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22452362 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 5504 serial C6104-2 sits out the back in a partially stripped state. This unit was subsequently scrapped. November 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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23100362 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, loaded onto a hundred and four six wheel road transport float, Robe River rebuild GE CM40-8M unit 9422 serial 8297-03 / 93-138 is loaded awaiting transport to Cape Lambert. 9422 was rebuilt from Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 9422 serial C6103-2 from Aug 1977 and kept this number when rebuilt here. March 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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200914 7798362 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, view looking north with locomotives from the left; former Mt Newman Mining EMD F7A 5450, former Mt Newman Mining / BHP ALCo M636 5502, former Cliffs Robe River ALCo RSC3 4002, a glimpse of former Goldsworthy Mining English Electric ST95B 1 and former Hamersley Iron ALCo C-415 1000. 14th September 2020.
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197-03361 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, looking west with the end of the triangle or wye, signal post is GJ 7, empty iron ore train on approach.
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221-04361 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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221-11361 viewsHardie Siding, with the switch now set for the siding, the empty train is reversing out back onto the mainline, the ore cars are Tomlinson Steel built bottom discharge units. Note the end of train device are two flashing red lights, and no digitair.
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150507 8108361 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bank engines General Electric Dash 9-44CW locomotives, units 006 serial 58183 and 005 serial 58182 run back light to Solomon for their next duty, seen here on the second bridge over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1844217 118.0313467 .
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150518 8120361 viewsBHP Iron Ore old and retired ore stacker #4 and bucket wheel reclaimer #4 are blown apart to aid in the scrapping process.
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040530 143906361 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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170729 0119361 viewsGreen Pool, as they cross the #6 bridge on the original Robe River line with their train snaking all the way back to Western Creek, General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8114 serial 59106 in original silver livery and operating in AutoHaul™ with later sister units 8120 and 8148 with a loaded train from Yandicoogina. 29th July 2017. GeoData.
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150619 9164361 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machine Tamper 3 a Plasser Australia unit model 09-3X serial M480. 19th June 2015.
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041014 142704361 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, former ALCo built demonstrator locomotive model C-415 serial 3449-1 built April 1966, currently carrying number 1000, it was originally numbered 008 when Hamersley Iron purchased the unit in 1968. It was retired from service on the 24th February 1982. It then spent some time carrying number 2000 while building the Marandoo railway line from Sept 1991. 14th October 2004.
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250-06361 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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219-37360 viewsGoldsworthy Siding, C36-7M unit 5507 'Nimingarra' serial 4839-03 / 87-072, an original Mt Newman Mining ALCo C636 5461 to GE C36-7M rebuild carried out by Goninan, leads an empty train away from Goldsworthy, the waggon behind 5507 is numbered 352 and is one of ten Portec USA built waggons originally from Phelps Dodge Copper Mine.
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220-09360 viewsHills around former Shay Gap mining area.
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232-08360 viewsYandi One balloon loop, mid-train remote units of train no. 1718 which is partway through loading, BHP Iron Ore unit 5659 'Kobe' serial 8412-04 / 94-150 leads cab-less unit 5665, both are Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units, 59 is still in the teal and marigold logo livery. 3rd of February 1997. GeoData.
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6984 001360 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. New GE 7FDL-16 prime mover awaiting fitting to one of the new CM39-8 units.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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219-29359 viewsGoldsworthy Siding, C36-7M unit 5507 'Nimingarra' serial 4839-03 / 87-072, an original Mt Newman Mining ALCo C636 5461 to GE C36-7M rebuild carried out by Goninan, leads an empty train along the siding at Goldsworthy.
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221-07359 viewsHardie Siding, with the days of C36-7M operations numbered, Goninan rebuild 5513 serial 88-078 / 4839-02 from ALCo C636 5453 blasts away from Hardie with a loaded train bound for Finucane Island.
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150523 8197359 viewsNelson Point Yard, a pair of BHP Billiton SD70ACe units waits in the arrival yard with a loaded rake for the dumpers. Lead unit 4327 'Hamersley' is from an order originally built by Electro-Motive, London Ontario for BNSF, a US Class 1 railroad, but BHP secured 10 of them during construction, this unit 4327 serial 20066862-056 was destined to be BNSF 9185 before coming to BHP. The second unit 4402 is from a batch of Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe units serial 20118575-012.
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