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130705 0518436 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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130705 0525436 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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130705 0526436 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. The barracks are just visible at left. 5th of July 2013.
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130706 0667436 viewsPort Lincoln, looking in the down direction from the London Street overbridge at the weigh bridge and stowed 830 class units and the ballast waggons. 6th of July 2013.
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130706 0673436 viewsPort Lincoln, looking in the down direction from the London Street overbridge at the yard environs with the AN Freight Shed now museum on the right. The sign next to the point indicator states the Depot is Unattended. 6th of July 2013.
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130708 0781436 viewsCharra, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NHA type NHA 997 for the NAR now coded ENHA type ENHA 5 Y, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.
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130708 0815436 viewsMoule, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 20 E, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Mewett Rd grade crossing, 470.1 km.
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130708 0957436 viewsThevenard,
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060110 2184436 viewsNear the 78 km, empty grain train with 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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030404 082951436 viewsPort Germein, Perth bound steel and intermodal hurries through on the main showing the 3-pack steel billet transport waggons. These RKKY waggons were built by ANI Engineering from a Williams-Worley Rail design in 1993 and operate between Whyalla and Newcastle. 4th April 2003.
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030404 104048436 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, RQKY type 60' container flat waggon fitted with aligned bogies RQKY 2690 was originally built by Perry Engineering SA in 1974 in a batch of forty five RM type container waggon, fitted with aligned bogies and recoded to AQPY type. Seen here with a Mayne Logistics 48' DRC 382 container on top of a 40' half height tarped load. 4th April 2003.
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030406 095240435 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 101336435 viewsCummins, original cast iron 'A6' type South Australian Railways, or SAR, YARD LIMIT sign bolted to a rail post. April 6, 2003.
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030407 100445435 viewsMinnipa, north bound empty grain train arrives behind a trio of former Australian National Co-Co locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial no. 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial no. 84140 and 851 serial no. 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962, to shunt off empty waggons into the grain siding. 7th April, 2003.
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030409 113518435 viewsDarke Peake, looking south along the 'mainline' past the standpipe site.
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030409 115600435 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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030411 110609435 viewsKimba, view looking south of the Ascom Jumbo style silo complex, truck discharge on the left, outloading spout and silo over rail, horizontal bunker behind.
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030411 110823435 viewsKimba, looking south across the Eyre Highway grade crossing, the mainline has a coloured light signal, one of only three such signals on the Eyre Peninsula system, the others being at Kyancutta and Port Lincoln.
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030411 154502435 viewsWirrulla, looking south at the south end of the grain loop, unprotected grade crossing.
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060108 2078435 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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