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197-20540 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view of the demolished underground shift offices, upturned battery module, charging transformer, Mancha #4 battery locomotive on the right.
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197-24540 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, top of control stand for locomotive with No.1 battery box, English Electric Co. D.B.1. Form M3, Dick Kerr System, commonly referred to as the Dick Kerr DB1 controller.
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198-06540 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, line up of two Mancha locomotives and the Gemco, then an English Electric unit. The compressor and water treatment plant is beside the locos, In the distance is the demolished locomotive changing and maintenance shed and underground offices and lamp room.
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199-03540 viewsToodyay West, empty grain train with standard gauge Westrail L class L 263 Clyde Engineering EMD GT26C serial 68-553 and forty empty waggons at Northam-Toodyay Rd Katrine. 1316 hrs on 21st June 1997.
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210-04540 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, Comalco rail dump station, view looking towards the workshops, shows inspection walkway and opening for unloading hopper, control cabin, the waggons are discharged on the left track behind the OPEN PIT sign.
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030409 080908540 viewsWarramboo, empty grain departs following a crew change. Rebuild unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery leads a pair of AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 830 class units 872 and 871, the SACBH concrete silo and Ascom silo complexes behind it.
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200914 7797540 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, Comeng WA ALCo rebuild C636R locomotive 3017 serial WA-135-C-6043-04. The improved Pilbara cab was fitted as part of the rebuild in April 1985. Donated to Society in 1996. 14th September 2020.
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111-19539 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge shunt loco Y class Y 129 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 65-395 runs back into Geelong Yard light engine from the arrivals, shunters on loco, framed by signal box and signal post 16.
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107-07539 viewsTongala station yard overview factory siding with staff locked points on the left beyond former old platform, looking north.
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131-2-21539 viewsThomson Dam overflowing, possibly 1992, with spillway flooding into the Thomson River. GeoData.
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101-20539 viewsDonald Geelong style silo complex with steel annex overview, Freightgate canopy in background, goods shed at right, town water tower in distant background.
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190-03539 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, looking north, platform and main lines on the left, yard tracks on the right with Ascom silo complex in the background.
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197-25539 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, top of control stand for locomotive with No.1 battery box, English Electric Co. D.B.1. Form M3, Dick Kerr System, commonly referred to as the Dick Kerr DB1 controller.
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197-28539 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.
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216-09539 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, Australian National trio of standard gauge light engines wearing the AN livery with CL class CL 17 'William McMahon' Clyde Engineering EMD model AT26C serial 71-757 leading a 700 class and a BL class.
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030414 154153539 viewsPenong, looking west, the crossover from the main to the grain loop is running left to right, Ascom silo loadout gantry with horizontal grain bunker behind it.
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060108 2042539 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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112-05538 viewsViolet Town broad gauge track view, station platform, looking north, March 1994.
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114-20538 viewsGoorambat, broad gauge V/Line Grain VHHF type bogie grain waggon VHHF 822 in front of a Williamstown style silo. VHHF was built by Victorian Railways Ballarat North Workshops in 1982 as a VHHY type; recoded to VHHF in 1987.
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140517-4355538 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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