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060111 2295669 viewsLock, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004 with two ALCO units 850 and 905 drag their grain train over the grade past the location sign and down into Lock. 11th January 2006.
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112-10668 viewsViolet Town, looking north, V/Line broad gauge N class N 464 'City of Geelong' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1193 powers the up Albury passenger train across Cowslip Street past the station building and signal bay with semaphore signal post 9 on the platform, March 1994.
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210-14668 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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216-13668 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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060109 2118668 viewsKyancutta, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 as they shunt across Museum Terrace to place empty grain waggons on the silo loop. 9th January 2006.
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103-14667 viewsRutherglen station building rear overview, now restored and occupied by the local Lions Club.
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213-16667 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops building, looking south east at the rear of the building and yard. From the left, R 1003, waggons, R 1001 and the Canron Rail Group Mk I switch tamper.
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160128 00395667 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the remains of Goninan rebuild CM40-8ML (cabless, but cab fitted in 1996) 5664 serial 8412-09/94-155 hood and dynamic brake module.
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160128 00413A667 viewsView of the stripped out cab - drivers console of Goninan built CM39-8 unit 5631, serial no. 5831-10, builders no. 88-080.
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8335 roster rhs 040627 135444667 viewsNelson Point, Ex Southern Pacific SD40T-2 loco 8335 serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, this unit was purchased as a spares source for the other SD40 style units. The T signifies that it is a Tunnel motor with a modified radiator intake to allow 'cool' running through the Sierra Nevada tunnels. And the 'M' with a lighting rod through it meant that it was a master unit for radio controlled helpers, used in the Tehachapi mountains. 27th of June 2004.
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104-16666 viewsWallan, gangers trolley shed, front view from up line.
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160128 00393666 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, General Electric V16 7FDL-16 prime mover from CM40-8M 5664.
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107-05665 viewsKyabram track view, rails for Kyabram Fruit Packers siding, Kyabram Co-op Fruit Preserving Company on the right, looking towards Kyabram.
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112-06665 viewsViolet Town broad gauge track view looking north, station overview, staff exchange cabin and cover for ground apparatus, cabin used when signal box is switched out, searchlight signal post 7, station building and signal bay, semaphore signal post 9 on platform, March 1994.
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192-06665 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot, view across the turntable at roundhouse stalls 24 to 34 with 80 class ALCo CE615A 8045 in 25, and then ALCo RSD-20/DL-541 45 class units 4529, 4534, 4503, 4502, 4516 and 4540. The 45 class units are in the process of being sealed up for storage.
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203-30665 viewsWittenoom, town power station, still under operation by Horizon Power, formally Western Power and SECWA.
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160101 2299665 viewsWittenoom Gorge, location of former power station, shows old concrete foundations with tress growing through them, looking south west, geodata: -22.3222056 118.3328944 , iPhone 5S image.
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160128 00000665 viewsSee 5661 reduced to frame level in just over 7 minutes.
A 176 tonnes locomotive is no match for a 40 tonne CAT excavator with a T-Rex type hydraulic set of shears.
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150523 8199665 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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150523 8201665 viewsNelson Point Yard, parked beside the Locomotive Service Shop, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0035 with safety slogan 'Take time to work safety', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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