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194-08792 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, sealed up main mine adit or entry point, safety statistic board on the left, this was one of the main drives for the Colonial Mine. A couple of historical images can be seen here: SLWA image b4232624_9 and here: SLWA image b1923178_1.
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194-10790 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view looking south past the underground mining and railway offices with the track running towards the workshops.
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194-13790 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, railway workshops with 4 loco storage roads and an inspection pit, the raised ramps are for removing the battery modules off the locomotives, looking south. Tailings in the background.
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150505 7976790 viewsFMG Solomon Line, waggon pair 3005 and 4006, built in 2009 by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co. Ltd, loaded with fines ore. Geodata: -22.0187350 118.5850917 .
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106-28789 viewsV/Line broad gauge N class N 457 'City of Mildura' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 85-1225 leads a down Albury passenger train with an N set.
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150505 7956788 viewsFMG Solomon Line, a pair of General Electric Dash 9-44CW locomotives 005 serial 58182 and 006 serial 58183 struggle upgrade with a loaded train at the 227 km bound for Port Hedland, the train is being assisted in the rear. Geodata: -22.0189283 118.5861050 .
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213-08782 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view of the handbrake end of an HMAS type ore waggon one of thirty such waggons built by Industrial Engineering in Qld in 1978 in aluminium, the red triangle is the end of train device.
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060113 2429782 viewsThevenard, GCF type weighbridge test waggon GCF 7083, originally built by SAR Islington Workshops as an CFN type cattle waggon CFN 7083 in 1945 and sent new to EP Division, converted in 1969 to GCF sleeper transport waggon, then to a Shunters Runner c.1975 and to the current guise c.1996. More details can be found for this waggon here. Seen here next to one of the silo complexes.
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104-02781 viewsStawell, V/Line broad gauge down Dimboola passenger train with V/Line N class loco N 468 'City of Bairnsdale' with serial 86-1197 a Clyde Engineering Somerton Victoria built EMD model JT22HC-2 and N set.
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150523 8280780 viewsFinucane Island, loaded with Yandi Fines Comeng built original style ore waggon number 1483 dates from 1974. It has had the end sills filled in as a capacity improvement and show signs of having been re-sheeted and repaired, it is also riding on light weight 38 tonne bogies. Geodata: -20.3363567 118.5497550 .
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150522 8160779 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the first batch of BHP Billiton Dash 8 locos to be scrapped, 5646 serial 8244-11/92-135 one of a pair of new Goninan WA built CM40-8 units has already had most of the hood removed and the V16 7FDL prime mover is visible.
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104-03777 viewsStawell station yard overview, down V/Line Dimboola pass in platform, goods shed at left.
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051101 6426777 viewsParkeston, WHA 31439 seen here in Loongana Limestone service, originally built by Goninan WA for Western Quarries as a batch of twenty coded WHA type in 1995. Purchased by Westrail in 1998.
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150522 8172777 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, drivers side cab view with EPIC brake modules visible. Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M unit 5663 serial 8412-08 / 94-154, this unit was rebuilt without a cab and this cab was later retrofitted, was originally AE Goodwin NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5476 serial C6087-8. Photo of the removed cab can be seen here .
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100-09776 viewsAlbury yard, NSWSRA standard gauge 81 class 8148 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 84-1067 and 8163 serial 84-1082, candy livery.
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105-02773 viewsWallan, V/Line broad gauge P class P 17 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18HBR serial 84-1216 rebuilt from T 327 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 56-78 with a Victorian Railways 'Tea Cup' liveried H set with V/Line decals, down passenger train 8319, disc signal post 11 for removed Sidings B, worked out from this shot that on this angle, a P class and H set won't fit between the disc post and light post!!
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177-05773 viewsNewport Junction, V/Line broad gauge N class locomotive N 453 'City of Albury' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 85-1221 leads an up Warrnambool passenger train with D van and 5 car Z set.
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0507 Magor USA 060414 3445772 viewsNelson Point yard, originally a Magor USA built ballast waggon for the Oroville Dam construction, 507 seen here modified as a weighbridge test waggon with an axle load of 20 ton. The others in the fleet are 40, 60 and 100 tons. 14th April 2006.
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194-07770 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view of water softening plant and compressor plant building, looking north.
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106-12768 viewsKilmore East, V/Line standard gauge G class loco G 518 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1231 with the up Melbourne Express, off focus.
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