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131-1-17123 viewsWakool yard overview from north end points, point lever, looking south.
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153-2-37123 viewsArarat station yard, electric dwarf signal 34.
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153-3-32123 viewsColdstream, overview of station, six VOFX type bogie open super phosphate waggons, HK Holden and station shed.
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155-04123 viewsWallan, stored 'OFF REG' waggon awaiting scrapping, four wheel waggon, B type louvre van B 301, side view.
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160-22123 viewsShepparton, yard view of stabled broad gauge V/Line locos T class T 393 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 65-423 and T 385 serial 64-340 still in Victorian Railways blue and yellow off the down Shepparton fuel train in No.4 Rd, taken from goods shed platform looking north.
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160-25123 viewsShepparton, stabled V/Line broad gauge T class locomotives T 385 Clyde Engineering EMD model G8B serial 64-340 still in Victorian Railways blue and yellow livery and T 393 serial 65-423 off the down Shepparton fuel train, looking from the good loading platform with a mountain of 2nd hand tyres piled up.
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161-34123 viewsTocumwal, station yard overview looking south, the yard on the left is the broad and standard gauge trans-shipping yards, the silos are serviced by broad gauge rails, the station building, platform and fetters trolley shed are in the middle, hotel and derelict flour mill form the backdrop and the broad gauge yard with V/Line sleeper transport waggons and broad gauge cattle yards on the right side. The track ending at the yards is the standard gauge cattle yards track.
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129-1-28123 viewsLong Island, track view, entry to BHP steel plant.
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184-20123 viewsAlbury station yard overview, loco depot, V/Line standard gauge G class G 527 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1257 receives attention prior to heading back to Melbourne with a south bound goods, NSWSRA standard gauge candy liveried 44 class 4466 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500B serial G3421-06 stands at the other fuel point on the right.
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188-22123 viewsJunee station on the NSW Main South line, 485 km from Sydney, opened in July 1878, view across to the Up Platform from the Down Platform with NGMA grain waggons in No 2 Up Siding.
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202-28123 viewsMeckering, looking east at the interlocking levers #1 and #2 and Pilot Key box 5B for the goods siding and derail at the east end of the crossing loop.
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206-33123 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 and finally the Tomlinson Steel WA built hopper waggons. All of these are belly dump waggons as opposed to the BHP fleet of rotary dump bodies.
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210-23123 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, side view of Comalco ore waggon 3002, shows handbrake, triple valve and piping, side piping and controls, bogies and discharge doors and air receivers, this is one of the compressor equipped waggons.
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216-23123 viewsMoomba, view of surrounding sand hills
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218-32123 viewsYandicoogina or HIY as Hamersley Iron identify it, located 445 km from Parker Point yard in Dampier. Bank engine unit General Electric Dash 9-44CW model 7089 serial 47768 idles away waiting the next loaded train to push out.
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100602 8579123 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33490 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-030 and fleet number 8984 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.
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060528 4573123 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31260 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-010 and fleet number 146 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, and is a Goninan built replacement WO type waggon that replaces the original WAGR built WO type waggon with the newer style WOD type and has square features opposed to the curved ones as on the original WO class. Bonnie Vale, 28th May 2006.
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060528 4585123 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31392 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 fleet number 317 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, shows the higher tare of these waggons and the capacity of 73 tons, waggon length of 10.8 metres, and a close inspection reveals that the round WAGR waggon builder's number is 31391 of 1974, this waggon cut down originally from a Comeng built Mt Newman Mining ore waggon in 1974. It was then converted to a WSM ballast hopper, then converted back to a WOB by WAGR Midland Workshops. It was originally numbered 31391 by WAGR, seen here loaded with fines at Bonnie Vale, 28th May 2006.
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030406 094216123 viewsCummins, yard view looking north along the Buckleboo line with the Thevenard line second from the right with Hall St grade crossing visible in the distance and the loading ramp siding converging at the far left of the image. 6th April 2003.
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030406 095944123 viewsCummins, view inside the concrete train control booth, shows writing desk and box on wall with phone inside. 6th April 2003.
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