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211-05394 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, overview of the short lived Comalco Kaolin plant from the storage silos. The bauxite calcification plant is left of image.Oct 26, 2014
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211-04447 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view of the two loading conveyors running between the stockpiles and wharf, the kaolin loader in on the right hand side of the wharf.Oct 26, 2014
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211-03432 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point stockpile area viewed from the wharf. A stacker is at the end of the yard belt with the reclaim tunnel for the wharf just visible at the bottom of frame.Oct 26, 2014
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211-02416 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view from kaolin storage silos looking at the shiploading stockpile area of bauxite.Oct 26, 2014
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211-01440 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view from the top of the kaolin storage silos looking west at No.1 bauxite ship loader and the two tug boats. The unloading barge can be seen in the background in the Embley River.Oct 26, 2014
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211-00433 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view from the top of the kaolin storage silos looking north at the kaolin conveyor and ship loader, with red legs and the No.2 bauxite loader straight ahead in the cyclone tie-down position. The bauxite conveyors can be seen passing under the road.Oct 26, 2014
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211-0A419 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view from the top of the kaolin storage silos tanks looking north at the kaolin conveyor and ship loader, with red legs and the No.2 bauxite loader straight ahead in the cyclone tie-down position. The bauxite conveyors can be seen passing under the road.Oct 26, 2014
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210-25382 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, overview looking east, shunt loco EMD model NW2 R 1003 and Difco side-dump on the left, Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C R 1001 is at the fuel point. Workshop building at the right.Oct 26, 2014
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210-24274 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, view of compressor end of Comalco ore waggon 3002, shows compressor, fuel tank, controls and piping and bogie.Oct 26, 2014
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210-23290 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, side view of Comalco ore waggon 3002, shows handbrake, triple valve and piping, side piping and controls, bogies and discharge doors and air receivers, this is one of the compressor equipped waggons.Oct 26, 2014
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210-22315 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, side view of Comalco ore waggon 3002, shows handbrake, triple valve and piping, side piping and controls, bogies and discharge doors and air receivers, this is one of the compressor equipped waggons.Oct 26, 2014
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210-21310 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, rear view of Comalco ore waggon 3002, shows handbrake, triple valve and piping and air receivers, this is one of the compressor equipped waggons.Oct 26, 2014
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210-20346 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, Canron Rail Group Mk I switch tamper. Canron was taken over by Harsco in 1990-91.Oct 26, 2014
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210-19410 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, railway workshops, front view of Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 while is sits at the fuel point, items of note are the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also as the Weipa locomotives don't work in MU there is only the train brake hose and the main res hose for charging the belly dump discharge doors.Oct 26, 2014
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210-18446 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, observer's side of Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 while is sits at the fuel point, items of note are the second 'tropical roof', CCTV looking down the driver's 'off side' and the five chime horn cut into the hood. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like the WAGR L or VR C classes which are also GT26C models and the fire extinguisher cut in below the radiator.Oct 26, 2014
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210-17437 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.Oct 26, 2014
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210-16490 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point track maintenance compound, Aresco ballast regulator, rear view.Oct 26, 2014
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210-15767 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point track maintenance compound, the only ballast waggon in the rollingstock fleet is R 4003. Comeng Qld supplied a ballast waggon in 1971 (ordered in Feb 1971, delivered in Sept 1971), you can see the Comeng plate on the left hand end of the waggon frame, but this waggon does looks more like an American import.Oct 26, 2014
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210-13458 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, Comalco ore waggon 3089, 1 of 29 HMAS type built by Comeng Qld in 1974-76, behind it is car 3036 from the original order of 61 HMAS waggons also build by Comeng Qld in 1971-72, and now fitted with hungry boards.Oct 26, 2014
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210-14531 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.Oct 26, 2014
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