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060111 2252143 viewsTooligie, Mac's Road grade crossing at the 110 km, ARG 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 leads an empty grain train north. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2415143 viewsCeduna, loaded gypsum train 6DD2 powers along the grades outside of town behind the triple 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604, NJ 3 and 1601 at 08:10 AM on the Friday the 13th January 2006.
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060113 2423143 viewsCeduna, loaded gypsum train 6DD2 stirs up the dust behind the triple Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 08:10 AM on the Friday the 13th January 2006.
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060527 4130143 viewsScotia, AQCY 30219 flat waggon, one of forty five waggons built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WFX type, recoded in 1979 to WQCX. Here carrying six loaded nickel ore kibbles.
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070609 0187143 viewsMidland, AZDY 30714, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted late 1988/9 to WQDF.
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100602 8668143 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATQF 612 diesel fuel tanker, Shell Fleet No. TR721, one of two such waggons built by Indeng Qld in 1982 for Shell as type WJQ with an original capacity of 79000 litres, current diesel capacity of 72000 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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191-19143 viewsKilmore East station environs, looking south, Signal Post 5 Up Home, UP special sleeper discharge train heading south with Signal Post 2 Up Starting visible in the distance, Down Refuge Siding on the right with Signal Post 4.
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222-03143 viewsAt the 105.7 km grade crossing near Gillam Siding, a loaded Yandi train approaches behind two General Electric AC6000 units built by GE at their Erie plant, BHP 6071 serial 51063 leads sister unit 6074, 6071 has not been named as yet. This road was also the original road into Lynas Find Gold Project, back in the day. GeoData.
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160101 9781143 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, concrete foundation and railway. Geodata.
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160101 9786143 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, view inside the drive, mine adit no. 5.
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160101 9805143 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, looking north, the line of the drive is visible and in the middle background is adit #6. GeoData.
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160102 9818143 viewsWittenoom Gorge, pool in Joffre Creek just across the road from Colonial Mine, Magazine Pool. Geodata.
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160102 DJI 0046143 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking north, tailings from Colonial Mine on the left, Magazine Pool on the right. Geodata.
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160102 DJI 0050143 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view of Magazine Pool with tailings to the left. Geodata.
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150523 8202143 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton SD70ACe unit 4368 is on the fuel tank shunt, is a unit from the last order of eighteen SD70ACe units for BHP Billiton built at Electro-Motive London Ontario, serial 20098203-013.
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160523 2925143 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214 and NR 51 serial 7250-08/97-253 lead the train 'elephant style' out of the dip and along the mainline at the 1776 km. The PN local is in the car at the gantry performing a roll-by, the track on the left is the Engineers Siding.
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160522 2152143 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, NQKY 34633 container waggon was originally built in a batch of two hundred CDY type open waggons by EPT (Electric Power Transmission) NSW between 1975 and 1976. Recoded to NOCY then modified in 1997 to NQKY. Loaded with a Pacific National 48' curtainsider container PNXM 5218.
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160601 10150143 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRYY 22 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated low profile skel waggon set, one of fifty two such sets built by Bradken Rail Braemar from a Williams-Worley design, based on the TNT TRAY type for moving automotive carrying containers, 46' RAND Refrigerated Logistics reefer RAND 262.
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050624 3350143 viewsGoldsworthy, train end and hand brake of 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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060414 3447143 viewsNelson Point yard, originally a Magor USA built ballast waggon for the Oroville Dam construction, 507 seen here modified as a weighbridge test waggon with an axle load of 20 ton.
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