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060109 2116154 viewsKyancutta, ARG's Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C 1200 class unit 1204 serial 65-428 was originally built for the WAGR as their A class unit A 1514. Due to air-conditioning trouble it is in the shafts as they shunt across Museum Terrace to place empty grain waggons on the silo loop. 9th January 2006.
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130708 0706154 viewsPenong Junction, location opened in February 1966, located at the 429.7 km, looking at the Mallee shelter shed - combined train control room, junction points and point indicator, Penong line curving around to the left.
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060528 4443154 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, OPC 385, originally built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 as an 8300 class brake van numbered 8372 on broad gauge, to standard gauge and recoded in Sept 1982 to AVAY 385, converted to AZXP accident van in c1986 and then in April 1993 recoded to OPC.
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060528 4512 WTEY7317N154 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WTEY 7317 diesel fuel tank waggon, former NTAF in service for BP Oil, former AMPOL tank, coded WTEY when arrived in WA.
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060531 5075154 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 9220154 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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070529 9411154 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATTY 30675 fuel tank waggon, one of five built by AE Goodwin NSW in 1970/71 as WST class, recoded to WSTY and then ATTY. 78600 litre capacity.
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150523 8246154 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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236-07154 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Dash 8 class locomotive 5653 'Chiba', a Goninan 1994 rebuild to GE CM40-8M model, serial 8412-10 / 93-144.
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160601 10083154 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, diesel fuel tankers ATCY 8479 and 8476, built by Perry Engineering SA for Shell for use by South Australian Railways on broad gauge as Ts type, recoded to ATSL, original capacity of 48800 litres, current diesel capacity it 45000 litres.
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160528 8400154 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RQSY 34377 container waggon, built by Goninan NSW in 1974/75 as OCY type, with three 20' boxes, Toll NB 29117 small logo, Direct Logistics tanktainer DLGU 211253 and SCF side door SCFU 306104.
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160523 2717154 viewsParkeston, intermodal train 1PM5, RQSY 34458 container waggon, SCF 20' box SCFU 206934 and a Simon 40' FD type flatrack with Simon tarp.
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160523 2727154 viewsParkeston, 1PM5 intermodal train, RRXY 11 a 5-pack well waggon set, last of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design with a mostly Toll 48' stacked boxes.
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160523 2728154 viewsParkeston, 1PM5 intermodal train, RQZY 7047 one of thirty two 5-pack well waggon sets built by Goninan in 1995 for National Rail in 1995-96, with Toll and Sadleirs 48' double stacked containers.
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160522 2058154 viewsBinduli, 5MP2 steel train, view of locos and waggon RQCY 1005 originally built by Victorian Railways Ballarat Nth Workshops as part of a batch of seventy five in 1980 as VQCX type container waggons, here with SBIU 2108628 a specialised container for Keysight Technologies.
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160522 2332154 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train departing up the hill towards Kalgoorlie behind a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 105 serial 7250-08/97-310 and NR 113 serial 7250-09/97-312 in Pacific National livery.
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110709 7419 PD154 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQAY 2273, this orphan waggon started life as a Comeng Vic built GOX type open waggon for Commonwealth Railways in 1970, then coded AOOX. Under AWR ownership is was reduced to this 3 TEU unit container skeletal waggon. Peter Donaghy image.
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161111 2454154 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30096 loaded with two Cockburn Cement ITVU type 20' tanktainers IVTU 274016 and 274009. 30096 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 type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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110208 9437154 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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180616 1674154 viewsCooya Pooya, located just south of the 32 km post, a loaded Mesa A train waggon 817, a Centurion Industries WA build, has managed to pull the coupler completely out of waggon 425 a Tomlinson Steel WA built waggon. 16th June 2018. GeoData.
Photo by Roland Depth.
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