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060414 3447126 viewsNelson Point yard, originally a Magor USA built ballast waggon for the Oroville Dam construction, 507 seen here modified as a weighbridge test waggon with an axle load of 20 ton.
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040407 072701126 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, Barclay Mowlem's Knox Kershaw KBR 850 ballast regulator lettered for Railway Equipment Leasing And Maintenance RELAM Inc. 7th April 2004.
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170728 09682126 viewsCape Lambert South Yard, and empty train await departure time behind Rio Tinto 8109 serial 58005 a General Electric built ES44DCi unit with sister 8178 in Rio stripes and stablemate 9433. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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170728 09716126 views38 km on approach to Harding Siding an empty train rounds the curve under the Water Corp pipe bridge lead by Rio Tinto stripe liveried unit 8147 serial 58728 an General Electric built ES44DCi unit with a sister unit 8149 sandwiching 7065 a Dash 9-44CW unit. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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22709126 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, ALCo 251 diesel engines, these are believed to have been exported to Mexico.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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151206 9659126 viewsBoodarie, on a Gavin Transport Drake float, BHP's new track recording vehicle which is a Mermec ROGER 800 imported from Italy. Underbody detail of the testing units.
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200914 7763126 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 7772126 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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220-07125 viewsRubin Junction looking west from the eastern end, the line off to the right is the line to Nimingarra Mine with the straight continuing onto Hedland.
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220-11125 viewsShay Gap, Mable Bar Rd grade crossing at the 187.6 km on the line to Yarrie, looking towards Yarrie.
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221-06125 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 8213125 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0031, view of A End, tare of 38.6 tonnes, total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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150523 8232125 viewsNelson Point Yard, I Area, waggon scrapping by Sims Metal, a fork lift carries waggon no. 3340, one of 350 waggons built in Romania of which only about 60 made it into service, the rest rusting away in a caged embargo area out on the Broome Road until they were scrapped some years ago. There is a connection with these waggons and Lang Hancock and his former mine McCamey's Monster, now known as Jimblebar.
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150523 8246125 viewsNelson Point Yard, loaded ore waggon 2330, a CNR built QRRS style waggon built in 2014 out of T4003 stainless steel which does away with the need to paint the waggon interiors to prevent wear. The white circle around the corner from the number indicates the rotary coupler end, the number for this waggon also indicates it is a replacement for an original Comeng built waggon. Capacity 138.4 T, Tare 21.6 T and Volume 62 m3.
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170727 9627125 viewsWoodstock Siding, a Roy Hill ballast train works north as it is about to cross BHP's Woodstock running lines, General Electric Erie built model ES44ACi unit RHA 1006 serial 62578 leads a side dump, ten ballast hoppers and a ballast plough with a sister unit on the rear. 27th July 2017. GeoData.
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180615 1497125 viewsMooka Yard, cab side of named BHP's Progress Rail built EMD SD70ACe unit 4486 'Jenny Parkinson' serial 20148001-019. 15th June 2018.
Roland Depth photo.
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200914 7796125 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Bellany' was originally built by Clyde Engineering at Granville NSW in 1936 for the NSWGR as a second class railway carriage FS type FS 2143. In 1987 it was purchased by the Society and is named after a local river. 14th September 2020.
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219-22124 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 mainline, 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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220-03124 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 west at the points, indicator and shelter located at the 136 km or Hedland end.
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220-14124 viewsJust west of the 104.6 km crossing on the Yarrie line, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuilt ALCo C636 5431 into a C36-7M unit 5507 serial number 4839-03 / 87-072 seen here leading its loaded train through the curves.
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