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130703 0288428 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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030406 142210427 viewsKapinnie, yard view of former goods shed, loading ramp, concrete silo complex beside it. 6th April 2003.
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030407 100606427 viewsMinnipa, empty grain train bogie grain waggons, HCN type bogie wheat waggon HCN 22 and HCN 21, modified at Islington Workshops in 1978-80 which started life as a Tulloch built NHB type iron ore hopper for the CR on the North Australia Railway in 1968-69 with SAR Islington Workshops built HAN type bogie wheat waggon, HAN 41. 7th April, 2003.
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060109 2126427 viewsKyancutta, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 as they shunt empty grain waggons on the silo loop. 9th January 2006.
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030404 141224427 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, MKA (Morrison Knudsen Australia) rebuilt AL class AL 24 into EMD JT26C-2M model for Australian National in 1993 as the ALF class, here ALF 20 serial 94-AB-020 shunts empty rail transport waggon sets from the Darwin construction. 4th April, 2003.
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216-24426 viewsMoomba, view of surrounding sand hills
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216-37426 viewsMoomba.
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030405 161656426 viewsLock, former yard crane, hand operated 5 ton revolving jib crane and plinth, now located off North Terrace, 5th April 2003.
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030409 115614426 viewsDarke Peake, at the 195 km Dog Fence Road grade crossing 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.
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030409 124454426 viewsRudall, horizontal grain bunker with loading ramp in front, crane has been removed.
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030414 164137426 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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060109 2146426 viewsWannamana, trailing view of former Australian National narrow gauge ENHG type bogie grain waggon ENHG 2, originally built by Moore Road Ind, Victoria as NB type NB 1395 ballast hopper for the NAR, then to standard gauge in 1975 as BA type BA 1539, recoded to AHTY in 1980, to EP April 1984, recoded to NHG type NHG 5 in May 1984, then again to ENHT type ENHT 5 in March 1985 and further rebuilt forming one half of ENHG type grain waggon in August 1986. The conversion involved splicing two AHTY-ENHT type waggons together at Port Lincoln workshops, part of an empty train on the curve. 9th January 2006.
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060111 2365426 viewsKyancutta, ARG 900 class unit 905, originally built by AE Goodwin as 830 class unit 836 serial 83727, converted to DA class DA 6 by Australian National at Port Augusta workshops for driver only operation in 1996. Trailing unit in a north bound grain train. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2520426 viewsKevin, empty train 6DD3 is on the west leg of the triangle as it prepares to pull forward and head south towards original gypsum loading siding to continue the reversing process. 13th January 2006.
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060113 2553426 viewsKevin, standing on the mainline to Thevenard, and the train now identified as 6DD4 has commenced loading of gypsum but the 988 Cat front end loaders which takes about one and half hours to load. As the train reversed on the triangle the consist is the same heading back loaded with 1604 leading NJ 3 and 1601. 13th January 2006.
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130705 0511426 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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030415 145938426 viewsFerguson, located at the 469 km on the Trans Australian Railway, looking west at the east end of the 1800 metre long crossing loop, point work on timber sleepers, indicator and lever with dual control point machine on the right. GeoData location.
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030405 155852425 viewsLock, yard view looking south, grain silo siding point lever and indicator with derail, circular concrete toilet for grain complex, grade crossing for Birdseye Hwy visible in the distance. 5th April 2003.
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030406 092518425 viewsYeelanna, yard view looking south from the station siding with the south leg of the triangle points, lever and indicator visible, pine tree growing between rails. 6th April 2003.
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030409 113015425 viewsDarke Peake, the end of the triangle looking west is in this cutting.
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