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193-29355 viewsGympie yard, Queensland Rail's 1720 class locomotive 1752, built by Comeng Rocklea Qld for Clyde Engineering as EMD GL18C model in 1968 with serial 68-566.
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205-36355 viewsKoodaideri, track leading up to the underground drive, about 500 metres before the drive was a big warning sign about radio active substances.
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206-32355 viewsAn empty train on the Yarrie (former Goldsworthy) line with a string of Golynx ore waggons, built by Goninan WA to a Lynx Engineering design, and then the two types of the waggons from the Phelps Dodge Copper Mine, the ribbed units are built by Portec USA and the smooth ones built by Gunderson USA. All of these are belly dump waggons as opposed to the BHP fleet of rotary dump bodies.
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210-22355 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, side view of Comalco ore waggon 3002, shows handbrake, triple valve and piping, side piping and controls, bogies and discharge doors and air receivers, this is one of the compressor equipped waggons.
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030409 122744355 viewsKielpa, loaded grain train with 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4 rumbles over the north end points heading south.
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030409 153922355 viewsMoody Tank, a loaded grain train storms around the curve behind 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt DA class unit DA 4.
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060113 2462355 viewsThevenard, narrow gauge loco 1604 with a fresh crew depart the yard with empty train 6DD3, 1604 leads a triple consist of Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 the original class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 1604 and 1601 both renumbered in 2004. A roll-by is also being conducted by an outgoing crew member. 13th January 2006.
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070608 0101355 viewsMidland, AZDY 30711, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted late 1988/9 to WQDF.
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191-07355 viewsSeymour station yard south end, Australian National 52 tonne capacity open waggon ROOX type ROOX 3007, recoded from AOOX, one of two hundred GOX type open waggons built by Transfield WA in between 1974 and 1976.
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150507 8100355 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bridge over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1842517 118.0346950 .
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160128 00789355 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M unit 5661 has the back wall of the cab torn off.
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160526 5203355 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 221, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1940 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress as AS 6, in April 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 1, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 221. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2004.
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160523 2929355 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214 and NR 51 serial 7250-08/97-253 lead the train 'elephant style' out of the dip and along the mainline at the 1776 km. The PN local is in the car at the gantry performing a roll-by, the track on the left is the Engineers Siding.
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160524 4045355 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKVY 8002, empty tilt bed plate steel waggon, one of five built by Goninan Bassendean WA in 2011.
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160522 2189355 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, platform 5 of 5-pack RRGY 7130 5 pack articulated skel waggon set, originally built as RRBY by AN Rail at Islington Workshops SA 1996-97, 40' deck empty.
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160522 2355355 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRAY 7243 platform 2 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 46' 6" reefer BTRN 466007[5].
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160522 2430355 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRAY 7166 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck with W.A. Freightlines 40' curtainsider WAFL 491015[6].
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160522 2236355 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0146 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA with Independent Brake signage.
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160526 5310355 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0008 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with a 40' GPR1 type SCT reefer SCTR 042 and a 48' MFG1 type container SCT unit SCTDS 4812.
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160529 8871355 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth with 74 waggons for 5382 tonnes and 1786 metres with EDI Downer built EMD model GT46C-ACe unit SCT 010 serial 07-1734 on the point with sister unit SCT 007 as they power through along the mainline.
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