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050409 0406342 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 tamper frame bogie. 9th April 2005.
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050409 0411342 viewsShell Swagman Roadhouse, Lampson eighty wheel float ready to deliver BHP's new mainline tamper a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480 view of front trolley and tarp protecting windscreen. 9th April 2005.
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050410 0503342 viewsNelson Point yard hard stand area sees brand new having only been delivered the day before, BHP track tamper to become Tamper 3, a Plasser Australia 09-3X model with serial M480. 10th April 2005.
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050411 0611342 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, BHP track machine ballast regulator BR 31 a Plasser Australia SSP 110SW model with serial 401 runs along the Newman mainline towards Bing Siding. 11th April 2005.
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050801 4744342 viewsFlash Butt yard, BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 1st August 2005.
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051001 5680342 viewsFlash Butt yard, lube chart of a newly delivered Knox Kershaw KBR 875 ballast regulator serial 015-875-05. 1st October 2005.
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060501 3927342 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Speno rail grinder RG 1, a RR24 model grinder, serial M20 bar coupled to RG 2. 1st May 2006.
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060710 6240342 viewsAt the Broome Rd grade crossing Port Hedland, track machine BR 33 a Plasser Australia ballast regulator model SSP 302 serial M486. 10th July 2006.
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100717 0687342 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail winch waggon 6047 obstructed by scrub, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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110411 09984342 viewsNelson Point, empty 82 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0002 from 1970, one of two water tank waggons, later converted to a weed spray tanker in 1977, then converted to fuel.
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170510 8294342 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 09, 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. 10th May 2017.
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170728 09678342 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 12, 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. 28th July 2017.
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241-31342 viewsNelson Point, Car Dumper 2 holding roads, a pair of CM40-8M units 5649 'Pohang' and 5640 'Ethel Creek' wait their turn through the dumper to discharge. June 2002.
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246-33342 viewsCape Lambert, a Robe River loaded Deepdale train on the mainline with waggon 925 a Centurion Industries WA build. The ore is a ROM product and will be dumped over the gyratory crusher to be correctly sized. 22nd May 2002.
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246-34342 viewsCape Lambert, a Robe River loaded Deepdale train on the mainline with waggon 458 a Tomlinson Steel WA build. The ore is a ROM product and will be dumped over the gyratory crusher to be correctly sized. 22nd May 2002.
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248-20342 viewsSeven Mile yard, stored Robe River ALCo locomotives at the south end of the Hamersley Iron Seven Mile yard on roads N2 and N3. On N2 is AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 unit 9412 serial G-6060-3 from December 1971 and originally numbered 262.003 during construction and then 1712 on MLW Dofasco bogies with C636R units 9427 and 9426 on Hi-Ad bogies. Beside it on N3 is 9416 also an AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 serial G-6046-16 from January 1973 and originally numbered 1716 on MLW Dofasco bogies but with a C630 fuel tank in place of the original M636 and larger tank. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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252-12342 viewsCockatoo Siding 273 km on the Hamersley Iron line to Yandi, General Electric built 9-44CW unit 7087 with serial number 47766 from the original 1994 build idles away on the western end of the ballast train as it is loaded and slowly progresses into the back track siding Ballast plough BP 01 is behind the locomotive. Location is roughly here. 24th November 2001.
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255-05342 viewsSiding Three looking south across the 133.3 km grade crossing with Tamper 1 and a sleeper inserter machine stabled in the back track. Both machines are Fairmont Tamper units. Geodata location here. May 2002.
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267-35342 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year service agreement special, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' serial number 8151-07 / 91-120 stands on the Newman mainline with the train as the party alight for an inspection of the site. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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220-33341 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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