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232-17366 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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232-24366 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, waggons are standard Comeng WA builds. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.
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233-05366 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. An empty trains headlight can be seen in the tunnel. GeoData.
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236-02366 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Dash 8 class locomotive 5653 'Chiba', a Goninan 1994 rebuild to GE CM40-8M model, serial 8412-10 / 93-144.
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060110 2206366 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 back onto its train of empties on the mainline as the second person prepares to re-join the train, a rake of waggons in grain siding await loading. Approx. location of image.
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160524 4042366 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, NQYY 20444 with two butter box containers RH296 and RH22, NQYY 20444 originally built by EPT NSW in 1977-78 as an BDY type open waggon, recoded to NODY after 1979, before being heavily modified by ANI Engineering in 1998 to the current guise.
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160524 4041366 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKMY 327, originally an ELX waggon, heavily modified to cart butter boxes, possibly ex Victorian Railways ELX / VOBX waggon 1969-70 vintage.
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060528 4254366 viewsParkeston, SCT PDAY type crew accommodation car PDAY 001 'Robert Mervin Yates', built by SAR Islington Workshops as a 250 type Bluebird second class railcar number 253 and named 'Pelican' in 1955, written off in 1995 and sold and eventually converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail Services in 2005.
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060528 4445366 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Australian Southern Railroad ECA type crew accommodation car ECA 98, originally built for the Commonwealth Railways by Wegmann & Co. in West Germany in 1955 as the ARF type first class air conditioned sleeper with rounded observation end ARF 98, rebuilt and recoded in 1972 without the observation end as BB type BB 98. Converted to a crew car in 1991.
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161109 1907366 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 37 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1974366 viewsThevenard, train 4DD4 rumbles across Bergmann Drive as third unit Genesee & Wyoming locomotive AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 unit 859 'City of Port Lincoln' serial 84705, built in 1963, 859 started life at Peterborough, spent some years in Tasmania and even spent time in Perth on standard gauge before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 2003.
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161112 3460366 viewsBinduli, loaded Hampton acid train 7406 with AQHY 30110 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0118, 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 type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana. CSA 0118 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions.
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161112 3454366 viewsBinduli, loaded Hampton acid train 7406 with AQHY 30056 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0083, 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 type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana. CSA 0083 was built by Acid Plant Management Services, WA.
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161116 5106366 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, tank waggon NTBF 6122, built by Comeng NSW 1975 as a bitumen tanker type SCA for Shell Bitumen NSW as SCA 273.
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040815 171406366 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 2083366 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 755.
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050518 2105366 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 752.
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050518 2197366 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 527, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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050704 3994366 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0016 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons, detail of A end and bogie.
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051001 5623366 viewsFlash Butt yard, BHP flat waggon 6705 ROA code of AQPY 2916, 55 tonne capacity, unsure of original owner, possible AN AOOX, then cut down to the Pilbara through CFCLA, 3/4 view.
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