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151206 9649512 viewsBoodarie, parked up in a parking bay just out of town on a Sunday awaiting delivery on the following day, on a Gavin Transport Drake float, BHP's new track recording vehicle which is a Mermec ROGER 800 imported from Italy. ROGER is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control.
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116-16511 viewsSpencer Street Station, view from the flyover looking down upon V/Line standard gauge G class locomotive G 521 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1234, view of radiator and cab aircon unit.
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119-07511 viewsNth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge light engines G class G 540 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1273 handing up the electric staff from Nth Geelong B, safeworking, point rodding, signal box.
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121-07511 viewsAlbury loco depot, V/Line standard gauge C classes C 504 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-827 and C 505 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-828, elevated 3/4 view.
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122-05511 viewsTraralgon loco depot, track to loco spiked normal, baulks on track, looking east.
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179-31511 viewsGheringhap, internal view of signal box showing the new from 1907 18 lever frame, installed following the removal of double line block to Bannockburn, 2 lever frame extension on the right installed from 1918, lever 11 is painted white, blocked and abolished from 1977. Similarly lever 3 have been removed, most likely when the Maroona line distant was converted to a home signal and signal post 6 was abolished in 1990.
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162-3-18511 viewsMelbourne Yard, Steamrail R class R 761 North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow, Scotland model Hudson serial 27051 reverses back to Spencer Street having run around the reversing loop, PTC Open Day.
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107-20511 viewsEchuca station yard view, Sidings B and cement siding, broad gauge V/Line Grain VHGF type bogie grain waggons, VHGF 405 built new in October 1984 by V/Line Ballarat North Workshops as a VHGY type, recoded in 1988.
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126-27511 viewsWallan Loop, standard gauge V/Line G class G 518 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1231 runs the Up Melbourne Express passenger train, crossing relief light locos in loop at Wallan, V/Line Clyde Engineering EMD G8B model Y classes Y 151 serial 67-571 and Y 102 serial 63-292 and G18B T class T 411 serial 68-627.
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142-2-20511 viewsWodonga loco depot, V/Line broad gauge shunting rail tractor RT class RT 47, long hood view, grounded B van, turntable behind tractor. RT 47 was built by Victorian Railways as an I type waggon I 7214 in September 1904, converted to IA in 1934, then Ballarat Workshops converted it into the underframe during July 1969 for RT 47.
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153-1-05511 viewsBank Box Loop signal gantry at the east end, looking towards Bacchus Marsh, relay room in the background, train control phone booth next to gantry, searchlight up home signals 10 for mainline departure and 12 for loop departure.
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195-22511 viewsWittenoom, view from above the Devil's Staircase of Colonial Mill and Mine with piles of tailings, milling site overview, looking south, railway workshops and underground offices are the higher buildings, then the primary crushing shed, holding silo, down to the mill and then the bag house and associated sheds, tailings line the gorge side.
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208-1-25511 viewsEast Perth Passenger Terminal, Westrail L class L 272 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 69-621 leads the Indian Pacific into the station.
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060108 2062511 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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060117 2711511 viewsBardoc, Q 317 leads the loaded Malcolm freighter train 2029, AQCY type container waggon with nickel residue container COR 5727. The AQCY type waggons were built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WFX type between 1969 and 1974.
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160103 DJI 0065511 viewsColonial Mill and mine ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. A number of mine adits or entry points are visible on this level along with the large amount of tailings, office structures and railway points and track visible. See images of the site intact here , 194-08 shows the sealed red entry point. Geodata: -22.314205, 118.317905.
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160103 DJI 0070511 viewsColonial Mill and mine ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. The large concrete area on the upper level is the former mining offices and railway workshops, a sharp eye will see the sealed mine entry with a red door. See images of the site intact here , 194-08 shows the sealed red entry point. Geodata: -22.3112605 118.3190326 .
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232-36511 viewsYandi One balloon loop cab-less BHP Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8ML (L for LocoTrol) 5665 'Rotterdam' serial 8412-10 / 94-156 in the mid train consist about to enter the tunnel on the 18th of February 1997. This loco was built cab-less to control remote consists and here is in use as a slave, being controlled by a unit with a cab. GeoData.
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237-11511 viewsA lunch break on the bank of the Shaw River, just north of where the Shaw Patch Creek joins the Shaw River. Geodata .
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160524 3622511 viewsBinduli, Sydney bound 2PS7 priority service train races along past the 643 km behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 113 serial 7250-09/97-312, originally built for National Rail now in current owner Pacific National livery.
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