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101-15667 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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203-32667 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, 5 cylinder diesel motor with drive pulley and fly wheel, possibly an air compressor.
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1062 001667 viewsWelshpool, Goninan, Mt Newman Mining's GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5509 serial 4839-05 / 87-074 being road hauled to Port Hedland by Bell on a ninety four wheel float. This unit was rebuild from AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5452 serial G6012-1. May 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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101-13666 viewsMaryborough, broad gauge V/Line VZMF type bogie ballast waggon VZMF 47, originally built by V/Line Ballarat North Workshops September 1985 as VHMY type VHMY 47, recoded to VZMF in 1988.
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112-13666 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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198-04666 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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051102 6623666 viewsThevenard, left hand side of Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit and class leader 1601, originally NJ 1 'Ben Chifley' serial 71-728, built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981, repainted and renumbered to 1601 in November 2004.
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102-15665 viewsSpeed station platform access, annex silo for Geelong style complex.
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103-17665 viewsWahgunyah station yard overview, super phosphate sheds on the left track, portable station building in middle of frame, silos in distance, scotch block and point levers in foreground.
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109-22665 viewsViolet Town, V/Line broad gauge A class A 66 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1186 rebuilt from B 66 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-7 and N set work a down Albury passenger train along No.1 Rd, trailing shot, looking north.
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106-27665 viewsSeymour loco depot turntable and pit, V/Line standard gauge Y class Y 102 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 63-292, turntable, gantry and pit, loco shed, rail tractor RT class and Aresco Trak Chief RT 46, wheel sets at right.
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213-34665 viewsWeipa, a loaded train from Andoom near Northern Avenue with Comalco R 1004 leading thirty three loaded waggons of bauxite.
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112-04664 viewsViolet Town broad gauge track view, looking north, Siding B showing erosion, then mainline or No.2 A and No.1 roads, standard gauge at far right, March 1994.
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213-28664 viewsWeipa, view of pilot on Comalco R 1004, Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT42C built 1990 serial 90-1277, note the difference this in freight only traffic to an V/Line N class pilot used in passenger service.
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216-13664 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, Australian National standard gauge light engines wearing the AN livery 700 class 705 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-3 and BL class leader BL 26 'Bob Hawke' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1010.
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060113 P1010175664 viewsThevenard, blasting away from town upgrade with the port in the distance, 1604 leads a triple consist of Clyde Engineering 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 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. Friday 13th January 2006. Pope Searle photo.
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112-10663 viewsViolet Town, looking north, V/Line broad gauge N class N 464 'City of Geelong' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1193 powers the up Albury passenger train across Cowslip Street past the station building and signal bay with semaphore signal post 9 on the platform, March 1994.
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060111 2295663 viewsLock, 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 with two ALCO units 850 and 905 drag their grain train over the grade past the location sign and down into Lock. 11th January 2006.
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107-04662 viewsKyabram track view, buried rails for Kyabram Fruit Packers siding, Southern Can Company on the left, looking towards Echuca.
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210-14662 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops track maintenance compound, Speno rail grinder model RR 28E, a twenty eight wheel grinder, this unit is very likely to have been originally used by Mt Newman Mining in the Pilbara in the 1970s. Even a 20 km remote railway requires a grinder! September 1995.
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