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130705 0515362 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 0525362 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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060110 2180362 viewsNear the 73 km and Cockaleechie Road grade crossing, 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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161109 1959362 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 39, rust holes in end plates with hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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030416 083850362 viewsCarnes Siding located at the 566.4 km on the Central Australian line from Tarcoola to Alice Springs. Looking south from the goods siding off the loop with deadend siding to loading ramp, communications tower at left. GeoData location. 16th April 2003.
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030406 095240361 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 141824361 viewsKapinnie, station yard overview looking east towards Yeelanna, from the terminus end of line with dwarf point lever and indicator, concrete silo complexes with outflow spouts, scotch block visible on siding. 6th April 2003.
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030407 100506361 viewsMinnipa, north bound empty grain train shunts across the grade crossing for Minnipa - Yardea Rd 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 104458361 viewsWaddikee station located at the 218.3 km and opened in September 1921, yard overview with the rear waggons of a loaded grain train operating south to Cummins.
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030411 110227361 viewsKimba, rail recovery winch waggon EZWL 2, shows cabin mounted above motor and winch, 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 110811361 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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060111 2267361 viewsTooligie, 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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060111 2300361 viewsLock, 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 with two ALCO units 850 and 905 drag their grain train over the grade past the location sign and down into Lock. 11th January 2006.
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060111 2318361 viewsNantuma, Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C model loco 1203 serial 65-427 leads two ALCo units 850 and 905 as they round the bend just north of the old station site at the 183 km. Their next shunt will be Warramboo. 11th January 2006.
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060111 2323361 viewsWarramboo, located at the 190.2 km and opened with the line in May 1913, with now disused station building on the left, Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C model loco 1203 serial 65-427 shunts empty grain waggons into the grain loop for loading. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2555361 viewsCharra at the 466.2 km, Pope Searle checks out the Mallee style shelter building. Opened with the line on 13th February 1966 as a goods siding, reclassified as passing siding and extended, new goods loop siding constructed May 1982. 13th January 2006.
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130705 0510361 viewsLock, the heavy fog has lifted and EMD 1200 class unit 1203 is leading the loading of a grain train on the grain loop road with two ALCo DL531 units 846 and 859.
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130705 0520361 viewsLock, former Australian National narrow gauge 830 class locomotive 846, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model with serial 84715 built new for the SAR in 1963 and delivered to Adelaide Division on broad gauge, transferred to Tasmania on narrow gauge in 1982, then back to SA on standard gauge in 1989 and then Whyalla in 2008 on narrow gauge. In 2012 is was delivered to Port Lincoln, the last loco delivered to the Eyre Peninsula and wearing Genesee & Wyoming decals on former AN livery. 5th July 2013.
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130706 0684361 viewsPort Lincoln, fishing vessels Meita Maru along side the wharf, IMO 9071583, callsign YJQE8 with Kurikoma, IMO 9145920, callsign 3FTS6 on the other side. 6th of July 2013.
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130708 0717361 viewsCharra,
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