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141027 5882930 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, General Electric AC6000 unit 6071 serial 51063 is reduced to frame level with only the nose which contains the collision posts and the 6600 hp EVO motor and alternator awaiting the thermal lance.
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141027 5867908 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, line up of units awaiting their fate, General Electric AC6000 unit 6072 serial 51064 and EMD SD40R units 3092 serial 31498 / 7861-8, 3089 serial 31512 / 7861-22 and 3095 serial 33677 / 7083-7.
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141027 5846906 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard sees redundant BHP Billiton GE AC6000 locomotives 6076 in the bubble paint livery and 6072 in the blue and white livery flanked by EMD SD40R units with 3090 visible beside 6076 their days numbered since being the largest locomotives to operate in Australia, they being destined for nothing more than scrap.
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141027 5834889 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of EMD SD40R unit 3095 serial 33677/7083-7 watching a former sister unit being reduced to bits, a primer mover 645 EMD engine and fuel tank tipped on its side, and the excavator with the hydraulic shears.
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141027 5889888 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of the trailing bogie and frame of GE AC6000 unit 6071 as sister unit 6972 awaits the same treatment.
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141027 5838885 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of and EMD SD40R unit primer mover 645 EMD engine, alternator and fuel tank tipped on its side.
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141027 5839851 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of EMD SD40R unit 3095 serial 33677/7083-7 watching a former sister unit being reduced to bits, a primer mover 645 EMD engine and fuel tank tipped on its side, and the excavator with the hydraulic shears.
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141027 5852848 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of EMD SD40R unit 3095 serial 33677/7083-7 watching a former sister unit being reduced to bits, a primer mover 645 EMD engine and fuel tank tipped on its side, pilot and bogie, and the excavator with the hydraulic shears.
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141027 5837847 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of EMD SD40R unit 3095 serial 33677/7083-7 watching a former sister unit being reduced to bits, a primer mover 645 EMD engine and fuel tank tipped on its side, and the excavator with the hydraulic shears.
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141027 5913837 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of Hitachi ZAXIS 350 LCH excavator fitted with the huge hydraulically operated shears that are making a meal of former EMD SD40 and GE AC6000 locomotives. Besides it lays the remains of an EMD SD40R unit which has been reduced to a few frame part with the EMD 645 engine laying over.
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141027 5891831 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, General Electric AC6000 unit 6071 serial 51063 6600 hp GEVO-16 motor and GE 5GMG201 alternator awaiting the thermal lance.
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141027 5879819 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, the frame of an EMD SD40R unit is thermal lanced around the EMD 645 engine and alternator.
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141027 5841816 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of EMD SD40R unit 3095 serial 33677/7083-7 watching a former sister unit being reduced to bits, a primer mover 645 EMD engine and fuel tank tipped on its side, pilot and bogie, and the excavator with the hydraulic shears.
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141027 5884815 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, General Electric AC6000 unit 6071 serial 51063 6600 hp GEVO-16 motor and GE 5GMG201 alternator awaiting the thermal lance.
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141027 5887796 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, General Electric AC6000 unit 6071 serial 51063 is reduced to frame level with only the nose which contains the collision posts awaiting the thermal lance.
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141027 5875784 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, General Electric AC6000 unit 6073 serial 51065 and EMD SD40R unit 3091 serial 31496/7861-6 look on as another SD40R unit is reduced to its frame and EMD 645 engine.
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141027 5895777 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, General Electric AC6000 unit 6071 serial 51063 is reduced to frame level with only the nose which contains the collision posts and the 6600 hp EVO motor and alternator awaiting the thermal lance.
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141027 5869764 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, GE AC6000 unit 6071 is just a frame and 6600 hp EVO motor as EMD SD40 3079 and other AC6000 units 6074 and 6072 look on.
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141027 5896763 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, a pile of bits from GE AC6000 unit 6071.
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141027 5883761 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, General Electric AC6000 units 6073 serial 51065 and 6075 serial 51067 flank EMD SD40R unit 3091 serial 31496/7861-6 prior to scrapping.
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