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030409 125102431 viewsRudall, view looking south from the south end, the goods and grain loop coming in from the left with the stub siding (former station loop) on the right.
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030409 152420431 viewsUngarra, the peace is shattered as a loaded grain train storms upgrade through the station behind 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt DA class unit DA 4.
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060113 2534431 viewsKevin, empty train 6DD3 is heading onto the south leg with some of the gypsum plant behind the train and a set of original loading bins gypsum loading siding to continue the reversing process. 13th January 2006.
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130705 0515431 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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216-20430 viewsDry Creek Motive Power Centre, view looking north as a track tamper arrives into Dry Creek Yard.
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030406 142256430 viewsKapinnie, track view looking west towards the terminus showing the siding extension with offset in rails, silos and loading ramp behind camera. 6th April 2003.
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030407 094613430 viewsMinnipa, view of crew barracks, still in use at time of photo, 7th April, 2003.
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030409 120804430 viewsKielpa, a few kilometres south of the former Konanda siding loaded grain train with 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4, rebuilt from 830 class unit 839 by Port Augusta Workshops, retains original serial 83730 and model DL531 with the first twelve waggons behind the locos XNW type slows to a stop for a crew change.
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030409 125154430 viewsRudall, station overview of yard looking north from the south end, points to the right for the goods and grain siding, the former station loop, now stub siding on the left, crew barracks and station building further on can be made out, horizontal grain bunker on the right with concrete silo complexes behind.
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060111 2409430 viewsWudinna, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004, 1203 and two ALCo units 850 and 905 shunt back down the mainline at Wudinna as they run round their consist. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2471430 viewsThevenard, narrow gauge loco 1604 departs the yard with empty train 6DD3, 1604 leads a triple consist of Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 the original class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 1604 and 1601 both renumbered in 2004. 13th January 2006.
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060110 2168430 viewsCummins, trailing view of empty grain train running down the yard along the Penong mainline behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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030416 095502430 viewsWirrida Siding, looking south towards Tarcoola from the north end of the loop, concrete interlocking hut with searchlight repeater signal, point indicator, communications tower in the distance on the left and train control 'pillbox' on the right. Located at the 641 km from the 0 datum at Coonamia and 137 km north of Tarcoola between Carnes and Manguri on the Tarcoola - Alice Springs line. GeoData location. 16th April 2003.
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030411 154247429 viewsWirrulla , yard view looking south, goods loop rejoining from the right, grain loop on the left.
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030414 164137429 viewsKevin, , overview looking east back towards the gypsum fields and plant from the end of the loop on the line to Penong.
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060111 2282429 viewsMurdinga, rounding the curve before entering the station environs empty grain train running north behind ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2446429 viewsThevenard, NJ class unit NJ 3 a Clyde Engineering built EMD model JL22C serial 71-730, originally built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 13th January 2006.
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130703 0288429 viewsKaldow, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 39, 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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060110 2213429 viewsOn the curve near the 85 km between Yeelanna and Karkoo, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 leads an empty grain train. Approx. location of image.
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161109 1896429 viewsMoule, train 4DD4 rumbles along the mainline with third unit 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 before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 2003.
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