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211-35341 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point overview of no. 2 bauxite berth looking south east, tug boats, no. 2 ship loader and the TNT Capricornia, a coal fired 75,500-dwt bulk carrier built by Italcantieri for TNT Bulkships trade run between Gladstone and Weipa.
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030406 110810341 viewsCoomunga, stabled on the siding, Transfield track machine ballast regulator. 6th April 2003.
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030409 122852341 viewsKielpa, the tail of the loaded grain train running along the mainline looking south.
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130708 0706341 viewsPenong Junction, location opened in February 1966, located at the 429.7 km, looking at the Mallee shelter shed - combined train control room, junction points and point indicator, Penong line curving around to the left.
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191-16341 viewsBroadford, High Street over bridge looking north, UP special sleeper discharge train behind Victorian Railways liveried B class B 65 Clyde Engineering EMD ML2 model serial ML2-6.
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150507 8100341 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bridge over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1842517 118.0346950 .
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160523 2726341 viewsParkeston, 1PM5 intermodal train, RRZY 7022 one of twenty six 5-pack well waggon sets built by Goninan in 1995-96 for National Rail, with mostly 48' containers.
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160523 2941341 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRGY 7128 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of fifty originally built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1996-97 as type RRBY, later rebuilt with 48' intermediate decks and coded RRGY, 40' deck with two 20' containers ADLU 203738 and NWSU 9204.
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160522 2237341 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, ABSY type ABSY 2490 covered van, originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA in 1972 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type recoded to ABFX and then RBFX before being converted by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.
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160524 3666341 viewsKalgoorlie, SCT train 2PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, CQWY type CQWY 5007-1 with an SCT 48' reefer SCTR 318 and SCT 48' MFG1 type box SCTDS 4851. The CQWY was built by Bluebird Rail Operations in South Australia in 2008 as a batch of sixty pairs.
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160526 5300341 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0068 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014 without the Greater Freighter signage.
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5945 001 Welshpool 1987April341 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining C636 ALCo unit 5453 serial G6012-2 built by AE Goodwin in 1969 is undergoing a world first as it gets rebuilt into a GE C36-7M locomotive. In this April 1987 view the process has started with the bogies and fuel tank removed. By February 1988 it would be the final C36-7M built for Mt Newman Mining as 5513. April 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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030415 171548341 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking east along the Central Australian line at the western yard limit and radio channel change boards, Trans Australian line is on the right. Tarcoola is the junction for the TAR and CAR railways. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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030416 094500341 viewsWirrida Siding, train control phone booth 'pillbox'. Located at the 641 km from the 0 datum at Coonamia and 137 km north of Tarcoola between Carnes and Manguri on the Tarcoola - Alice Springs line. GeoData location. 16th April 2003.
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040407 075405341 viewsMooka Siding, north end looking north, 31.4 km showing the standard layout of the track when it was single track with passing sidings, MAN 4 on the left is the mainline departure and MAN 6 in the passing track departure, all LED type. The DED 'dragging equipment detection' bars are visible along with the arrival signal and relay room. 7th April 2004.
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6979 001341 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. New bogie and traction motor for the GE CM39-8 units.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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080621 2799341 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machine BR 34 a Plasser Australia unit model 305 serial M490. 21st June 2008.
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080116 1364341 viewsChapman Siding at the 69 km on FMG's under construction line to Cloud Break mine, new waggons stabled in the passing track awaiting service, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007, here slave waggon 1395 and master waggon 2396 sit in the arvo sunlight. The yellow circle indicates the rotary coupler end and the tare weight of the slave waggon at 22.6 tonnes, while the master weighs 22.9 tonnes as it hosts the brake control equipment. 16th January 2008.
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200914 7779341 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, former Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates RSC-3 model ALCo locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1951 for NSWGR as the 40 class 4002 serial 77733, purchased by CRRIA in 1971 and numbered 261.002, then 1705 and finally 9405. 4002 is preserved in an operational state and another claim to fame is it run the Royal Train in NSW February 1954. Donated to the Society in 1979. 14th September 2020.
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200914 iPhone IMG 8830341 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, in this panorama image you can see from the left, the PWD crane, waggons and Simplex loco from Point Samson, a couple of ALCo engines, the Locotrol 'cab'; off of BHP 5663, the ALCo S2 Hamersley Iron 007 'Mabel', ALCo C415 demonstrator Hamersley Iron 1000, former NSWGR ALCo RSC-3 Robe River Iron Associates 9405 renumbered to 4002, English Electric ST95B Goldsworthy Mining 1, ALCo M636 BHP 5502 and EMD F7A Mt Newman Mining 5450. 14th September 2020.
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