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226-34404 viewsShaw siding 219 km, 5656 'Keihin' serial 8412-01 / 94-147 is the lead or controlling remote on the mid-train pair of units, the vinyl windscreen protectors are fitted to the windscreens, note the large flat fuel tank indicating these two units were Comeng NSW built ALCo's. GeoData.
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229-17404 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking at the exit portal of the tunnel as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 and sister 5642 drag a loading train at 1.2 km/h, the red and amber lights control entry to the tunnel and the steel pipe is for dust extraction. GeoData.
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151111 9547404 viewsSide view of empty train led by General Electric ES44DCi units 8162 serial 60226 and 8167 serial 60231 both in the Rio Tinto tiger strip livery leading Dash 9-44CW 7093 serial 47772, the last of the original build of Dash 9 units at the 53 km.
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150523 8215404 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0034 with safety slogan 'Thank Safe + Work Safe = Go Home Safe', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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238-09404 viewsPort Hedland Harbour, heavy lift ship Happy Buccaneer (IMO: 8300389) sits at Finucane Island D Berth delivering a new shiploader for BHP Billiton. 1st November 2003. Geodata . Back in time here the ship cranes were only 550 tonne each, these are now 700.
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060110 2202404 viewsYeelanna, yard overview as ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 stands with a rake of waggons into the grain siding with the 5 ton crane also visible as the locos are cut off with the remainder of the train holding the mainline. Off to the right is the former triangle. Approx. location of image.
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060110 2236404 viewsLock, grain train loading underway behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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160523 2795404 viewsParkeston, APKY 30642, one of two built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as WK type pneumatic discharge bulk cement waggon.
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160523 2796404 viewsParkeston, APKY 30641, type leader of two built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as WK type pneumatic discharge bulk cement waggon.
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160523 2798404 viewsParkeston, APKY 30642, one of two built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as WK type pneumatic discharge bulk cement waggon.
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160523 3575404 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 524, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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160601 10073404 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, APTF type diesel fuel tanker ATPF 582, Shell Fleet No. 694, built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1976 for Shell. Converted to narrow gauge 1986 and recoded JPC. Capacity now 80,500 litres.
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160525 4533404 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RQSY 15042 container waggon, one of seventy built by Comeng NSW in 1974-75 as OCY type, to NQOY type, then NQBY, 48' Toll box TDDS 48645.
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160528 8416404 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RRZY type five unit bar coupled well container waggon set RRZY 7016 platform 2, originally built by Goninan in a batch of twenty six RQZY type for National Rail, recoded when repaired. Railroad transport 40' 4FG1 type container RRTU 004070 double stacked with Royal Wolf 40' curtain sider container RWTU 903061.
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160528 8432404 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RQZY 7054 platform 5 of five unit bar coupled well container waggon set built in a batch of thirty two by Goninan NSW in 1995/96, loaded with an unmarked 40' 4EG1 type container RTPU 4018 double stacked with a GENSTAR 40' reefer container GCEU 666489 with Cooltainer decals.
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160523 2977404 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRGY 7142 platform 3, RRGY type is a 5-pack articulated skeletal container waggon, one of fifty originally built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and recoded to RRGY. Loaded with a Pedemonts 40' 4EG1 type container PHR 419.
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160523 3021404 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRAY 7167 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000 with a PN 40' curtainsider PCWU 000075[5].
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160609 0437404 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RRAY 7179 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, with two 20' box, SCF 2NG2 type side door SPDB 202203[7] and Linfox 2EG9 type FSWB 9635254.
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051101 6470404 viewsParkeston, South Spur Rail AVDP type crew accommodation coach AVDP 277, built for the Commonwealth Railways by Comeng NSW as a brake van with sleeping accommodation as HRD type HRD 277 in 1971, modified for relay working in 1977, recoded to AVDY in 1983, then in 2002 leased for MurrayLander service before being sold to South Spur Rail and in this livery from mid 2005.
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051103 6702404 viewsSpencer Junction yard, ECA 162 built by Comeng NSW in 1964 for Commonwealth Railways as a BRE type second class, air conditioned, twin berth staggered corridor steel sleeping car BRE 162. Converted to ECA type crew car in 1991. Seen here under GWA ownership on loan to Pacific National and in use on East-West freighters. Finally it was scrapped at Dry Creek in December 2014.
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