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160128 00789147 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M unit 5661 has the back wall of the cab torn off.
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040407 080602147 viewsSixteen inch split rim with the elongated stud holes following loose nuts and the wheel parting company with the car! 7th April 2004.
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181118 0308r147 viewsRedbank, flat waggon 8500, originally built by Tomlinson Steel WA for Goldsworthy Mining as one of six 55 ton flat waggons built in 1966, and later modified by BHP to increase its capacity.
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250-05147 viewsPelican Siding on the Hamersley Iron Tom Price line about the 208 km with an empty train behind the standard pairing of two General Electric built 9-44CW units 7068 serial 47747 and 7067 serial 47746 stand on the loop or passing track for a meet with a loaded train. 21st October 2000.
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218-18146 viewsDe Grey River Bridge, a loaded GML train with the original AE Goodwin designed and Tomlinson Steel Perth and Scotts of Ipswich built waggons.
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222-09146 viewsGreen Tank Pool, Pilbara, Western Australia. Geo Data.
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239-24146 viewsYandi One balloon loop sees the 1600 empty arrival with mid-train locomotive 5650 'Yawata', a Goninan rebuild GE CM40-8M model serial no. 8412-07/93-141 edging towards the load-out tunnel on the 17/01/1997. GeoData.
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080621 2711146 viewsTabba South, rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon 665, a cut down Magor USA built former Oroville Dam 91 ton ore waggon, used as the crib waggon on the steel train.
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180614 1331146 viewsAllen Siding, the points and what remains of the point machine at the 45 km for the siding, looking east. GeoData. 14th June 2018.
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218-19145 viewsDe Grey River Bridge, a loaded GML train with the original AE Goodwin designed and Tomlinson Steel Perth and Scotts of Ipswich built waggons.
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221-04145 viewsHardie Siding, with the days of C36-7M operations numbered, Goninan rebuild 5513 serial 88-078 / 4839-02 from ALCo C636 5453 holds the mainline with a loaded train bound for Finucane Island.
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223-13145 viewsPossum Siding, Hamersley Iron loco 7082 a General Electric built Dash 9-44CW serial 47761 leads sister unit 7080 with an empty train just inside the loop waiting to effect a crew change. 21st October 2000.
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223-17145 viewsPossum Siding, trailing view of Hamersley Iron loco 7080 a General Electric built Dash 9-44CW serial 47759 second unit behind sister locomotive 7082 looking south. 21st October 2000.
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150507 8100145 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bridge over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1842517 118.0346950 .
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160128 00568145 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, the sparks fly as the remains on an ALCo frame are thermal lanced into smaller manageable pieces, a GE V16 7FDL-16 engine is also cut in half.
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232-36145 viewsYandi One balloon loop cab-less BHP Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8ML (L for LocoTrol) 5665 'Rotterdam' serial 8412-10 / 94-156 in the mid train consist about to enter the tunnel on the 18th of February 1997. This loco was built cab-less to control remote consists and here is in use as a slave, being controlled by a unit with a cab. GeoData.
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040530 143906145 viewsNelson Point, compressor waggon set No. 6, made from a pair of cut down Magor USA built 91 ton ore waggons, originally ex Oroville Dam, California.
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040627 080053145 viewsNelson Point, fuel tank waggon 0020 82 kL capacity, built by Comeng NSW for BP as RTD 2, last of two such tanks, used on Mt Newman line, unsure when converted to 0020.
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040502 085548145 viewsMooka Siding, trailing view of the 'Pony' heading south, 50 ton waggon 6703, one of three 'special' waggons converted from Magor USA built ore waggons, loaded with concrete sleepers is closet to camera.
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040412 143532145 viewsNelson Point, Comeng WA built ore waggon 1760 one of 288 waggons built in 1974. 12th April 2004.
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