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060113 257278 viewsCeduna, or Denial Bay area, empty gypsum train 6DD5 blasts up hill at the 440 km, crossing Carpenter Corner Rd with power from triple 1600/NJ class units 1604, NJ 3 and 1601. 1604 in Australian Railroad Group livery is a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-731, originally built as NJ class NJ 4. Location approximation. 13th January 2006.
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130708 083378 viewsMoule, crossing loop, 445.6 km.
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130708 087678 viewsThevenard, loaded train running through the back of the yard parallel to Bergmann Drive, 434.2 km.
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100609 0998978 viewsMidland, AZDY 30746, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted late 1988/9 to WQDF. Loaded here with two empty AGR sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 622 and SD 657.
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221-2478 viewsYandi One mine loadout balloon loop, overview of the stockpile, the train can be seen in the middle distance on the right.
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225-0778 viewsBing siding, the afternoon departure for Yandi mine heads south past the ballast consist, behind the standard double General Electric AC6000 units with GE Erie built 6075 serial 51067 second unit to lead sister unit 6074 with another AC6000 unit mid-train. This was before the units were named. GeoData.
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225-1978 viewsAt the 24.1 km grade crossing on the BHP Newman line, the afternoon departure for Yandi mine heads south behind the standard double General Electric AC6000 units with GE Erie built 6074 serial 51066 leading sister unit 6075 with another AC6000 unit mid-train. This was before the units were named. GeoData.
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226-3578 viewsShaw siding 219 km, 5656 'Keihin' serial 8412-01 / 94-147 is the lead or controlling remote on the mid-train pair of units, the CCTV camera is visible under the radiator wing, this was a trial for single man crewing when operating long end lead, also note the large flat fuel tank indicating these two units were Comeng NSW built ALCo's. GeoData.
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227-1878 views30 km area on the Newman mainline, east of the original Quarry 1, an empty train powers along the gentle .17% rising grade behind a pair of Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild units and an General Electric AC6000. GeoData.
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228-1578 viewsYandi Two mobile machine fuel point. A Caterpillar 16G road motor grader is receiving attention.
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230-1778 viewsYandi Two load-out tunnel exit side portal, Goninan rebuild GE CM40-8M model 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11/93-145 leads a loading train 1.2 km/h. The ore stockpile and pedestal stacker are visible. The livery is the marigold version of the BHP Australia logo. Geodata -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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232-2578 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, waggons are standard Comeng WA builds. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.
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236-3678 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 'Chichester' serial 51063 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted, cab side and bogie view.
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060110 220978 viewsOn the curve near the 85 km between Yeelanna and Karkoo, 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 leads an empty grain train. Approx. location of image.
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160522 230778 viewsParkeston, APNY 31155 one of twelve built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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160528 845178 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, platform 2 of 5-pack RRRY 7012 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005, double stacked with a SCF Rail Containers 40' box SCFU 412281 and Linfox 46' reefer FTAD 910600 on top.
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160524 404778 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKQF 60229, empty slab steel waggon, originally a Tulloch NSW built louvre van type JLY/X from 1969-70, NLJY/X, converted at Bathurst Workshops to NQRX in 1988, then in 1989/90 to NKQF.
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160524 430878 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKOX 4102, originally built by Transfield WA in 1976 as part of a batch of two hundred GOX type open waggons, recoded to AOOX, then to AKOX. Loaded with long products.
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160524 432578 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RQJW 22034, from the second batch of fifty built between 1975 and 1976 by Mittagong Engineering NSW as the JCW type 80' container waggon. Recoded to NQJW type. Loaded with two Royal Wolf 40' 42G1 type boxes RWTU 431317 and RWTU 431580.
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160531 987978 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, RRKY type container waggon RRKY 2723, originally built by Perry Engineering SA as part of a batch of forty five RM type container waggons in 1974, before going through several code changes and then fitted with aligned bogies as AQPY. Loaded with three 22G1 type 20' Royal Wolf boxes, RWMC 817983, RWMC 818013 and RWMC 815879. 31st of May 2016.
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