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229-30315 viewsYandi Two loadout exit side, as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 and sister unit 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, on the left the mid-train remotes can just be made out. GeoData.
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230-25315 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, view of the stockpile area and pedestal stacker, train being loaded at 1.2 km/h behind 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 -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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232-19315 viewsYandi One backtrack, following a cyclone shutdown of the mainline and severe flooding around Yandi a 'mixed' freight train was operated to Yandi to deliver food, mail and diesel fuel to the mine and camp. Here BHP Iron Ore loaded Comeng WA built ore waggon 2871 has been re-sheeted with 3CR12 stainless steel side walls. February 1997. GeoData.
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160523 2805315 viewsParkeston, APNY 31160, 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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160525 4818315 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 empty acid train 4405 departing in the yard. CSA 0108 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4495315 viewsParkeston, 3PM7 priority service train, RRAY 7166 platform 4 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, one of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 48' deck with a Pacific National 48' curtainsider PNXC 5636.
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160524 4289315 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKLY 20383, 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 RH type coil containers or 'butter boxes' RH 166 and RH 277.
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160524 4291315 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKLY 20220, 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 RH type coil containers or 'butter boxes' RH 127 and RH 441.
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160524 4292315 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, NQYY 20884, totally unrecognisable from original build by EPT NSW 1980-81 as part of a batch of two hundred BDY type 14.20 metre open waggons, modified in 1999 to NQYY container waggon, loaded with two RH type coil containers or 'butter boxes' RH 446 and RH 283.
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160524 4307315 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKAX 13, 2-pack rail transport waggon, this waggon was converted by Port Augusta Workshops from two original FBX type waggons built in 1968-69 by Islington Workshops in a batch of twenty later coded AFCX. AFCX 13 & AKAX 5 where the donors for this waggon. Loaded with a full load of rail strings.
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160601 10128315 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.
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060528 4152315 viewsParkeston, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 221, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1940 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress as AS 6, in April 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 1, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 221. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2004.
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060603 5451315 viewsMidland, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation car RZAY 940 on train 7PS6 was built by Comeng NSW as an ARJ type stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car ARJ 240 in 1968, allocated to the Indian Pacific Joint Stock in 1970, renumbered to ARJ 940 in 1974 and sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997.
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070529 9484315 viewsParkeston, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 2 'Great Artesian' on train 2PM9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 79, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 361. Recoded to AVDY in October 1982, then to AVDP. Sold to WCR, then in October 2000 overhauled for crew car use and coded VPAY 1 on SCT services and owned by Freight Australia. Was later sold to Pacific National and subsequently scrapped 2016.
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161109 1935315 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 60, refurbished and wearing current owner Genesee & Wyoming orange and decal with matching hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1950315 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 41, refurbished and wearing current owner Genesee & Wyoming orange and decal with matching hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161112 3002315 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, CQZY type waggon CQZY 1661, built by CIMC at Dalian China for CFCLA and one of fifteen on lease to Aurizon with original style sulphur container S169R G920 with sliding tarpaulin and Bis Industries roll-top type 55UA container SBIU 200608.
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161112 3457315 viewsBinduli, loaded Hampton acid train 7406 with AQHY 30078 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0082, 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 type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana. CSA 0082 was built by Acid Plant Management Services, WA.
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161112 3460315 viewsBinduli, loaded Hampton acid train 7406 with AQHY 30110 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0118, 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 type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana. CSA 0118 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions.
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161116 5542315 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443 departs West Kalgoorlie behind UGL Rail built GE model C44ACi unit ACC 6031 serial R-0093-01 / 13-485 with 17 waggons for 345 metres and 425 tonnes on the overnight run to Esperance.
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