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040413 165913168 viewsNelson Point, ore waggon bogie, Bradken cast SSRC bogie which stands for Super Service Ride Control.
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150619 9144168 viewsMooka, BHP Iron Ore's track recording vehicle, EM80 which is a Plasser & Theurer EM-80 model and still wearing the old BHP blue and white livery, this unit was delivered in Mt Newman Mining orange and white, Mermec fitted a Tecnogamma system as part of a refurbishment.
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220-02167 viewsTaplin Siding, located between the 135 and 137.5 km on the former Goldsworthy Mining Ltd line, now part of the BHP Iron Ore network looking east past the point indicators and the 136 km post.
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060414 3458167 viewsNelson Point yard, empty fuel tank waggon 0015, view of B end and bogie, a Comeng WA built 116 kilolitre tank waggon, one of a batch of six built in 1974-75 wearing the newer corporate 'Earth' livery of BHP Billiton Iron Ore.
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20846167 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, newly completed BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M rebuild unit 5637 'De Grey' serial 8181-01 / 92-123 sits on a Bell road transport float bound for Port Hedland. 5637 was rebuilt from AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5456 serial G6012-5. January 1992 image.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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040407 072701167 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, Barclay Mowlem's Knox Kershaw KBR 850 ballast regulator lettered for Railway Equipment Leasing And Maintenance R.E.L.A.M Inc. 7th April 2004.
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240-29167 viewsSeven Mile, loaded train heading for Parker Point behind a pair of Pilbara Rail, Robe River owned, General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 9470 serial 53455 and 9471 serial 53456. These and sister unit 9472 were the first painted in the Pilbara Rail livery. 31st August 2002.
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200914 7756167 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, 5450 a USA built EMD model F7A serial 8970 and frame 3006-A9, built Jan-1950 for Western Pacific Railroad as 917-A, imported for the Mt Newman Mining Co. to construct their Port Hedland to Newman railway in December 1967. Donated to the Society in 1978. 14th September 2020.
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200914 7763167 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, 5450 a USA built EMD model F7A serial 8970 and frame 3006-A9, built Jan-1950 for Western Pacific Railroad as 917-A, imported for the Mt Newman Mining Co. to construct their Port Hedland to Newman railway in December 1967. Donated to the Society in 1978. 14th September 2020.
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200914 iPhone IMG 8831167 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, in this panorama image you can see from the left 3017 a Comeng WA ALCo rebuild C636R locomotive serial WA-135-C-6043-04. The improved Pilbara cab was fitted as part of the rebuild in April 1985 and the former NSWGR bogie passenger carriages. 14th September 2020.
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170728 09697166 viewsArches Siding on the Robe line sees empty train behind Rio Tinto 8109 serial 58005 a General Electric built ES44DCi unit with sister 8178 in Rio stripes and stablemate 9433 on approach to the 25 km grade crossing. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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22452166 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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23714166 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin built ALCo model M636 unit 5473 serial G6047-5 being scrapped to frame level, cab section on truck. December 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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040407 075058166 viewsMooka Siding, Mooka North location relay room with solar panel array on the north side, arrival LED type signal MAN 3 visible beside the mainline. 7th April 2004.
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040407 075131166 viewsMooka Siding, Mooka North location relay room with solar panel array and radio link mast visible. 7th April 2004.
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180615 1625166 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, BHP stabled rail or steel train holds the former Goldsworthy mainline between the junction and Node 1 due to upgrading track works within the flash butt yard behind Electro-Motive Diesel built SD70ACe 4360 serial 20098203-005 in late afternoon light. 15th June 2018. GeoData.
Photo by Roland Depth.
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180616 1628166 viewsHarding Siding, a loaded train from Mesa A behind double Rio Tinto loco 9103 with serial 61941 a GE Erie built GE model ES44ACi from the 1st order in Rio Tinto Stripes livery and 9108 serial 62539 with 167 'J' type ore waggons around the curve at the 38.5 km. 16th June 2018. GeoData
Toad Montgomery image.
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200914 7769166 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 September 2020.
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200914 7780166 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, ALCo built locomotive model S-2 serial 69214 built in 1940 for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle as their #21 and retired in 1964 before coming to Australia in September 1965, numbered 007 and called 'Mabel'. Retired in December 1972 and donated to the Society in 1976. 14th September 2020.
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200914 iPhone IMG 8837166 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, how to protect a train on the Hamersley Iron system. 14th September 2020.
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