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221-35412 viewsYandi One mine loadout balloon loop, view out the cab window from near new General Electric AC6000 unit 6074 serial 51066.

223-35412 viewsPossum Siding 227 km, a loaded train behind a pair of Hamersley Iron General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 7072 serial 47751 and 7074 serial 47753 on a loaded train ex Marandoo holds the mainline awaiting clearance north. 21st October 2000.

224-05412 viewsBing siding, the extent of the General Electric AC6000 radiators is evident in this back to back image of a pair of units.

225-08412 viewsBing siding, General Electric AC6000 model unit 6073 serial 51065 built at GE Erie is the mid-train remote for the afternoon empty Yandi mine train as it heads south. This was before the units were named. GeoData.

160128 00877412 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, ALCo frame segments and a GE 7FDL-16 engine cut in two.

232-06412 viewsYandi One balloon loop, mid-train remote units of train no. 1718 which is partway through loading, BHP Iron Ore unit 5659 'Kobe' serial 8412-04 / 94-150 leads cabless unit 5665, both are Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units, 59 is still in the teal and marigold logo livery. 3rd of February 1997. GeoData.

232-34412 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 with the round tanks it is a rebuild from an AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo 5480. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.

060110 2189412 viewsYeelanna, the second person watches ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 as it shunts forward to cut out the empty cars for the siding. Approx. location of image.

060110 2219412 viewsAt the Procter Rd grade crossing about halfway between Yeelanna and Karkoo, empty grain train behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units with the road competition from a Llewelyn Transport road train with a Freightliner prime mover. Approx. location of image.

160525 4505412 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RQQY 7079 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of seventeen sets built by Qld Rail at Ipswich Workshops in 1995, 48' Pacific National curtainsider stencilled for Bluestar Logistics PNXC 4497.

160525 4542412 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRQY 7330 platform 3 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of sixteen sets built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005, 48' deck with a 48' Pacific National curtainsider PNXM 4533.

160528 8352412 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RQFY 104 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded in April 1994 RQFY and 2CM bogies fitted August 1995. With a Toll 40' curtainsider 3NW 871 and a Linfox 20' 2EG9 type box FSWB 9635147.

160528 8419412 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RRZY type five unit bar coupled well container waggon set RRZY 7016 platform 5, originally built by Goninan in a batch of twenty six RQZY type for National Rail, recoded when repaired. 40' 4FG1 type Austrans container AUCU 412419 double stacked with SCF Rail Containers 40' 4EG1 type container SCFU 410236.

160528 8440412 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RQZY 7040 platform 3 of five unit bar coupled well container waggon set built in a batch of thirty two by Goninan NSW in 1995/96, loaded with a Cronos 40' 4EG1 type container CXSU 118660 double stacked with a K&S Freighters 40' curtainsider ISKU 400623.

160528 8446412 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RRZY type five unit bar coupled well container waggon set RRZY 7023 platform 2, originally built by Goninan in a batch of twenty six RQZY type for National Rail, recoded when repaired. Loaded with a Rail Containers 48' MFG1 type container SCFU 412611[2] double stacked with a 40' Linfox half height side door container LSDU 6940071.

160523 2957412 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RRYY 34 platform 3 of 5-pack articulated low profile skel waggon set, one of fifty two such sets built by Bradken Rail Braemar from a Williams-Worley design, based on the TNT TRAY type for moving automotive carrying containers, 40' SCF AUCU 412435 box.

160524 3790412 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRQY 8314 platform 3 of articulated five-unit container waggon set built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works in China as part of a forty one unit order in 2005/06, K+S 40' flatrack KHS 400824 with Wesbeam products.

160522 2426412 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, platform 4 of 5-pack RRGY 7129 5 pack articulated skel waggon set, originally built as RRBY by AN Rail at Islington Workshops SA 1996-97, 48' deck with a Pacific National 46' 6" MFR1 type reefer PNXR 4909.

160530 9264412 viewsBinduli, 7SP3 intermodal service, RQFY 71 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFY c1985, then RQFF April 1994, May 1995 to RQFY and 2CM bogies fitted.