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153-2-04389 viewsBank Box Loop, broad gauge track view of signal gantry at Ballarat end, searchlight down home signals 32 for loop departures and 30 for mainline departures, looking towards Ballarat, train control phone booth at right, HK Holden framed under gantry.
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193-29389 viewsGympie yard, Queensland Rail's 1720 class locomotive 1752, built by Comeng Rocklea Qld for Clyde Engineering as EMD GL18C model in 1968 with serial 68-566.
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202-22389 viewsMeckering, manually operated goods loading crane, chain hoist, and loading ramp.
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205-31389 viewsKoodaideri, drive cut into side, early exploration, drive was dug by Umberto Favero, a long time Hancock employee and worker and caretaker of the Wittenoom mine and settlement, drive location is 22 31'48.36" S 118 59'58.08" E.
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206-32389 viewsAn empty train on the Yarrie (former Goldsworthy) line with a string of Golynx ore waggons, built by Goninan WA to a Lynx Engineering design, and then the two types of the waggons from the Phelps Dodge Copper Mine, the ribbed units are built by Portec USA and the smooth ones built by Gunderson USA. All of these are belly dump waggons as opposed to the BHP fleet of rotary dump bodies.
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030409 084719389 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 124410389 viewsRudall, located at the 172.7 km and opened in July 1913, station building view of the new one built in 1966.
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030409 124502389 viewsRudall, view across the mainline looking at the crew barracks built new circa 1960 with the remains of a standpipe, possible for watering ballast.
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191-02389 viewsWandong, O'Gradys Road, or Mathiesons Lane? grade crossing, near former Mathiesons Siding, UP Melbourne Express behind standard early 1990s V/Line G class power of Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT26C-2SS, G 521 serial 85-1234.
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191-17389 viewsBroadford, Smiths Lane looking north, UP special sleeper discharge train behind Victorian Railways liveried B class B 65 Clyde Engineering EMD ML2 model serial ML2-6.
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222-15389 viewsLalla Rookh gold mine head frame at sunset.
In the 1924 WA Mines Department report, it states there was a ten head battery and five cyanide vats for leaching located here GeoData.
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224-01389 viewsBing siding, the afternoon empty to Yandi was a staple of the AC6000 units when delivered, operating the train as a pair, 112 waggons, AC6000 and 112 waggons. 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie awaits the road to depart south with sister unit 6073. GeoData.
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150507 8100389 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bridge over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1842517 118.0346950 .
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150523 8236389 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton SD70ACe unit leads a rake towards the dumpers. Lead unit 4327 'Hamersley' is from an order originally being built by Electro-Motive, London Ontario for BNSF, an US class 1 railroad, but BHP secured 10 of them during construction, this unit 4327 serial no. 20066862-056 was destined to be BNSF 9185 before coming to BHP, passes SD70ACe unit 4368 on the fuel tank shunt, a unit from the last order of 18 SD70ACe units for BHP Billiton from Electro-Motive, London Ontario, serial no. 20098203-013.
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239-05389 viewsView from the radial stacker boom at Yandi One looking west, the rail loading balloon loop and dust extractor are visible at the bottom of the image and the mine waste dump is in the background. GeoData.
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160524 3735389 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train splits the outer home signal posts #4 and #6 as it arrives behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 101 serial 7250-07/97-303 and NR 105 serial 7250-08/97-310, originally built for National Rail now in current owner Pacific National livery.
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160526 5207389 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, NQOY 14929 container waggon, one of fifty units built by Comeng NSW in 1974-75 as OCY class, FCL 48' container FBGU 480308.
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160526 5247389 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, RQZY 7048 one of thirty two 5-pack well waggon sets built by Goninan in 1995 for National Rail in 1995-96, well contains a 40' RTP 4029 and a Linfox 53' box on top, DRC 448.
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160526 5251389 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, RQWW 22015 container waggon, one of thirty two built by Comeng NSW in 1973-75 as JCW class, recoded to NQJW with a Cahill 20' side door CHLL 200040, 20' open top Railroad Transport RTP 2011 and a Toll 40' half height curtainsider.
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160528 8333389 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 65 serial 7250-11/96-267, originally built for National Rail now in current owner Pacific National livery.
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