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249-17408 viewsTable Hill on the Robe River railway line, looking in a northerly direction as the railway line snakes north and heads through Lockyer Gap towards Cape Lambert. Following a very wet 1999 cyclone season Lake Poongkaliyarra is very full. Approximate location.
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255-27408 viewsWestern Creek at the 71 km on the Cape Lambert to Deepdale line an empty Robe River train powers upgrade as it heads to Mesa J for loading behind the standard quad CM40-8M lash up led by Goninan CM40-8M unit 9425 with serial number 6266-08 / 89-85 and sisters 9410, 9420 and 9414. Geodata location here. May 2002.
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140601 4662408 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHCH type waggon CHCH 7640 these waggons were rebuilt between 2010 and 2012 by Bluebird Rail Operations SA from former Goldsworthy Mining hopper waggons originally built by Tomlinson WA and Scotts of Ipswich Qld back in the 60's to early 80's. 1st June 2014.
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267-30408 viewsAt the 39 km, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' serial number 8151-07 / 91-120 stands with the Sundowner Special alongside the AEI reader at the 39 km detector site on the Newman mainline. This was a special for the 25 years of the Alstom / BHP service agreement. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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160710 iPh5S 2816408 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine adit #30, looking inside through the removed blanking plate. Geodata.
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160409 IMG 7093408 viewsParkeston, Aurizon rail grinder MMY type MMY 034, built in the USA by Loram as RG331 ~2004, imported into Australia by Queensland Rail, now Aurizon, in April 2009, detail picture. Peter Donaghy image.
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283-29408 viewsNear Woodbrook as the train rounds the curve just north of the 38.5 km grade crossing and through the cutting that will see it pass under the water pipe bridge behind the quad Robe River CM40-8M working of 9414, 9420, 9410 and 9525 with 202 waggons bound for Cape Lambert. 22nd of May 2002.
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231020 8186408 viewsParkeston, QQYY type 40' container waggon QQYY 57810 one of five hundred ordered by Aurizon and built by CRRC Yangtze Group of China in 2022. In service with two loaded 20' half height hard top 'rotainers' lettered CRM, for Cristal Mining before they were absorbed into Tronox, CRM 000511 with Tronox decal and CRM 001300 with Cristal decal, on Aurizon's Tronox mineral sands train 4UP1 from Ivanhoe / Broken Hill (NSW) to Kwinana (WA). 20th of October 2023.
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100603 8989408 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0137 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty units built by Gemco WA in 2008, with Independent Brake signage.
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100603 8994408 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, ABSY type covered van ABSY 2455, originally built by Mechanical Handling SA in a batch of seventy VFX type covered vans between 1971/73 for Commonwealth Railways. Recoded from RBFY to ABFY September 1996, to SCT as ABFY type before being converted by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.
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240701 2728408 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Weelumurra' was originally built by Clyde Engineering at Granville NSW in 1936 for the NSWGR as a second class railway carriage FS type FS 2138. In 1975 it was purchased by the Society and is named after a local river. July 1, 2024.
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240701 2795408 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, from left, the ALCo S2 Hamersley Iron 007 'Mabel', ALCo C415 demonstrator Hamersley Iron 1000, English Electric ST95B Goldsworthy Mining 1, ALCo M636 BHP 5502 and EMD F7A Mt Newman Mining 5450. July 1, 2024.
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188-23407 viewsJunee, NSW Main South, looking towards Albury with the Junee South Signal Box and the Kemp Street overbridge.
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201-29407 viewsMidland, the first Perth built NR class NR 61 Goninan GE model Cv40-9i serial 7250-11/96-263 departs Midland yard a brand new NR unit, the MidSig train control building is in the distance.
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203-22407 viewsBing Siding, empty train behind a pair of General Electric AC6000 units powers around the curve. Note the ladder on the original Comeng style waggon.
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100605 9339407 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31248 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 139 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, loaded with fines seen here at Binduli, 5th June 2010. This unit was converted to WOG for gypsum in late 1980s till 1990 then reclassed to WOS for superphosphate before being re-classed back to WO in 1994.
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100731 02275407 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 31092 is one of a batch of one hundred and thirty built by Goninan WA between March and August 2001 with serial number 950092-082 and fleet number 677 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02374407 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33532 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-072 and fleet number 9025 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02430407 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33395 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Group Rail WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-100 and fleet number 894 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on empty train 6418 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02483407 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33283 is one of a batch of thirty five built by United Goninan WA between January and April 2005 with serial number 950104-023 and fleet number 782 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on empty train 6418 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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