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100611 0384375 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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227-19375 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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232-17375 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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233-28375 viewsYandi Two loaded car side of load-out tunnel, a loading train lead by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 as it drags the train through at 1.2 km/h with assistance from two sister units. GeoData.
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235-18375 viewsYandi One, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11 / 93-145 sits on a loaded train awaiting departure time with second unit also a Goninan GE rebuild 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128, note the differences in the two locos as 5653 is rebuilt from a Comeng built ALCo M636 while 5639 was an AE Goodwin built ALCo C636. 5654 also has the late marigold style BHP logo.
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060110 2195375 viewsYeelanna, 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 shunts forward to cut out the empty cars for the siding. Approx. location of image.
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160525 4815375 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30105 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0101, 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 0101 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 5189375 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 4438, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 527, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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160524 4304375 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKAX 6, 2-pack rail transport waggon, this waggon was converted by Port Augusta Workshops from two original FBX type waggons built in 1968-69 by Islington Workshops in a batch of twenty later coded AFCX. AKAX 6 and AKCX 14 where the donors for this waggon. Loaded with a full load of rail strings.
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060528 4152375 viewsParkeston, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 221, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1940 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress as AS 6, in April 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 1, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 221. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2004.
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070526 9097375 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation coach RZAY 944 on train 6PM6 originally built by Comeng NSW in 1969 as a stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car, renumbered to 944 for Indian Pacific service, sold to National Rail Corporation in 1997 and converted to a crew coach.
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161112 3469375 viewsBinduli, loaded Hampton acid train 7406 with barrier waggon AZDY 30705, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted late 1988/9 to WQDF.
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161116 5112375 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 5554375 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443, tank waggon NTBF 6121, built by Comeng NSW 1975 as SCA type SCA 272 for Shell Bitumen, fitted with conventional couplers.
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040815 171406375 viewsNelson Point, side view of A end and bogie detail view of fuel tank waggon 0020, 82 kilolitre capacity built by Comeng NSW for BP as RTC 2, used by Mt Newman Mining, unsure when converted to 0020.
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050518 2077375 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 751.
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050518 2097375 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 740.
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050518 2155375 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 537, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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050801 4767375 viewsFlash Butt yard, rail recovery and transport train, #28 2nd lead off waggon 6201, built by Comeng WA January 1977 under order no. 07-M-282 RY, the mesh guarding is for the winch cable. The chute arrangement for the discharging and recovery of rail is visible.
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051001 5685375 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #12, 6209, a Comeng WA built flat waggon from January 1977 under order no. 07-M-282 RY.
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