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130705 0600258 viewsLock, down end looking up towards Port Lincoln with silo blocks #5 and #1 with loading taking place, the horizontal bunker #4 is on the left where the overhead augers are going. Loaded portion sitting on the mainline.
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130705 0537257 viewsLock, grain train loading in progress with the Viterra fast flow auger in the distance, the train with 1203, 846 and 859 is about to split and shunt half the consist onto the mainline. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 0580257 viewsLock, located at the 148.5 km and originally named Terre when opened in May 1913, later renamed to Lock in December 1921. From the left background is the Ascom silo complex (Block 5), then blocks 2, 1 and 3, the train is on the mainline with the horizontal bunker (Block 4) on the right. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 0599256 viewsLock, down end looking up towards Port Lincoln with silo blocks #5 and #1 with loading taking place, the horizontal bunker #4 is on the left where the overhead augers are going. Loaded portion sitting on the mainline.
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130705 0642256 viewsLock, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 68, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.
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130705 0643256 viewsLock, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 56, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.
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130705 0646256 viewsLock, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 59, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.
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130705 0647256 viewsLock, 859, 846 and 1203 shunt back into the yard, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 59, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.
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130705 0658256 viewsLock, 1203, 846 and 859 depart along the mainline for Port Lincoln with the loaded grain train.
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130705 0534255 viewsLock, cab and roof view of former Australian National narrow gauge 830 class locomotive 846, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model with serial 84715 built new for the SAR in 1963 and delivered to Adelaide Division on broad gauge, transferred to Tasmania on narrow gauge in 1982, then back to SA on standard gauge in 1989 and then Whyalla in 2008 on narrow gauge. In 2012 is was delivered to Port Lincoln, the last loco delivered to the Eyre Peninsula and wearing Genesee & Wyoming decals on former AN livery. 5th July 2013.
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130705 0535255 viewsLock, cab view through windows of former Australian National narrow gauge 830 class locomotive 846, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model with serial 84715 built new for the SAR in 1963 and delivered to Adelaide Division on broad gauge, transferred to Tasmania on narrow gauge in 1982, then back to SA on standard gauge in 1989 and then Whyalla in 2008 on narrow gauge. In 2012 is was delivered to Port Lincoln, the last loco delivered to the Eyre Peninsula. 5th July 2013.
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130705 0536255 viewsLock, side view of Genesee & Wyoming 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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130705 0614255 viewsLock, with loading finished, 1203 leads the final portion along 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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130705 0656255 viewsLock, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 59 with a crop growing on the waggon end, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.
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130705 0551254 viewsLock, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 39, originally an NHB type hopper NHB 1573 built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Fitted with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover. 5th July 2013.
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130705 0635254 viewsLock, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 27, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.
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130705 0538253 viewsLock, grain train loading in progress with the Viterra fast flow auger in the distance, the train with 1203, 846 and 859 is about to split and shunt half the consist onto the mainline. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 0598253 viewsLock, down end looking up towards Port Lincoln with silo blocks #5 and #1 with loading taking place, the horizontal bunker #4 is on the left where the overhead augers are going. Loaded portion sitting on the mainline.
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130705 0616253 viewsLock, with loading finished, 1203 leads 846, 859 and the final portion along 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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130705 0530252 viewsLock, cab view of 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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