talga River (closed in 1951), view of concrete slab remains and the tanks, looking north east. Location here.
198-01.jpg
198-01283 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, rear view of battery box and battery locomotive GEMCO Hauler serial 12304-05/10/65, motor H.P. 2/11, volts 80, drawbar pull (lbs.) 1250 built by George Moss Pty Ltd Leederville, WA.
198-09.jpg
198-09283 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view of driving position, reverser and throttle, brake wheel, timber seat, battery plug and battery box of battery locomotive GEMCO Hauler serial 12304-05/10/65, motor H.P. 2/11, volts 80, drawbar pull (lbs.) 1250 built by George Moss Pty Ltd Leederville, WA.
16610 files on 831 page(s) 60

Set Back to Pilbara Yard / Photo Gallery / Blog / Departure Yard / BHP Road / Fortescue Metals Road / Rio Tinto Road / Roy Hill Road / Comalco Siding
Your IP address is: Website and all images are © 1997-2025 www.pilbararailways.com.au Contact Us
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional