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233-16200 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. A loading train lead by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 as it drags the train through at 1.2 km/h with assistance from two sister units. GeoData.
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234-22200 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM39-8 GE unit 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 is second unit on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. Rear three quarter view. Circa 1998.
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234-34200 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. View looking across the YT315.8 km grade crossing and 5658 back to the ore stockpile at the loadout. Circa 1998.
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234-36200 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. View looking across the YT315.8 km grade crossing and 5658 back to the ore stockpile at the loadout. Circa 1998.
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235-17200 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 leads the afternoon 240 waggon train with second unit Goninan built CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus' as the exit the loadout tunnel, notice the fuel tank differences between the lead unit an ALCo rebuild and the second unit built new.
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236-29200 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuilt CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 sits out the front awaiting attention.
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236-33200 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6077 'Nimingarra' serial 51069 sits out the front.
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050410 0542200 viewsNelson Point, tanker filling area, fuel tank waggon 0015, a Comeng NSW built 112 kilolitre tank waggon, one of a batch of four built in 1972 wearing the newer corporate 'Earth' livery of BHP Billiton Iron Ore.
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050412 0757200 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA ballast waggon 517.
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050518 2080200 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 744.
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050518 2088200 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 754.
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050518 2098200 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 740.
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050518 2141200 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 741, shows bogie detail, ASF Ride Control bogie casting with CFCLA id of CQFE 055.
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050518 2160200 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 529, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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050518 2173200 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 503, one of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.
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050518 2186200 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 519, one of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.
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051001 5626200 viewsFlash Butt yard, heavily stripped down riveted waggon 206, possible original ballast waggon, number 206 was originally a waggon in the 'Camp Train' and appears to have USA origin, view of handbrake end, pushed into earth bund.
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060429 3727200 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon, builders plate of Mt Newman Mining waggon built in 1970 by Scotts of Ipswich, one of a batch of nine in the series 6005-6013.
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050801 4751200 viewsFlash Butt yard, BHP clip driving machine, modified from a former Plasser Australia USP 3000 ballast regulator. 1st August 2005.
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060811 8013200 viewsGarden Siding, Speno rail grinder RG 2 coupled with RG 1 in the passing track. 11th August 2006.
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