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226-17409 viewsShaw North, 216.5 km, departure signals SWN 4 for the mainline and SWN 6 for the loop for loaded trains that are about to descend the steep 1.5 percent decent to Garden Siding. Dragging equipment detection bars visible, they are painted yellow and the interlocking room with solar array mounted above the cutting. The signal on the top of the cutting on the right is SWN 6R the repeater post for SWN 6 due to the 700 metre radius curve north bound trains approach this location. GeoData.

229-04409 viewsYandi Two at the 311.5 km with an empty BHP train heading for the loadout behind a pair of Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units with second unit 5642 'Wallareenya' serial 8281-07 / 92-131 trailing sister unit 5650. GeoData.

229-14409 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking through the tunnel and the CM40-8M profile of 5650 can be just made out, the massive pile of ore is gravity fed into the waggons via two sets of hydraulic chutes, Yandi Two features to loadout vaults for extra capacity, in later years it allowed two different products, fines and lumps to be stacked. GeoData.

230-20409 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 .

236-35409 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 name plate view.

238-14409 viewsNelson Point, ex Southern Pacific tunnel motor locomotive 8335 an EMD SD40T-2 unit, serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, purchased as a spare parts source for the other SD40 style units BHP Billiton purchased in 2003/04. 19th November 2003. Geodata .

060110 2179409 viewsNear the 73 km and Cockaleechie Road grade crossing, empty grain train with 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 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.

060110 2185409 viewsNear the 78 km, empty grain train with 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 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.

060110 2197409 viewsYeelanna, trailing shot with two AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 830 class, 851 serial 84137 and 842 serial 84140 as they shunt along the mainline behind 1204. Approx. location of image.

060110 2233409 viewsKarkoo, empty grain train behind 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 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.

160523 3333409 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30064 with CSA 0119, originally built by the 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 to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth. CSA 0119 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.

160531 9959409 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 577 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1974 for Shell as type WJP, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80500 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers Shell Fleet no. TR712.

160523 3601409 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30058 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0108, 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 loaded acid train 2406 arriving back in the yard. CSA 0108 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.

160524 3771409 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RQQY 7076 platform 3 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 17 built by Qld Rail at Ipswich Workshops in 1995, 48' Linfox box DRC 511.

160524 4295409 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, NQTY 20322, totally unrecognisable from original build by EPT NSW 1979-81 as part of a batch of two hundred BDY type 14.20 metre open waggons, had several recoding's prior to its current guise, loaded with two Royal Wolf 22G1 type 20' boxes RWLU 815002 and RWLU 815047.

160529 8842409 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQQY 7076

160529 8853409 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRGY 7130

160601 10128409 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2MP5 intermodal train, RQZY 7036 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 Toll 40' 4FG1 type box TOLH 910107 and Scott's Refrigerated Railways 46' 6" MPR3 type reefer SRR 033.

160609 0441409 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.

160609 0443409 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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