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247-32411 viewsNear Cooya Pooya at the 37.5 km on the Robe River Cape Lambert line an empty train is about to pass under the town water supply pipeline and pass through Lockyer Gap behind the standard Robe power of quad CM40-8M or Dash 8 locomotives led by 9425 which is a Goninan WA ALCo to GE rebuild CM40-8M with serial 6266-8 / 89-85 from August 1989 riding on Hi-Ad bogies and was originally an AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo serial C-6041-4 and built new for Mt Newman Mining (later BHP Iron Ore) in April 1970 and numbered 5468, sold to Robe and delivered by road 17th August 1982. Location is here.22nd May 2002.
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249-34411 viewsLoaded Hamersley Iron ore waggon pair Tomlinson Steel WA built 5708 and Nippon Sharyo Japan built 906. Approximate location. 18th December 1999.
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210322 9574411 viewsNear Gecko on Rio Tinto's Dampier - Tom Price line is Chinese built ballast waggon BAH 121 on a loaded ballast rake. Location is roughly here. 22nd March 2021.
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245-34411 viewsMinnipa yard looking in the up direction from the down end, on the left is goods siding #1, mainline to Port Lincoln, goods siding #2 and goods siding #3 on the right. 7th April, 2003.
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140601 4496411 viewsWoodbridge, empty Carina bound iron ore train #1035, CFCLA leased CHCH type waggon CHCH 7757 these waggons were rebuilt between 2010 and 2012 by Bluebird Rail Operations SA from former Goldsworthy Mining hopper waggons originally built by Tomlinson WA and Scotts of Ipswich Qld back in the 60's to early 80's. 1st June 2014.
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267-28411 views39 km Newman line, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' serial number 8151-07 / 91-120 slows as it brings the Sundowner special to a stop at the 39 km detector site on the Newman mainline.
The trailing unit is 5653.
This was a special for the 25 years of the Alstom / BHP service agreement.
Friday 12th of April 2002.
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131024 IMG 0647411 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AZWY 30373 'Sputnik' loco oil and sand waggon, originally built as an WFX type flat waggon by Tomlinson Steel in a batch of one hundred and sixty one in 1969-70. Recoded to WQCX type in 1980 and to WSP type waste oil and sand waggon in 1986. Peter Donaghy image.
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210407 9878411 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, platform 1 of 5-pack low profile skel waggon set RRYY 13, one of fifty two such waggon sets built by Bradken at Braemar NSW in 2004-05, with a Toll MEG1 type 48' container TCML 48482.
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210407 9894411 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, CQWY type well waggon CQWY 5060 well 2, the final set of well waggon pairs were built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in a batch of sixty pairs in 2008 for CFCLA. Loaded with a 40' Lindsay Transport reefer LTCD 401806.
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8410 Goninan 110620 1965411 viewsWalla Siding, comparison between two BHP ore waggons loaded with Yandi fines of the Golynx design type, 8410 was built in November 2001 for bottom discharge on the Goldsworthy system with serial number 950088-340, while 6834 was built in 2008. The burn or weld marks are still visible on 8410 from when it was in GML service, now converted for rotary service, noticed the filled in end and the angle section along the top edge for support. June 20, 2011.
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100603 9002411 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PQIY type 80' container flat PQIY 0007, one of forty units built by Gemco WA in 2009 loaded with 40' SCT reefer FORU 40 / SCTR008 and 40' SCT Logistics GPR1 type reefer SCTU 02 / CR017.
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153-2-29410 viewsArarat signal box, mainline in from of box, rear view from yard tracks.
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153-2-31410 viewsArarat station yard, point indicator.
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156-24410 viewsNumurkah, Picola Junction looking north from the end of Numurkah yard, line to Strathmerton is straight, Picola line branches off to the left, double doll semaphore signal post pulled off for Strathmerton line.
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192-25410 viewsCootamundra West, NSW, view looking up direction across Freer's private grade crossing towards Cootamundra West from the up home mechanical lower quadrant semaphore signal on a wooden post and still with finial. Lever 48 operates this signal. The sidings on the left are the Refuge and No.1 Goods Sidings.
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199-21410 viewsMeckering, east bound freighter 7PM5 with former Australian National RMDY type triple deck car carriers now branded for National Rail. RMDY type built by Comeng Victoria for Commonwealth Railways in 1976 as GN type, a batch of 30 with the final 15 coded GNX, third deck added to 14 of the first 15 in 1987 and recoded to AMDF, then AMDY to RMDY in 1994.
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060528 4491410 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32395 with fleet number 933, 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, 28th May 2006.
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060528 4544410 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33237 is one of a batch of twenty seven built by Goninan WA between September and October 2002 with serial number and fleet number 736 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, Bonnie Vale 28th May 2006.
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070531 9728410 viewsWOC type iron ore waggon WOC 31361 is one of a batch of thirty built by Goninan WA between October 1997 to January 1998 with fleet number 421 and build date of 12/1997, for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity and lettered for KIPL, Koolyanobbing Iron Pty Ltd, on an empty train at Binduli, 31st May 2007.
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100602 8551410 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 31129 is one of a batch of one hundred and thirty built by Goninan WA between March and August 2001 with serial number 950092-119 and fleet number 711 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with revised load of 82.5 tonne and PORTMAN painted out, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.
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