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226-17272 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.
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227-28272 views30 km area, mid-train lead remote 5659 'Kobe' serial 8412-04/94-150 a Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild. GeoData.
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229-01272 viewsYandi Two balloon switch looking east with the Three Sisters forming the background. Empty BHP train heading for the balloon loop for loading, grade crossing is the YT 311.5 km. GeoData.
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229-10272 viewsYandi Two at the 311.5 km, view of the connections between the two remote power units on an empty train, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5660 on the right is the lead controlling remote, while 5657 on the left is the slave remote. GeoData.
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229-22272 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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229-26272 viewsYandi Two loadout exit side, as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 with sister unit 5642 drag a loading train 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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230-09272 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, empty car side, side view of two Goninan GE CM40-8M rebuilds from different ALCo builders. 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11/93-145 is from Comeng ALCo M636 unit 5493 while 5637 'De Grey' serial 8181-01/92-123 is from an AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5456. Geodata -22.713725, 119.055762 .
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151111 9542272 viewsAn empty train led by General Electric ES44DCi units 8162 serial 60226 and 8167 serial 60231 both in the Rio Tinto tiger strip livery leading Dash 9-44CW 7093 serial 47772, the last of the original build of Dash 9 units crossing Lake Poongkaliyarra.
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151111 9552272 viewsSide view of empty train led by General Electric ES44DCi units 8162 serial 60226 and 8167 serial 60231 both in the Rio Tinto tiger strip livery leading Dash 9-44CW 7093 serial 47772, the last of the original build of Dash 9 units at the 53 km.
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234-17272 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5640 'Ethel Creek' serial 8281-05 / 92-129 builders plate. Circa 1998.
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236-12272 viewsNelson Point, Car Dumper Two delivery roads, BHP Dash 8 class locomotive 5636 'Munda', a Goninan 1991 rebuild to GE CM40-8M model, serial 8151-11 / 91-122 with a sister unit await to dump their train of Comeng style waggons, next to them is a string of Golynx style waggons and on the left sits an AC6000 6073 with a Dash 8 awaiting access to Car Dumper Three. The Ore Car Repair Shop is on the right.
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238-15272 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 .
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060110 2224272 viewsAt the Procter Rd grade crossing about halfway between Yeelanna and Karkoo, 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.
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160523 2790272 viewsParkeston, APNY 31156, 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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160524 4371272 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 3438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 535, one of a further ten built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WN type in 1975 for WMC.
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160525 4540272 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRQY 7330 platform 1 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon, one of sixteen sets built by Qiqihar Rollingstock Works China in 2005, 48' deck with a 46' 6" ARLS reefer ARLS 469.
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160528 8414272 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RQKY type container waggon RQKY 2777, originally built by Perry Engineering SA in 1974 as RMX type in a batch of fifty five waggons. Recoded to AQMX then AQSY in 1988, then to RQKY in 1994. Loaded with two Eurotainer 20' 22T8 type ISO tank tainers EURU 920002 and 920001 with carbon dioxide and a 20' 2EG1 type container Pedemonts PHR 689.
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160528 8417272 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RRZY type five unit bar coupled well container waggon set RRZY 7016 platform 3, originally built by Goninan in a batch of twenty six RQZY type for National Rail, recoded when repaired. FCL 48' container FSGU 488445 double stacked with Sadleirs 48' container RCS 4816.
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160528 8424272 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RRZY type five unit bar coupled well container waggon set RRZY 7030 platform 1, originally built by Goninan in a batch of twenty six RQZY type for National Rail, recoded when repaired. 40' Sea2Rail container SCFU 408338 double stacked with a KTI 40' 4NSG type curtain sider KTI 407.
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160524 3776272 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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