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148-10261 viewsWangaratta, V/Line rail tractor RT 5 and VLBY type louvre van VLBY 148 on No.5 Rd, goods shed behind and point rodding in foreground, cover for automatic electric staff exchanger visible. RT 5 built new by Newport Workshops September 1957. The VLBY which is the Wangaratta parcels waggon started out being built by Newport Workshops October 1956 as a VP type VP 148, in May 1979 re-coded to VLPY, re-coded again in 1982 to VLBY.
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110-06261 viewsBenalla yard view, broad gauge V/Line B class B 64 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-5, side view, stabled down Wodonga goods train 9303, ground dwarf disc signals, point indicator.
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135-12261 views2400 class QR locos 2503 and 2500 with a loaded coal train, near Ipswich.
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194-30261 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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196-22261 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, view inside of side opening ore waggon, shows how much ore the waggons could carry.
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197-18261 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view of the drivers side of Mancha battery locomotive #4 showing general arrangement.
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210-10261 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops. Comalco shunt engine R 1003 coupled to a Difco side dump waggon. R 1003 is an Electro Motive built NW2 model with serial number 4114 and frame number of E761-8 was built in November 1946 at La Grange originally for Canadian National with road number 7943. Sold to Comalco in December 1975 and entered service in 1976. This unit was subsequently scrapped in 2000.
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213-37261 viewsWeipa, an empty train departs Lorim Point behind Comalco R 1004 a Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT42C built 1990 serial 90-1277 originally as GML 10 for Goldsworthy Mining in Western Australia, bought by Comalco in 1994.
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030415 070041261 viewsKevin, NJ class Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit serial 71-732, built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981. Still in AN green but lettered for Australian Southern Railroad. At the Kevin loading point.
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150522 8186261 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, the first of BHP Billiton Dash 8 locos to be scrapped, CM40-8 5646 serial 8244-11/92-135 one of a pair of new Goninan WA built CM40-8 units has already had most of the hood removed and the V16 7FDL prime mover is visible, sister unit 5647 sits along side with the same fate coming up next. Full details of these units past lives can be seen here .
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161111 2397261 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQNY 32159 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with two Bis Industries 25U0 type sulphur containers BISU 100100 and BISU 100107.
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103-20260 viewsBenalla Workshops, Victorian Railways broad gauge G type four wheel open waggon G 130, originally built by Ballarat North Workshops December 1939 as a GY type GY 130, recoded to G November 1981, and 'Off Register' 1986. Photo date 12-08-1990.
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106-30260 viewsNagambie station yard overview, station platform at right, Murphy silo complex with super phosphate shed beyond them, looking south.
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123-2-04260 viewsMaffra, broad gauge V/Line RT class rail tractor RT 49, has a very long rest between tasks out here! RT 49 started out as I waggon 7507 built by Victorian Railways 21-02-1905, converted to IA in 1936, then K 85 in April 1955 and in 1969 to the underframe of RT 49 by Ballarat North Workshops.
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112-11260 viewsViolet Town, looking north across Cowslip Street, standard gauge NSWSRA 81 class 8174 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1093 in candy livery with an up goods heads south, station building behind camera, broad gauge track on the left, March 1994.
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114-09260 viewsCobram, V/Line broad gauge N class N 471 'City of Benalla' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1200, side view.
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194-25260 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view into the loco workshop - battery charging shed, looking south, Mancha haulers with their battery modules on the racks, switchboard at right, with charging transformer visible in the background.
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200-03260 viewsMoorine Rock, Westrail L class 271 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 69-620 runs through the loop with the ballast cleaning train, known as the Circus Train while a Perth bound freighter sits in the mainline, 22nd June 1997.
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203-31260 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, 5 cylinder diesel motor with drive pulley and fly wheel, possibly an air compressor.
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207-19260 viewsBHP General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 serial 51063 brand new and unnamed on the loaded side of Yandi One load-out loop as a remote mid-train unit, showing roof view and the original style windscreen protectors.
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