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160526 5279224 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, with 76 waggons for 5709.8 tonnes and 1795 metres with EDI Downer built EMD model GT46C-ACe unit SCT 012 serial 08-1736 as second unit to sister unit SCT 014 as they hold the mainline in West Kalgoorlie waiting for the Prospector railcar to cross.
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160526 5293224 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, SCT crew accommodation coach PSDS class PSDS 02280 'Peterborough Boys' converted by Gemco WA in 2008 from former Comeng NSW built SDS class sitting car SDS 2280 for the NSWGR.
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160526 5303224 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBHY type covered van PBHY 0021 Greater Freighter, one of thirty five units built by Gemco WA in 2005 without the Greater Freighter signage but with Big W We Sell For Less logo.
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161109 1889224 viewsMoule, train 4DD4 rumbles along the mainline behind Genesee & Wyoming locomotives Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C units 1601 serial 71-728 and 1603 serial 71-730 and a pair of AE Goodwin ALCo model DE531 units 859 serial 84705 and 850 serial 84136 with 62 loaded waggons.
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161111 2504224 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQNY 32157 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, carrying two AGR 20' 22K2 type Eurotainer tanktainers EURU 112065 and EURU 112053 containing sodium cyanide solution.
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161111 2527224 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30098 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0127, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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040806 103206224 viewsFlash Butt yard, heavily modified Magor USA built ex-Oroville Dam ore waggon 661, seen here modified for LocoTrol service and testing.
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060429 3749224 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon 6703 is a heavily cut down and modified Magor USA ore waggon done by Mt Newman Mining workshops, converted to a 50 tonne flat waggon.
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040809 164208224 viewsNelson Point yard, ballast regulator BR 31 a Plasser Australia model SSP 110SW unit serial 401. 9th August 2004.
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244-29224 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still wearing the former owners AN livery, Australian Southern NJ class NJ 4, Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C serial 71-731, no. 2 end roster view showing rear door and roof access ladder. 6th April 2003.
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244-33224 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, wearing Australian Southern livery rebuild ALCo DA 7 started life as NSWGR 48 class 4813 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 83713, rebuilt by Islington Workshops with long hood and parts from former 830 class 870 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G6016-06 in 1998. B end roster view looking forward. 6th April 2003.
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22666224 viewsBassendean, during an Open Day at the Goninan workshops, new GE-7FDL-16 prime-movers, some with GMG187 main alternators for install into a GE CM40-8M rebuilds and some GE752 AH traction motors. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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23760224 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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180616 1744224 viewsEmu Siding, a loaded train of Q and B series ore waggons behind the lowest numbered Rio Tinto loco 7043 with serial 57094 a GE Erie built GE model Dash 9-44CW from the 10th order in HI Pilbara Iron livery leading an original ES44DCi unit 8108 and sister Dash 9-44CW unit 7058 in the same HI Pilbara Iron livery as they descend the West Mainline past EM7 and EM5 signals at the 74.88 km on they way to Cape Lambert. 16th June 2018. GeoData.
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070622 0224224 viewsMooka in the back track siding, BHP Iron Ore's track recording vehicle, EM80 which is a Plasser & Theurer EM-80 model and still wearing the old BHP blue and white livery, this unit was delivered in Mt Newman Mining orange and white.
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150619 9162224 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machine Tamper 3 a Plasser Australia unit model 09-3X serial M480. 19th June 2015.
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200914 7819224 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, wooden decked steel frame bogie waggon from the Point Samson PWD, with what could be the Governors Carriage frame behind it? The Governors Carriage can be seen here on the Weston Langford site. 14th September 2020.
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246-18224 viewsCape Lambert, yard view of the then new extension to the south for the West Angelas mine was coming on stream as a Robe River loaded Deepdale train arrives on the main behind the standard quad Dash 8 power with 202 waggons. 9414 which is a Goninan WA ALCo to GE rebuild CM40-8M with serial 8206-11 / 91-124 from November 1991 and was originally an AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo built new for Robe in December 1971 and numbered 262.005, later numbered 1714. 22nd May 2002.
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250-32224 viewsCape Lambert South Yard and Robe River's 9426 a Comeng WA rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Seen here in the South Yard dragging a loaded rake down to the car dumper. 22nd October 2000.
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107-35223 viewsMathoura, station yard overview, looking north, sleeper loading site, Ascom silos in the distance.
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