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060429 3758424 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon, builders plate originally built for Goldsworthy Mining as one of a batch of six with a 55 tonne rating by Tomlinson Steel in 1966.
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8701 Difco USA 060501 3870424 viewsTabba Siding, originally built by Difco USA for Goldsworthy Mining Ltd in 1967 as a batch of five, prefixed with 870 in BHP service, 8701 side dump waggon loaded with ballast.
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050801 4729424 viewsFlash Butt yard, a Knox Kershaw KBR 850 ballast regulator. 1st August 2005.
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051001 5677424 viewsFlash Butt yard, Jackson model 6700 tamper serial 153246 lettered for Railway Equipment Leasing And Maintenance RELAM Inc undergoing delivery checks view of the builders plate. 1st October 2005.
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2703 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 040806 102936424 viewsFlash Butt yard, view of Rail Dynamics Laboratory test waggon 2703, modified by Mt Newman Mining Workshops from waggon number 2716 in 1975, originally a Comeng built waggon dating from 1971.
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0010 Comeng NSW 110411 09977424 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0010 from 1972, one of three such tank waggons.
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0017 Comeng WA 110411 10012424 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0017 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons.
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0032 CNR - QRRS China 150523 8216424 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0032, one of a second batch delivered in 2015 with safety slogan 'Start with safety'.
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0041 CNR - QRRS China 160128 00337424 viewsMooka Siding, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0041, one of a second batch delivered in 2015 with safety slogan 'Stay alert don't get hurt'.
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0040 CNR - QRRS China 160128 00338424 viewsMooka Siding, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0040, one of a second batch delivered in 2015 with safety slogan 'Think Safe - Act Safe'.
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171018 0957424 viewsTad Yard, overview of Roy Hill's fuel tanks and waggon loading gantry with a fuel train being loaded headed up by ES44ACi unit RHA 1020 serial number 64301 and sister units RHA 1015 serial number 63826 with RHA 1017 serial number 63828 awaiting their next call to duty. All three RHA units were built in Erie Pennsylvania, USA by General Electric. 17th October 2018.
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242-25424 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved locomotives from the early days of the Port Hedland iron ore miners of Goldsworthy Mining and Mt Newman Mining. From right is a Goldsworthy Mining B class unit #2 built by English Electric serial number A-105, Mt Newman Mining 5451 which was built by EMD as an F7A model and started life with Western Pacific in the USA and Mt Newman Mining 5497, a Comeng NSW built M636 ALCo unit. May 2002.
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241-04424 viewsNelson Point, Mt Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW sits awaiting partial dismantling before being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's museum at Bassendean, Perth for preservation. June 2002.
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01337 080304 2182424 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of slave waggon 1337, the yellow circle around the tare weight 22.6 t indicates the rotary coupler end, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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246-36424 viewsCape Lambert, a Robe River loaded Deepdale train rolls along the mainline behind the standard quad Dash 8 power with 202 waggons which are a mix of builds from Nippon Sharyo Japan and Tomlinson Steel and Centurion Industries both WA companies. The ore is a ROM product and will be dumped over the gyratory crusher to be correctly sized. The newly extended roads can be seen either side of the train and in the distance can be seen are the railway workshops. 22nd May 2002.
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267-33424 viewsAt the 39 km, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' serial number 8151-07 / 91-120 stands with the Sundowner Special alongside the AEI reader at the 39 km detector site on the Newman mainline. This was a special for the 25 years of the Alstom / BHP service agreement. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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222-32423 viewsSomewhere on the original single line section between Gull and Rosella Hamersley Iron 7071 serial 47750 a General Electric Dash 9-44CW built by GE at Erie brings a loaded train away from the passing track back onto the mainline following a crew change with second unit 7066.
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229-15423 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking at the exit portal of the tunnel as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 drags a loading through at 1.2 km/h, the massive pile of ore is gravity fed into the waggons via two sets of hydraulic chutes, the red and amber lights control access through the tunnel and the steel pipe is for dust extraction. GeoData.
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235-14423 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 passes out the other side of the loadout tunnel as loading has commenced, the dust extraction equipment and retaining wall culvert frame the loco.
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238-23423 viewsNelson Point loco overhaul shop, former Union Pacific loco 3523 an EMD SD40-2 model, serial 786170-25 and now numbered 3085 for BHP Billiton Iron One service had only been in operation for eleven days when this shot was taken on the 27th November 2004. Geodata .
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