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130704 0410370 viewsKyancutta, south bound loaded grain train has stopped here to collect a loaded rack of grain waggons, seen here backing up to re-join the rest of the train on the mainline as it crosses the Eyre Highway grade crossing and one of only three electric signals on the network, behind EMD 1204 and twin ALCo 830 units 873 and 851. 4th July 2013.
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130704 0472370 viewsKyancutta, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 5, originally an NHB type hopper built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Seen here loaded with grain with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover.
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130705 0562370 viewsLock, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 24, originally an NHB type hopper NHB 1575 built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Fitted with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover. 5th July 2013.
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130705 0622370 viewsLock, with loading finished, 1203 leads 846, 859 and the final portion along goods siding #1 as it prepares to shunt back onto the loaded portion on the mainline for departure to Port Lincoln.
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130708 0820370 viewsMoule, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 46 F, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Mewett Rd grade crossing, 470.1 km.
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130708 0827370 viewsMoule, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 29, with hungry boards painted in corporate orange of Genesee Wyoming, loaded with gypsum, Mewett Rd grade crossing, 470.1 km.
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130708 0877370 viewsThevenard, loaded train running through the back of the yard parallel to Bergmann Drive, 434.2 km.
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130708 0911370 viewsThevenard originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 42, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum crossing Bergmann Drive grade crossing, 434.2 km.
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PD 12410370 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31481 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-053 and fleet number 542 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance, now with PORTMAN painted out, Binduli Triangle, 17th Feb 2013.
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PD 12610370 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31213 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 109 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity. This unit was converted to WOG for gypsum in late 1980s till 1990 then reclassed to WOS for superphosphate before being re-classed back to WO in 1994. This unit was converted to WOG for gypsum in late 1980s till 1990 then reclassed to WOS for superphosphate before being re-classed back to WO in 1994. Seen here with the body top lip also fitted.
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100611 0353370 viewsMidland, APNY 3115, 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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100611 0355370 viewsMidland, APNY 31151, 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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227-19370 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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229-30370 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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232-00370 viewsYandi Two crushing and screening plant, built and operated by Henry Walker for BHP Iron Ore, overview from the radial stacker feed conveyor. From the left is the primary crusher, the dual secondary crushers can be made out behind the tertiary crushers in the middle and the screenhouse is the large building tot he right, the conveyor leading to the right is CV210. February 1997. GeoData.
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235-00370 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 arrives with the afternoon 240 waggon empty train with second unit Goninan built CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus', notice the fuel tank differences between the lead unit an ALCo rebuild and the second unit built new. The loadout operator is walking past the train.
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235-11370 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 arrives with the afternoon 240 waggon empty train, the hydraulic lines and dust extraction equipment frame the loco.
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238-15370 viewsNelson Point, ex Southern Pacific tunnel motor locomotive 8335 an EMD SD40T-2 unit, serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, purchased as a spare parts source for the other SD40 style units BHP Billiton purchased in 2003/04. 19th November 2003. Geodata .
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060110 2176370 viewsNear the 73 km and Cockaleechie Road grade crossing, empty grain train with ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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060110 2186370 viewsNear the 78 km, empty grain train with ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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