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BHP CM40-8M 5662.

2020-09-18 Roland Depth 0 BHP Iron Ore Goninan CM40-8M
BHP has two Dash 8 locomotives that didn't end up getting scrapped when they were retired. One of them is the first unit built new September 1988 in Western Australia as a CM39-8 with serial number 5831-09 / 88-079 and numbered 5630 and names Zeus, this is stored at Nelson Point Port Hedland after having travelled some 4.5 million kilometres.
And the other is an ALCo rebuild into GE model CM40-8M unit 5662 with serial 8412-07 / 94-153 and rebuilt from Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 model unit 5490.
This unit has been down track parked in the backtrack at Gidgi Siding at the 270 km (from Hedland) with a rumoured traction motor failure. It has been parked there for some years now and we first actually saw it here in July 2015 when it had already been there for some time.
Here it is on the 12th September 2020.
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