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060111 2250142 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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060527 4102142 viewsScotia, AQNY 32176, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S199A with original style door and modified top with tarpaulin lashed to sides, and S106L with original door and slide top tarpaulin on train 6029 loaded Malcolm freighter.
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070529 9417142 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATKY 516 fuel tank waggon built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1971 along with sister 515 for BP Oil as WJK type 93,000 litres three compartment and three domes, recoded to WJKY.
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160101 9804142 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, looking north west, at the old waggon dump area and workshops. GeoData.
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150508 8111142 viewsFMG Solomon Line, empty train lead by triple combination of General Electric Dash 9-44CW 004 serial 58181, EMD SD90MAC-H 916 serial 976833-22 and EMD SD70ACe 710 serial 20118693-002 power through the hills around the Bea Bea Creek area. Geodata: -22.0528200 118.7132450 .
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150523 8232142 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.
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238-13142 viewsNelson Point, ex Southern Pacific tunnel motor locomotive 8335 an EMD SD40T-2 unit, serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, purchased as a spare parts source for the other SD40 style units BHP Billiton purchased in 2003/04. 19th November 2003. Geodata .
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060110 2167142 viewsCummins, view across Railway Terrace of empty grain train runs into the yard along the mainline having completed its' shunt behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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160524 3620142 viewsBinduli, Sydney bound 2PS7 priority service train races along past the 643 km behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 113 serial 7250-09/97-312, originally built for National Rail now in current owner Pacific National livery.
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160523 2716142 viewsParkeston, intermodal train 1PM5, RQFY 80 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFY c1985, then RQFY May 1994, May 1995 to RQFF, then 2CM bogies fitted in Aug 1995 and current code Feb 1996. Royal Wolf 20' box RWTU 969778 and a 40' FD type flatrack with Simon tarp.
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160522 2337142 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, Pacific National crew accommodation coach BRS 222, built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in 1952 as AS 16 First class, to BRS 2, BS 222, current.
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160522 2205142 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0010 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with a 48' SCT reefer SCTR 215 and a 48' MFG1 unit SCTDS 4852.
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WTT West 1982-10-31142 viewsWorking Time-Table Western and South Western Districts, 31st October 1982, complete 179 page PDF download, 11 MB.
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170728 09716142 views38 km on approach to Harding Siding an empty train rounds the curve under the Water Corp pipe bridge lead by Rio Tinto stripe liveried unit 8147 serial 58728 an General Electric built ES44DCi unit with a sister unit 8149 sandwiching 7065 a Dash 9-44CW unit. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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030415 135552142 viewsKingoonya, located at the 426.5 km on the Trans Australian Railway, looking west at the timber section that carries the points or turnout and the concrete sleepers can be seen starting again. GeoData location.
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240-08142 viewsNelson Point, retired Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 sits awaiting its engine removal prior to being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's Museum at Bassendean, Perth for preservation. 25th June 2002.
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190107 0422142 viewsParkeston, builders plate of Mineral Resources MRL class loco MRL 002 'Spirit of Yilgarn' with serial R-0113-03/14-505 a UGL Rail Broadmeadow NSW built GE model C44ACi in 2014 stands in the Engineers Siding.
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190107 0424142 viewsParkeston, UGL plate on Mineral Resources MRL class locomotive.
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151206 9650142 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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119-23141 viewsMaribyrnong River bridge, signal post 162, Australian National broad gauge locos BL class BL 29 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1013 and 700 class 703 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500G serial G6059-1 working down Adelaide bound goods train 9145 across the river.
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