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190107 0640397 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00189 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-189 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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243-02397 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5497 serial C6096-2 stands in the morning sunlight. August 2003.
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150619 9089397 viewsFlash Butt yard, Speno owned and operated rail grinder RG2 for BHP, rail grinding module, from the left, water tank, electrical cabinet, blower fans and filter housing, water tank, water tank, electrical cabinet, blower fans and filter housing, fuel tank.
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200914 7774397 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, former ALCo built demonstrator locomotive model C-415 serial 3449-1 built April 1966, currently carrying number 1000, it was originally numbered 008 when Hamersley Iron purchased the unit in 1968. It was retired from service on the 24th February 1982. It then spent some time carrying number 2000 while building the Marandoo railway line from Sept 1991. 14th September 2020.
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249-29397 viewsA loaded Hamersley Iron train runs across the plains north of Dugite Siding near the 70 km as it nears the destination of its cargo behind the standard pair of GE built Dash 9-44CW locomotives 7084 serial 47763 and 7079 serial 47758 both in the original Pepsi Can livery. Approximate location. 18th December 1999.
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190129 4230397 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00093 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-93 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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267-25397 viewsOn approach to the 39 km Detector Site the Sundowner Special runs along the Newman Mainline behind BHP Iron Ore's Goninan rebuild CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' serial number 8151-07 / 91-120 with sister 5653 on the rear. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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190109 1454397 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, RHTY type tank waggon RHTY 653, one of fourteen such waggons built by Industrial Engineering Qld in 1976 for Victorian Railways as TWX type crude benzene tank 56,000 litres. Recoded to VTHX in 1979. After a period of storage ended up in National Rail ownership for Alice Springs traffic, now Pacific National ownership.
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210407 9872397 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRXY 9, platform 4 with an Austrans 40' 4EG1 type container AUSU 409608. The RRXY type 5-pack well waggon set is one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design.
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210407 9896397 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RQFY type flat waggon RQFY 99 is a VQFX type skeletal container waggon built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 in a batch of seventy five. Recoded to VQFY in 1985, then to RQFY in 1994, then National Rail RQFF in 1995.
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130710 1051397 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1, ABSY type covered van ABSY 2664, one of a batch of fifty made by Comeng WA as VFX type 75' covered vans 1977, recoded to ABFX then ABFY type, when Gemco WA upgraded it to ABSY type, seen here with the silver corrugated roof fitted.
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100603 8959397 viewsParkeston, SCT's 3MP9 service operating from Melbourne to Perth with EDI Downer built EMD model GT46C-ACe unit SCT 007 'Geoff (James Bond) Smith' serial 97-1731 leading SCT 002 and 74 waggons for 5674 tonnes and 1782.1 metres in length. 1336 hrs on the 3rd of June 2010.
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100603 9018397 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0155 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA in 2008, with Independent Brake signage.
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100603 9022397 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, ABSY type covered van ABSY 2501, originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA in 1972 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type recoded to ABFX and then RBFX before being converted from ABFY by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.
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127-21396 viewsDeer Park West, view looking to Melbourne at the start of the double track broad gauge, with the line to Boral Quarries on the right. This was a common ballast loading location in Melbourne for V/Line.
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132-34396 viewsNunga, location sign.
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131-2-05396 viewsBurraboi rice storage shed, bunker.
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140-1-21396 viewsBallarat North or C Signal Box, view of the interlocked gates for the grade crossing at Macarthur Street, looking towards Ballarat.
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150-30396 viewsLismore Victorian Oats Pool grain bunker and road transport discharge bay, looking towards Maroona.
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153-1-19396 viewsBacchus Marsh turntable view through deck.
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