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253-01390 viewsDugite near the 64 km on the Dampier - Tom Price railway, a loaded Hamersley Iron train headed up by General Electric 9-44CW units 7078, from the original order, serial number 47757 and 7096, from the second order, serial number 52843 arrive taking the mainline to cross an empty which is in the passing track.
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255-35390 viewsEmu Siding on the Hamersley Iron Dampier to Tom Price line with the Western Creek Robe River interconnecting line on the left joining the HI Tom Price line. Train Control board for crews to change channels. May 2002.
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267-20390 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, CM40-8M GE unit 5634 'Boodarie' serial number 8151-07 / 91-120 leads the Sundowner Special on the Newman mainline leg of the Goldsworthy Junction and triangle, with the Sundowner coach in the middle and sister CM40-8M 5653 bringing up the rear.
This train, and the empty before it, were delayed due to a jamming switch for the transfer road where Tamper 2 and Ballast Regulator 31 are holding track.
They can be seen behind the signal sitting on the transfer road.
Friday 12th of April 2002.
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268-28390 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year service agreement special, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5653 'Chiba' serial number 8412-10 / 93-144 stands on the Newman mainline with The Sundowner and 5634 on the rear of the train as the party conducts an inspection of the site. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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160711 iPh5S 2828390 viewsWittenoom cemetery located in the grounds of the old airport alongside the old north-west/south-east running runway. Sign placed in 2015. Location is here.
More details can be found on these two websites, Oz Burials, and WA4WD.
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283-26390 viewsHarding Siding, Robe River locomotive 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. Everything below the frame is ALCo while above is GE and Pilbara Cab.
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210407 9878390 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 9895390 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RQFY type flat waggon RQFY 1 is the class leader of the QMX type skeletal container waggons built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1978 in a batch of forty. Recoded to VQFX in 1979, then to RQFX in 1994.
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231020 8141390 viewsParkeston, 6020 class locomotive 6025 was built by Goninan NSW as a GE C44ACi model with serial number R0093-11 / 12-478 in 2012 and trails on 4UP1 along the mainline at Parkeston enroute to Kwinana, 20th of October 2023.
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140-1-24389 viewsBallarat North or C Signal Box, looking west, semaphore signal post 4, left arm is the Down Home to Ararat line, right arm is Down Home Maryborough line, and the disc is for the workshops sidings, the wheel for the interlocked swing gates can be seen in the window of the signal box.
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148-35389 viewsWangaratta, old town water tower, opened in 1929 and was the main storage tank for many years. It is no longer in use, but provides a venue for abseilers.
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153-2-33389 viewsArarat station yard, track interlocking view, points, lever, indicator, rodding and wire, counter weight on signal post.
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203-22389 viewsBing Siding, empty train behind a pair of General Electric AC6000 units powers around the curve. Note the ladder on the original Comeng style waggon.
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220-24389 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, a loaded train from Yarrie mine lead by BHP Dash 7 unit 5507 'Nimingarra' serial 4839-03 / 87-072 was rebuilt by Goninan WA from an ALCo C636 unit 5461 into GE model C36-7M in 1987.
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060528 4489389 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32385, fleet number 910, 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 4568389 viewsWOC type iron ore waggon WOC 31341 is leader of a batch of thirty built by Goninan WA between October 1997 to January 1998 with fleet number 401 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity and lettered for KIPL, Koolyanobbing Iron Pty Ltd, seen here loaded with fines ore at Bonnie Vale in train number 413, 28th May 2006.
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100602 8547389 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33536 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-076 and fleet number 9023 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.
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100602 8573389 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33531 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-071 and fleet number 9016 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.
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100605 9356389 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33551 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-091 and fleet number 9045 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, seen here Binduli Triangle 5th June 2010.
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100731 02428389 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33554 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-094 and fleet number 9046 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on empty train 6418 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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