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191-19123 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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222-17123 viewsSomewhere on the original single line section between Gull and Rosella Hamersley Iron 7071 serial 47750 a General Electric Dash 9-44CW built by GE at Erie brings a loaded train to a stand with 7066 for a crew change.
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150523 8247123 viewsNelson Point Yard, loaded ore waggon 0967, a CNR built QRRS style waggon built in 2012 out of T4003 stainless steel which does away with the need to paint the waggon interiors to prevent wear. The white circle around the corner from the number indicates the rotary coupler end, the number for this waggon also indicates it is filling a gap in the original waggon numbers. Capacity 138.4 T, Tare 21.6 T and Volume 62 m3.
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238-13123 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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160523 2716123 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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160523 2925123 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 2207123 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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160526 5306123 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PWWY type PWWY 0006 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with two 48' reefers, MFRG type former Wilmot Freeze Haul now SCF reefer SCFU 814059 and MFR3 type Rail Containers SCFU 811018.
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161112 2985123 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, close up of the filling / discharge valve assembly on AZKY type anhydrous ammonia tank waggon AZKY 32241, one of twelve waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as type WQK for Murrin Murrin traffic fitted with Bis INDUSTRIES anhydrous ammonia tank A3F.
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161112 2993123 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, AQNY type waggon AQNY 32209 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with original style sulphur container S20M G818 and Bis Industries roll-top 55UA type container SBIU 200617.
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050624 3350123 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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110208 9437123 viewsFlash Butt yard, one of a batch of six flat waggons converted by Mt Newman Mining workshops by cutting down a pair of ore waggons to make one flat waggon, 6101 in service with the rail recovery and transport train.
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19798123 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, former BHP Iron Ore Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5509, seen here stripped down to being an engine test bed, close up of front pilot. Sept 2003.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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20859123 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, sitting outside the locked gates having just been bought down from Port Hedland, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5454 serial G6012-3 on a ninety six wheel road float. 5454 will be rebuilt into CM40-8M unit 5641 by June 1992. Image taken January 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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20955123 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, sitting outside the gates waiting to head to Cape Lambert, Robe River Goninan GE CM40-8M rebuild unit 9411 serial 8206-02 / 92-125, retains its original Robe River road number on a hundred and twenty wheel road float. 9411 was rebuilt into the GE CM40-8M unit from AE Goodwin ALCo M636 serial G6060-2. February 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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030415 140558123 viewsKingoonya, located at the 426.5 km on the Trans Australian Railway, looking east from the western end of the 1800 metre long crossing location, interlocking hut with searchlight signal, solar array, point indicator and dual control point machine. The timber sleepers for the point work clearly evident, town off to the right. GeoData location.
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030415 141719123 viewsKingoonya, located at the 426.5 km on the Trans Australian Railway, looking south from the end of the sidings with cattle yards, power station and tank stand all in the distance. GeoData location.
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190107 0343123 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 0433123 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources Ltd MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00315 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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119-23122 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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