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160128 00331434 viewsMooka Siding, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0044, one of a second batch delivered in 2015 with safety slogan 'Don't drive distracted'.
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IC20 070908 0594434 viewsRobe River compressor waggon sets IC 20 with air receiver and IC 21 with two Ingersoll Rand air compressors and IC 22 with receiver and IC 23 with compressors. These waggons are ballasted to 100 tonnes each and are modified ore waggons and used on the pooled fleet rakes that come from HIY [Yandicoogina] and West Angelas mines. Cape Lambert yard, August 8 2007.
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22668434 viewsBassendean, during an Open Day at the Goninan workshops, a stripped back ALCo locomotive frame under re-construction which will become a GE CM40-8M in the background and some ALCo Hi-Ad trucks being overhauled. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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23884434 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, BHP Iron Ore GE CM40-8M rebuild unit 5649 'Pohang' serial 8412-07 / 93-140 is lifted up with the Bell road transport float being prepped underneath for road haulage to Port Hedland. 5649 was rebuilt from AE Goodwin ALCo M636 unit 5473 serial G6047-5. July 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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240-14434 viewsWickham, right hand side number one end view of former Robe River and NSWGR MLW built ALCo RSC3 serial 77737 of October 1951, was originally 40 class 4006. Shows modified bogie to convert the A1A to a BO bogie type. 31st August 2002.
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242-17434 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, General Electric built AC6000 locomotive 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 with engine and alternator removed. May 2002.
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180616 1678434 viewsCooya Pooya, located just south of the 32 km post, a loaded Mesa A train waggon 817, a Centurion Industries WA build, has managed to pull the coupler completely out of waggon 425 a Tomlinson Steel WA built waggon. 16th June 2018. GeoData.
Photo by Roland Depth.
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080120 1469434 viewsThomas Yard, new FMG ore waggon pair 1263 slave and 2264 control waggons, 22.6 tonnes tare with rotary coupler, and the master at 22.9 tonnes. View from the handbrake end coupled to a GE Dash 9-44CW unit 011. 20th January 2008.
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250-10434 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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210510 1136434 viewsNear Galah on the Rio Tinto Dampier - Tom Price line at the 89.5 km, RTW type intermediate rail waggon RTW 017 on Rio Tinto's Gemco Rail built rail train consist. 10th May 2021. Location.
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267-16434 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, the Sundowner Special is on the Newman mainline leg of the Goldsworthy Junction and triangle, with the Sundowner coach in between CM40-8M GE unit 5634 'Boodarie' serial number 8151-07 / 91-120 and sister CM40-8M 5653. This train, and the empty before it, were delayed due to a jamming switch for the transfer road where Tamper 2 and Ballast Regulator 31 can be seen holding track. The road curving around to the left is the Goldsworthy mainline to Boodarie and Finucane Island. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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225-08433 viewsBing siding, General Electric AC6000 model unit 6073 serial 51065 built at GE Erie is the mid-train remote for the afternoon empty Yandi mine train as it heads south. This was before the units were named. GeoData.
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151111 9537433 viewsAn empty train rounds the curve as it emerges through Lockyer Gap and is about to cross Lake Poongkaliyarra.
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151111 9580433 viewsAn empty train is still struggling upgrade at the 98 km post on the Tom Price line behind double General Electric Dash 9-44CW units 9403 serial 53457 wearing ROBE Pilbara Rail livery and 7087 serial 47766 wearing the original Hamersley Iron livery.
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150505 7997433 viewsFMG Solomon Line, zoom view looking east from the west end of Bow Siding, point indicator indicating the switch is set for the straight. Geodata: -22.0253817 118.4933250 .
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150523 8217433 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton diesel fuel tank waggon 0044 with safety slogan 'Don't drive distracted', total capacity of 117 m3 for a nominal capacity of 113 m3 built in China by CNR - QRRS.
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050704 3971433 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0012 from 1972, one of three such tank waggons, view of handbrake detail, on the rear of a loaded ore train.
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170729 0289433 viewsMaitland Siding on the former Robe River line a loaded Deepdale train heading for Cape Lambert behind the standard Rio Tinto motive power for this line, double General Electric built ES44ACi units, 9114 serial 62545 and sister unit 9101 serial 61939 will stay on the main as an empty train waits on the passing siding. 29th July 2017. GeoData.
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060724 7865433 viewsOriginal Hamersley Iron compressor waggon set IC-1 which were made from cutting down condemned ore waggons and then fitting Atlas Copco XAS 97 air compressors, receiver tanks and fuel tanks. The compressors have been fitted to a swing cradle to limit the in-train forces during the unloading process. 7 Mile 24th July 2006.
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5947 001 Welshpool 1987Jan433 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, freshly rebuilt and ready for delivery, Mt Newman Mining C36-7M locomotive 5506 serial 4839-01 / 87-071 sits on a road transport float awaiting delivery to Port Hedland, it was rebuilt using AE Goodwin built C636 ALCo 5455 serial G6012-4. January 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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