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198-16249 viewsPort Hedland Port, view of the Cargill Salt berth and loader, or PHPA Berth No. 3, in this 2001 view, the then new bulker loader is under construction and manganese is stockpiled on the ground. The BHP Finucane Island berth is visible along with the overland conveyor for the HBI plant.
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199-10249 viewsMeckering, National Rail NR class units NR 19 and NR 20, view of back to back coupling arrangement.
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199-13249 viewsMeckering, National Rail NR class unit NR 20 Goninan built GE Cv40-9i model, bogie view of no. 2 end on train 7PM5 as it waits for a cross with the Prospector in the loop 1400 hrs 21st June 1997.
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205-06249 viewsHooley Station front gate, old refrigerator used for mailbox, 'and the lord said unto the Shepard go away this is cattle country', sign - , 'Cattle With Altitude'.
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207-09249 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, the size of the extended radiator compared to domestic AC6000 units is evident here.
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209-07249 viewsEast Perth Passenger Terminal, Westrail L class L 272 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 69-621 shunts away from the loading dock.
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030405 132926249 viewsWudinna, hand operated 5 ton revolving jib yard crane and plinth, 5th April 2003.
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030407 082757249 viewsWudinna, empty grain train shunts back into the grain siding with a trio of former Australian National Co-Co locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial no. 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, DA 4 leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial no. 84140 and 851 serial no. 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962. 7th April, 2003.
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030411 102212249 viewsKimba Grain Bunker, looking towards Kimba, grain train loading with HBN type dual service ballast / grain hopper.
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030411 102244249 viewsKimba Grain Bunker, looking towards Kimba, grain train loading with HBN type dual service ballast / grain hopper.
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060108 2049249 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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051101 6424249 viewsParkeston, AHQF 31428 seen here in Loongana Limestone service, originally built by Goninan WA for Western Quarries as a batch of twenty coded WHA type in 1995. Purchased by Westrail in 1998.
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151111 9481249 viewsCape Lambert Yard, Chinese built Bradken ore cars, control car 20292 and slave car 25292.
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150518 8119249 viewsBHP Iron Ore old and retired ore stacker #4 and bucket wheel reclaimer #4 are blown apart to aid in the scrapping process.
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150522 8167249 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the first batch of BHP Billiton Dash 8 locos to be scrapped, 5646 serial 8244-11/92-135 and 5647 serial 8244-12/92-136 were a pair of new Goninan WA CM40-8 model built in 1992 with a Goninan ALCo rebuild 5657 beside them.
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160522 2038249 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RQCY type flat waggons RQCY 701 carrying the bogies for Trans-Perth B Set 116. Originally built by the Victorian Railways Newport Workshops as an FQX type container waggon in 1973, recoded to VQCX in 1979, then to NRC as RQCX, then the current code from 1995.
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060429 3748249 viewsFlash Butt yard - South Hedland, water tank waggon 0001, originally built by Comeng NSW in November 1970 as one of two waggons with an 82,000 litre capacity. The other unit 0002 went on to become fuel tank 0020 after being converted to a weed spray waggon. 29th April 2006.
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180615 1472249 viewsBing South, BHP Billiton's Progress Rail built EMD model SD70ACe unit 4455 serial 20138907-006 with 4356 second unit powers along the west mainline with a loaded rake heading for Finucane Island. 15th June 2018.
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041014 122804249 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, Mancha battery hauler from the former CSR underground blue asbestos mine at Wittenoom, driving position is at the rear in this shot. Shows misspelling on the side of EXPRSS rather than express. Donated to the Society in 2003. 14th October 2004.
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140205 IMG 1461249 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTAY type fuel tank waggon NTAY 3356 with 64,200 litre capacity for Caltex. Refurbished by Gemco WA in Nov 2013 from a Caltex NTAF type tank waggon NTAF 356 originally built by Comeng NSW in 1974 as a CTX type CTX 356. Peter Donaghy image.
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