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203-03592 viewsBing Siding, an empty train behind a pair of BHP General Electric AC6000 units 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 and class leader 6070 'Port Hedland' serial 51062 run around the passing track up to the departure signal.
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210-18592 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, observer's side of Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 while is sits at the fuel point, items of note are the second 'tropical roof', CCTV looking down the driver's 'off side' and the five chime horn cut into the hood. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like the WAGR L or VR C classes which are also GT26C models and the fire extinguisher cut in below the radiator.
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211-01592 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view from the top of the kaolin storage silos looking west at No.1 bauxite ship loader and the two tug boats. The unloading barge can be seen in the background in the Embley River.
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240-03592 viewsNelson Point, retired Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 sits with the hood removed exposing the ALCo 251F engine prior to removal and being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's Bassendean museum for preservation. 25th June 2002.
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180616 1881592 viewsWestern Creek, the train on the middle track lead by Rio Tinto loco 8153 with serial 58813 a GE Erie built GE model ES44DCi from the 4th order in Rio Tinto Stripes livery leading two Dash 9-44CW units in the Pilbara Rail livery with ROBE ownership markings with a loaded bound for Cape Lambert and running on the Western Creek West mainline at the 74 km with the bridges over Western Creek and the train stretching back up into Emu Siding. The track in the foreground is the mainline to Dampier with the line in the background the Western Creek East mainline to Cape Lambert. 16th June 2018. GeoData.
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153-2-01591 viewsBacchus Marsh, rear view of elevated signal box from car park.
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112-01591 viewsViolet Town broad gauge track view, looking north, up home semaphore signal post 3 pulled off for up passenger train, standard gauge line on right, March 1994.
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140517-4321591 viewsEginbah Siding area, of the Marble Bar railway, former locomotive watering stop alongside the Talga River (closed in 1951), view of concrete slab remains and the tanks, looking north east. Location here.
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196-03591 viewsYandi Two loaded car side of the loadout balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M or Dash 8 motive power in the form of 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 rebuilt by Goninan as GE model CM40-8M from ALCo M636C unit 5480 and two new Goninan built GE CM39-8 units 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 and 5631 'Apollo' serial 5831-10 / 88-080 are the head end power with another two CM40-8M units mid-train. Train length is 240 waggons with a 120/120 split. Yandi Two ore stockpile and pedestal stacker boom tip visible in the background, the loadout operates via gravity and the train travels through a tunnel. May 1998.
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030414 153925591 viewsPenong, yard view with the triangle east leg peeling off to the left as the goods loop curves to the right to re-join the mainline. The loadout leg for silo block 1 is on the right with the horizontal bunker behind.
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030414 154211591 viewsPenong, yard view looking west with the east leg of the triangle visible curving to the left, goods loop curving right to join the 'mainline' which is under the shrub.
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060108 2051591 viewsLock, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, final of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1514, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started on the Eyre Peninsula in August 2004.
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160530 9276591 viewsBinduli, 7SP3 intermodal service, RQHY 7006
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105-09590 viewsWallan, gangers trolley shed, front side elevation.
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177-01590 viewsTottenham Yard, side view of broad gauge Australian National AQDW type jumbo container waggon AQDW 4, loaded with two 2 TEU (two twenty foot equivalent unit) TNT containers, these waggons are 80 feet long.
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107-08590 viewsTongala station yard, goods platform and loading crane, looking south.
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107-13590 viewsTongala Nestle factory siding looking from station yard.
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100-24590 viewsRutherglen station yard overview, station building and platform, broad gauge track view looking towards Wahgunyah, High Street over bridge in distance, up home semaphore signal below, edge of yellow GY type four wheel open waggon at right.
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187-11590 viewsMonkland, Gympie Queensland. VMO type molasses waggon VMO 33440. Originally built by Nippon Sharyo Nihon in 1965 as a batch of 200 VO type coal hoppers. Converted to VMO in 1994. GeoData.
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140517-4326590 viewsEginbah Siding area, of the Marble Bar railway, former locomotive watering stop alongside the Talga River (closed in 1951), view of one of the pools water was drawn from, view looking north from the alignment over the river. Location here.
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