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150523 8199711 viewsNelson Point Yard, with only another month to operate, BHP Billiton CM40-8M locomotive 5666 'Taranto' is a trailing unit as the loaded rake waits to head to the car dumpers for unloading. 5666 started life as a Comeng NSW built M636 ALCo 5487 before Goninan rebuilt it in 1995 to a CM40-8MEFI as it was the first unit to trial an electronic fuel injection system. Come the 1st of July 2015 all these units were all stored.
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204-03710 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, a Bowes Scott & Western Ltd of London jaw crusher.
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210-14710 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops track maintenance compound, Speno rail grinder model RR 28E, a twenty eight wheel grinder, this unit is very likely to have been originally used by Mt Newman Mining in the Pilbara in the 1970s. Even a 20 km remote railway requires a grinder! September 1995.
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213-28710 viewsWeipa, view of pilot on Comalco R 1004, Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT42C built 1990 serial 90-1277, note the difference this in freight only traffic to an V/Line N class pilot used in passenger service.
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216-13710 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, Australian National standard gauge light engines wearing the AN livery 700 class 705 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-3 and BL class leader BL 26 'Bob Hawke' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1010.
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216-15710 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, fuel point roads sees V/Line broad gauge N class locomotive N 473 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1202, resting after running the overnight passenger train 'The Overland' from Melbourne, and will return with the Melbourne bound service in the early evening.
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160128 00385710 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M 5660 serial 8412-05/94-151 surrounded by remains and sibling units.
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106-15709 viewsSeymour, rationalised yard, V/Line broad gauge T class T 400 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 67-495, stabled down Wodonga goods 9303, side view.
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106-27709 viewsSeymour loco depot turntable and pit, V/Line standard gauge Y class Y 102 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 63-292, turntable, gantry and pit, loco shed, rail tractor RT class and Aresco Trak Chief RT 46, wheel sets at right.
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194-28709 viewsYandi campsite for Henry Walker operated iron ore mine owned and managed by BHP, view of camp are from man cage on Kato 50 tonne hydraulic crane.
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213-33709 viewsWeipa, a loaded train from Andoom near Northern Avenue with Comalco R 1004 leading thirty three loaded waggons of bauxite.
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150505 7948709 viewsFMG Solomon Line track - rail detail, H VT 136 RE PG4 2010 XII, H for head hardened, VT for vacuum degassing, the diamond logo PZH indicates it is manufactured by Pangang Group Steel Vanadium & Titanium Co. Ltd, is 136 pounds per yard weight, RE meets AREMA (American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association) standards, PG4 indicates tensile strength of 1300 MPa, and a rolled date of 2010, December.
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109-22708 viewsViolet Town, V/Line broad gauge A class A 66 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1186 rebuilt from B 66 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-7 and N set work a down Albury passenger train along No.1 Rd, trailing shot, looking north.
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101-13708 viewsMaryborough, broad gauge V/Line VZMF type bogie ballast waggon VZMF 47, originally built by V/Line Ballarat North Workshops September 1985 as VHMY type VHMY 47, recoded to VZMF in 1988.
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192-12708 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot, class leader of the NSWGR 45 class 4501 an ALCo RSD-20 or DL-541 built by AE Goodwin in 1962 with serial 84143.
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203-30708 viewsWittenoom, town power station, still under operation by Horizon Power, formally Western Power and SECWA.
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210-10708 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops. Comalco shunt engine R 1003 coupled to a Difco side dump waggon. R 1003 is an Electro Motive built NW2 model with serial number 4114 and frame number of E761-8 was built in November 1946 at La Grange originally for Canadian National with road number 7943. Sold to Comalco in December 1975 and entered service in 1976. This unit was subsequently scrapped in 2000.
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051102 6623708 viewsThevenard, left hand side of Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit and class leader 1601, originally NJ 1 'Ben Chifley' serial 71-728, built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981, repainted and renumbered to 1601 in November 2004.
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150522 8194708 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M units lined up awaiting the chop, 5659, 5640, 5638, 5649, 5645, 5635, 5663, 5656, 5657, 5647 with 5646 out of view.
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104-10707 viewsBuangor station building overview, automatic staff exchanger set up, looking east, point rodding.
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