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
130705_0594.jpg
130705 0594271 viewsLock, down end looking up towards Port Lincoln with the four silo blocks on the right, from the furthest, #5, #1, #2 and #3. The horizontal bunker #4 is on the left but obscured by the trees. Loading is continuing on the #1 goods siding while the loaded rake is on the mainline.
130705_0593.jpg
130705 0593271 viewsLock, having stowed the loaded portion on the mainline, the three locos 1203, 846 and 859 shunt back on to the empty portion on goods siding #1.
130705_0629.jpg
130705 0629271 viewsLock, with loading finished, 1203 leads 846, 859 and the final portion out along the mainline out of goods siding #1 as it prepares to shunt back onto the loaded portion on the mainline for departure to Port Lincoln.
100731_3235.jpg
100731 3235271 viewsBinduli, AQHY 30016 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0006, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 at WF type flat waggons, then following several codes and modifications in 1997 seventy five were converted to WQH to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
235-30.jpg
235-30271 viewsYandi One, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11 / 93-145 sits on a loaded train awaiting departure time with second unit also a Goninan GE rebuild 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128, note the differences in the two locos as 5653 is rebuilt from a Comeng built ALCo M636 while 5639 was an AE Goodwin built ALCo C636. 5654 also has the late marigold style BHP logo.
243-32.jpg
243-32271 viewsNelson Point departure yard, no. 2 end view of BHP Billiton's CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 and built new by Goninan WA in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it trails an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
252-21.jpg
252-21271 viewsNelson Point BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6074 'Kalgan' serial number 51066 is shutdown near the wheel lathe. Early December 2001.
210510_1099.jpg
210510 1099271 viewsNear Gull on the Rio Tinto Dampier - Tom Price line at the 101.5 km, RTW type intermediate rail waggon RTW 021 on Rio Tinto's Gemco Rail built rail train consist. 10th May 2021. Location.
253-09.jpg
253-09271 viewsPort Hedland harbour sees the suction / cutter dredge Vlaanderen XI with IMO #7712080. The Vlaanderen XI was originally built in 1978 by IHC Dredgers with yard number 1108 and originally named New Amsterdam, named the Vlaanderen XI in 1986, renamed again in 2007 to Kaveri and again to Huta 15 in 2014.
253-25.jpg
253-25271 viewsNelson Point hard stand, CFCLA CHRY type ballast hopper waggon CHRY 755.
254-19.jpg
254-19271 viewsBing Siding, an empty train awaits departure time behind 6071 an General Electric built AC6000 model with serial number 51063. The locomotive has not yet been named. Side view. September 2001.
254-21.jpg
254-21271 viewsBing Siding, an empty train awaits departure time behind 6071 an General Electric built AC6000 model with serial number 51063. The locomotive has not yet been named. Second unit is Goninan rebuilt CM40-8MEFI locomotive 5668. September 2001.
256-23.jpg
256-23271 viewsMaitland Siding, Robe River CM40-8M unit 9417 (2nd) leading an empty train passes sister unit 9414 heading up a loaded train. May 2002.
256-36.jpg
256-36271 viewsAt the 89.6 km grade crossing the loaded train behind the quad CM40-8M working of 9414, 9420, 9410 and 9425 rolls across the crossing and heads down the 1.26 percent grade. 9425 was built by AE Goodwin NSW as an ALCo C636 in April 1970 with serial G-6041-4 for Mount Newman Mining with road number 5468. It was sold to Robe in August 1982 and repainted and renumbered to 9425. 9425 was rebuilt by Goninan WA in August 1989 to become an CM40-8M model with serial 6266-8 / 89-85. May 2002.
190129_4254.jpg
190129 4254271 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00359 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-359 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
190129_4325.jpg
190129 4325271 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00327 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-327 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
140601_4613.jpg
140601 4613271 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8091 one pair of 120 bar coupled pairs built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
140601_4624.jpg
140601 4624271 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8053 one pair of 120 bar coupled pairs built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
268-19.jpg
268-19271 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.
190108_1131.jpg
190108 1131271 viewsBinduli, AQHY 30062 with CSA 0123, 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. CSA 0123 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions.
19085 files on 955 page(s) 786

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