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160530 9149317 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0119 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA, with Independent Brake signage.
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160530 9179317 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, CFCLA lease CQWY type well waggon set CQWY 5038-2 with two 48' MFG1 type boxes, Rail Containers SCFU 912607 and plain blue Royal Wolf RWTU 922046 both with SCT decals. The CQWY was built by Bluebird Rail Operations in South Australia in 2008 as a batch of sixty pairs.
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160530 9180317 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in 1969 as one of four hundred and fifty five FQX type 60' 3TEU container flat waggons built over ten years, it was recoded to VQCY before private ownership and reclassed PQCY type, PQCY 551 is now fitted with bulkheads and here loaded with timber products.
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160530 9196317 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0094 Greater Freighter, built by CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co China in 2014 without the Greater Freighter signage.
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160530 9223317 viewsParkeston, SCT train 7GP1 which operates from Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction) to Perth, Gemco WA built PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0003 loaded with an SCT 40' RFRA type reefer SCTR 138, a half height open top 20' WH 28 and a 20' 2EG1 type Cronos box CXSU 111413.
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161111 2487317 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, container flat waggon AQWY 30212 container waggon, originally one of forty five built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WFX type, to WQCX in 1981, then AQCY, seen here loaded with two 20' 25B0 type Colemans ammonium nitrate boxes CCBU 020013[0] and CCBU 004400[0] and a 20' half height Nickel West box NIWU 100055[3] that normally contains quartz for the smelter.
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161112 3011317 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, AQNY type waggon AQNY 32154 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a pair of original style sulphur containers with sliding tarpaulins, S38A G830 and S154K G937.
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041225 064817317 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 746, side view from the ore car repair shop roads.
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030404 131042317 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, MKA (Morrison Knudsen Australia) rebuilt AL class AL 24 into EMD JT26C-2M model for Australian National in 1993 as the ALF class, here ALF 20 serial 94-AB-020 shunts empty rail transport waggon sets from the Darwin construction. 4th April, 2003.
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170728 09974317 viewsBenson Falls, 91 km curve, an empty train blasts up the steep grade behind a triple all General Electric built Dash 9-44CW unit power of 9409 serial 54159 and 9408 both in Pilbara Rail with Robe reporting marks, and 7060 in Pilbara Iron with HI reporting marks. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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170730 0589317 viewsIndee, at the 55 km on the BHP line a loaded train from Yandi is heading north behind mid-train unit Electro-Motive London Ontario built SD70ACe/LC unit 4338 'Pepper' with 4481. 30th July 2017. GeoData.
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060723 7824317 viewsOriginal Hamersley Iron compressor waggon sets IC-1 and IC-3 which were made from cutting down condemned ore waggons and then fitting Atlas Copco XAS 97 air compressors, receiver tanks and fuel tanks. The compressors have been fitted to a swing cradle to limit the in-train forces during the unloading process. 7 Mile 23rd July 2006.
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23760317 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, a stripped back ALCo locomotive frame under re-construction which will become a GE CM40-8M. January 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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23879317 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, a stripped back ALCo locomotive frame under re-construction which will become a GE CM40-8M. July 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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240-29317 viewsSeven Mile, loaded train heading for Parker Point behind a pair of Pilbara Rail, Robe River owned, General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 9470 serial 53455 and 9471 serial 53456. These and sister unit 9472 were the first painted in the Pilbara Rail livery. 31st August 2002.
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180615 1574317 viewsWalla Siding, BHP took delivery of two new ballast ploughs in December 2017. They were built by CRRC Yangtze China in 2017 and weigh in at 65 tonnes. The ploughs are numbered BP 01 and BP 02. We finally caught up with them top and tail on a ballast consist, here's BP 02.
Roland Depth photo.
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190107 0604317 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00157 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-157 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190109 1607317 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00312 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-312 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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080116 1365317 viewsChapman Siding at the 69 km on FMG's under construction line to Cloud Break mine, new waggons stabled in the passing track awaiting service, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007, here slave waggon 1395 and master waggon 2396 sit in the arvo sunlight. The yellow circle indicates the rotary coupler end and the tare weight of the slave waggon at 22.6 tonnes, while the master weighs 22.9 tonnes as it hosts the brake control equipment. 16th January 2008.
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121-28316 viewsMorwell station yard auxiliary frame and diagram for access to and from the Briquette Sidings, Traralgon end of Morwell station.
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