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225-03429 viewsBing siding, the afternoon empty train to Yandi was a double AC6000, 112 waggons, AC6000 and 112 waggons for a long time, here's one on approach. Flashbutt yard is to the right. GeoData.
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226-15429 viewsShaw North, 216.5 km, view looking south with the 700 metre radius curve around to the right and the departure signals with the repeater posts at the far left and far right of the image. GeoData.
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228-11429 viewsYandi Two mobile machine parking bay, a new water cart for Henry Walker, operator of the BHP owned mine, WC201 is based on a Caterpillar 777B truck chassis.
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228-35429 viewsYandi Two load-out tunnel, Goninan rebuilt GE CM40-8M model 5649 'Pohang' serial 8412-07/93-140 eases a loading train out of the tunnel at the required 1.2 km/h. 5649 started life back in 1971 as an AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 5473 serial G6047-5. Geodata -22.719050, 119.040566 .
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229-23429 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking at the exit portal of the tunnel as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 drags a loading train through at 1.2 km/h, the massive pile of ore is gravity fed into the waggons via two sets of hydraulic chutes, the original pedestal radial stacker is visible above the ore along with the extraction fan. GeoData.
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150523 8229429 viewsNelson Point Yard, I Area, waggon scrapping by Sims Metal, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M 5665 shunts the waggons, its life also about to come to an end.
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232-18429 viewsYandi One backtrack, following a cyclone shutdown of the mainline and severe flooding around Yandi a 'mixed' freight train was operated to Yandi to deliver food, mail and diesel fuel to the mine and camp. Here BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128 idles away in the backtrack awaiting its path back to Port Hedland with flat waggon 6703, four fuel tank waggons and a broken ore waggon. February 1997. GeoData.
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236-16429 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted.
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160523 2794429 viewsParkeston, APNY 31162, final 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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160601 10073429 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, APTF type diesel fuel tanker ATPF 582, Shell Fleet No. 694, built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1976 for Shell. Converted to narrow gauge 1986 and recoded JPC. Capacity now 80,500 litres.
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160524 3776429 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RQLY 4 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skeletal waggon set, 1 of 8 built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1987 as AQJY, Royal Wolf 40' 4EG1 type box RWTU 941207[2].
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160601 10130429 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RQZY 7036 platform 1 of 5-pack well waggon set one of thirty two waggon sets built by Goninan NSW for National Rail in 1995-96, with an Scott's Refrigerated Railways 46' 6" MPR3 type reefer SRR 039.
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160609 0441429 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RQZY 7065 platform 3 of 5-pack well waggon set one of thirty two waggon sets built by Goninan NSW for National Rail in 1995-96, double stacked with an ARLS 46' 6" RFRG type reefer ARLS 462 and Pacific National 48' MFG1 type box PNXD 4218.
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160609 0443429 viewsWoodbridge, 5PM5 intermodal train, RQZY 7065 platform 5 of 5-pack well waggon set one of thirty two waggon sets built by Goninan NSW for National Rail in 1995-96, double stacked with a Rand Refrigerated Logistics 46' 6" MFR1 type reefer RAND 292 and an Austrans 40' 4FG1 type box AUCU 412425[0].
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110710 7429 PD429 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQAY 2273, this orphan waggon started life as a Comeng Vic built GOX type open waggon for Commonwealth Railways in 1970, then coded AOOX. Under AWR ownership is was reduced to this 3 TEU unit container skeletal waggon. Peter Donaghy image.
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051103 6702429 viewsSpencer Junction yard, ECA 162 built by Comeng NSW in 1964 for Commonwealth Railways as a BRE type second class, air conditioned, twin berth staggered corridor steel sleeping car BRE 162. Converted to ECA type crew car in 1991. Seen here under GWA ownership on loan to Pacific National and in use on East-West freighters. Finally it was scrapped at Dry Creek in December 2014.
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160530 9122429 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, ABSY type covered van ABSY 4488, one of a batch of fifty made by Comeng WA as VFX type 75' covered vans 1977, recoded to ABFX type, when Gemco WA upgraded it to ABSY type, seen here with the silver corrugated roof fitted and the centre loading roof hatch.
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160530 9159429 viewsParkeston, SCT train 1PM9 operates mostly empty from Perth to Melbourne, ABSY type ABSY 2792 covered van, originally built by Carmor Engineering SA in 1976 as a VFX type covered van for Commonwealth Railways, recoded to ABFX and converted from ABFY by Gemco WA in 2004/05 to ABSY.
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161109 1934429 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 56 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1967429 viewsThevenard, train 4DD4 enters the yard behind Genesee & Wyoming locomotives Clyde Engineering EMD model JL22C unit 1601 serial 71-728 and 1603 serial 71-730 as they negotiate the yard to the GRA siding balloon for unloading.
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