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050414 0942220 viewsFlash Butt yard, BHP clip driving machine, modified from a former Plasser Australia USP 3000 ballast regulator. 14th April 2005.
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050625 3812220 viewsNode 2 at the 38 km on the GML or former Goldsworthy mainline, a Barclay Mowlem track machine sleeper crane off clear of the running lines. 25th June 2005.
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051001 5670220 viewsFlash Butt yard, Jackson model 6700 tamper serial 153246 lettered for Railway Equipment Leasing And Maintenance RELAM Inc undergoing delivery checks. 1st October 2005.
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060501 3923220 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Speno rail grinder RG 1, a RR24 model grinder with 24 grinding wheels, serial M20, third grinding module. 1st May 2006.
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080621 2729220 viewsGillman Siding, new Lead-Off Lead-On waggon STTR class STTR 6214 on the end of the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, built by Gemco Rail WA, detail of A end.
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100717 0658220 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6042, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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110208 9441220 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6033 loaded with strings of rail, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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110411 09986220 viewsNelson Point, empty 82 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0008 one of six such tank waggons built in 1970-71.
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130720 1556220 viewsFlash Butt yard, new heavyweight out of gauge flat waggon 6000, unsure of builder, could be Gemco Rail in Perth.
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150314 7739220 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0013 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons.
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150523 8208220 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0034, one of a second batch delivered in 2015 with safety slogan 'Think Safe + Work Safe = Go Home Safe'.
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170728 09690220 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 12, compressor control waggon with two diesel powered Kaeser M57 Utility air compressors. Note the waggons are modified ore waggon frames. Seen here at Cape Lambert. 28th July 2017.
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171121 0970220 viewsBarker Siding, Loram rail grinder MPC 2, this was sent out from the USA where it was operational as LMIX 602 for Loram. The generator and driving cab look to be fitted to an 85 foot piggy back waggon. 21st November 2017.
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241-28220 viewsNelson Point, Car Dumper 2 holding roads with Yard Control tower and Ore Car Repair Shop in the background as three loaded ore rakes behind a pair of CM40-8M units on each wait their turn through the dumper to discharge. June 2002.
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241-33220 viewsNelson Point, Car Dumper 2 holding roads, a pair of CM40-8M units 5660 'Kure' serial 8412-05 / 94-151 and 5657 'Fukuyama' drag their loaded train towards the dumper to discharge passing a similar consist with the Ore Car Repair Shop in the background. June 2002.
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080124 1630220 viewsChapman Siding, new FMG ore waggon pair 1311 slave and 2312 control, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 24th January 2008.
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080304 2204220 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of control waggon 2516, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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110620 2278220 viewsChapman, FMG TK type fuel tank waggon TK 08 built by China Southern CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works plant in China in 2008 as part of an order for twelve tanks, is on the loaded fuel train to Cloud Break. 20th June 2011.
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248-14220 viewsDingo Siding on the Hamersley Iron railway at the 39 km with an empty train headed up by a pair of General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 7077 serial 47756 from the original first order in the Pepsi Can livery and 9408 serial 54158 from the fourth order in the Pilbara Rail livery with Robe ownership markings powers away to the south back onto the mainline with the signal marker board DI19 for Dingo 19. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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248-25220 viewsSeven Mile yard, stored Robe River ALCo locomotives at the south end of the Hamersley Iron Seven Mile yard on roads N2 and N3. On road N2 is 9426 a Comeng WA C636R rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania Railroad as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Behind it is sister unit 9427 and ALCo M636 9412. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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