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233-0265 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. An empty train can be seen about to enter the tunnel. GeoData.
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233-1465 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. A loading train lead by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 as it drags the train through at 1.2 km/h with assistance from two sister units. GeoData.
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233-3665 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, new United Goninan WA built iron ore waggon 4161, delivered in March 1997 as part of a batch of 126 waggons made from 3CR12 steel with tapered floors. GeoData.
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234-2465 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM39-8 GE unit 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 is second unit on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, drivers side cab view. Circa 1998.
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234-3765 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. View looking across the YT315.8 km grade crossing and 5658 back to the ore stockpile at the loadout. Circa 1998.
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235-1665 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 leads the afternoon 240 waggon train with second unit Goninan built CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus' as the exit the loadout tunnel, notice the fuel tank differences between the lead unit an ALCo rebuild and the second unit built new.
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235-1865 viewsYandi One, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11 / 93-145 sits on a loaded train awaiting departure time with second unit also a Goninan GE rebuild 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128, note the differences in the two locos as 5653 is rebuilt from a Comeng built ALCo M636 while 5639 was an AE Goodwin built ALCo C636. 5654 also has the late marigold style BHP logo.
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236-3365 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6077 'Nimingarra' serial 51069 sits out the front.
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236-3465 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 'Chichester' serial 51063 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted.
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160524 375065 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRXY 3 platform 5 of 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a 46' RAND Refrigerated Logistics reefer RAND 61 on top of a SCF sea2rail 40' box AUSU 408323.
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160525 443965 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 11 serial 7250-02/97-213.
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160525 453065 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRQY 8344 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set the last of a batch of 41 built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 for Pacific National, with a Pacific National 48' box PNXD 4188.
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160526 520165 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Melbourne bound intermodal train 4PM6 arrives with Binduli in the distance behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 71 serial 7250-01/97-273 and NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214.
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160526 521665 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, RRAY 7216 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck, with a Cronos 20' bulker box TINB 110756 and a Jamieson built 20' tanktainer for Adelaide Brighton Cement, K8114.
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160528 831165 viewsParkeston, priority service 6PS7 rolls into Parkeston taking the loop behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 114 serial 7250-10/97-311 and NR 10 serial 7250-01/97-212. The Loongana Lime plant is in the background.
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160528 832065 viewsParkeston, priority service 6PS7, RLUY 18724 louvre van, one of a one hundred and fifty batch order from Comeng NSW as KLY type built in 1975-76, recoded to NLKY, then NLUY, wearing Sadleirs green.
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160528 835565 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RQTY 670 originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops between 1969-72 as part of a batch of two hundred FQX type container waggons, recoded to FQF type in Nov 1977, to VQCX in c1979, April 1994 to National Rail as RQCX. With a 40' Simon flat rack FD189 with cable drums and a 20' Grace box GR 1031.
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160528 841365 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RQKY type container waggon RQKY 3073, originally built by Carmor Engineering SA in 1975 as an RMX type in a batch of fifty waggons. Recoded to AQMX then AQSY in 1988, then to RQKY in 1994. Loaded with three 20' containers, FCL FCGU 960485, Toll 2EG9 type NB 29162 and a 22G1 type 076740.
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160523 298265 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, PQYY 7083 platform 2, PQYY type is a 5-pack articulated well waggon set built in September 1995 by AN Islington Workshops as one of a pair of RQYY for Boxcar/Cubico and recoded in the late '90s to PQYY. Loaded with a 40' 4EG1 type Sea2Rail container TSPD 408102 [3].
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160523 301265 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RQKY 2693 container waggon, built by Perry Engineering SA in 1974 in a batch of seventy four RM type motor vehicle flat waggons, converted to AQPY container waggon, then fitted with aligned bogies and recoded to AQMP. April 1994 to RQKY. Loaded with two Norwest Shipping 20' 2CG9 type containers NWSU 8019 and NWSU 8032.
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