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130705 0568353 viewsLock, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 49, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system. 5th July 2013.

130705 0590353 viewsLock, having stowed the loaded portion on the mainline, the three locos 859, 846 and 1203 shunt back on to the empty portion on goods siding #1.

130705 0628353 viewsLock, with loading finished, 1203 leads 846, 859 and the final portion out along the mainline out of goods siding #1 as it prepares to shunt back onto the loaded portion on the mainline for departure to Port Lincoln.

130705 0630353 viewsLock, the final loaded portion shunts up the mainline before rejoining the first portion sitting on the mainline in the yard, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 38, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.

130705 0632353 viewsLock, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 26, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.

130705 0662353 viewsLock, 1203, 846 and 859 depart along the mainline for Port Lincoln with the loaded grain train.

100609 09969353 viewsMidland, AQRY 1004 two-pack platform B loaded with two 20' CNC Line and Mediterranean Shipping 22G1 type containers carrying lead, CNCU 161438 and MSCU 132445. The AQRY are a bar-coupled pair and were used for rail transport as the AFRF type on the Darwin line and are originally former ANR-CR waggons.

227-20353 views30 km area on the Newman mainline, east of the original Quarry 1, an empty train powers along the gentle .17% rising grade behind a pair of Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild units and an General Electric AC6000. GeoData.

233-31353 viewsYandi Two loaded car side of load-out tunnel, 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. GeoData.

234-13353 viewsYandi Two, loaded BHP Iron Ore waggon #4316 a Goninan built flat floor 3CR12 style stainless steel construction from 1997.

235-29353 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.

160523 3587353 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WNB type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WNB 543, one of six built by Bluebird Rail Services SA in 2010 for BHP Billiton.

060530 4846353 viewsParkeston, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 2 'Great Artesian' on train 2PM9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 79, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 361. Recoded to AVDY in October 1982, then to AVDP. Sold to WCR, then in October 2000 overhauled for crew car use and coded VPAY 1 on SCT services and owned by Freight Australia. Was later sold to Pacific National and subsequently scrapped 2016.

161111 2521353 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30095 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0125, 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 type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.

050412 0753353 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 527, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.

050412 0758353 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA ballast waggon 512.

050518 2115353 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 746, rear view.

050518 2157353 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 501, the first of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.

050421 1613353 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's 24 stone rail grinder before they had id stickers fitted, this front unit was later stickered as RG 2, rear view of the driving cab on the third grinding module. 21st April 2005.