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060111 2355427 viewsKyancutta, 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.
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060111 2366427 viewsKyancutta, ARG 900 class unit 905, originally built by AE Goodwin as 830 class unit 836 serial 83727, converted to DA class DA 6 by Australian National at Port Augusta workshops for driver only operation in 1996. Trailing unit in a north bound grain train. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2557427 viewsCharra at the 466.2 km, Mallee style shelter building. Opened with the line on 13th February 1966 as a goods siding, reclassified as passing siding and extended, new goods loop siding constructed May 1982. 13th January 2006.
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130703 0137427 viewsMurdinga, overview of the south end of the complex with the horizontal bunker and eight cell concrete silo structure. Geo location. 3rd July 2013.
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130704 0398427 viewsKyancutta, HBN type dual use ballast / grain hopper waggons, HBN 8 with side gangways removed. One of seventeen built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 with a 25 ton capacity, increased to 34 tons in 1974. HBN 1-11 fitted with removable tops and roll-top hatches in 1999-2000.
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130704 0505427 viewsMoule, view looking east from the eastern end of the crossing loop with the point lever and indicator. The small 30 sign is the speed limit, the grade crossing is to access the ballast stockpile area. 4th July 2013.
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130705 0529427 viewsLock, 1203, 846 and 859 shunt their loading grain train out of the siding onto the mainline. Genesee & Wyoming locomotive AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 unit 859 'City of Port Lincoln' serial 84705, built in 1963, 859 started life at Peterborough, spent some years in Tasmania and even spent time in Perth on standard gauge in 2002 before being repainted and transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 2003. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 0625427 viewsLock, with loading finished, 1203 leads 846, 859 and the final portion out along the mainline out of goods siding #1 as it prepares to shunt back onto the loaded portion on the mainline for departure to Port Lincoln.
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130708 0764427 viewsCharra, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 22 W, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.
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130708 0796427 viewsCharra, crossing loop, 466.2 km.
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130708 0863427 viewsThevenard, view of arriving loaded train from inside the yard.
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130708 0919427 viewsThevenard originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 52, with hungry boards still fitted, loaded with gypsum crossing Bergmann Drive grade crossing, 434.2 km.
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130708 0961427 viewsThevenard,
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070608 0082427 viewsMidland, WGL 632 originally one of three units built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1976-7 as WGL type bogie flat waggon for Western Mining Corporation for bagged nickel matte traffic.
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070608 0102427 viewsMidland, AZDY 30757, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted late 1988/9 to WQDF.
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100602 8786427 viewsParkeston, APNY 31157 one of twelve units built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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100609 09967427 viewsMidland, AQRY 1009 two-pack platform B loaded with two 20' CMA CGM 22G1 type containers carrying lead, ECMU 172883 and ECMU 149454. The AQRY are a bar-coupled pair and were used for rail transport as the AFRF type on the Darwin line and are originally former ANR-CR waggons.
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100609 09996427 viewsMidland, ATPY 585 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1976 with 586 for Mobil and coded WJP type, recoded to WJPY, sold to BP Oil in 1985, 80,000 litres one compartment one dome.
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100611 0339427 viewsMidland, AOXY 33007 open waggon, converted to carry nickel matte bulk bags similar to the WGL type traffic, AOXY 33007 was originally built by WAGR Midland Workshop between 1966-67 as one of a batch of one hundred, was recoded to WGS for superphosphate traffic 1969-70.
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051101 6484427 viewsParkeston, AHBY 0003 one of sixty five AHBY type ballast hoppers built by EDI Rail at their Port Augusta Workshops for ARG in 2001-02 for the Darwin line, also the FMG construction in 2008, here in limestone quarry products service.
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