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0001 Comeng NSW 050414 0943452 viewsFlash Butt yard, Comeng NSW built 82 kilolitre water tank waggon 0001, one of two such tank waggons built in November 1970.
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0507 Magor USA 060414 3446452 viewsNelson Point yard, originally a Magor USA built ballast waggon for the Oroville Dam construction, 507 seen here modified as a weighbridge test waggon with an axle load of 20 ton. The others in the fleet are 40, 60 and 100 tons. April 14, 2006.
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060429 3718452 viewsFlash Butt yard, a view along the Harsco 'Pony' track resleeping and relaying machine and sleeper carting waggons and gantry trolleys.
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6017 Comeng WA 060429 3733452 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony waggon 6017, built by Comeng WA in 1971 in a batch of three numbered 6014-6017, view of asset number 6506-017.
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050409 0410452 viewsShell Swagman Roadhouse, Lampson eighty wheel float ready to deliver BHP's new mainline tamper a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480 view of front trolley and tarp protecting windscreen. 9th April 2005.
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050410 0512452 viewsNelson Point yard hard stand area sees brand new having only been delivered the day before, BHP track tamper to become Tamper 3, a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480. 10th April 2005.
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050410 0524452 viewsNelson Point yard hard stand area rear view of brand new having only been delivered the day before, BHP track tamper to become Tamper 3, a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480. 10th April 2005.
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050801 4721452 viewsNelson Point yard, ballast regulator BR 33 a Plasser Australia model SSP 302 unit serial M486. 1st August 2005.
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050801 4760452 viewsFlash Butt yard, end view of Barclay Mowlem tamping machine TM 8644 a Tamper HSTR 130 model serial 3581011. 1st August 2005.
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030404 103013452 viewsPort Augusta, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 30 serial 7250-05 / 97-232 was painted in a Bessie Liddle of Alice Springs designed aboriginal livery titled 'Warmi' or the snake, John Moriarty of Balarinji Design did the artwork.
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030404 104430452 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, National Rail Goninan built GE Cv40-9i model NR class unit NR 34 serial 7250-06 / 97-236 sits in the yard in between jobs. 4th April 2003.
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030404 120231452 viewsStirling North, looking east from Port Augusta, line to Stirling North yard and Leigh Creek curves away to the left, line to Port Augusta power is right at bottom of frame.
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170728 09895452 viewsWestern Creek, the disabled Mesa A train gets underway with relief power from General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8137 serial 59140 and Dash 9-44CW unit 7082 as the operate the train with the two ES44ACi units isolated. An empty train can be seen climbing the grade up through Emu. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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060723 7825452 viewsOriginal Hamersley Iron compressor waggon sets IC-1 and IC-3 which were made from cutting down condemned ore waggons and then fitting Atlas Copco XAS 97 air compressors, receiver tanks and fuel tanks. The compressors have been fitted to a swing cradle to limit the in-train forces during the unloading process. 7 Mile 23rd July 2006.
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171018 0954452 viewsTad Yard, overview of Roy Hill's fuel tanks and waggon loading gantry with a fuel train being loaded headed up by ES44ACi unit RHA 1020 serial number 64301 built in Erie Pennsylvania, USA by GE. 17th October 2018.
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241-07452 viewsNelson Point, Mt Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW sits awaiting partial dismantling before being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's museum at Bassendean, Perth for preservation, cab side view. June 2002.
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190107 0490452 viewsParkeston, side view of Mineral Resources MRL class loco MRL 002 'Spirit of Yilgarn' with serial R-0113-03/14-505 a UGL Rail Broadmeadow NSW built GE model C44ACi in 2014.
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190107 0587452 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00200 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-200 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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200914 7786452 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, bogie view of former Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates RSC-3 model ALCo locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1951 for NSWGR as the 40 class 4002 serial 77733, purchased by CRRIA in 1971 and numbered 261.002, then 1705 and finally 9405. 4002 is preserved in an operational state and another claim to fame is it run the Royal Train in NSW February 1954. Donated to the Society in 1979. 14th September 2020.
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247-12452 viewsCape Lambert, Robe River's 9426 a Comeng WA rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Seen here in the South Yard dragging a loaded rake down to the car dumper. Approximate location of train is here. 22nd May 2002.
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