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114-25563 viewsBenalla signal gantry, semaphore signal post 28 pulled off for up Albury passenger train, looking north, yard still fully interlocked and signalled, disc signal post 22 facing away from camera, post 27 facing camera, signal gantry features from left, disc post 23, 24, semaphore post 25, 26 and 28.
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190-11563 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, looking south, with the Sorting Sidings at left, and main yard in the middle, mainlines at right with the Down Refuge running down the middle of image.
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207-14563 viewsBHP General Electric built AC6000 unit 6074 serial 51066, brand new and unnamed at Yandi One load-out loop as a remote mid-train unit, view of the left hand side cab and steerable bogie.
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208-1-18563 viewsEast Perth Passenger Terminal, a four car Prospector set awaits departure time to Kalgoorlie, a WCA class is closest to the camera.
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212-27563 viewsWeipa, Mission River road and rail bridge from the Andoom and rail side with an empty train headed by Comalco unit R 1004 purchased off BHP Iron Ore in 1994 is a Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT42C built in 1990 with serial 90-1277. July 1995.
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217-21563 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, fuel point roads, AN BL class BL 31 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1015 with 700 class 704 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-2 rest between jobs with V/Line broad gauge N class behind them.
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WTT Nor East 1984-05-20 - reprint563 viewsWorking Time-Table North-Eastern District, 20th May 1984, Passenger Reprint Pages, complete 23 page PDF download, 3.4 MB.
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190911 4753563 viewsPort Hedland, Broome Rd crossing, BHP's MM 800 track recording vehicle powers south on a recording run, the MM 800 was built by Mermec in Italy and is a ROGER 800 model, ROGER is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control.
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107-18562 viewsEchuca turntable deck and pit, looking south.
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187-14562 viewsMonkland, Gympie Queensland. View looking south east in the Up direction, points off loop for yard, footbridge for State School in the distance. GeoData.
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187-15562 viewsMonkland, Gympie Queensland. View looking east into the lower yard, overgrown. Molasses tanks in upper yard at unloading siding. GeoData.
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188-07562 viewsWagga Wagga, located 521 km from Sydney on the NSW Main South, view from station platform at historical display. Geo Data.
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194-23562 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, detail view of Mancha battery locomotive with battery module sitting off loco, shows drive shaft to front axle from rear axle gearbox and wheels and large traction motor at the rear, on the battery module are the head light and cover hinge arrangement.
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196-21562 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, side open self discharge ore waggons, shows door mechanism.
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207-13562 viewsBHP General Electric built AC6000 unit 6074 serial 51066, brand new and unnamed at Yandi One load-out loop as a remote mid-train unit view of left hand side rear steerable bogie and air intakes below radiator.
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208-1-04562 viewsBassendean, Rail Heritage WA Museum, exhibit #16, U class Pacific 4-6-2 oil burning steam engine U 655, one of fourteen units built by North British Locomotive Co. in 1942 for war service in North Africa, but never deployed. Introduced in 1947, U 655 spent eighteen months being the Bassendean shunter before being condemned in 1970 and donated to the Museum in 1972.
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213-23562 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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217-14562 viewsPeterborough, an SP service awaits line clear behind the AN liveried quad combination of CL class Bulldog CL 11 Clyde Engineering EMD model AT26C serial 71-739, a 600 and two GM class units.
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219-01562 viewsYandicoogina or HIY as Hamersley Iron identify it, located 445 km from Parker Point yard in Dampier. Bank engine units General Electric Dash 9-44CW models 7089 serial 47768 and 7090 wait their next loaded train to push out, the tail of which is visible on the left with the mine stockpile in the background.
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237-12562 viewsJust south of Pilga and the old Cooglegong Mine is this rusting hulk of a Ruston Bucyrus shovel, possibly an RB10, serial RB21269. Geodata .
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