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130704 0480441 viewsKyancutta, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 21, 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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130705 0512441 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 0528441 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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130705 0547441 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 0583441 viewsLock, located at the 148.5 km and originally named Terre when opened in May 1913, later renamed to Lock in December 1921. From the left background is the Ascom silo complex (Block 5), then blocks 2, 1 and 3, the train is on the mainline with the horizontal bunker (Block 4) on the right. 5th of July 2013.
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130705 0612441 viewsLock, with loading finished, 1203 leads the final portion along goods siding #1 as it prepares to shunt back onto the loaded portion on the mainline for departure to Port Lincoln.
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130708 0753441 viewsCharra, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 7 F, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.
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130708 0775441 viewsCharra, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 51 Y, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.
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130708 0817441 viewsMoule, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 33 Q, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Mewett Rd grade crossing, 470.1 km.
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130708 0846441 viewsPenong Junction, [url=https://goo.gl/maps/45FyW]429.7 km[url].
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130708 0853441 viewsPenong Junction, [url=https://goo.gl/maps/45FyW]429.7 km[url].
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130708 0856441 viewsPenong Junction, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 33 Q, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum [url=https://goo.gl/maps/45FyW] located at the 429.7 km[url].
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161109 1956441 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 17, refurbished and wearing current owner Genesee & Wyoming orange and decal with matching hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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030403 154841441 viewsGladstone, former South Australian Railways AE Goodwin built DL500G ALCo designated the 700 class, class leader 701 serial G6042-2, B end cab side shot, leads a grain train being loaded on the 3rd April 2003.
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030403 162252441 viewsCrystal Brook, view from the A end of former Australian National 600 class AE Goodwin built ALCo DL541 model 603 serial G6015-2.
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030404 082917441 viewsPort Germein, Perth bound steel and intermodal hurries through on the main behind National Rail's NR class units, showing one and a half stacking and new vehicles on flat waggons. 4th April 2003.
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030407 105517440 viewsPoochera, track view and side view of HCN type bogie wheat waggon HCN 36, 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, showing the roll top covers. 7th April 2003.
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060109 2129440 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 across Museum Terrace to re-join the train on the mainline. 9th January 2006.
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060111 2338440 viewsWarramboo, 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 as it crosses Kimba Road grade crossing. 11th January 2006.
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060111 2391440 viewsWannamana, 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 leading a north bound empty grain train heading to Wudinna. Wannamana was located at the 210 km and opened in January 1927, this scene is some 79 years later. The siding was closed in April 1957. 11th January 2006.
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