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100609 09975422 viewsMidland, AQRY 1023 two-pack platform B loaded with two 20' Mediterranean Shipping 22G1 type boxes containing lead, MSCU 191448 and MSCU 329763. The AQRY are a bar-coupled pair and were used for rail transport as the AFRF type on the Darwin line and are originally former ANR-CR waggons.
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100609 09997422 viewsMidland, ATBY 14593 fuel tanker, one of nine JPB type tankers built for Bain Leasing Pty Ltd by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1981/82 for narrow gauge recoded to JPBA, converted to standard gauge as WJPB. 82000 litre capacity, with a 75000 SF limit.
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221-31422 viewsYandi One mine loadout balloon loop, near new General Electric AC6000 unit 6074 serial 51066 leads sister unit 6071 serial 51063 at the Y312.1 km crossing while controlling a train being loaded.
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224-34422 viewsBing siding, the afternoon empty to Yandi was a staple of the AC6000 units when delivered, operating the train as a pair, 112 waggons, AC6000 and 112 waggons. 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie departs the loop south with sister unit 6073. GeoData.
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227-08422 viewsNelson Point, view along the rear of A and B berths from Shiploader 2, salt pile on the left, then the under harbour tunnel portal, old reclaimers 3 and 4 with the crushing building in the distance, which has now been demolished, and the rear of Shiploader 1 on B berth. GeoData.
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227-26422 views30 km looking south, empty ore train with mostly Comeng built ore waggons. GeoData.
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227-30422 views25 km signal location on the BHP Newman mainline. 25 S for south bound trains, the other signal is 25 N. GeoData.
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228-13422 viewsYandi Two mobile machine fuel point. A Caterpillar 16G road motor grader is receiving attention.
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230-34422 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, mid-train remote units Goninan GE CM40-8M rebuilds from different ALCo builders. 5657 'Fukuyama' serial 8412-02/94-148 is from Comeng ALCo M636 unit 5492 while 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03/92-128 is from an AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5459. Note the marker lights on 5657 and the sheet metal windscreen protectors to prevent the blown ore pitting the screens. Geodata -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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231-21422 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 an Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M GE unit loads a train at 1.2 km/h with second unit 5650. GeoData.
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234-08422 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 left hand side leading bogie. Circa 1998.
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234-17422 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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160522 2042422 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATLY 1 Origin LPG tank waggon. Built as Tg type gas tank waggon by Comeng NSW as Tg 1 in Oct 1968 for South Australian Railways, to Victorian Railways in 1979 as TWF 10, then recoded to VTGX, then back to AN in 1988 as ATLX.
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160523 3583422 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 508, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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060107 1878422 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 4257422 viewsParkeston, SCT PDAY type crew accommodation car PDAY 001 'Robert Mervin Yates', built by SAR Islington Workshops as a 250 type Bluebird second class railcar number 253 and named 'Pelican' in 1955, written off in 1995 and sold and eventually converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail Services in 2005.
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070530 9520422 viewsParkeston, Pacific National FAM type crew accommodation coach FAM 2389 on train 3PM6, built for the NSWGR by Comeng NSW in 1976 as part of a batch of ten FAM type twinette sleeper cars, FAM 2389 was also the Lithgow breakdown train accommodation car for a time, converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail at Islington in September 2005.
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161109 1928422 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 42 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1929422 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 16 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161111 2416422 viewsKalgoorlie, Malcolm freighter train 5029, waggon AQWY 31004, one of eighteen WFA type container waggons built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1981, carrying three 20' 22G1 type containers, RWLU 214077, RSSU 128484 and XXXU 209747.
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