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PD 12609415 viewsBinduli, comparison between the two styles of WO type iron ore hopper waggons, on the left is the WAGR Midland Workshops built unit WO 31208 and on the right is the Goninan WA built replacement WO 31215 with the newer WOD style body.
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PD 12858415 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32401 with fleet number 929, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55.
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060528 4420415 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQCY 30308 here in barrier waggon service on an acid consist, originally built by Tomlinson Steel in 1970 as one of 161 units built as WFX type container waggon. Re-coded to WQCX in 1980 then WQTY in 1996.
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060528 4646 ATMF552N415 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATMF 552 fuel tank waggon, one of three built by Tulloch Limited NSW as WJM type in 1971 with a capacity of 96,250 litres, one compartment, one dome, current capacity of 80,500 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers. WJM's 551 and 552 built for Shell and 553 built for BP Oil.
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070529 9421415 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 578 fuel tank waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 for Shell as type WJP, it also spent time in SA in 1985, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80350 litres, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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100601 8437415 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WN 539, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of a further ten built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WN type in 1975 for WMC.
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100608 9721415 viewsMidland, AQNY 32211, second last of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S143Q and S88R both with replacement doors and roll top tarpaulins, on train 2430 empty Malcolm freighter.
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100609 09988415 viewsMidland, AZDY 30719, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted late 1988/9 to WQDF. Loaded here with two empty AGR sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 653 and SD 672.
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100611 0331415 viewsMidland, AQHY 30016 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0006, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 at WF type flat waggons, then following several codes and modifications in 1997 seventy five were converted to WQH to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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222-35415 viewsSomewhere on the original single line section between Gull and Rosella a pair of Hamersley Iron General Electric Dash 9-44CW's built by GE at Erie power a loaded train towards Dampier from the passing track back onto the mainline following a crew change.
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224-19415 viewsBing siding, 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie awaits the road to depart south, cab side shows new nameplate, steerable bogie and taper in cab side. GeoData.
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225-05415 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 behind General Electric AC6000 6074 serial 51066 built by GE at Erie as it passes Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5669. GeoData.
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225-10415 viewsBing siding, looking south, signal post BGN 3 arrival signal for south bound movements, empty train heading south, CM40-8M light engine on approach. GeoData.
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226-17415 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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228-07415 viewsYandi Two mobile machine fuel point. A Caterpillar 16G road motor grader is receiving attention.
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151111 9552415 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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160102 9829415 viewsWittenoom Gorge, eastern wall of gorge view, around Fifth Crossing. Geodata.
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233-12415 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. GeoData.
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060110 2211415 viewsOn the curve near the 85 km between Yeelanna and Karkoo, 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 leads an empty grain train. Approx. location of image.
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160522 2309415 viewsParkeston, APNY 31164, one of four built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1978 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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