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217-09344 viewsKeswick Terminal, logo on the side of passenger coach as part of 'The Ghan' consist from Adelaide to Alice Springs.
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219-13344 viewsYandicoogina or HIY as Hamersley Iron identify it, located 445 km from Parker Point yard in Dampier. Bank engine units General Electric Dash 9-44CW models 7089 serial 47768 and 7090 idle away waiting their next loaded train to push out, the mine is visible in the background.
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030406 091455344 viewsYeelanna, chainsaw art 'C B H' by CBH workers. 6th April 2003.
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051102 6618344 viewsThevenard, two versions of Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model, class leader 1601, originally NJ 1 'Ben Chifley' serial 71-728, and NJ 6 serial 71-733, both built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981, NJ 1 repainted and renumbered to 1601 in November 2004.
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051102 6629344 viewsThevenard, left hand side of Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model unit and class leader 1601, originally NJ 1 'Ben Chifley' serial 71-728, built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville NSW workshops, started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981, repainted and renumbered to 1601 in November 2004 coupled to NJ 6 in Australian National green and yellow.
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060108 2055344 viewsLock, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, final of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1514, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started on the Eyre Peninsula in August 2004.
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232-26344 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, waggon 2502 is a standard Comeng WA build from the third batch of 180 waggons built in 1970. Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 leads a LocoTrol remote unit built with no cab, a CM40-8ML 5665. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.
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237-14344 viewsJust south of Pilga and the old Cooglegong Mine is this rusting hulk of a Ruston Bucyrus shovel, possibly an RB10, serial RB21269. Geodata .
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160522 2080344 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train arrives on the mainline behind a pair of Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class units NR 90 serial 7250-05/97-293 and NR 101 serial 7250-07/97-303.
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160525 4953344 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1, crew accommodation coach QCBY 10, started life as Victorian Railways Newport Workshops 1952 build as AS class no. 15, first class air conditioned corridor car, then AS 210, BS 210 and BS 10. Sold to West Coast Railway, then RTS / Gemco and finally to Aurizon.
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242-08344 viewsNelson Point, BHP Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5508 serial 4839-04 / 87-073 about to be trucked to United Goninan Perth for eventual overhaul and repainting into the Pilbara Rail livery and leased to Pilbara Rail re-numbered 5052 as a shunt unit at Dampier. May 2002.
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041225 064634344 viewsNelson Point Ore Car Repair Shops, brand new Bradken NSW built ore waggon 9101 asset number 2031703. These waggons are the latest additions to the fleet with 20 on order in total. They are made from the same 5Cr12Ti steel that the Goninan Golynx waggons are made. 25th December 2004.
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041225 064721344 viewsNelson Point Ore Car Repair Shop, original Magor USA built ore waggon 601, known as the 'Oro's', one of 144 built in 1963 and bought by the Mt Newman partners in 1968 from the Oroville Dam construction in California. 25th December 2004.
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200914 7753344 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, Simplex Dorman 0-4-0P model builders number 14033 built in 1957, locomotive originally numbered NW 12, renumbered to PW 22 in 1969. It was donated from the Public Works Department at Point Samson in 1976. A picture of it in service can be found here at Weston Langford site. 14th September 2020.
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041014 142048344 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, Comeng WA ALCo rebuild C636R locomotive 3017 serial WA-135-C-6043-04. The improved Pilbara cab was fitted as part of the rebuild in April 1985. Donated to Society in 1996. 14th October 2004.
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249-31344 viewsA loaded Hamersley Iron train runs across the plains north of Dugite Siding near the 70 km as it nears the destination of its cargo behind the standard pair of GE built Dash 9-44CW locomotives 7084 serial 47763 and 7079 serial 47758 both in the original Pepsi Can livery. Approximate location. 18th December 1999.
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250-26344 viewsCape Lambert South Yard and Robe River's 9426 a Comeng WA rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Seen here in the South Yard dragging a loaded rake down to the car dumper. 22nd October 2000.
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090915 2474r344 viewsDurack Siding location on the FMG line at the 98 km, looking south, this was a single ended spur. 15th of September 2009. Geodata location here.
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171-18343 viewsBallarat station, V/Line broad gauge N class N 457 'City of Mildura' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 85-1225, sitting at platform with an Up passenger train.
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108-13343 viewsMurchison East looking towards Melbourne, yard and station overview, gravity track on the left, station platform on the right, Murphy silo and horizontal grain bunker at left.
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