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060113 2501425 viewsKevin, empty train 6DD3 on the stub of the now closed line to Penong shunts back onto the triangle leg to reverse the train prior to loading. 13th January 2006.
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060113 2509425 viewsKevin, empty train 6DD3 shunts back onto the triangle leg behind triple NJ/1600 class units, Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C models, originally coded the NJ class and built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981 and recoded to the 1600 class. 13th January 2006.
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060113 2587425 viewsCeduna, or Denial Bay area, empty gypsum train 6DD5 blasts up hill at the 440 km, west of Carpenter Corner Rd with power from triple 1600/NJ class units 1604, NJ 3 and 1601. 1601 in Australian Railroad Group livery is a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-728, originally built as NJ class NJ 1. Location approximation. 13th January 2006.
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130704 0435425 viewsKyancutta, 1200 class unit 1204 wearing current owner Genesee & Wyoming livery is a Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C model with serial 65-428 heads up a loaded grain train as it undertakes a brake test following shunting to attach a further fourteen waggons. 4th July 2013.
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130705 0525425 viewsLock, HBN type dual use ballast / grain hopper waggons, HBN 5. One of seventeen built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 with a 25 ton capacity, increased to 34 tons in 1974. HBN 1-11 fitted with removable tops and roll-top hatches in 1999-2000. 5th July 2013.
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130708 0744425 viewsCharra, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 34, in GWA corporate orange livery of owner Genesee & Wyoming Australia, still with hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.
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130708 0762425 viewsCharra, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 26 M, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.
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030406 100746424 viewsCummins, grain bunker rail unloading facility with dual DOH 'Drive Over Hopper' and stackers for loading road vehicles. 6th April 2003.
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030411 110018424 viewsKimba, rail recovery winch waggon EZWL 2, built using underframe of broad gauge horse box BH 4331. To Eyre Peninsula 1992, recoded then from AZWL.
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030411 110811424 viewsKimba, looking south across the Eyre Highway grade crossing, the grain road has to use hand signals, the mainline has a coloured light, one of only three such signals on the Eyre Peninsula system, the others being at Kyancutta and Port Lincoln.
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030411 141732424 viewsNunjikompita, yard view looking west, Ascom style silo with loadout spout and silo, then a horizontal bunker and concrete silos. The truck unloading point is on the right of the silos.
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060108 2063424 viewsLock, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, final of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1514, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started on the Eyre Peninsula in August 2004.
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060111 2284424 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 2465424 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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130703 0132424 viewsMurdinga, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 20, originally an NHB type hopper 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. Seen here being loaded with grain between two HAN type waggons with Moose Metalworks roll-top cover.
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130703 0140424 viewsMurdinga, bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 47, 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 0371424 viewsKyancutta, south bound loaded grain train has stopped here to collect a loaded rack of fourteen grain waggons from the Ascom silo complex, Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C model 1204 serial 65-428 leads the train and was originally built in 1965 for Western Mining Corporation and operated by the WAGR as their A class A 1514.
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130705 0523424 viewsLock, 1203, 846 and 859 shunt their loading grain train out of the siding onto the mainline. 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. 5th of July 2013.
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130706 0672424 viewsPort Lincoln, looking in the down direction from the London Street overbridge at the yard environs with the station at the extreme right, with the AN Freight Shed now museum in the middle background. 6th of July 2013.
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130708 0907424 viewsThevenard originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 19, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum crossing Bergmann Drive grade crossing, 434.2 km.
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