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232-2460 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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233-0360 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. An empty train can be seen about to enter the tunnel. GeoData.
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233-0660 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. An empty trains headlight can be seen in the tunnel. GeoData.
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233-1460 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. A loading train lead by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 as it drags the train through at 1.2 km/h with assistance from two sister units. GeoData.
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234-3760 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. View looking across the YT315.8 km grade crossing and 5658 back to the ore stockpile at the loadout. Circa 1998.
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235-2860 viewsYandi One, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11 / 93-145 sits on a loaded train awaiting departure time and also has the late marigold style BHP logo, cab side and Alco Hi-Ad bogie.
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235-3660 viewsYandi One, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11 / 93-145 sits on a loaded train awaiting departure time with second unit also a Goninan GE rebuild 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128, note the differences in the two locos as 5653 is rebuilt from a Comeng built ALCo M636 while 5639 was an AE Goodwin built ALCo C636. 5654 also has the late marigold style BHP logo.
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236-2460 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuilt CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 sits out the front awaiting attention, with AC6000 units 6072 being driven out and 6077 beside it.
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236-3060 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 next to sister unit 6077.
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160525 481660 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, misnumbered AQHY 30088, plate shows AQHY 3008 L, with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0126, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana, part of empty acid train 4405 departing in the yard. CSA 0126 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 482760 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTBF type fuel tank waggon NTBF 6118, with former owners name (Freight Australia) visible. Originally built by Comeng NSW in 1975 as an SCA type 69,000 litre bitumen tanker SCA 267 for Shell NSW.
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160531 962160 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, diesel fuel tanker ATMY 553, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW for BP Oil in 1971 as WJM type, capacity of 102000 litres, diesel capacity of 76000 litres, refurbished by Gemco WA in Oct 2015.
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160526 521060 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, RRKY 2766 container waggon, one of fifty five built by Perry Engineering SA in 1974 as class RMX, recoded to AQMX, AQSY, RQKY, 20' Linfox FSWB 963501 top loading container and a Cronos 20' tanktainer CRXU 861086.
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160526 524960 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, RQCY 865 container waggon one of a hundred built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1977 as FQX class, recoded to VQCX, in 1994 to RQCX. 20' plain box CCLU 310893 and a 40' KT class flatrack KT 596 with concrete panels.
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160526 525160 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, RQWW 22015 container waggon, one of thirty two built by Comeng NSW in 1973-75 as JCW class, recoded to NQJW with a Cahill 20' side door CHLL 200040, 20' open top Railroad Transport RTP 2011 and a Toll 40' half height curtainsider.
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160527 556760 viewsKaronie, 4MP5 intermodal train, AN 9, one of eleven AN class built by Clyde Engineering EMD as model JT46C serial 93-1305 for Australian National in 1992-93.
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160528 831160 viewsParkeston, priority service 6PS7 rolls into Parkeston taking the loop behind Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 114 serial 7250-10/97-311 and NR 10 serial 7250-01/97-212. The Loongana Lime plant is in the background.
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160528 832460 viewsParkeston, priority service 6PS7, RQQY 7083 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of seventeen sets built by Qld Rail at Ipswich Workshops in 1995, with an FCL 20' Pocket Jumbo 50 m3 box FPJG 201008.
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160528 833360 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 65 serial 7250-11/96-267, originally built for National Rail now in current owner Pacific National livery.
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160528 834860 viewsParkeston, 5SP5 intermodal train, RLSY 18657 in Sadleirs traffic, recoded from RLUY. One of one hundred and fifty built by Comeng NSW as the KLY type louvre vans in 1975/76. Transferred to National Rail in 1994 and recoded from NLKY / NLUY.
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