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226-19317 viewsShaw North, 216.5 km, departure repeater signal post SWN 4R for the mainline is aimed across the 700 metre radius curve that north bound trains face. GeoData.
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227-04317 viewsNelson Point, looking across with Anderson Point on the left and Stanley Point on the right, Boodarie workshop can be made out with a train in front of it. Today this view is very different!! GeoData.
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229-14317 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking through the tunnel and the CM40-8M profile of 5650 can be just made out, the massive pile of ore is gravity fed into the waggons via two sets of hydraulic chutes, Yandi Two features to loadout vaults for extra capacity, in later years it allowed two different products, fines and lumps to be stacked. GeoData.
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230-09317 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, empty car side, side view of two Goninan GE CM40-8M rebuilds from different ALCo builders. 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11/93-145 is from Comeng ALCo M636 unit 5493 while 5637 'De Grey' serial 8181-01/92-123 is from an AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5456. Geodata -22.713725, 119.055762 .
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231-17317 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 an Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M GE unit loads a train at 1.2 km/h with second unit 5650. GeoData.
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231-19317 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 an Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M GE unit loads a train at 1.2 km/h with second unit 5650. GeoData.
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236-04317 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Dash 8 class locomotive 5653 'Chiba', a Goninan 1994 rebuild to GE CM40-8M model, serial 8412-10 / 93-144, view of drivers side of cab.
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238-07317 viewsPort Hedland Harbour, heavy lift ship Happy Buccaneer (IMO: 8300389) sits at Finucane Island D Berth delivering a new shiploader for BHP Billiton. 1st November 2003. Geodata . Back in time here the ship cranes were only 550 tonne each, these are now 700.
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160523 3328317 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30074 with CSA 0113, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth. CSA 0113 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160523 3330317 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30117 with CSA 0096, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth. CSA 0096 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160524 4373317 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 3438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 531, first of a further ten built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WN type in 1975 for WMC.
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160528 8422317 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RRZY type five unit bar coupled well container waggon set RRZY 7030 platform 3, originally built by Goninan in a batch of twenty six RQZY type for National Rail, recoded when repaired. 48' MFG1 type FCL container FXGU 328031 double stacked with an SCF 4CG2 type 40' half height side door container SCFU 200555.
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160524 4240317 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel 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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160524 4284317 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, NQTY 20261, originally build by EPT NSW 1979-81 as part of a batch of two hundred BDY type 14.20 metre open waggons before conversion in the 1990s, loaded with two RH type RH 108 and RH 116 coil containers or 'butter boxes'.
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160524 4304317 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKAX 6, 2-pack rail transport waggon, this waggon was converted by Port Augusta Workshops from two original FBX type waggons built in 1968-69 by Islington Workshops in a batch of twenty later coded AFCX. AKAX 6 and AKCX 14 where the donors for this waggon. Loaded with a full load of rail strings.
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160523 3039317 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RLSY 18629 louvre van, one of one hundred fifty originally built by Comeng NSW as KLY in 1975-76, then recoded to NLKY and NLNY. Side view in Pacific National blue livery and code board with 2CM bogie.
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160529 8788317 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQFY 119 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFY in 1985, recoded in April 1994 RQFY, May 1995 to RQFF and 2CM bogies fitted August 1995, loaded with a 48' Pacific National curtainsider PNXC 4455.
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160529 8796317 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQJW 22051
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160529 8842317 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQQY 7076
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160529 8850317 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRAY 7232
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