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222-37192 viewsLoaded Hamersley Iron Comeng NSW built ore waggon 562, one of a batch of 150 built in 1968.
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224-08192 viewsBing siding, 6073 'Fortescue' serial 51065 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie awaits the road to depart south, cab side shows new nameplate, steerable bogie and taper in cab side. GeoData.
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225-17192 viewsAt the 24.1 km grade crossing on the BHP Newman line, the afternoon departure for Yandi mine heads south behind the standard double General Electric AC6000 units with GE Erie built 6074 serial 51066 leading sister unit 6075 with another AC6000 unit mid-train. This was before the units were named. GeoData.
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229-04192 viewsYandi Two at the 311.5 km with an empty BHP train heading for the loadout behind a pair of Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units with second unit 5642 'Wallareenya' serial 8281-07 / 92-131 trailing sister unit 5650. GeoData.
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229-06192 viewsYandi Two at the 311.5 km with an empty BHP train heading for the loadout behind mid-train Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units 5657 'Fukuyama' serial 8412-02 / 94-148 trailing lead remote sister unit 5660. GeoData.
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151111 9519192 viewsA loaded train behind General Electric ES44DCi units 8113 serial 59105 in the original silver livery and 8145 serial 58726 in the tiger strip Rio livery and Dash 9-44CW 9433 serial 54766 in ROBE Pilbara Iron livery runs along on the West Mainline bound for Cape Lambert viewed from Table Hill.
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151111 9535192 viewsThe Rio Tinto radio comms building and mast located on Table Hill.
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151111 9538192 viewsAn empty train led by General Electric ES44DCi units 8162 serial 60226 and 8167 serial 60231 both in the Rio Tinto tiger strip livery leading Dash 9-44CW 7093 serial 47772, the last of the original build of Dash 9 units crossing Lake Poongkaliyarra.
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151111 9568192 viewsAn empty train struggles upgrade at the 87.5 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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238-04192 viewsPort Hedland Harbour, heavy lift ship Happy Buccaneer (IMO: 8300389) sits at Finucane Island D Berth delivering a new shiploader for BHP Billiton. 1st November 2003. Geodata . Back in time here the ship cranes were only 550 tonne each, these are now 700.
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040809 164158192 viewsNelson Point yard, ballast regulator BR 31 a Plasser Australia model SSP 110SW unit serial 401. 9th August 2004.
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050801 4737192 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem TM 21 a Plasser Australia 09-16 model tamper. 1st August 2005.
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110208 9437192 viewsFlash Butt yard, one of a batch of six flat waggons converted by Mt Newman Mining workshops by cutting down a pair of ore waggons to make one flat waggon, 6101 in service with the rail recovery and transport train.
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110411 09990192 viewsNelson Point, fuel tank waggon 0019 82 kL capacity, built by Comeng for BP as RTC 1, first of two such tanks, used on Mt Newman line, unsure when converted to 0019.
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22928192 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, view of several Mt Newman Mining ALCo units awaiting rebuilding or scrapping. November 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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170915 0719192 viewsAt the 18.2 km as part of the empty Roy Hill fuel train, TA type diesel fuel tank waggon TA 1012 built by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co China with a capacity of 96000 litres. 15th September 2017. View map here.
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241-07192 viewsNelson Point, Mt Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW sits awaiting partial dismantling before being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's museum at Bassendean, Perth for preservation, cab side view. June 2002.
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6987 001192 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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080116 1366192 viewsChapman Siding, builders plate on FMG waggon 1395, CSR Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works, year of 2007 and month 10 for October.
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200412 5554cr192 viewsBoodarie, part of an FMG loaded train CNR (China Northern) QRRS (Qiqihar Rolling Stock Works) built waggon pair 7419 slave waggon and 8420 control waggon, crop of the waggon details of AXLE LOAD 45 t, CAPACITY 156.1 t, VOLUME 69m³. 12th April 2020.
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