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126-20253 viewsBroadford Loop, loco failure, up standard gauge pass Melbourne Express, passengers detrained.
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114-09253 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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194-27253 viewsYandi campsite for Henry Walker operated iron ore mine owned and managed by BHP, view from man cage during indoor cricket pitch installation .
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196-28253 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, view looking north east from remains of railways and mill towards power station, concrete pad is former workshops.
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203-29253 viewsDrillers Ridge, Wittenoom, Toyota HJ75, the road up to this little spot is actually sealed.
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203-35253 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, former roadway over grown with sign from the National Parks Board of WA.
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213-18253 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops, Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like you see on the GT26C models of WAGR L or VR C classes.
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160101 9759253 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Joffre Creek, Fourth Crossing Pool view of the western wall gorge, via Bolitho Road. Geodata: -22.2804483 118.3212850
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150505 7948253 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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160128 00416253 viewsView of the cab roof of Goninan rebuild GE model CM40-8M 5654, serial 8412-11, builders no. 93-145, shows tropical roof, marker and head lights, aerials, sand filling hatch covers wipers and strobe light in place of single trumpet horn.
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105-18252 viewsWallan, station platform 2 waiting room, brick chimney, and south end wall, point rodding, signal wires and No.3 Rd in the grass.
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203-31252 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, 5 cylinder diesel motor with drive pulley and fly wheel, possibly an air compressor.
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030415 070041252 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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150523 8280252 viewsFinucane Island, loaded with Yandi Fines Comeng built original style ore waggon number 1483 dates from 1974. It has had the end sills filled in as a capacity improvement and show signs of having been re-sheeted and repaired, it is also riding on light weight 38 tonne bogies. Geodata: -20.3363567 118.5497550 .
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160522 2041252 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATLY 1 Origin LPG tank waggon. Built as Tg type gas tank waggon by Comeng NSW as Tg 1 in Oct 1968 for South Australian Railways, to Victorian Railways in 1979 as TWF 10, then recoded to VTGX, then back to AN in 1988 as ATLX.
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040815 164638252 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA ballast waggon CHQY type 740 just being delivered to BHP Iron Ore as part of the Rail PACE project, 3/4 view from handbrake end.
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111-19251 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge shunt loco Y class Y 129 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 65-395 runs back into Geelong Yard light engine from the arrivals, shunters on loco, framed by signal box and signal post 16.
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113-12251 viewsWarrenheip, V/Line broad gauge up Adelaide goods train 9150 behind the quad CGCG combo of C class C 506 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-829, G class G 538 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1271, C 510 serial 76-833 and G 513 serial 85-1241, departing for Melbourne via Bacchus Marsh, semaphore signal post 9 pulled off for move, signal box and overview, in miserable conditions, poor quality.
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108-05251 viewsMurchison East silo complex, elevation of the Ascom Jumbo silo elevator, mobile grain bins in foreground.
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108-16251 viewsToolamba station building and platform, track removed, opening in platform where signal box once stood.
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