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050704 3978303 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0018 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons, detail of the A end and bogie, wearing the BHP Billiton Earth livery.
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060414 3443303 viewsNelson Point yard, originally a Magor USA built ballast waggon for the Oroville Dam construction, 510 seen here modified as a weighbridge test car.
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050409 0389303 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 front. 9th April 2005.
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050412 0818303 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, front view of BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 12th April 2005.
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060501 3912303 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Speno rail grinder RG 2, first grinding module. 1st May 2006.
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170728 09782303 viewsGreen Pool on the Robe line at the 60.75 km original order and now aging General Electric built Dash 9-44CW model locomotive 7091 serial 47770 is operating in AutoHaul™ mode with a pair of GE ES44DCi units 8155 and 8165 both in the Rio Tinto stripe livery as they pass a tamper and regulator doing track work. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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170729 0088303 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 10, compressor control waggon with two diesel powered Kaeser M57 Utility air compressors and the receiver waggon with two air tanks or receivers. Note the waggons are modified ore waggon frames. Seen here at Cape Lambert. 29th July 2017.
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240-21303 viewsWickham, left 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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241-01303 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. June 2002.
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070622 0222303 viewsMooka in the back track siding, 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.
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200914 7785303 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, former Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates RSC-3 model ALCo locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1951 for NSWGR as the 40 class 4002 serial 77733, purchased by CRRIA in 1971 and numbered 261.002, then 1705 and finally 9405. 4002 is preserved in an operational state and another claim to fame is it run the Royal Train in NSW February 1954. Donated to the Society in 1979. 14th September 2020.
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210510 1136303 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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218-25302 viewsDe Grey, Great Northern Highway grade crossing at the 57.15 km a loaded GML train with Gunderson USA (smooth) and Portec USA (ribbed) built waggon behind the C36-7M loco. The waggons are ex-Phelps Dodge Copper Mine.
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224-06302 viewsBing siding, 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie awaits the road to depart south. GeoData.
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228-04302 viewsYandi One, a loaded train coming off the balloon loop, this area is near the new MAC Junction. Stockpile and radio repeater in the background.
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151111 9563302 viewsAn empty train struggles upgrade at the 84 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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238-08302 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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239-30302 viewsYandi Two, conveyor belt CV202 failure to the belt on the primary crushing circuit. Shows belt rolls bunched up near the gravity take-up tower. GeoData.
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051001 5637302 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA ballast waggon CHQY class CHQY 730 behind a Dash 8 locomotive 5649.
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060429 3718302 viewsFlash Butt yard, a view along the Harsco 'Pony' track resleeping and relaying machine and sleeper carting waggons and gantry trolleys.
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