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150505 7986284 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bank engines Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe/LCi unit 716 serial 20118693-008 and EMD SD90MAC unit 901 serial 976833-1, this unit has been repowered with an 16-710G3 prime mover, at the 227 km as they bank the loaded train upgrade at an increasing speed as the front of the train has topped the grade. Geodata: -22.0187117 118.5850933 .
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150522 8160284 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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110-14283 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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195-15283 viewsWittenoom, view from the Devil's Staircase of Colonial Mill and Mine with piles of tailings, the building and yard at the bottom of the frame is the warehouse or store and gated yard with the workshop being the larger of the two, the buildings at the top level are the locomotive and underground mining offices and workshops, with the crusher and milling and bagging plant using gravity to its advantage.
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196-05283 viewsYandi Two, builders plate for BHP Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149. Originally AE Goodwin built ALCo M636C unit 5480 serial G6061-1. May 1998.
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200-19283 viewsMidland, Westrail's Clyde Engineering built EMD model G26C as the DA class, DA 1573 serial 72-760 and DA 1574 serial 72-761 lead an empty grain train to Avon past the Midland Workshops at 0925 hrs 24th June 1997.
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160128 00395283 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the remains of Goninan rebuild CM40-8ML (cabless, but cab fitted in 1996) 5664 serial 8412-09/94-155 hood and dynamic brake module.
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160128 00400283 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, traction motors from CM39-8 unit 5632, more than likely GE 752AF units.
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104-04282 viewsStawell station yard overview, goods shed at left, Dimboola pass departing crossing Seaby St.
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104-10282 viewsBuangor station building overview, automatic staff exchanger set up, looking east, point rodding.
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104-11282 viewsBuangor station building view, detail shot of automatic staff exchanger set up, looking east, signal wires running along platform face.
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102-03282 viewsBirchip yard view looking north, silo complex in the distance and Ascom style barley silos with Aquila annex at right, stock yards at extreme right, Geelong style silos in the distance.
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106-14282 viewsSeymour, rationalised yard, V/Line broad gauge S class S 310 'George Higinbotham' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 60-227 stabled down Wodonga goods 9303, side view.
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190-24282 viewsCootamundra West, NSW located 431 km from Sydney and the start of the Lake Cargelligo branchline, a Perth bound interstate freight train taking the scenic route, via Cootamundra West, Stockinbingal and Parkes, passes over Yass Road through the manual hand gates behind 81 class locomotive 8159 and a sister unit.
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206-05282 viewsOn the Woodie Woodie Road near the start, just in case you have trouble they have a few signs to help out.
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104-07281 viewsBuangor crossing loop, detail shot of point blades, rodding and signal wires and the interlocking arrangements at the west end points including plunger, detectors and electric switch lock.
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213-07281 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view looking east from the workshops towards the dump station with a rake of waggons lined up with the two types of aluminium bottom discharge hoppers discernible by the hungry boards fitted to the original type waggons, the control cabin for the dump station can be made out in the distance.
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030415 065911281 viewsKevin, originally one of sixty two Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR in 1966, sent to Eyre Peninsula in 1985 and recoded to ENH type, ENH 11 with hungry boards fitted and loaded with gypsum on train 3DD2 at the Kevin loading point.
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040409 123052281 viewsBoodarie, Goldsworthy service bottom discharge Tomlinson Steel WA built ore waggon 8050. 9th April 2004.
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107-04280 viewsKyabram track view, buried rails for Kyabram Fruit Packers siding, Southern Can Company on the left, looking towards Echuca.
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