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227-21373 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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230-30373 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, Goninan GE CM40-8M rebuild 5637 'De Grey' serial 8181-01/92-123 is from an AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5456. 5637 has the silver BHP logo on the end but the hood logo has been painted out. Geodata -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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232-00373 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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232-14373 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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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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235-24373 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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238-15373 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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160523 2786373 viewsParkeston, APNY 31154, 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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160524 4363373 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 3438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 540, the final of a further ten built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WN type in 1975 for WMC.
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160525 4802373 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30039 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0110, 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 0110 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160524 4053373 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKLY 20981 container waggon, built by EPT NSW in 1980-81 as an NODY, open waggon before being heavily modified by ANI Engineering in 1998, loaded with two 20' Pacific National Royal Wolf containers RWLU 815017 and 814910.
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160524 4242373 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train 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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160524 4243373 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RRKY 2723, originally built by Perry Engineering SA in 1974 part of a batch of forty five RM type motor vehicle flat waggons, recoded to AQPY container waggon, then AQMP and RQKY, riding on aligned bogies, loaded with two Royal Wolf 20' 22G1 type boxes RWMC 815896 and 815921.
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060528 4144373 viewsParkeston, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 225, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1937 as a rivetted second class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress, in August 1939 coded to BS type BS 4, in July 1977 converted to a mini buffet and coded MRS 1 and then in October 1983 recoded to BRS 225. Painted in V/Line livery in 1992. Ended up with West Coast Railway in the late 1990s, painted in WCR livery Sept 2001, prior to Pacific National ownership and conversion to a crew car.
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060530 4843373 viewsParkeston, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 2 'Great Artesian' on train 2PM9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 79, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 361. Recoded to AVDY in October 1982, then to AVDP. Sold to WCR, then in October 2000 overhauled for crew car use and coded VPAY 1 on SCT services and owned by Freight Australia. Was later sold to Pacific National and subsequently scrapped 2016.
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161109 1910373 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, the last member of both types ENH 61 with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161109 1927373 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 5, recently refurbished and wearing current owner Genesee & Wyoming orange and decal with matching hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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161111 2479373 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, diesel fuel tank waggon ATEY 7315, BP Oil service, ex Ampol, other codes include ex NSW NTAF, WTEF and WTEY.
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161116 5547373 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443 departs West Kalgoorlie with second unit Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT46C Q class unit Q 4009 (originally Q 309) serial 97-1461, behind the loco is the 'new' loco sand waggon with two tanktainer pods, CTC 2201 and CTC 2203 for the Esperance workshops, train details were 17 waggons for 345 metres and 425 tonnes on the overnight run to Esperance.
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161116 5551373 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443, ATPF 573 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1974 for Shell as WJP type 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80500 litres, Shell Fleet No. 708, old code still visible, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.
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