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030405 155014422 viewsLock, yard view with goods shed on the left, horizontal grain shed and Ascom style silo complex, known as Block 5, 5th April 2003.
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030406 142210422 viewsKapinnie, yard view of former goods shed, loading ramp, concrete silo complex beside it. 6th April 2003.
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030409 115614422 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 120804422 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 124454422 viewsRudall, horizontal grain bunker with loading ramp in front, crane has been removed.
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030409 125154422 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 2261422 viewsTooligie, 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 and its grain train. 11th January 2006.
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060111 2365422 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 2471422 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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060113 2521422 viewsKevin, empty train 6DD3 is heading onto the south leg and original gypsum loading siding to continue the reversing process. 13th January 2006.
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130706 0679422 viewsPort Lincoln, looking at the port and foreshore.
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030404 132204422 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, AFRF type rail transport waggon, number board of AFRF 1013 shows the Australia Northern logo.
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030415 154518422 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking west along the eastern leg of the triangle, power station on the left, loop line running to the right. Tarcoola is the junction for the TAR and CAR railways situated 504 km from the 0 km datum at Coonamia. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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030405 155852421 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 095944421 viewsCummins, view inside the concrete train control booth, shows writing desk and box on wall with phone inside. 6th April 2003.
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030407 100606421 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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030409 113015421 viewsDarke Peake, the end of the triangle looking west is in this cutting.
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060109 2120421 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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060113 2503421 viewsKevin, view looking from the Penong end of Kevin with the goods siding points and indicator besides narrow gauge loco 1604 as it leads NJ 3 and 1601 with empty train 6DD3 as they reverse around the triangle to position the train for loading back on the mainline to Thevenard. 13th January 2006.
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060113 2553421 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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