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030409 121232110 viewsKielpa, a few kilometres south of the former Konanda siding loaded grain train with 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, 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 with the first twelve waggons behind the locos XNW type powers away from a crew change.
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030409 135737110 viewsWharminda, located at the 140.5 km and opened in July 1913, yard overview looking south from the north end, horizontal grain bunker with concrete silo complex behind, loaded grain waggons awaiting pick up.
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030409 140809110 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 back into the grain loop to pick up loaded waggons.
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130705 0514110 viewsLock, grain train loading in progress with the Viterra fast flow auger in the distance, the train with 1203, 846 and 859 is about to split and shunt half the consist onto the mainline. 5th of July 2013.
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030409 130606110 viewsRudall, loaded grain train with 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4 past the old station building.
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060527 4111110 viewsScotia, AQNY 32208, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with two 20' hydrogen peroxide tank tainers, LOGU 953190 and LOGU 953195, train 6029 loaded Malcolm freighter.
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060531 5074110 viewsParkeston, OPC 381, originally built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1964 as an 8300 type brake van numbered 8365 on broad gauge, to standard gauge and recoded in Sept 1982 to AVAY 381, converted for LCL traffic Peterborough and Broken Hill in June 1987 as ABLP and then in April 1992 modified and recoded to OPC stores van.
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070527 9173110 viewsParkeston, AQCY 30214 container waggon, originally one of forty five built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WFX type, to WQCX in 1980 in Loongana Limestone traffic.
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221-17110 viewsHardie Siding, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild unit CM40-8MEFI 5669 the last Dash 8 rebuilt for BHP and one of four fitted with an EFI prime mover, serial 95-160/8412-02, passes the Hardie Station 71 location cases and continues on the mainline bound for loading at Yarrie.
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191-01110 viewsWandong, O'Gradys Road grade crossing, near former Mathiesons Siding, UP Melbourne Express hauled by V/Line G class.
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191-13110 viewsSeymour station, rationalised yard, V/Line broad gauge B class B 65 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial no. ML2-6 still in Victorian Railways livery on the head of a sleeper discharge train stabled in the yard.
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222-18110 viewsSomewhere on the original single line section between Gull and Rosella Hamersley Iron 7066 serial 47745 a General Electric Dash 9-44CW built by GE at Erie brings a loaded train to a stand with 7071 for a crew change.
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150523 8246110 viewsNelson Point Yard, loaded ore waggon 2330, a CNR built QRRS style waggon built in 2014 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 a replacement for an original Comeng built waggon. Capacity 138.4 T, Tare 21.6 T and Volume 62 m3.
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160528 8340110 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RRZY 7031, originally built by Goninan NSW during 1995/95 as part of thirty four sets of five unit bar coupled well container waggons coded RQZY, recoded to RRZY as repairs were carried out to strengthen them. Loaded with 48' containers, five for FCL FBCU conatiners and one Linfox DRC 931.
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160523 2716110 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 2108110 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, platform 4 of 5 pack Goninan built RRZY 7014 well waggon set, Scott's Refrigerated Railways reefer SRR 018 and FCL FCGU 9642534 container.
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161111 2459110 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon APNY 31164, one of four built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1978 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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161112 2975110 viewsBinduli, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029 runs through the dip behind Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT46C Q class unit Q 4009, (originally Q 309) serial 97-1462 as it passes signals 4 and 6 on approach to West Kalgoorlie.
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22708110 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin built ALCo model M636 5477 serial G6047-9 is undergoing rebuilding into a GE CM40-8M unit, it would emerge rebuilt in June 1993 as 5648.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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23714110 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin built ALCo model M636 unit 5473 serial G6047-5 being scrapped to frame level, cab section on truck. December 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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