Pilbara Railways Image Collection

The entire photo collection of images scanned from negatives and slides and digital images.


Home Login
Album list Last uploads Last comments Most viewed Top rated My Favourites Search
Home > Pilbara negative and digital Albums - Iron Ore

Most viewed - Pilbara negative and digital Albums - Iron Ore
243-17.jpg
243-17400 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' a Goninan WA GE rebuild unit serial 8151-07 / 91-120 in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it heads up an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
243-21.jpg
243-21400 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' a Goninan WA GE rebuild unit serial 8151-07 / 91-120 in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it heads up an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
110620_2278.jpg
TK 08 110620 2278400 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.
248-03.jpg
248-03400 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 from 1994 still looking good some ten years later. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
249-18.jpg
249-18400 viewsTable Hill on the Robe River railway line, a microwave radio communications site powered by solar panels. Approximate location.
256-10.jpg
256-10400 viewsMaitland Siding on the Cape Lambert to Deepdale railway has a late afternoon empty train with the quad CM40-8M working of 9425, 9410, 9420 and 9414 in the siding waiting for a cross with an opposing loaded train. At the time of this image Siding 3 or Murray Camp was unable to cross ore trains so Siding One - Harding or Siding Two - Maitland were used. May 2002.
256-30.jpg
256-30400 viewsAt the 89.6 km grade crossing and with the meet at Maitland completed the loaded train continues onto Cape Lambert behind the quad CM40-8M working. May 2002.
257-02.jpg
257-02400 viewsFlash Butt yard BHP's stored Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5511 awaits its fate. Rebuilt in 1987 at Goninan's Welshpool factory from a 1970 AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 with serial number G6035-4 and road number 5463 and assigned new serial number 4839-08 / 87-076. It was delivered in Mount Newman Mining orange and was named Port Hedland. Late 2001.
110620_2456r.jpg
2683 Comeng 110620 2456400 viewsWalla, loaded BHP ore waggon 2683, originally built in 1971 by Comeng WA as part of a batch of four hundred waggons. The walls in the ribs have been resheeted. Still has the original white end for rotary coupler, original number and weight. June 20, 2011.
226-08.jpg
226-08399 viewsRedmont, 202 km with a loaded Yandi train speeding north towards the port behind a pair of CM40-8M locomotives with the distinctive flat top loading profile of the Yandi loadouts. GeoData.
236-32.jpg
236-32399 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 'Chichester' serial 51063 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted next to sister unit 6077.
040810_145555.jpg
8704 Difco USA 040810 145555399 viewsShaw Siding backtrack, view looking south with Quarry 8 track leading off to the right, a line up of Difco Ohio USA built side dump waggons, a combination of both Mt Newman long and short versions and Goldsworthy Mining short version no. 4 closest to camera.
050412_0765.jpg
0503 Magor USA 050412 0765399 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA ballast waggon 503.
050518_2087.jpg
CHRY 754 050518 2087399 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 754.
050518_2097.jpg
CHQY 740 050518 2097399 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 740.
050518_2101.jpg
CHRY 760 050518 2101399 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 760.
050704_3986.jpg
0013 Comeng WA 050704 3986399 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0013 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons.
051001_5644.jpg
0538 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 051001 5644399 viewsFlash Butt yard, side view of ballast plough converted from Magor USA built Oroville ore waggon 538, still visible is the ODCX 82160 number from original service building the Oroville Dam, through brake pipe is visible over the top of waggon.
051001_5733.jpg
6201 Comeng WA 051001 5733399 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #28, 2nd lead off waggon 6201, built by Comeng WA in January 1977 under order no. 07-M-282 RY, with the Gemco built straddle crane.
060618_6211.jpg
8704 Difco USA 060618 6211399 viewsAbydos Siding, originally built by Difco USA for Goldsworthy Mining Ltd in 1967 as a batch of five, prefixed with 870 in BHP service, 8704 side dump waggon loaded with fines for pad capping.
6220 files on 311 page(s) 146

Set Back to Pilbara Yard / Photo Gallery / Blog / Departure Yard / BHP Road / Fortescue Metals Road / Rio Tinto Road / Roy Hill Road / Comalco Siding
Your IP address is: Website and all images are © 1997-2026 www.pilbararailways.com.au Contact Us
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional