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211-30114 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point overview looking south east from the kaolin loader at no. 2 berth showing berth construction, tug boats, no. 2 bauxite 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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216-20114 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, view looking north as a track tamper arrives into Dry Creek Yard.
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220-19114 viewsTomlinson Steel WA built bottom discharge ore waggon 8115 loaded in the consist of a Yarrie train.
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060528 4614114 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31395 is one of a batch of twenty five built by Comeng WA between 1974 and 1975 and converted from Mt Newman high sided waggons by WAGR Midland Workshops with a capacity of 67 tons with fleet number 325 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations. This waggon was also converted to a WSM type ballast hopper by re-fitting the cut down top section and having bottom discharge doors fitted, converted back to WOB in 1997, and this is the first one to be repainted in ARG yellow and stands out against the newer style WOE type waggons as this empty train runs past the 628 km west of Bonnie Vale, 28th May 2006.
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030409 084713114 viewsKyancutta, XNW type bogie grain hopper waggon XNW 12 on the rear of a string of twelve such waggons, Comeng Qld built XNG type bogie waggon for Norseman Goldmines NL, then WAGR owned and coded XNA then in 1994 converted to XNW grain waggons. They arrived on the Eyre Peninsula system from 2001.
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030409 084552114 viewsKyancutta, empty grain train runs through the yard behind rebuild DA class unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery leading a pair of AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 830 class units 872 and 871 with a string of grain waggons.
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030409 110610114 viewsCaralue, loaded grain train working south of the former station site 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, it leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4, rebuilt from 830 class unit 839 by Port Augusta Workshops, retains original serial 83730 and model DL531 and two XNW grain waggons.
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060109 2107114 viewsKyancutta, Kyancutta Tanks Rd grade crossing, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 lift the empty north bound grain train away from crew change. 9th January 2006.
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060111 2260114 viewsTooligie, 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 and its grain train. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2425114 viewsCeduna, class leader of the NJ and now 1600 class 1601 and formally NJ 1 'Ben Chifley', a Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model serial 71-728, built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981, in current owners livery.
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060527 4130114 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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060527 4131114 viewsScotia, AQCY 31014, one of eighteen WFA type container waggons built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1981, recoded in 1989 to WQCY, then RHQY in 1994 and back to WQCY in 1996. View of number board and bogie in nickel ore kibble service.
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060602 5164114 viewsMidland, AQNY 32169 and 32172 are two of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, on an empty up Malcolm freighter with empty sulphur bins.
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191-15114 viewsDysart, near School House Lane, V/Line broad gauge B class B 65 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial no. ML2-6 still in Victorian Railways livery speeds past with an UP special sleeper discharge train on a Sunday.
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160101 9768114 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Joffre Creek, Fourth Crossing Pool view of the western wall gorge, via Bolitho Road. Geodata: -22.2804483 118.3212850
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160102 DJI 0041114 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view looking south west over the Gorge Mine location with drive visible on the right, foundations of workshop visible in middle. Geodata.
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160102 DJI 0052114 viewsWittenoom Gorge, view of Magazine Pool with tailings to the left. Geodata.
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208-2-24114 viewsMidland, The York Jazz Festival special train pulls away from the platform behind Westrail DA class unit DA 1571 a Clyde Engineering EMD G26C serial 72-758.
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160523 2724114 viewsParkeston, 1PM5 intermodal train, RRZY 7044 one of thirty two 5-pack well waggon sets built by Goninan in 1995-96 for National Rail, originally coded RQZY, with all sorts of containers.
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160522 2207114 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0034 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with a 48' MFG1 SCT unit SCTDS 4802 and a 40' 4EG1 Cronos unit CRTU 092400.
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