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218-32407 viewsYandicoogina or HIY as Hamersley Iron identify it, located 445 km from Parker Point yard in Dampier. Bank engine unit General Electric Dash 9-44CW model 7089 serial 47768 idles away waiting the next loaded train to push out.
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151111 9547407 viewsSide view of 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 at the 53 km.
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150523 8202407 viewsNelson Point Yard, BHP Billiton SD70ACe unit 4368 is on the fuel tank shunt, is a unit from the last order of eighteen SD70ACe units for BHP Billiton built at Electro-Motive London Ontario, serial 20098203-013.
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239-28407 viewsYandi Two, conveyor belt CV202 failure of the belt on the primary crushing circuit. Shows belt rolls bunched up and sub-station. GeoData.
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050518 2074407 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 741.
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050518 2096407 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHQY type CHQY 734.
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050724 4234407 viewsNelson Point yard, flat waggons in service on the Pony re-laying train as transport waggons for sleepers, with a gantry car delivering concrete sleepers to replace the removed steel sleepers. The middle waggon is an ex Goldsworthy Mining flat waggon with a Scotts of Ipswich built flat either side, built in 1970 for then Mt Newman Mining Company.
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050412 0813407 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, view of the rear 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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050421 1618407 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's RR24 model 24 stone rail grinder serial M20 before they had id stickers fitted, this unit was later stickered as RG 1, rear view of the generator and driving module. 21st April 2005.
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050625 3610407 viewsMooka North, BHP's new Tamper 3 track machine a Plasser Australia 09-3X model serial M480, over exposed shot to highlight the front of the unit in shadow. 25th June 2005.
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060501 3912407 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Speno rail grinder RG 2, first grinding module. 1st May 2006.
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IC20 070908 0596407 viewsRobe River compressor waggon set IC 20 with air receiver and IC 21 with two Ingersoll Rand air 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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19797407 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, former BHP Iron Ore Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5509, seen here stripped down to being an engine test bed, view from the no. 1 end. Sept 2003.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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171121 0967407 viewsBarker Siding, Loram rail grinder MPC 2, grinder cart. 21st November 2017.
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241-11407 viewsNelson Point, Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5510 serial 4839-07 / 87-075 is in the process of being removed from site bound for Asset Kinetics in Maddington, Perth. This image shows the Dash 8 radiator frame fitted to it following collision repairs. June 2002.
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241-36407 viewsNelson Point, Car Dumper 2 holding roads with Yard Control tower and Ore Car Repair Shop in the background as two loaded ore rakes behind pairs of CM40-8M units on each wait their turn through the dumper to discharge as 5660 'Kure' serial 8412-05 / 94-151 and 5657 'Fukuyama' drag their loaded train towards the dumper to discharge . June 2002.
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110620 2218407 viewsForrest Siding near the 126 km, detail shot of empty FMG ore waggon 4266 showing the builders plate, RFID tag, number decal and bogie detail. CNR QRRS of China built waggon dating from 2011. 20th June 2011.
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247-07407 viewsCape Lambert fuel point, Robe River locomotive 9420 which is a Goninan WA ALCo to GE rebuild CM40-8M with serial 8109-03 / 91-119 from March 1991 riding on Hi-Ad bogies and was originally an ALCo Schenectady built C630 serial 3486-4 and built new for Chesapeake & Ohio (USA) as their 2103. It is one of four C630 ALCo units purchased in 1974 and delivered to Robe in January 1975. Everything below the frame is ALCo while above is GE and Pilbara Cab. Approximate location of the locos is here. 22nd May 2002.
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249-23407 viewsFortescue River Bridge on the Robe River line at the 115.8 km in flood looking downstream to the west following Cyclone John on 18th December 1999. Approximate location.
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249-33407 viewsLoaded Hamersley Iron ore waggon pair National Steel USA built 5126 and Nippon Sharyo Japan built 770. Approximate location. 18th December 1999.
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