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150522 8179615 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M units from left, 5635 serial 8151-09/91-121, 5645 serial 8281-11/92-134 and 5649 serial 8412-07 93-140, for full details of these units past lives see here .
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100-18614 viewsAlbury yard, NSWSRA standard gauge 48 class 4893 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G3420-8, red terror livery, shunters riding loco. Geodata.
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101-15614 viewsMaryborough yard view, four broad gauge V/Line VZTX type bogie manual discharge sleeper waggons VZTX 4, started out as BP type Steel Mail/Baggage Van BP 7 built in 1959 by Newport Workshops, went on to become VBAX 17 in 1979, then converted September 1988 at Bendigo Workshops to VZTX type.
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195-15614 viewsWittenoom, view from the Devil's Staircase of Colonial Mill and Mine with piles of tailings, the building and yard at the bottom of the frame is the warehouse or store and gated yard with the workshop being the larger of the two, the buildings at the top level are the locomotive and underground mining offices and workshops, with the crusher and milling and bagging plant using gravity to its advantage.
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213-16614 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops building, looking south east at the rear of the building and yard. From the left, R 1003, waggons, R 1001 and the Canron Rail Group Mk I switch tamper.
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160128 00386614 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, upturned bogie from recently scrapped new built Goninan CM39-8 unit 5632. Bogie is of a GE floating bolster design, serial 1-10-87.
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101-12613 viewsMaryborough, broad gauge V/Line VHJA type bogie gypsum waggon VHJA 10, the final member of 10 such waggons converted in 1984 from VHCA type waggons for use on the Cowangie gypsum traffic by Newport Workshops, originally built new as a J type hopper waggon by American Car and Foundry USA November 1925, recoded to CJ type in 1960 and VHCA in 1980. In 1993 a further fifteen were such converted.
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060111 2385613 viewsKyancutta, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004.
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160101 2300613 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view inside drive No. 5, formally sealed, erosion has collapsed the sealing door, geodata: -22.3247417 118.3277889 , iPhone 5S image.
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102-12612 viewsSpeed radio repeater site.
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172-03612 viewsSunshine, an expanded view of image 141-50, signal Post 49 for Up movements while signal Post 36 is for controlling Down trains off the Sunshine - Newport Loop Line, either towards Sunshine back track, Platform 3 or onto the main down line and Platform 2, a broad gauge push-pull double H set with V/Line P class, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G18HBR rebuilt from Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B on each end is on the down approaching Sunshine.
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198-04612 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view of driving position, throttle and battery box of battery locomotive GEMCO Hauler serial 12304-05/10/65, motor H.P. 2/11, volts 80, drawbar pull (lbs.) 1250 built by George Moss Pty Ltd Leederville, WA. The wheel is the handbrake.
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160128 00403612 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, drivers side cab view of the ALCo Hi-Ad bogie with external secondary coil suspension of the original M636 unit 5478.
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161109 1951612 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 11 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum. Also shows signs of derailment and being on its side.
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104-16611 viewsWallan, gangers trolley shed, front view from up line.
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102-07611 viewsWoomelang yard view, station platform edge, goods shed and super phosphate shed, Geelong style and new and old style Ascom silo complexes, taken from down platform.
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160101 2296610 viewsWittenoom Gorge, location of former power station, showing old foundations, looking north from approx. engine hall location, geodata: -22.3222833 118.3340833 , iPhone 5S image.
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150505 7948610 viewsFMG Solomon Line track - rail detail, H VT 136 RE PG4 2010 XII, H for head hardened, VT for vacuum degassing, the diamond logo PZH indicates it is manufactured by Pangang Group Steel Vanadium & Titanium Co. Ltd, is 136 pounds per yard weight, RE meets AREMA (American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association) standards, PG4 indicates tensile strength of 1300 MPa, and a rolled date of 2010, December.
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112-13609 viewsNorth Geelong yard broad gauge track view, V/Line G class G 534 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1264 and sister loco with an empty grain train awaiting departure on No.1 Rd Sorting Sidings.
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186-15609 viewsMidland, Westrail standard gauge up Kalgoorlie loaded acid train 428 behind a pair of L class locomotives L 268 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 68-617 and L 256 serial 67-546, the narrow gauge track to the Flashbutt yard in the foreground and Midland Workshops behind train, trailing view.
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