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209-11262 viewsAshfield, looking towards Perth from the station overbridge, the dual gauge tracks and yard running between the mainline and Railway Parade on the right. The standard gauge and narrow gauge points are easy to spot.
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160525 4937262 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1, coupling between locomotives, shows the MU or Multiple Unit cable going into the socket with the red cap, below that with the crimp fitting is the in-line fuel hose between locomotives. Then you also have the train brake pipe and loco control lines and of course the couplers.
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051101 6408261 viewsParkeston, AHBY 0054 one of sixty five AHBY type ballast hoppers built by EDI Rail at their Port Augusta Workshops for ARG in 2001-02 for the Darwin line, also the FMG construction in 2008, seen here in limestone quarry product service.
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202-03259 viewsMeckering, looking east along the goods siding with the good shed loop points, shed and crane in the distance.
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208-1-10259 viewsToodyay, emus at the Free Range Emu Farm.
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160522 2025259 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, one of the bar coupled pair of waggons making up RKAF type 2-pack rail transport waggon RKAF 4 for a length of 29.8 metres loaded with new rail, these 'pairs' are rebuilt from a pair of RKJX type waggons. The RKJX were rebuilds from V/Line VOBX type waggons.
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202-07258 viewsMeckering, looking east, the points for the crossing loop with dual control point machine and relay interlocking room which houses the backup power plant, silos in the distance.
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160522 2051258 viewsBinduli, 5MP2 steel train to Perth, locomotives Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class NR 68 serial 7250-12/96-270 and NR 61 serial 7250-11/96-263 on the mainline leg of the triangle.
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160525 4953258 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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201-11257 viewsMidland, the first Perth built NR class NR 61 Goninan GE model Cv40-9i serial 7250-11/96-263 shunts at Midland with two brand new NR units.
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208-1-06257 viewsBassendean, Rail Heritage WA Museum, exhibit #14, Pr class Pacific 4-6-2 steam engine Pr 521 'Ashburton', one of ten units built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1937 as class leader Pr 138 'Ashburton' and renumbered to 521 in 1946. Pr 521 'Ashburton' was also the first of the class to be withdrawn in 1969 and then condemned in 1970 and donated to the Museum in 1971.
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160522 2027257 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RKHF 20519 steel transport waggon loaded with steel bar, built by EPT NSW in 1977/78 in the first batch of two hundred BDY open waggons, recoded to NODY after 1979.
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160522 2032257 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RKCX type open waggon RKCX 1109, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1978 as VOCX type open waggon, recoded to VOCY in 1980, back to VOCX in 1982, then to NRC in 1994 as ROBX, current code from 1995.
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160525 4955257 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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202-10256 viewsMeckering, former narrow gauge bridge located south of the standard gauge line.
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208-1-09256 viewsBassendean, Rail Heritage WA Museum, exhibit #, X class leader diesel electric unit X 1001 'Yalagonga' which employed an 2-DO-2 wheel arrangement with 1200 horse power from a Crossley V8 two stroke diesel prime mover.
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209-08256 viewsMt Lawley station, narrow gauge Perth to Midland service arrives with an Goninan NSW built ADC class railcar ADC 851 leading an ADL class with the Perth skyline in the background.
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209-10256 viewsADG-ADA-ADG triple set on an up service from Midland.
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160522 2033256 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, Trans-Perth electric B Set 116, driving car BEA 4116 being transferred from the manufacturer in Qld to Perth.
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199-15255 viewsMeckering, Perth bound single Prospector car races along on the mainline as it crosses NR 19 on 7PM5 freighter.
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