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140517-4326277 viewsEginbah Siding area, of the Marble Bar railway, former locomotive watering stop alongside the Talga River (closed in 1951), view of one of the pools water was drawn from, view looking north from the alignment over the river. Location here.
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197-17277 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view looking across the drivers seat of Mancha battery locomotive #4 down the gorge towards Joffre Creek with the workshops building in the distance and some air under the dump track.
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204-01277 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, view across creek to sealed up drive entry No. 7.
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204-05277 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, how foundations were made, buried 44 gallon drums filled with rock.
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211-08277 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point park area viewed from the kaolin storage silos.
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213-23277 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point fuel point, Comalco R 1004 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT42C built 1990 serial 90-1277, weight 132 tonne, engine 12-710G3A, generator AR11-WBA-CA5, traction motors D87ETR, rated power 2460 kW/3300 hp. The body is similar to a V/Line N class while the components are the same as the Australian National AN class. Originally built for Goldsworthy Mining as GML 10 for use at their Western Australian iron ore railway and locally known as Cinderella. Purchased by Comalco in 1994 following the takeover of Goldsworthy by BHP.
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150522 8176277 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M unit 5656 serial 8412-01 / 94-147 was originally Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5494 serial C6084-10.
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180616 1790277 viewsAt the 81 km, loaded Bradken China built B series 'slave' waggon 25238 built date 04/2013 is setup as an instrumented ore waggon, the solar panels are for charging the instrument batteries.
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080116 1368277 viewsChapman Siding, view of the hand brake end with F type Interlock coupling and hand brake wheel arrangement, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 16th January 2008.
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186-06276 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, trailing view.
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187-10276 viewsMonkland, Gympie Queensland. VMO type molasses waggon VMO 33440 and two others. Originally built by Nippon Sharyo Nihon in 1965 as a batch of 200 VO type coal hoppers. Converted to VMO in 1994. GeoData.
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193-05276 viewsWamuran, looking south east in the Up direction towards Moodlu. Catch point to protect runaway waggons out of Wamuran.
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211-0A276 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view from the top of the kaolin storage silos tanks looking north at the kaolin conveyor and ship loader, with red legs and the No.2 bauxite loader straight ahead in the cyclone tie-down position. The bauxite conveyors can be seen passing under the road.
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212-03276 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view of articulated haulpak on haul road from overbridge.
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030411 102054276 viewsKimba Grain Bunker, looking towards Kimba with Aerodrome Rd in the distance, ALCo DL531G/1 model rebuilt from an AE Goodwin made ALCo DL531 48 class 4813 serial 83713, issued to Eyre Peninsula from new in March 1966, and two 830 class units, 871 and 872 prepare to depart with a loaded. 11th April 2003. Geodata here.
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030414 154434276 viewsPenong station name board on shelter shed. , last train in March 1997.
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160101 9761276 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Joffre Creek, Fourth Crossing Pool view of the western wall gorge, via Bolitho Road. Geodata: -22.2804483 118.3212850
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160522 2030276 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RKCX type open waggon RKCX 1001, originally built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1974 as a member of the ELX type open waggons, in 1979 recoded to VOBX and then VOCX in 1980. To NRC in 1994, ROBX, then current code in 1995.
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WTT East 1982-10-31276 viewsWorking Time-Table Eastern District, 31st October 1982, complete 75 page PDF download, 4.7 MB.
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181-10275 viewsTrafalgar yard, broad gauge V/Line X class X 44 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 70-707 and N class N 454 'City of Horsham' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 85-1222 hurry through with a down pass with D van and N set.
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