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197-16235 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, Mancha battery locomotive #4 looking south east, demolished workshops and office behind with the battery charging shed remains in the distance. Drivers seat, brake wheel and controller visible.
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200-07235 viewsMoorine Rock, Westrail L class 271 departs the loop with the Barclay Mowlem ballast cleaning train, known as the Circus Train with a WGLA type waggon on the rear 22nd June 1997.
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210-10235 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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160128 00416235 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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108-05234 viewsMurchison East silo complex, elevation of the Ascom Jumbo silo elevator, mobile grain bins in foreground.
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110-06234 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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134-04234 viewsKagaru, station overview, station building, waiting room, signal box, staff exchange platform.
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112-15234 viewsNorth Geelong yard, broad gauge V/Line G class G 534 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1264 and sister G class empty grain train, No.1 Rd Sorting Sidings.
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114-16234 viewsTocumwal station yard, looking south, on standard gauge track, cranes to the right.
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196-28234 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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103-20233 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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111-19233 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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200-03233 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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203-26233 viewsDrillers Ridge, Wittenoom, the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) tower was a navigation aid for the Department of Civil Aviation for the Wittenoom airport, the site was also used by Telecom for providing 'radio links' for phones into Wittenoom prior to the current tower located at the eastern edge of town which links back to Auski Roadhouse.
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203-35233 viewsYampire Gorge, remains of asbestos mining, former roadway over grown with sign from the National Parks Board of WA.
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030415 070041233 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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223-08233 viewsPossum Siding, Hamersley Iron rail grinder, view of main generating lead unit, Speno built RR 48 M-1 model sits in the back track siding. 21st October 2000.
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160101 9759233 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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150522 8177233 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M unit 5663 serial 8412-08 / 94-154, this unit was rebuilt without a cab and this cab was later retrofitted, was originally AE Goodwin NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5476 serial C6087-8. Photo of the removed cab can be seen here .
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160525 4943233 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1. Inline fuelling waggon QQFY 4271, originally built for Commonwealth Railways in 1976 by Perry Engineering SA as type RMX, recoded to AQMX, 70 tonne bogies became AQMY, then RQMY, to QR National in 2007. Seen here with two 30' diesel fuel tanktainers from Nantong Tank Container Company, NTTU 330006 and NTTU 330001 each with a 30800 litre capacity, and fuel transfer or pump unit QRIP 06.
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