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190911 4749578 viewsPort Hedland, Broome Rd crossing, BHP's MM 800 track recording vehicle powers south on a recording run, the MM 800 was built by Mermec in Italy and is a ROGER 800 model, ROGER is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control.
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105-12577 viewsWallan, gangers trolley shed, north side elevation.
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126-20577 viewsBroadford Loop, loco failure, up standard gauge pass Melbourne Express, passengers detrained.
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186-11577 viewsMidland, standard gauge two car Prospector service to Kalgoorlie, train 4085 with motorised driving car WCA class 902 and driving trailer WCE class 921, these cars were built by Comeng NSW in 1971.
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186-22577 viewsBellevue, Westrail standard gauge light engine movement, train 168 stands in the flashbutt sidings prior to departure back to Forrestfield. Locomotive NB class NB 1873 Comeng built ALCo model CE618 serial WA-79 / C6099-3. This unit was originally a WAGR N class on narrow gauge, then reclassed to NA when fitted with air brakes in 1983, and then fitted with ex Mt Newman Mining ALCo M636 bogies in 1994 and classed NB.
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192-18577 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot, stored Craven Brothers of Birmingham England built 70 ton steam crane 1072 and match truck L 502, crane was built in 1929 as steam driven, since converted to diesel operation.
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205-01577 viewsRoebourne - Wittenoom Road, Chichester Downs, camp located 4 km east of Rio Tinto railway, sign says it all.
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205-11577 viewsWittenoom, Bee Gorge, rock carving.
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210-17577 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point track maintenance compound, sleeper handler crane and a sleeper scarifier - inserter beside it numbered R 4015, ballast waggon R 4003 in the background.
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030409 081001577 viewsWarramboo, cab side shot of rebuild DA class unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery shows its original heritage body style of an NSWGR 48 class 4813 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 83713, rebuilt by Islington Workshops SA with long hood and parts from former 830 class 870 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G6016-06 in 1998.
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030414 154434577 viewsPenong station name board on shelter shed. , last train in March 1997.
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150522 8156577 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the first batch of BHP Billiton Dash 8 locos to be scrapped, 5646 serial 8244-11/92-135 one of a pair of new Goninan WA built CM40-8 units has already had most of the hood removed and the V16 7FDL prime mover is visible, sister unit 5647 sit along side with the same fate coming up next.
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208-2-20577 viewsEast Perth Passenger Terminal, Westrail L class L 263 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 68-553 leads the Indian Pacific at the train's destination.
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160522 2030577 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RKCX type open waggon RKCX 1001, originally built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1974 as a member of the ELX type open waggons, in 1979 recoded to VOBX and then VOCX in 1980. To NRC in 1994, ROBX, then current code in 1995.
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160525 4863577 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1, crew accommodation coach QCBY 10, started life as Victorian Railways Newport Workshops 1952 build as AS class no. 15, first class air conditioned corridor car, then AS 210, BS 210 and BS 10. Sold to West Coast Railway, then RTS / Gemco and finally to Aurizon.
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242-19577 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5497 serial C6096-2 stands in the afternoon sunlight. May 2002.
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180616 1774577 viewsAt the 81 km on the Tom Price West mainline, Rio Tinto loco 8115 with serial 59107 a GE Erie built GE model ES44DCi from the 2nd order in Rio Tinto livery built in April 2008. 16th June, 2018.
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168-02576 viewsBank Box Loop, down broad gauge V/Line passenger service powered by rebuilt A class Bulldog A 62 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1183 rebuilt from B class B 62 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-3 with N set and D van at Ironbark Road grade crossing.
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187-10576 viewsMonkland, Gympie Queensland. VMO type molasses waggon VMO 33440 and two others. Originally built by Nippon Sharyo Nihon in 1965 as a batch of 200 VO type coal hoppers. Converted to VMO in 1994. GeoData.
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196-18576 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view from Joffre Creek looking at the power station generator hall, the Gorge Mine is located further up Wittenoom Gorge to the right towards Karijini National Park.
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