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189-06172 viewsThe Rock, located at the 550.29 km on NSW Main South line, station platform and building on the mainline looking north. Lines from right to left, Mainline, Up Loop, Up Siding and the Back Road is visible joining in from the left.
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189-12172 viewsThe Rock, located at the 550.29 km on NSW Main South line, view of the Oaklands branch line where it enters the yard onto the Up Loop, ground frame E and signal 07-12 provide the protection.
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140517-4362172 viewsMarble Bar, Prospector Creek, tin mine, near Fishers Cairn the area was a Tailings Lease #10 (87H) - FISHERS CAIRN held by Moolyella Tin Pty. Ltd in the 1960s, then a machinery lease in the 1970s. Remains of a dry tin concentrate plant. Location Here.
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196-14172 viewsYandi Two loaded car side of the loadout balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M or Dash 8 motive power in the form of 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 rebuilt by Goninan as GE model CM40-8M from ALCo M636C number 5480 and two new Goninan built GE CM39-8 units 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 and 5631 'Apollo' serial 5831-10 / 88-080 are the head end power with another two CM40-8M units mid-train. Train length is 240 waggons with a 120/120 split. Yandi Two ore stockpile and pedestal stacker boom tip visible in the background, the loadout operates via gravity and the train travels through a tunnel. May 1998.
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193-18172 viewsGympie station yard entrance where the single track junctions into three, looking north towards Gympie North in the Down direction from Tozer Street. GeoData.
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203-10172 viewsBing Siding, BHP General Electric built AC6000 class leader 6070 'Port Hedland' serial 51062 in the passing track as second unit on a Yandi empty working. The size of the BHP AC6000 model radiator is clearly evident here.
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205-18172 viewsWittenoom, top of Bee Gorge, Pope decided it was time for bacon and egg sangos, looking south, location is 22 17'46.38" S 118 15'50.08" E, 688 metres.
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206-08172 viewsCarawine Pool at Carawine Gorge, looking north.
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206-09172 viewsCarawine Pool at Carawine Gorge, looking north.
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208-1-19172 viewsEast Perth Passenger Terminal, a four car Prospector set awaits departure time to Kalgoorlie, a WCA class is closest to the camera.
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208-2-02172 viewsToodyay, emus at the Free Range Emu Farm.
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208-2-04172 viewsToodyay, emus at the Free Range Emu Farm.
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208-2-08172 viewsToodyay, emus at the Free Range Emu Farm.
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212-10172 viewsWeipa, a loaded train from Andoom Mine rounds the curve on approach to Lorim Point behind Comalco R 1004 Clyde Engineering EMD JT26C serial 90-1277 which is former Goldsworthy Mining loco GML 10.
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060116 2684172 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32408 with fleet number 937, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55, 16th January 2006.
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151111 9489172 viewsNear the 38 km post, an empty train lead by General Electric ES44DCi units 8160 and 8193 serials 60224 and 61852 and General Electric Dash 9-44CW 7074 serial 47743 on the Cape Lambert line.
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160101 9792172 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view inside the drive, mine adit no. 2. Geodata: 22°19'28.8"S 118°19'41.7"E .
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160103 DJI 0056172 viewsColonial Mill and mine ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. Concrete foundations remain of the once impressive crusher, mill, dryer and bagging plant. See images of the site intact here . Geodata: -22.3107510 118.3185928 .
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150523 8231172 viewsNelson Point Yard, view across BI-LO Crossing, a throw back to days that the supermarket was in fact a BI-LO, well before the current Woolworths, and Action before that. Dash 8 units in the yard, on the 5642 with the Steel Train and 5648 with another on a rake of index waggons. The 2 km post can just be made out at the third light pole from the right.
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150523 8234172 viewsNelson Point Yard, I Area, waggon scrapping by Sims Metal, a fork lift carries waggon no. 3340, one of 350 waggons built in Romania of which only about 60 made it into service, the rest rusting away in a caged embargo area out on the Broome Road until they were scrapped some years ago. There is a connection with these waggons and Lang Hancock and his former mine McCamey's Monster, now known as Jimblebar. 5665 looks on, its days also numbered.
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