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226-29396 viewsShaw siding, the loaded train is winning the climb as second unit 5636 'Munda' serial 8151-11 / 91-122 another Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild assists in powering the train to port. GeoData.
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227-32396 views25 km signal location on the BHP Newman mainline. 25 S for south bound trains, the other signal is 25 N. GeoData.
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228-08396 viewsYandi Two mobile machine fuel point. A Caterpillar 16G road motor grader is receiving attention.
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150523 8202396 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton SD70ACe unit 4368 is on the fuel tank shunt, is a unit from the last order of eighteen SD70ACe units for BHP Billiton built at Electro-Motive London Ontario, serial 20098203-013.
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237-35396 viewsDugite Siding, empty train in the passing track behind the standard pair of Hamersley Iron General Electric model Dash 9-44CW units 7066 serial 47745 and 7076 serial 47755. Geodata .
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060110 2193396 viewsYeelanna, the second person watches 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 as it shunts forward to cut out the empty cars for the siding. Approx. location of image.
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160523 3328396 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30074 with CSA 0113, 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 to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth. CSA 0113 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160523 3612396 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30023 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0105, originally built by 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, part of loaded acid train 2406 arriving back in the yard. CSA 0105 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160531 9851396 viewsBinduli, 3PM4 steel train, RKLY 20970
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160601 10146396 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRZY 7008 platform 2 of 5-pack well waggon set, the prototype of the RQZY type, first of twenty six sets built by Goninan in 1995-96 for National Rail, later rebuilt and recoded RRZY, double stacked with a Linfox 40' half height side door container LSDU 694007 and Rand Refrigerated Logistics 46' 6" MFR1 type reefer RAND 260.
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160530 9122396 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, ABSY type covered van ABSY 4488, one of a batch of fifty made by Comeng WA as VFX type 75' covered vans 1977, recoded to ABFX type, when Gemco WA upgraded it to ABSY type, seen here with the silver corrugated roof fitted and the centre loading roof hatch.
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161109 1949396 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 52 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1971396 viewsThevenard, train 4DD4 rumbles across Bergmann Drive with lead unit Genesee & Wyoming locomotive Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C unit 1601 serial 71-728, 1601 was originally built as the class leader of the NJ class NJ 1 and name 'Ben Chifley' and after starting life on the Central Australia line was transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981.
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161111 2428396 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32160 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a Bis Industries roll-top 55UA type sulphur container SBIU 200601 and an undecorated Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur container BISU 100015.
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040815 171318396 viewsNelson Point, view of hand brake end of fuel tank waggon 0020, 82 kilolitre capacity built by Comeng NSW for BP as RTC 2, used by Mt Newman Mining, unsure when converted to 0020.
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050518 2179396 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 520, the last of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.
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050801 4765396 viewsFlash Butt yard, rail recovery and transport train, builders plate of 1st lead off waggon 6011, built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld on 04-09-1970.
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050522 2727396 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #17, 6016, built by Comeng WA in January 1971, also carries contract no. of 6506-016.
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060414 3440396 viewsNelson Point yard, originally a Magor USA built ballast waggon for the Oroville Dam construction, 522 seen here modified as a weighbridge test car.
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060429 3753396 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon 6704 flat waggon, unsure of history or who built it or where it came from, it looks to be heavy duty with riveted side frames and an odd handbrake arrangement.
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