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239-37471 viewsYandi Two, train loading is under way with a pair of Goninan rebuild units, CM40-8MEFI unit 5668 'Dunkirk' serial 8412-01/95-159 and CM40-8M unit 5644 'Kangan' serial 8281-09/92-133. The lead unit was originally Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 5489 serial C6084-5, while second unit 5644 was originally a AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 5471 serial G6047-3.
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0507 Magor USA 060414 3448471 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, end view. The others in the fleet are 40, 60 and 100 tons. April 14, 2006.
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050409 0405471 viewsShell Swagman Roadhouse, Lampson eighty wheel float ready to deliver BHP's new mainline tamper a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480 side view of cab rear. 9th April 2005.
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23879471 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, a stripped back ALCo locomotive frame under re-construction which will become a GE CM40-8M. July 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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040407 075227471 viewsMooka Siding, north end looking south past the arrival signal LED type MAN 3, DED 'dragging equipment detector' bars are visible before the turnout, passing track branching off to the left. 7th April 2004.
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242-24471 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved Goldsworthy Mining B class unit #2 serial number A-105, these units of Bo-Bo design with a 6CSRKT 640 kW prime mover were built at the English Electric Rocklea Qld plant in 1965 and primarily used for the construction of the Mt Goldsworthy to Finucane Island railway. May 2002.
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249-05471 viewsYule River bridge looking north from the 160 km on the BHP mainline. The third pier from the southern end was undermined by flood waters from Tropical Cyclone John in December 1999. The rail line was closed for two weeks while repairs were effected. Approximate location.
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250-10471 viewsPelican Siding on the Hamersley Iron Tom Price line about the 208 km with an empty train behind General Electric built 9-44CW units 7068 serial 47747 and 7067 serial 47746 on the loop as a loaded train with 210 waggons passes behind a sister pairing of 7072 serial 47751 and 7074 serial 47753. 1550 hrs 21st October 2000.
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283-31471 viewsNear Woodbrook as quad Robe River CM40-8M units 9414, 9420, 9410 and 9525 work a loaded 202 waggons bound for Cape Lambert as they power through the cutting up a short grade at the 37.5 km pipe bridge. 9414 with serial number 8206-11 / 91-124 was rebuilt by Goninan in 1991 from AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo model with original serial number G-6060-5 from 1971. 22nd of May 2002.
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6705 Comeng 041225 070523470 viewsNelson Point, Ore Car Repair Shop roads, flat waggon no. 5, later renumbered 6705. Originally in service with Goldsworthy Mining as a BC or BCV box van, built by Comeng WA in 1966.
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CC3 060414 3467470 viewsNelson Point yard, compressor waggon set No. 3, consisting of a weighted 'ballast' waggon closest to camera and the compressor car. Modified from former original Magor USA build ore waggons 673 and 683 and used on the end of rakes to keep the brakes of as they are run through the dumpers.
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170728 09855470 viewsWestern Creek - Emu area, Rio Tinto's General Electric built ES44DCi class leader 8100 serial 57996 leads two sister units, in 8176 and 8143 both in the later Rio Tinto stripe livery, with a loaded train running down from Emu Siding on the line to Dampier. The disabled Mesa A train is still on the bridge, the line to the left of the loaded is the Robe River Western Creek - Emu interconnecting line. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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6989 001470 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. Mt Newman Mining's Goninan new build GE CM39-8 model loco 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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150619 9148470 viewsMooka, side section 3 of 5, 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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250-35470 viewsCape Lambert South Yard and Robe River's 9426 a Comeng WA rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Seen here in the South Yard dragging a loaded rake down to the car dumper. 22nd October 2000.
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160128 00877469 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, ALCo frame segments and a GE 7FDL-16 engine cut in two.
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050409 0390469 viewsShell Swagman Roadhouse, Builders plate of BHP's new mainline tamper a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480. 9th April 2005.
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050412 0781469 viewsHesta Siding south, builders plate of BHP's EX 01 high rail excavator, built in France by Geismar as a KGT 4RS model with serial 4559. 12th April 2005.
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050625 3663469 viewsMooka North, BHP's new Tamper 3 track machine a Plasser Australia 09-3X model serial M480. 25th June 2005.
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050801 4735469 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem TM 21 a Plasser Australia 09-16 model tamper bar coupled to the clip installing machine. 1st August 2005.
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