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060113 2550373 viewsKevin, standing on the mainline to Thevenard, and the train now identified as 6DD4 has commenced loading of gypsum but the 988 Cat front end loaders which takes about one and half hours to load. As the train reversed on the triangle the consist is the same heading back loaded with 1604 leading NJ 3 and 1601. 13th January 2006.
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130703 0146373 viewsMurdinga, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 11, 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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130703 0160373 viewsMurdinga, overview of the station yard looking north, siding point lever and indicator, Mallee style shelter train control building in the far distance on the left beside train, grain train loading on the siding, eight cell concrete grain silo complex with Ascom single cell behind it. Geo location. 3rd July 2013.
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130705 0563373 viewsLock, HBN type dual use ballast / grain hopper waggons, HBN 4 still with side gangways in place. One of seventeen built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 with a 25 ton capacity, increased to 34 tons in 1974. HBN 1-11 fitted with removable tops and roll-top hatches in 1999-2000. 5th July 2013.
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130705 0606373 viewsLock, up end looking down through Lock, Viterra fast loader loading train while loaded portion sits on the mainline.
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130705 0611373 viewsLock, up end looking down through Lock, Ascom silo block #5 on the left, Viterra fast loader loading train while loaded portion sits on the mainline.
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130708 0872373 viewsThevenard, loaded train running through the back of the yard parallel to Bergmann Drive, 434.2 km.
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130708 0921373 viewsThevenard originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 57, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum crossing Bergmann Drive grade crossing, 434.2 km.
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100609 09947373 viewsMidland, AQHY 30053 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0039, 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 to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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100609 09973373 viewsMidland, AQRY 1021 two-pack platform B loaded with two 20' Interpool and Mediterranean Shipping 22G1 type containers containing lead, IPXU 396241 and MSCU 645985. 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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100611 0355373 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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100611 0384373 viewsMidland, ATEY 4724 diesel fuel tank waggon in service for BP Oil, former NSW AMPOL NTAF tank, coded WTEY when arrived in WA.
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228-22373 viewsYandi Two branch, the afternoon empty train mid-train remotes cross the bridge at the YT307 km in the form of elephant style Goninan final rebuild GE CM40-8MEFI model unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02/95-160 and CM40-8M model 5638 'Mallina' serial 8281-02/92-127. Geodata -22.706976, 119.097651 .
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228-33373 viewsYandi Two load-out tunnel, Goninan rebuilt GE CM40-8M model 5649 'Pohang' serial 8412-07/93-140 eases a loading train out of the tunnel at the required 1.2 km/h. 5649 started life back in 1971 as an AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 5473 serial G6047-5. Geodata -22.719050, 119.040566 .
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234-10373 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 radiator section. Circa 1998.
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235-00373 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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235-13373 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 passes out the other side of the loadout tunnel as loading has commenced, the dust extraction equipment and retaining wall culvert frame the loco.
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235-24373 viewsYandi One, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128 sits on a loaded train as second unit awaiting departure time. Note the unit has no marker lights and the tank tells it was an AE Goodwin built C636 ALCo before rebuild.
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060110 2186373 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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160525 4807373 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30023 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0105, 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 0105 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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