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213-02628 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops looking east, Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. This unit is almost identical to the GT26C models of the WAGR L class. September 1995.
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213-08617 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view of the handbrake end of an HMAS type ore waggon one of thirty such waggons built by Industrial Engineering in Qld in 1978 in aluminium, the red triangle is the end of train device.
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187-16602 viewsMonkland, an old ute of mine, an 1988 Falcon XF ute named 'FALCON HELL' saw many thousands of kilometres on the highways of Australia. Unsure where the car is now, the runt never paid me for it, family...
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193-04597 viewsWamuran station yard overview, looking towards Kilcoy across Attwood Street, Station Road on the right with the truck.
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187-17587 viewsMonkland, an old ute of mine, an 1988 Ford Falcon XF ute named 'FALCON HELL' with Kumho PowerGuard MT tyres, saw many thousands of kilometres on the highways of Australia. Unsure where the car is now, the runt never paid me for it, family...
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213-07566 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point, view looking east from the workshops towards the dump station with a rake of waggons lined up with the two types of aluminium bottom discharge hoppers discernible by the hungry boards fitted to the original type waggons, the control cabin for the dump station can be made out in the distance.
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190-02561 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, looking south from the pedestrian footbridge, loco depot and sanding tower on the left, South signal box in the distance with a rake of NTBX vans.
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213-00558 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point Workshops looking east across to the track maintenance compound with eleven Comalco ore waggons of both types lined up and the Speno rail grinder in the compound, September 1995.
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213-11558 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops yard, ground throw point or switch operating unit with the number 5 identification.
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213-03556 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops looking east, Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. This unit is almost identical to the GT26C models of the WAGR L class. September 1995.
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192-04555 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot, Junee Roundhouse, stored NSWGR 45 class unit 4512 an ALCo RSD-20 or DL-541 built by AE Goodwin in 1963 with serial 84154.
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213-26552 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops. Comalco shunt engine R 1003 coupled to a Difco side dump waggon. R 1003 is an Electro Motive built NW2 model with serial number 4114 and frame number of E761-8 was built in November 1946 at La Grange originally for Canadian National with road number 7943. Sold to Comalco in December 1975 and entered service in 1976. This unit was subsequently scrapped in 2000.
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213-15548 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops building, looking south east at the rear of the building. Canron Rail Group Mk I switch tamper. Canron was taken over by Harsco in 1990-91.
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213-29546 viewsWeipa, view of tri-mount bogie on Comalco R 1004, Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT42C built 1990 serial 90-1277, note the difference this and the V/Line N class bogie used in passenger service.
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187-00535 viewsNashville, Gympie Queensland.
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210-14532 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops track maintenance compound, Speno rail grinder model RR 28E, a twenty eight wheel grinder, this unit is very likely to have been originally used by Mt Newman Mining in the Pilbara in the 1970s. Even a 20 km remote railway requires a grinder! September 1995.
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213-33532 viewsWeipa, a loaded train from Andoom near Northern Avenue with Comalco R 1004 leading thirty three loaded waggons of bauxite.
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213-16529 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops building, looking south east at the rear of the building and yard. From the left, R 1003, waggons, R 1001 and the Canron Rail Group Mk I switch tamper.
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160526 5234528 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 4PM6 intermodal train, 5-pack RRRY 7004 well waggon set, one of nineteen built in China at Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works for Goninan in 2005 double stacked with a range of 40' and 48' boxes and 46' reefers.
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213-17524 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops, Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like you see on the GT26C models of WAGR L or VR C classes.
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