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130704 0476379 viewsKyancutta, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 32, 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 0535379 viewsLock, cab view through windows of former Australian National narrow gauge 830 class locomotive 846, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model with serial 84715 built new for the SAR in 1963 and delivered to Adelaide Division on broad gauge, transferred to Tasmania on narrow gauge in 1982, then back to SA on standard gauge in 1989 and then Whyalla in 2008 on narrow gauge. In 2012 is was delivered to Port Lincoln, the last loco delivered to the Eyre Peninsula. 5th July 2013.
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130705 0541379 viewsLock, grain train loading in progress with the Viterra fast flow auger in the distance, the train with 1203, 846 and 859 is about to split and shunt half the consist onto the mainline. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 0558379 viewsLock, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 9, originally an NHB type hopper NHB 1024 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 0606379 viewsLock, up end looking down through Lock, Viterra fast loader loading train while loaded portion sits on the mainline.
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130708 0881379 viewsThevenard, loaded train running through the back of the yard and crossing Bergmann Drive grade crossing, 434.2 km.
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130708 0887379 viewsThevenard originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 54 S, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum crossing Bergmann Drive grade crossing, 434.2 km.
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130708 0901379 viewsThevenard originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 49 J, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum crossing Bergmann Drive grade crossing, 434.2 km.
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PD 12611379 viewsBinduli, WO type iron ore waggon WO 31232 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 124 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity. This unit was converted to WOS superphosphate in the late 1980s till 1994 when it was re-classed back to WO. Seen here with the body top lip also fitted.
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060603 5420379 viewsMidland, AZKY type anhydrous ammonia tank waggon AZKY 32236, one of twelve built by Goninan WA in 1998 as class WQK for Murrin Murrin traffic, fitted with Brambles anhydrous ammonia tank A11S.
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070529 9409379 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATBY 14597 fuel tank waggon built by Westrail Midland Workshops in a batch of nine in 1981 for Bain Leasing Pty Ltd as type JPB, 82,000 litres but 14591 was issued to standard gauge as WJPB type, in 1986 it was converted to narrow gauge as JPBA type.
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100601 8492379 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WN 522, pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, one of thirty units built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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100609 09947379 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 09986379 viewsMidland, AZDY 30733, 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. Loaded here with two empty AGR sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 662 and SD 643.
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100611 0384379 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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221-33379 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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226-24379 viewsShaw siding at the 219 km a loaded train with standard double CM40-8M power blasts along the mainline with the rear portion still on a .55 percent grade as it passes the Speno rail grinder in the back track. GeoData.
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227-19379 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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231-03379 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 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141, note the difference in the liveries, 50 is in the teal and marigold logo and logo on the hood while 52 has the silver logo on the front only and no logo on the hood. GeoData.
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232-17379 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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