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150523 8280236 viewsFinucane Island, loaded with Yandi Fines Comeng built original style ore waggon number 1483 dates from 1974. It has had the end sills filled in as a capacity improvement and show signs of having been re-sheeted and repaired, it is also riding on light weight 38 tonne bogies. Geodata: -20.3363567 118.5497550 .
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160128 00416236 viewsView of the cab roof of Goninan rebuild GE model CM40-8M 5654, serial 8412-11, builders no. 93-145, shows tropical roof, marker and head lights, aerials, sand filling hatch covers wipers and strobe light in place of single trumpet horn.
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194-23235 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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194-27235 viewsYandi campsite for Henry Walker operated iron ore mine owned and managed by BHP, view from man cage during indoor cricket pitch installation .
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196-28235 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, view looking north east from remains of railways and mill towards power station, concrete pad is former workshops.
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200-07235 viewsMoorine Rock, Westrail L class 271 departs the loop with the Barclay Mowlem ballast cleaning train, known as the Circus Train with a WGLA type waggon on the rear 22nd June 1997.
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203-31235 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, 5 cylinder diesel motor with drive pulley and fly wheel, possibly an air compressor.
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203-35235 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, former roadway over grown with sign from the National Parks Board of WA.
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108-05234 viewsMurchison East silo complex, elevation of the Ascom Jumbo silo elevator, mobile grain bins in foreground.
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110-06234 viewsBenalla yard view, broad gauge V/Line B class B 64 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-5, side view, stabled down Wodonga goods train 9303, ground dwarf disc signals, point indicator.
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134-04234 viewsKagaru, station overview, station building, waiting room, signal box, staff exchange platform.
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114-16234 viewsTocumwal station yard, looking south, on standard gauge track, cranes to the right.
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203-26234 viewsDrillers Ridge, Wittenoom, the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) tower was a navigation aid for the Department of Civil Aviation for the Wittenoom airport, the site was also used by Telecom for providing 'radio links' for phones into Wittenoom prior to the current tower located at the eastern edge of town which links back to Auski Roadhouse.
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030415 070041234 viewsKevin, NJ class Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit serial 71-732, 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. Still in AN green but lettered for Australian Southern Railroad. At the Kevin loading point.
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223-08234 viewsPossum Siding, Hamersley Iron rail grinder, view of main generating lead unit, Speno built RR 48 M-1 model sits in the back track siding. 21st October 2000.
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160101 9759234 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Joffre Creek, Fourth Crossing Pool view of the western wall gorge, via Bolitho Road. Geodata: -22.2804483 118.3212850
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160525 4943234 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1. Inline fuelling waggon QQFY 4271, originally built for Commonwealth Railways in 1976 by Perry Engineering SA as type RMX, recoded to AQMX, 70 tonne bogies became AQMY, then RQMY, to QR National in 2007. Seen here with two 30' diesel fuel tanktainers from Nantong Tank Container Company, NTTU 330006 and NTTU 330001 each with a 30800 litre capacity, and fuel transfer or pump unit QRIP 06.
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103-20233 viewsBenalla Workshops, Victorian Railways broad gauge G type four wheel open waggon G 130, originally built by Ballarat North Workshops December 1939 as a GY type GY 130, recoded to G November 1981, and 'Off Register' 1986. Photo date 12-08-1990.
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111-19233 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge shunt loco Y class Y 129 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 65-395 runs back into Geelong Yard light engine from the arrivals, shunters on loco, framed by signal box and signal post 16.
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112-11233 viewsViolet Town, looking north across Cowslip Street, standard gauge NSWSRA 81 class 8174 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1093 in candy livery with an up goods heads south, station building behind camera, broad gauge track on the left, March 1994.
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