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100611 0367408 viewsMidland, ATTY 30672 fuel tanker, one of five built by AE Goodwin NSW in 1970 as WST type, recoded to WSTY and then ATTY. 78600 litre capacity.
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221-26408 viewsYandi One mine loadout balloon loop, General Electric AC6000 class emerges from the loadout portal at 0.9 km/h as it leads a train through the loading vaults, the dust extraction ducting is also visible.
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222-27408 viewsSomewhere on the original single line section between Gull and Rosella Hamersley Iron 7073 serial 47752 a General Electric Dash 9-44CW built by GE at Erie with 7091 has stopped for a crew change besides a loaded headed up by 7071.
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222-34408 viewsSomewhere on the original single line section between Gull and Rosella Hamersley Iron 7071 serial 47750 a General Electric Dash 9-44CW built by GE at Erie brings a loaded train away from the passing track back onto the mainline following a crew change with second unit 7066 serial 47745.
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226-24408 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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227-18408 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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234-33408 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 on the front 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 looking across the YT315.8 km grade crossing and 5658 back to the ore stockpile at the loadout. Circa 1998.
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235-02408 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 arrives with the afternoon 240 waggon empty train with second unit Goninan built CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus', notice the fuel tank differences between the lead unit an ALCo rebuild and the second unit built new.
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238-22408 viewsNelson Point loco overhaul shop, former Union Pacific loco 3523 an EMD SD40-2 model, serial 786170-25 and now numbered 3085 for BHP Billiton Iron One service had only been in operation for eleven days when this shot was taken on the 27th November 2004. Geodata .
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060110 2176408 viewsNear the 73 km and Cockaleechie Road grade crossing, empty grain train with 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 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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160524 4367408 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 3438, WNB type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WNB 544, one of six built by Bluebird Rail Services SA in 2010 for BHP Billiton.
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160525 4821408 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30109 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0088, 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 0088 is the lowest numbered CSA of forty nine tanks built by VCare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4833408 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATKY 541 fuel tanker, originally built for H C Sleigh (Golden Fleece) in 1975 by Tulloch Ltd NSW as WJK type. Capacity now of 73000 litres in service with Caltex.
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160525 4839408 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTBF 6119 fuel tanker, originally built by Comeng NSW in 1975 as SCA type SCA 270 69000 litre bitumen tanker for Shell NSW, diesel capacity of 62700 litres.
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160524 4042408 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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060528 4152408 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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161112 3453408 viewsBinduli, loaded Hampton acid train 7406 with AQHY 30076 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0076, 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 0076 was built by Acid Plant Management Services, WA.
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161116 5122408 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, tank waggon ATBY 14594, built by Westrail Midland Workshops 1981 for Bain Leasing as narrow gauge type JPB, to SG as WPJB then WJBY, 82 kL one compartment one dome, fitted with type F InterLock couplers, vacuum brake pipe, Shell Fleet no. TR728.
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0533 Magor USA 050412 0764408 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 533, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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0537 Magor USA 050518 2155408 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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