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130703 0254158 viewsKaldow, running south with the sun behind it is 1200 class 1204 a Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C model with serial 65-428 leading two ALCo units and was originally built in 1965 for Western Mining Corporation and operated by the WAGR as their A class A 1513. It came to the Eyre Peninsula in October 2004. Geo location. 3rd July 2013.
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130703 0304158 viewsKaldow, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 61, 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.
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130704 0408158 viewsKyancutta, south bound loaded grain train has stopped here to collect a loaded rack of grain waggons, the second driver has just restored the points for the mainline as the train waits 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 0441158 viewsKyancutta, the south bound loaded grain train gets away from attaching a further fourteen loads here as it is about to cross the Eyre Highway grade crossing with F Type flashing lights. 4th July 2013.
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130704 0494158 viewsMoule, looking west towards Charra and Kevin along the roller coaster grades with the crossing loop on the right and the points for the ballast siding just behind the camera. Location here, 4th July 2013.
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130705 0531158 viewsLock, cab view of Genesee & Wyoming locomotive AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 unit 859 'City of Port Lincoln' serial 84705, built in 1963, 859 started life at Peterborough, spent some years in Tasmania and even spent time in Perth on standard gauge in 2002 before being repainted and transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 2003. 5ht of July 2013.
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130705 0541158 viewsLock, grain train loading in progress with the Viterra fast flow auger in the distance, the train with 1203, 846 and 859 is about to split and shunt half the consist onto the mainline. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 0556158 viewsLock, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 20, originally an NHB type hopper NHB 1594 built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Fitted with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover. 5th July 2013.
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130705 0577158 viewsLock, grain train shunting with 1203, 846 and 859 pushing back down the mainline with a loaded cut of grain waggons. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 0627158 viewsLock, with loading finished, 1203 leads 846, 859 and the final portion out along the mainline out of goods siding #1 across Birdseye Hwy as it prepares to shunt back onto the loaded portion on the mainline for departure to Port Lincoln.
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130708 0870158 viewsThevenard, view of arriving loaded train from inside the yard.
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060113 2508157 viewsKevin, cab side view of 1604 a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-731, originally coded NJ class NJ 4 and built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981 arrives with empty gypsum train 6DD3. 13th January 2006.
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130703 0154157 viewsMurdinga, rear view of the three locomotives, 859 'City of Port Lincoln', 906 and 1203 on the lead. Geo location. 3rd July 2013.
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130703 0175157 viewsTooligie, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 56, 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.
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130703 0184157 viewsTooligie, over view of the grain complex, Ascom Jumbo silo complex with over rail loading hopper and a four cell concrete silo complex beside it. Geo location. 3rd July 2013.
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130703 0186157 viewsTooligie, over view of the yard, Ascom Jumbo silo complex over rail loading hopper with four cell concrete silo complex beyond it. Geo location. 3rd July 2013.
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130703 0212157 viewsNowhere Else,
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130703 0247157 viewsKaldow, side view of track formation, looks to have been done up recently, steel sleepers and fresh ballast. Geo location. 3rd July 2013.
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130703 0279157 viewsKaldow, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 38, 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.
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130704 0409157 viewsKyancutta, south bound loaded grain train has stopped here to collect a loaded rack of grain waggons, seen here backing up to re-join the rest of the train on the mainline as it crosses the Eyre Highway grade crossing, behind EMD 1204 and twin ALCo 830 units 873 and 851. 4th July 2013.
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