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216-23422 viewsMoomba, view of surrounding sand hills
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030406 095240422 viewsCummins, goods loading ramp, tracks from camera, Buckleboo line - siding, mainline, grain siding and loading ramp siding. 6th April 2003.
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030406 100746422 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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030409 113518422 viewsDarke Peake, looking south along the 'mainline' past the standpipe site.
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030411 110216422 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. Scrapped in 2005.
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030411 110811422 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 154043422 viewsWirrulla , yard overview looking south from the grain road points, horizontal bunker with two blocks of concrete silos on the left.
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060111 2405422 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, shunts through the yard.
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130703 0139422 viewsMurdinga, bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 50, 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 0435422 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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130704 0479422 viewsKyancutta, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 35, 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 loaded with grain with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover.
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130708 0907422 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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244-36422 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, wearing Australian Southern livery rebuild ALCo DA 7 started life as NSWGR 48 class 4813 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 83713, rebuilt by Islington Workshops with long hood and parts from former 830 class 870 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial G6016-06 in 1998. B end roster view looking forward. 6th April 2003.
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030415 155213422 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking west, end of No. 1 Water Road running straight, removed points, No. 2 Loco, then No. 1 Loco and the points for the Camp Train Roads just visible on the right. Tank on stand and underground covered tank can be made out. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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030415 155314422 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking south east at the remains of the head shunt off the Camp Train and No. 1 Water Roads. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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030405 155300421 viewsLock, yard overview looking south, points and lever with indicator for the siding off the mainline, concrete silo complex Block 2 and outflow spout visible on the right as local identity Pope Searle wanders around the yard. 5th April 2003.
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030407 104705421 viewsPoochera, station yard overview looking north from south end of Goods Siding 2, point lever and indicator for siding, on the left is the horizontal grain shed with an Ascom style silo complex behind it, on the right the goods shed can be made out along with the SACBH concrete silo complexes. 7th April 2003.
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060108 2066421 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 2325421 viewsWarramboo, Kimba Road grade crossing, 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, here shunting off the grain siding and back to the mainline to resume the journey north. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2465421 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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