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228-1075 viewsYandi Two mobile machine parking bay, a new water cart for Henry Walker, operator of the BHP owned mine, WC201 is based on a Caterpillar 777B truck chassis.
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229-1875 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking at the exit portal of the tunnel as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 and sister 5642 drag a loading train at 1.2 km/h, the red and amber lights control entry to the tunnel and the steel pipe is for dust extraction. GeoData.
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230-1475 viewsYandi Two load-out tunnel exit side portal, Goninan rebuild GE CM40-8M model 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11/93-145 creeps out of the tunnel as its train is loaded at 1.2 km/h. The livery is the marigold version of the BHP Australia logo. Geodata -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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231-0875 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 an Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M GE unit loads a train at 1.2 km/h with second unit 5650. GeoData.
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232-1475 viewsYandi One backtrack, following a cyclone shutdown of the mainline and severe flooding around Yandi a 'mixed' freight train was operated to Yandi to deliver food, mail and diesel fuel to the mine and camp. Here BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128 idles away in the backtrack awaiting its path back to Port Hedland with flat waggon 6703, four fuel tank waggons and a broken ore waggon. February 1997. GeoData.
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235-0275 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 arrives with the afternoon 240 waggon empty train with second unit Goninan built CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus', notice the fuel tank differences between the lead unit an ALCo rebuild and the second unit built new.
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235-0475 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 arrives with the afternoon 240 waggon empty train, the hydraulic lines and dust extraction equipment frame the loco.
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236-1875 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuilt CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 sits out the front awaiting attention.
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238-1975 viewsNelson Point loco overhaul shop sees former Southern Pacific loco 3079 EMD model SD40, serial number 7861-52 with the long hood removed due to the 645 prime mover failing not long after arrival in Australia. 27th January 2004. Geodata .
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060110 221875 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.
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060110 223675 viewsLock, grain train loading underway 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 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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060110 223875 viewsLock, 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. Approx. location of image.
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160525 445275 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRAY 7244 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' deck with two Cronos 20' bulker boxes TINT 123179 and TSPD 122198.
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160523 298375 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, PQYY 7083 platform 1, PQYY type is a 5-pack articulated well waggon set built in September 1995 by AN Islington Workshops as one of a pair of RQYY for Boxcar/Cubico and recoded in the late '90s to PQYY. Loaded with a 40' 4FG1 type container for Toll TOLH 910218.
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160523 300375 viewsParkeston, 7SP3 intermodal train, RQGY 34379 63' container waggon, originally built in a batch of one hundred by Goninan NSW between 1974 and 75 as OCY type, recoded to NQOY then NQSY. Loaded with an FCL 40' box FJSV 429129 [9].
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160522 241175 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, platform 4 of 5 on RRQY 7327 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005 for Pacific National, with a 46' Rand Refrigerated Logistics reefer RAND 207.
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160522 241575 viewsParkeston, 7MP7 priority service train, RRAY 7255 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set, part of one hundred built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 48' deck with Rand Refrigerated Logistics 46' reefer RAND 272.
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160609 045775 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RRYY 22, 5-pack articulated low profile skel waggon set, one of fifty two such sets built by Bradken Rail Braemar NSW from a Worley-Williams design, based on the TNT TRAY type for moving automotive carrying containers, with four Patrick 53' automotive containers and a 40' box on platform 3.
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060601 509475 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation car RZAY 283 on train 4PM6 was built by Comeng NSW as an ARJ type stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car ARJ 283 in 1972, sold to National Rail and converted to a crew car in 1997. Destroyed at the Golden Ridge derailment in January 2009.
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160522 222875 viewsParkeston, SCT train 6MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, CQWY type CQWY 5007-1 with a SCT 40' reefer SCTR 130 and RWTU 903034 40' curtain sider on top. The CQWY was built by Bluebird Rail Operations in South Australia in 2008 as a batch of sixty pairs.
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