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080621 2799354 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machine BR 34 a Plasser Australia unit model 305 serial M490. 21st June 2008.
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220-02353 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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150507 8100353 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bridge over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1842517 118.0346950 .
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040806 102832353 viewsFlash Butt yard, rear view of stored out of service LocoTrol waggons, 2626 closest to camera, then 661, 2065 and 2703 Test Car.
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040407 075405353 viewsMooka Siding, north end looking north, 31.4 km showing the standard layout of the track when it was single track with passing sidings, MAN 4 on the left is the mainline departure and MAN 6 in the passing track departure, all LED type. The DED 'dragging equipment detection' bars are visible along with the arrival signal and relay room. 7th April 2004.
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180616 1668353 viewsCooya Pooya, at the 32 km on the Cape Lambert line a loaded HIY train on the East Mainline led by Rio Tinto loco 8142 with serial 58723 a GE Erie built GE model ES44DCi from the 3rd order in Rio Tinto Stripes livery as it powers past the disabled train stabled on the West Mainline with sister 8158 and Dash 9-44CW 9428 assisting 8142. 16th June 2018. GeoData.
Toad Montgomery image.
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200914 7791353 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Bellary' 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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160128 00789352 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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060414 3458352 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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5945 001 Welshpool 1987April352 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining C636 ALCo unit 5453 serial G6012-2 built by AE Goodwin in 1969 is undergoing a world first as it gets rebuilt into a GE C36-7M locomotive. In this April 1987 view the process has started with the bogies and fuel tank removed. By February 1988 it would be the final C36-7M built for Mt Newman Mining as 5513. April 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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5946 001 Welshpool 1986Sept352 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining C636 ALCo unit 5452 serial G6012-1 built by AE Goodwin in May 1968 is undergoing a world first as it gets rebuilt into a GE C36-7M locomotive, by July 1987 it would become 5509. Sept 1986.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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240-07352 viewsNelson Point, retired Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 sits with the hood removed exposing the ALCo 251F engine prior to removal and being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's Bassendean museum for preservation. 25th June 2002.
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180615 1497352 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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220-07351 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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221-06351 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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040627 080053351 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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170730 0511351 viewsIndee, a loaded Roy Hill train runs along at the 71 km heading to the port behind General Electric built ES44ACi units RHA 1010 serial 62582 and RHA 1004 with 224 waggons and a mid-train remote in the middle. 30th July 2017. GeoData.
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060723 7684351 viewsOriginal Hamersley Iron compressor waggon sets IC-6 and IC-7 which were made from cutting down condemned ore waggons and then fitting Atlas Copco XAS 97 air compressors, receiver tanks and fuel tanks. Seen here on the causeway just outside 7 Mile. 23rd July 2006.
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23878351 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, an unidentified ALCo to GE CM40-8M rebuild unit, could be 5648. July 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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240-09351 viewsNelson Point, retired Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 sits awaiting its engine removal prior to being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's Museum at Bassendean, Perth for preservation. 25th June 2002.
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