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227-18393 views30 km area on the Newman mainline, east of the original Quarry 1, an empty train powers along the gentle .17% rising grade behind a pair of Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild units and an General Electric AC6000. GeoData.
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227-29393 views30 km area, mid-train lead remote 5641 'Indee' serial 8281-06/92-130 a Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild. GeoData.
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232-14393 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 CM40-8M unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128 idles away in the backtrack awaiting its path back to Port Hedland with flat waggon 6703, four fuel tank waggons and a broken ore waggon. February 1997. GeoData.
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234-14393 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5640 'Ethel Creek' serial 8281-05 / 92-129 is on the rear of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. View of right hand side engine hood and fuel tank. Circa 1998.
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160523 3297393 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATBY 14592 fuel tank waggon, built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1981 for Bain Leasing as narrow gauge type JPB, 82000 litre capacity.
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160523 3576393 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WNB type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WNB 546, the final of six built by Bluebird Rail Services SA in 2010 for BHP Billiton.
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160524 4317393 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RQSY 34344 container waggon loaded with a Royal Wolf 25G1 type 20' box RWTU 966778. Originally built by Goninan NSW as an OCY type container waggon as part of a batch of one hundred in 1974-75.
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060107 1878393 viewsSpencer Junction, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 1 'Federation Straight' on train 6MP9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 78, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 360. 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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060528 4445393 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Australian Southern Railroad ECA type crew accommodation car ECA 98, originally built for the Commonwealth Railways by Wegmann & Co. in West Germany in 1955 as the ARF type first class air conditioned sleeper with rounded observation end ARF 98, rebuilt and recoded in 1972 without the observation end as BB type BB 98. Converted to a crew car in 1991.
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161111 2522393 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30076 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0076 type leader of the new CSA tanks built by Acid Plant Management Services. AQHY 30076 was 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.
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161116 5112393 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, tank waggon ATPF 584, built by Westrail Midland Workshops 1980 as the final Shell WJP type 80.66 kL one compartment one dome. Shell fleet no. TR719 still visible, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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161116 5125393 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, ATMF 551 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. WJM's 551 and 552 built for Shell and 553 for BP Oil. Fitted with type F InterLock coupler handbrake end and E type at the non-handbrake end.
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161116 5542393 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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050518 2128393 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 750, shows bogie detail, AT & SF CS-3000 bogie casting with CFCLA id of CQFE 093
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051001 5712393 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #23, 6208, builders plate, a Comeng WA built flat waggon from February 1977 under order no. 07-M-282 RY.
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060714 6895393 viewsGarden Siding, flat waggon 8500, originally built by Tomlinson Steel WA for Goldsworthy Mining as one of six 55 ton flat waggons built in 1966, and later modified by BHP to increase its capacity, bogie and handbrake detail.
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050412 0821393 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, builders plate of BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 12th April 2005.
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050518 2210393 viewsBing Siding, BHP's Switch Tamper SW 02 is a Plasser Australia model Unimat S4 switch tamper runs along the passing track. 18th May 2005.
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050801 4745393 viewsFlash Butt yard, BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 1st August 2005.
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060326 3201393 viewsBing Siding, south arrival with the new western mainline in the foreground ballast regulator BR 31 a Plasser Australia SSP 110SW model serial 401. 26th March 2006.
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