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130703 0196308 viewsTooligie, overview of the four cell concrete grain silo complex with the loading spout, dual unloading grids on the right where the shunting tractor is parked. Geo location. 3rd July 2013.
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130703 0262308 viewsKaldow, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 36, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system as the train runs south at Loller Rd grade crossing. Geo location. 3rd July 2013.
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130704 0406308 viewsKyancutta, south bound loaded grain train has stopped here to collect a loaded rack of grain waggons, seen here waiting for the points to be restored for the mainline across the Eyre Highway grade crossing and one of only three electric signals on the network, behind EMD 1204 and twin ALCo 830 units 873 and 851. 4th July 2013.
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130704 0440308 viewsKyancutta, located at the 203.1 km and opened in March 1916, overview of yard with Ascom silo complex on the left with new siding which was installed in 1970 and the eight cell concrete SACBH silo complex on the right as the second driver returns to the locomotive to depart south bound for Port Lincoln. 4th July 2013.
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130704 0500308 viewsMoule, looking east at the east end points for the crossing loop, grade crossing is for access to ballast stockpile area, Moule located at the 445.6 km was opened in February 1966 when the Direct Line between Ceduna and Kevin was opened. Location is here. 4th July 2013.
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130704 0503308 viewsMoule, yard overview looking west from the east end points of the crossing loop, Moule located at the 445.6 km was opened in February 1966 when the Direct Line between Ceduna and Kevin was opened. From the left point lever and indicator, the crossing loop on the right and then the ballast pile in the distance. Location is here. 4th July 2013.
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130705 0589308 viewsLock, having stowed the loaded portion on the mainline, the three locos 859, 846 and 1203 shunt back on to the empty portion on goods siding #1.
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130708 0807308 viewsMoule, Mewett Rd grade crossing, 470.1 km.
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100609 09969308 viewsMidland, AQRY 1004 two-pack platform B loaded with two 20' CNC Line and Mediterranean Shipping 22G1 type containers carrying lead, CNCU 161438 and MSCU 132445. The AQRY are a bar-coupled pair and were used for rail transport as the AFRF type on the Darwin line and are originally former ANR-CR waggons.
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222-26308 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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227-09308 viewsNelson Point, a view from the rear of A berth at the salt pile and stacker, this was operated by Cargill at the time of the photo. The under harbour tunnel portal is on the right. GeoData.
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235-27308 viewsYandi One, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11 / 93-145 sits on a loaded train awaiting departure time, note the much larger style fuel tank fitted to the Comeng built M636 ALCo units and also the later marigold style BHP logo.
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236-34308 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 'Chichester' serial 51063 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted.
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160524 4372308 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 3438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 536, one of a further ten built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WN type in 1975 for WMC.
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160525 4817308 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30094 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0100, 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 0100 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4821308 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 by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4850308 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATMF 552 fuel tank waggon, one of three built by Tulloch Limited NSW as WJM type in 1971 with a capacity of 96.25 kL one compartment one dome, current capacity of 80500 litres. 551 and 552 for Shell and 553 for BP Oil.
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160527 5488308 viewsParkeston, loaded lime and cement shunt train 2C71 from West Kalgoorlie to Parkeston for Cockburn Lime. APNY 31166, one of four built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1978 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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051230 1038308 viewsMelbourne, Australian Southern Railroad JTA type crew accommodation coach JTA 2, originally built in 1951 by SAR Islington Workshops as corten steel V&SAR Joint Stock twinette sleeping car Mokai for The Overland. Recoded to JTA 2 in 1987. Written off and sold in 1995. Converted to ASR crew car 1999? Converted to GWA liveried ADFY 7 in 2014.
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060528 4144308 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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