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234-36341 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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236-19341 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuilt CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 sits out the front awaiting attention, with sister 5652 behind it and the rear of an AC6000 visible.
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236-20341 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted.
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160522 2461341 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, APNY 31167, one of two built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1979 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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160525 4804341 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30084 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0097, 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 0097 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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060528 4302341 viewsGolden Ridge, 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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060529 4720341 viewsParkeston, South Spur Rail AVDP type crew accommodation coach AVDP 277, built for the Commonwealth Railways by Comeng NSW as a brake van with sleeping accommodation as HRD type HRD 277 in 1971, modified for relay working in 1977, recoded to AVDY in 1983, then in 2002 leased for MurrayLander service before being sold to South Spur Rail and in this livery from mid 2005.
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070531 9617341 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZBY type crew accommodation car RZBY 208 on train 3MP4, built by Comeng NSW as ER type stainless steel air conditioned crew dormitory car ER 208 in 1969, sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997.
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161111 2513341 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon ATPY 593 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1976 as one of four WJP type for AMPOL, capacity of 80500 litres, here in Caltex service.
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161112 2998341 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, AQNY type waggon AQNY 32175 one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic with a Bis Industries roll-top type UA55 container SBIU 200626 and an un-decaled hard-top type 25U0 container BISU 100057.
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161112 3012341 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, loaded Malcolm sulphur train 6029, AQWY type waggon AQWY 30435 container waggon originally one of one hundred and sixty one built by Tomlinson Steel in 1970 as WFX type, to WQCX in 1980, with three TEU 22G1 type containers, RWTQ 818750, RWLU 813403 and RWLU 811167.
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161116 5120341 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Shell fuel train 3442, tank waggon NTAY 6128, built by Indeng Qld 1976 for Shell as type SCA 279, then NTAF 279 with normal couplers.
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161116 5548341 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443, AQWY 30224 container flat waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops in a batch of forty five WFX type container flats in 1974, recoded to WQCX in 1980 with two locomotive sand tanktainer pods, CTC 2201 and CTC 2203 for the Esperance workshops, these pods have replaced the 'Sputnik' that supplied the former Kalgoorlie depot.
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161116 5563341 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443, NTAY type tank waggon NTAY 6129, built by Industrial Engineering Qld in 1976 as an SCA type SCA 280 for Shell. Recoded to NTAF 280, then 6129, capacity of 61,300 litres.
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050319 0140341 viewsNelson Point, cut down Magor USA built former Oroville Dam 91 ton ore waggon 665, now used as the crib waggon on the steel train, 3/4 view.
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050518 2090341 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 749.
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050518 2093341 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 758.
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050518 2142341 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 741, close up of bogie, shows bogie detail, ASF Ride Control bogie casting with CFCLA id of CQFE 055.
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050801 4772341 viewsFlash Butt yard, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #26, 6015, built by Comeng WA in November 1971, view of original style number.
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060501 3901341 viewsTabba Siding, originally built by Difco USA for Goldsworthy Mining Ltd in 1967 as a batch of five, prefixed with 870 in BHP service, 8704 side dump waggon loaded with ballast.
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