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030712 142543407 viewsNelson Point, empty BHP ore waggon 553, one of the original Magor USA build waggons bought out at construction of the Mt Newman project. Visible is the ODCX code and number 82190 from the Oroville Dam Construction company days in the USA. Unsure of the MS6-82 code, the DZ 11-95 code was the late time it was internally painted to reduce wear and the SL 76 with 92 below it was the last time the Miner SL-76 draft gear was replaced. The orange smiley sticker indicates that this is an original 'Oroville Dam' ore waggon and non relayed AB braked. 12th of July 2003.
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220-33406 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, an empty train rolls through the Junction on the Newman Mainline with mostly Comeng WA style built waggons and the odd Goninan one. This area is now fully duplicated.
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221-12406 viewsHardie Siding, with the switch now set for the siding, the empty train is reversing out back onto the mainline, the ore cars are Tomlinson Steel built bottom discharge units.
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222-21406 viewsSomewhere on the original single line section between Gull and Rosella Hamersley Iron 7073 serial 47752 a General Electric Dash 9-44CW built by GE at Erie brings an empty train to a stop with 7091 for a crew change.
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225-05406 viewsBing siding, the afternoon empty train to Yandi was a double AC6000, 112 waggons, AC6000 and 112 waggons for a long time, here's one on approach behind General Electric AC6000 6074 serial 51066 built by GE at Erie as it passes Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5669. GeoData.
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228-37406 viewsYandi Two load-out tunnel, Goninan rebuilt GE CM40-8M model 5649 'Pohang' serial 8412-07/93-140 eases a loading train out of the tunnel at the required 1.2 km/h. 5649 started life back in 1971 as an AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 5473 serial G6047-5. Geodata -22.719050, 119.040566 .
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229-04406 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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151111 9552406 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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151111 9577406 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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231-11406 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 an Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M GE unit loads a train at 1.2 km/h with second unit 5650. GeoData.
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232-27406 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 shows the cab front with the sheet metal windscreen protectors. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.
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238-08406 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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238-16406 viewsNelson Point, ex Southern Pacific tunnel motor locomotive 8335 an EMD SD40T-2 unit, serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, purchased as a spare parts source for the other SD40 style units BHP Billiton purchased in 2003/04. 19th November 2003. Geodata .
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050518 2169406 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 533, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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051001 5683406 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, hand brake end of waggon #12, 6209, a Comeng WA built flat waggon from January 1977 under order no. 07-M-282 RY.
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050421 1176406 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Barclay Mowlem track tamper a Fairmont Jackson model 6700 tamper number board detail view. 21st April 2005.
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060501 3916406 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Speno rail grinder RG 1, a RR24 model grinder with 24 grinding wheels, serial M20. 1st May 2006.
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060710 6227406 viewsAt the Broome Rd grade crossing Port Hedland, Switch Tamper SW 02 a Plasser Australia model Unimat S4 switch tamper. 10th July 2006.
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100717 0686406 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6046, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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171121 0965406 viewsBarker Siding which is the ballast loading point, one of two FMG ballast plough waggons BP 02, built in China by CSR at the Yangtze Rolling Stock Company in 2010 on the south end of a ballast rake. 21st November 2017.
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