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060111 2276419 viewsPeachna, Tooligie Hill Road grade crossing, empty grain train running north behind ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2470419 viewsThevenard, narrow gauge loco 1604 departs the yard with empty train 6DD3, 1604 leads a triple consist of Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 the original class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 1604 and 1601 both renumbered in 2004. 13th January 2006.
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130708 0720419 viewsCharra,
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130708 0766419 viewsCharra, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 17, in GWA corporate orange livery of owner Genesee & Wyoming Australia, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.
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060527 4105419 viewsScotia, AQNY 32173, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S10E and S107U both with original style doors and sliding tarpaulins, train 6029 loaded Malcolm freighter.
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060528 4414419 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30038 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0012, 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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060603 5237419 viewsMidland, WNA 31168, final member built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1979 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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060603 5243419 viewsMidland, WQDY 30743 one of about sixteen WBAX vans converted for sodium cyanide container traffic, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted to WQEF in 1989, recoded 1993 to WQDF, then WQDY, with two AGR empty sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 658 and SD 644.
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060603 5245419 viewsMidland, WQDY 30728 one of about sixteen WBAX vans converted for sodium cyanide container traffic, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted 1988 to WQDF, then WQDY, with two AGR empty sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 643 and SD 639.
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070527 9218419 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ALHX 34 louvre van waggon originally built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1973-74 as a batch of thirty five SLX type louvre vans, recoded to ALHX.
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070527 9222419 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOGL 451 open waggon, originally built in June 1925 by the American Car & Foundry Co. as part of an order for six hundred waggons for the South Australian Railways as O type open waggons, in 1966 five hundred and fifty were rebuilt into OB type. Then coded into AOBF, then AOGL.
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070530 9526419 viewsParkeston, RMWY 34024 triple deck car carrying waggon, built by Comeng NSW in 1975 within the third batch of ten WMX type double deck car carrying waggons, re-coded to WMFX in 1979, converted to triple deck WMGF in 1989 then under National Rail leasing they became RMWY type.
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100608 9712419 viewsMidland, AQNY 32204, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S81A with a replacement lower door and roll top tarpaulin and S90W in original condition on train 2430 empty Malcolm freighter.
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100609 09954419 viewsMidland, AQWY 31020 container waggon, one of thirty five built by Centrecon Ltd WA in 1981 as WFA type, recoded in 1987 to WQCY, then RHQY in 1994 and back to WQCY in 1996, then to AQCY.
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224-15419 viewsBing siding, 6073 'Fortescue' serial 51065 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie awaits the road to depart south, radiator, steerable bogie and taper in cab side. GeoData.
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226-10419 viewsRedmont, at the 202 km the mid-train trailing remote Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03/92-128. GeoData.
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151111 9545419 viewsAn empty train led by General Electric ES44DCi units 8162 serial 60226 and 8167 serial 60231 both in the Rio Tinto tiger strip livery leading Dash 9-44CW 7093 serial 47772, the last of the original build of Dash 9 units at the 52.9 km grade crossing.
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160102 9830419 viewsWittenoom Gorge, eastern wall of gorge view, around Fifth Crossing. Geodata.
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150523 8220419 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0043 with safety slogan 'ASAP - As safe as possible', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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150523 8230419 viewsNelson Point Yard, wide view across BI-LO Crossing, a throw back to days that the supermarket was in fact a BI-LO, well before the current Woolworths, and Action before that. Dash 8 units in the yard, on the 5642 with the Steel Train and 5648 with another on a rake of index waggons.
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