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060528 4614121 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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030406 110810121 viewsCoomunga, stabled on the siding, Transfield track machine ballast regulator. 6th April 2003.
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030406 114122121 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still wearing the former owner's AN livery, Australian Southern locomotive and NJ class NJ 4, Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C serial 71-731, cab side view with check letter B. 6th April 2003.
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030409 084719121 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 113015121 viewsDarke Peake, the end of the triangle looking west is in this cutting.
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030409 141406121 viewsWharminda, the engines 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4 shunt along the mainline with the loaded waggons.
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030409 145852121 viewsUngarra, located at the 108.1 km and opened in March 1913 as the temporary terminus till July 1913. Yard overview looking south from the goods and grain loop points, loading ramp can be made out in front of car, silo complex, station hut then the horizontal grain bunker on the right.
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060113 2450121 viewsThevenard, originally one of sixty two Kinki Sharyo built NH type waggons for the NAR in 1966 as NH 923, and recoded to ENH type ENH 23 in 1985, with hungry boards and access ladder intact. Exiting the Waratah Gypsum unloader and crossing Innes Avenue en route into the yard. 13th January 2006.
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060527 4097121 viewsScotia, AQCY 30214 container waggon, originally one of forty five built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WFX type, to WQCX in 1980. Carrying two COR type nickel residue containers with modified tops, COR 5885 and another.
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070527 9219121 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AZYF 933 is a CCE compressor waggon, originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB class in 1952-55 for Commonwealth Railways, converted to RGB type waggon, then re-coded to AOEF, then AOEY then finally AZYF.
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070527 9220121 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WOAX 33078 open waggon originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in a batch of one hundred WG type open waggons in 1966-67, recoded to WGX in 1969, in 1970 converted to WGS type for superphosphate traffic, in 1980 recoded to WOAX.
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070530 9512121 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AZVY type departmental wheel set carrier waggon AZVY 2829, built by Transfield WA 1976 for Commonwealth Railways as one of two hundred GOX type open waggons. Recoded to AOOX, then in 1992 modified to AZVY.
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070609 0186121 viewsMidland, AZDY 30719, 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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221-12121 viewsHardie Siding, with the switch now set for the siding, the empty train is reversing out back onto the mainline, the ore cars are Tomlinson Steel built bottom discharge units.
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160103 9836121 viewsLocated in the bush near Colonial Mill is this relic of a Fordson One Man Power Grader originally supplied by Lynas Motors Ltd. An old newspaper article on these graders can be found here . Geodata: -22.3057767 118.3247750 .
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150523 8215121 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0034 with safety slogan 'Thank Safe + Work Safe = Go Home Safe', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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232-05121 viewsYandi One balloon loop, mid-train remote units of train no. 1718 which is partway through loading, BHP Iron Ore unit 5659 'Kobe' serial 8412-04 / 94-150 leads cab-less unit 5665 'Rotterdam' serial 8412-10 / 94-156, both are Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units with 65 having an L on its' designation as cabless with LocoTrol. 3rd February 1997. GeoData.
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160523 3332121 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30060 with CSA 0084, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth. CSA 0084 is one of twelve units built by Acid Plant Management Services, WA in 2015.
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160526 5197121 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Melbourne bound intermodal train 4PM6 arrives with Binduli in the distance behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 71 serial 7250-01/97-273 and NR 12 serial 7250-02/97-214.
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160523 2720121 viewsParkeston, 1PM5 intermodal train, RRAY 7197 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, with two Toll 40' boxes, K+S Freighters 40' box and two 40' flatracks.
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