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111-01704 viewsNorth Geelong grain arrivals yard, V/Line broad gauge locos N class N 461 'City of Ararat' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 86-1190 and X class X 47 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-794 with a loaded grain rake, semaphore signal post 13 and ground dwarf disc signal 12 and 14 with another loaded grain rake.
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204-03704 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, a Bowes Scott & Western Ltd of London jaw crusher.
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106-27703 viewsSeymour loco depot turntable and pit, V/Line standard gauge Y class Y 102 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 63-292, turntable, gantry and pit, loco shed, rail tractor RT class and Aresco Trak Chief RT 46, wheel sets at right.
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210-14703 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops track maintenance compound, Speno rail grinder model RR 28E, a twenty eight wheel grinder, this unit is very likely to have been originally used by Mt Newman Mining in the Pilbara in the 1970s. Even a 20 km remote railway requires a grinder! September 1995.
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213-33703 viewsWeipa, a loaded train from Andoom near Northern Avenue with Comalco R 1004 leading thirty three loaded waggons of bauxite.
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216-15703 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, fuel point roads sees V/Line broad gauge N class locomotive N 473 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1202, resting after running the overnight passenger train 'The Overland' from Melbourne, and will return with the Melbourne bound service in the early evening.
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150523 8199703 viewsNelson Point Yard, with only another month to operate, BHP Billiton CM40-8M locomotive 5666 'Taranto' is a trailing unit as the loaded rake waits to head to the car dumpers for unloading. 5666 started life as a Comeng NSW built M636 ALCo 5487 before Goninan rebuilt it in 1995 to a CM40-8MEFI as it was the first unit to trial an electronic fuel injection system. Come the 1st of July 2015 all these units were all stored.
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100-11702 viewsAlbury Station signal box, opened in March 1887, the box is an E2 type, originally with 36 levers, extended to 42 levers in May 1940. It was used to control the north end of Albury. Booked out of use at 0600 on Friday the 1st of August 2003. Geodata.
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101-12702 viewsMaryborough, broad gauge V/Line VHJA type bogie gypsum waggon VHJA 10, the final member of 10 such waggons converted in 1984 from VHCA type waggons for use on the Cowangie gypsum traffic by Newport Workshops, originally built new as a J type hopper waggon by American Car and Foundry USA November 1925, recoded to CJ type in 1960 and VHCA in 1980. In 1993 a further fifteen were such converted.
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194-28702 viewsYandi campsite for Henry Walker operated iron ore mine owned and managed by BHP, view of camp are from man cage on Kato 50 tonne hydraulic crane.
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060111 2322702 viewsWarramboo, located at the 190.2 km with now disused station building on the left, Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C model loco 1203 serial 65-427 shunts empty grain waggons into the grain loop for loading. 11th January 2006.
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109-22701 viewsViolet Town, V/Line broad gauge A class A 66 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1186 rebuilt from B 66 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-7 and N set work a down Albury passenger train along No.1 Rd, trailing shot, looking north.
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192-12701 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot, class leader of the NSWGR 45 class 4501 an ALCo RSD-20 or DL-541 built by AE Goodwin in 1962 with serial 84143.
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221-09701 viewsHardie Siding, with the days of C36-7M operations numbered, Goninan rebuild 5513 serial 88-078 / 4839-02 from ALCo C636 5453 blasts away from Hardie with a loaded train bound for Finucane Island.
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103-17700 viewsWahgunyah station yard overview, super phosphate sheds on the left track, portable station building in middle of frame, silos in distance, scotch block and point levers in foreground.
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106-16700 viewsSeymour loco depot broad gauge fuel point and passenger train stabling yard, stabled trains in the background, B class in VR livery and P class locos.
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203-30700 viewsWittenoom, town power station, still under operation by Horizon Power, formally Western Power and SECWA.
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203-32700 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, 5 cylinder diesel motor with drive pulley and fly wheel, possibly an air compressor.
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150505 7948700 viewsFMG Solomon Line track - rail detail, H VT 136 RE PG4 2010 XII, H for head hardened, VT for vacuum degassing, the diamond logo PZH indicates it is manufactured by Pangang Group Steel Vanadium & Titanium Co. Ltd, is 136 pounds per yard weight, RE meets AREMA (American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association) standards, PG4 indicates tensile strength of 1300 MPa, and a rolled date of 2010, December.
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103-06699 viewsSpringhurst V/Line broad gauge Plasser 07-16B Production Tamper or track tamper with V/Line asset number 6-52-013.
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