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160128 00386360 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, upturned bogie from recently scrapped new built Goninan CM39-8 unit 5632. Bogie is of a GE floating bolster design, serial 1-10-87.
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160128 00394360 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the ALCo remains of Goninan rebuild CM40-8ML (cabless, but cab fitted in 1996) 5664 serial 8412-09 / 94-155, the ALCo Hi-Ad bogies and fuel tanks of original ALCo M636 Comeng NSW built 5491 serial C6084-7.
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040409 123052360 viewsBoodarie, Goldsworthy service bottom discharge Tomlinson Steel WA built ore waggon 8050. 9th April 2004.
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104-15359 viewsBuangor, view inside signal box through window, miniature electric staff exchange machines, Buangor to Ararat machine on the left and Trawalla to Buangor machine on the right, control telephones, chart of bell codes, tins of kerosene, exchange hoops and other paraphernalia for running trains in the 19th century.
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100-18359 viewsAlbury yard, NSWSRA standard gauge 48 class 4893 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G3420-8, red terror livery, shunters riding loco. Geodata.
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110-14359 viewsBenalla yard, GY type four wheel waggons GY 16209 and GY 5514 in super phosphate traffic. GY 5514 built new by AE Goodwin in February 1954, while GY 16209 was built in 1949 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops as an HY type, in September 1964 recoded to GY.
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213-17359 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops, Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like you see on the GT26C models of WAGR L or VR C classes.
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232-07359 viewsYandi One balloon loop cabless BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8ML (L for LocoTrol) GE unit 5665 'Rotterdam' serial 8412-10 / 94-156 in the mid-train remote power of train no. 1718 which is partway through loading on the afternoon of 3rd of February 1997. GeoData.
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106-27358 viewsSeymour loco depot turntable and pit, V/Line standard gauge Y class Y 102 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 63-292, turntable, gantry and pit, loco shed, rail tractor RT class and Aresco Trak Chief RT 46, wheel sets at right.
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101-02358 viewsDandenong, Boral Quarry overview of new plant being constructed.
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105-08357 viewsWallan, broad gauge V/Line N class loco N 456 'City of Colac' with serial 85-1224 a Clyde Engineering Somerton Victoria built EMD model JT22HC-2 arrives with an up Albury passenger train, gangers trolley shed, crib crossing and semaphore signal post 12 for down movements.
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109-09357 viewsBroadford Loop, standard gauge, damaged signal bridge remains in drain, point rodding for ballast loading siding and catch points just visible on the right hand edge, looking south
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100-20357 viewsAlbury yard, Wilson Street, NSWSRA standard gauge 44 class 4479 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL500B serial G3421-19 and 422 class 42205 Clyde Engineering EMD model J26C serial 69-660, candy livery, north bound Inter-Capital Daylight, trailing shot. Geodata.
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210-14357 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops track maintenance compound, Speno rail grinder model RR 28E, a twenty eight wheel grinder, this unit is very likely to have been originally used by Mt Newman Mining in the Pilbara in the 1970s. Even a 20 km remote railway requires a grinder! September 1995.
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106-13356 viewsSeymour, rationalised yard overview with V/Line broad gauge S class S 310 'George Higinbotham' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 60-227 and T class T 400 Clyde Engineering EMD model G18B serial 67-495 with stabled down Wodonga goods train 9303.
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112-12356 viewsBenalla yard, broad gauge V/Line X class X 48 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-795 and two other X class with the Sunday up slab steel train 9334, having their crib break and to allow the evening passenger trains to run past prior to continuing to Long Island later in the evening, night shot, March 1994.
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060528 4438356 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32377, fleet number 907, with the 4 being a recent addition due to the increasing fleet size, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55, 28th May 2006.
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160128 00413A356 viewsView of the stripped out cab - drivers console of Goninan built CM39-8 unit 5631, serial no. 5831-10, builders no. 88-080.
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141-1-10355 viewsSunshine, broad gauge Australian National BL class units BL 28 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1012 and BL 27 serial 83-1011 lead the second of the afternoon procession of down Adelaide bound goods trains out of Melbourne along the passenger lines and heading past platform No.3, point rodding, station platforms.
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187-17355 viewsMonkland, an old ute of mine, an 1988 Ford Falcon XF ute named 'FALCON HELL' with Kumho PowerGuard MT tyres, saw many thousands of kilometres on the highways of Australia. Unsure where the car is now, the runt never paid me for it, family...
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