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139-11127 viewsBallarat yard, semaphore and disc signal Post 11 with rear facing semaphore signal post 9B, the top left hand Arm is the Down Home to Post 21 for No. 1 Road and is pulled off for an arriving passenger train. Top right hard Arm is the Down Home to Post 23 for No. 3 Road, bottom right Arm Down Home to Post 20 for No. 4 Road. Discs are all From 'U', top left to Car Sidings, centre left Disc towards Post 21 for No. 1 Road, bottom left Disc towards Post 22 for No. 2 Road, top right Disc towards Post 23 for No. 3 Road, centre right Disc towards Post 20 for No. 4 Road and the right bottom Disc to No. 5, 6 or 7 Roads.
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189-31127 viewsAlbury yard view, double NSWSRA 81 class locomotives 8178 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1097 and 8170 serial 85-1089 wearing the candy livery on the point of an Victorian bound goods train, stabled locos stand in the depot to the right of the train.
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207-27127 viewsHardie Siding, BHP unit 5669 'Builen' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 is the highest numbered CM40-8MEFI rebuild by Goninan in the BHP roster, leading an empty train as it takes the passing track to effect a cross.
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160101 9776127 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, mine drive adit No.6 concrete entry structure. Geodata.
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160102 DJI 0037127 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking north west over the remains of the footings and slabs of the Gorge Mine location. Geodata.
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237-24127 viewsTambrey Station ruins. Geodata . More information can be found here .
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160523 2722127 viewsParkeston, 1PM5 intermodal train, RRXY 4 a 5-pack well waggon set, one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a motley load of double stacked boxes off all decrees.
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161111 2408127 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32172 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with an original style sulphur container S11N 911 with original style door and sliding tarpaulin and a Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur container BISU 100063.
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040419 102228127 viewsAbydos back track, riveted flat waggon 202 with three water tanks fitted, 3/4 view from non-handbrake end, shows access ladder profiles, originally part of the 'camp train', modified by Mt Newman Mining railway workshops.
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040616 162154127 viewsNelson Point, the Sundowner coach, originally built by E. G. Budd in 1939 numbered 301 as the Silver Star as a diner-parlour-observation coach on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's General Pershing Zephyr train from the 1930s and 1940s. Donated to Mt Newman Mining Co. by AMAX an original joint venture partner to commemorate the projects first 100 million tonnes of iron ore railed between Mount Whaleback mine and the Port Hedland port.
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060714 6813127 viewsHesta Siding, view from the rear of the rail recovery and transport train as it snakes around the curves. Crib waggon 665 a former Magor USA built ore waggon, heavily modified by Mt Newman Mining workshops and fitted with an ATCO donga.
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170726 9430127 viewsRedbank, a loaded BHP iron ore train from Yandi arrives into Nelson Point yard on the west mainline with mid-train remote units built by Progress Rail as SD70ACe unit 4377 serial 20108424-004 leading an SD70ACe/LC unit 4345. 26th July 2017.
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170726 9461127 viewsBoodarie, a loaded FMG iron ore train round the large curve at the 5 km as the train is passing under the Great Northern Highway behind Progress Rail Muncie USA built SD70ACe/LCi unit 717 serial 20118693-009 and sister 718 as they head for the car dumper unloading balloon loops. 26th July 2017.
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20846127 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, newly completed BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M rebuild unit 5637 'De Grey' serial 8181-01 / 92-123 sits on a Bell road transport float bound for Port Hedland. 5637 was rebuilt from AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5456 serial G6012-5. January 1992 image.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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22473127 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Robe River's Comeng NSW built ALCo model M636 9422 serial C6103-2 is undergoing rebuilding into a GE CM40-8M unit, it would emerge rebuilt in March 1993. Image September 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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040413 165913127 viewsNelson Point, ore waggon bogie, Bradken cast SSRC bogie which stands for Super Service Ride Control.
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190107 0425127 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources Ltd MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00113 built by CSR Yangtze Co China in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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150619 9157127 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machines BR 33 and Tamper 3 both Plasser Australia units, BR33 is a ballast regulator model SSP302 serial M486 while Tamper 3 is a model 09-3X serial M480. 19th June 2015.
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151206 9652127 viewsBoodarie, parked up in a parking bay just out of town on a Sunday awaiting delivery on the following day, on a Gavin Transport Drake float, BHP's new track recording vehicle which is a Mermec ROGER 800 imported from Italy. ROGER is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control.
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200914 7755127 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, 5450 a USA built EMD model F7A serial 8970 and frame 3006-A9, built Jan-1950 for Western Pacific Railroad as 917-A, imported for the Mt Newman Mining Co. to construct their Port Hedland to Newman railway in December 1967. Donated to the Society in 1978. 14th September 2020.
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