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268-18195 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year special, the Sundowner coach, originally built by E. G. Budd in 1939 numbered 301 as the Silver Star, a diner-parlour-observation coach on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's General Pershing Zephyr train from the 1930s and 1940s. Donated to Mt Newman Mining Co. by AMAX an original joint venture partner to commemorate the projects first 100 million tonnes of iron ore railed between Mount Whaleback mine and the Port Hedland port. 12th of April 2002.

120504 IMG P10149195 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, PTDY type gas tank waggon PTDY 6400. Built by Comeng NSW in 1964 as a GS type GS 400, 76,000 litre gas tank for Boral Gas, recoded to NTHF, then ATLY in 1996. Peter Donaghy image.

140406 IMG 1920195 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTBF 6119 fuel tank waggon, originally built by Comeng NSW in 1975 as SCA type SCA 270 69000 litre bitumen tank waggon for Shell NSW, diesel capacity of 62700 litres. Peter Donaghy image.

190108 1310195 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATKY 541 fuel tank waggon originally built for H C Sleigh (Golden Fleece) in 1975 by Tulloch Ltd NSW as WJK type. Capacity now of 73,000 litres in service with Caltex.

190109 1453195 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, RHTY type tank waggon RHTY 664, one of fourteen such waggons built by Industrial Engineering Qld in 1976 for Victorian Railways as TWX type crude benzene tank 56,000 litres. Recoded to VTHX in 1979. After a period of storage ended up in National Rail ownership for Alice Springs traffic, now Pacific National ownership.

160409 IMG 7015195 viewsParkeston, Aurizon rail grinder MMY type MMY 034, built in the USA by Loram as RG331 ~2004, imported into Australia by Queensland Rail, now Aurizon, in April 2009, detail picture. Peter Donaghy image.

283-18195 viewsHarding Siding, quad Robe River CM40-8M units 9414, 9420, 9410 and 9425 lead 202 loaded ore waggons at Siding 1 (Harding). The siding has recently been renamed Harding and extended at the north end to accommodate the new West Angelas trains of up to 240 waggons. Wednesday 22nd May 2002.

210407 9871195 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRXY 9, platform 5 with a CARU Specialized Leasing 40' 4FG1 type container SLZU 750057. The RRXY type 5-pack well waggon set is one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design.

210407 9873195 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRXY 9, platform 3 with an SCF Rail Containers 40' 4EG1 type container SCFU 410248 with Austrans. The RRXY type 5-pack well waggon set is one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design.

210407 9894195 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, CQWY type well waggon CQWY 5060 well 2, the final set of well waggon pairs were built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in a batch of sixty pairs in 2008 for CFCLA. Loaded with a 40' Lindsay Transport reefer LTCD 401806.

130710 1033195 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0054 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.

130710 1041195 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1, ABSY type covered van ABSY 4463, one of a batch of fifty made by Comeng WA as VFX type 75' covered vans 1977, recoded to ABFX then ABFY type, when Gemco WA upgraded it to ABSY type, seen here with the silver corrugated roof fitted.

110620 2393r195 viewsWalla, loaded BHP ore waggon 3312, one of three hundred and fifty waggons built by Astra Vagoane in Arad Romania in 1988 under a deal with Lang Hancock and waggons for ore arrangement. Only sixty-six entered service. A feature is the fully round 'corners' and side joins. 20th of June 2011.

231020 8269195 viewsBinduli, 5029 Malcolm Freighter, AQNY type container waggon AQNY 32204 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with an undecorated Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur containers BISU 100071 and a Bis Industries 55UA roll-top sulphur container SIBU 200637.

231020 8272195 viewsBinduli, 5029 Malcolm Freighter, AQIY type 40' container waggon class leader AQIY 00001 with an undecorated Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur containers BISU 100035 and a Bis Industries 55UA roll-top sulphur container SIBU 200627. The AQIY were originally built as the CQYY but CFCLA did not buy them, Bradken then stored them as KQYY. When Aurizon bought them they had the handbrake relocated to the middle of the waggon from the end.

231020 8144195 viewsParkeston, crew car CDBY 254 A. CDBY 254 is ex an Bluebird #254, built in September 1955 by the SAR Islington Workshops as Bluebird railcar 254 and named 'Brolga', in November 2007 converted to a crew car for CFCLA. Aurizon's Tronox mineral sands train 4UP1 from Ivanhoe / Broken Hill (NSW) to Kwinana (WA). 20th of October 2023.

231020 8237195 viewsParkeston, QQYY type 40' container waggon QQYY 57844 one of five hundred ordered by Aurizon and built by CRRC Yangtze Group of China in 2022. In service with two loaded 20' half height hard top 'rotainers' lettered CRM, for Cristal Mining before they were absorbed into Tronox, CRM 001242 with Tronox decal and yellow corner posts and CRM 000579 with Tronox decal and yellow corner posts, on Aurizon's Tronox mineral sands train 4UP1 from Ivanhoe / Broken Hill (NSW) to Kwinana (WA). 20th of October 2023.

100603 8987195 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, ABSY type covered van ABSY 4472, originally built by Comeng WA in a batch of one hundred VFX type covered vans in 1977 for Commonwealth Railways. Recoded from ABFX to RBFX November 1994, to SCT as ABFY type before being converted by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.

100731 02328194 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 30288 is one of a batch of one hundred and thirty built by Goninan WA between March and August 2001 with serial number 950092-038 and fleet number 630 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.

100731 02331194 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33332 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Goninan WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-037 and fleet number 831 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.

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