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160128 00329106 viewsMooka Siding, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0045, one of a second batch delivered in 2015 with safety slogan 'Safety doesn't stop at work'.
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100330 8067106 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 05, receiver waggon with two air tanks or receivers. Note the waggons are cut down ore waggons and the wheels are marked 70 kph max. Seen here just outside of 7 Mile. 30th March 2010.
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170510 8294106 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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171018 0956106 viewsTad Yard, overview of Roy Hill's fuel tanks and waggon loading gantry with a fuel train being loaded headed up by ES44ACi unit RHA 1020 serial number 64301 built in Erie Pennsylvania, USA by GE. 17th October 2018.
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243-11106 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 and built new by Goninan in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it trails an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
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243-15106 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' a Goninan WA GE rebuild unit serial 8151-07 / 91-120 in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it heads up an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
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243-16106 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' a Goninan WA GE rebuild unit serial 8151-07 / 91-120 in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it heads up an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
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080116 1375106 viewsChapman Siding, view of FMG's CSR Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works built waggons showing the 'F' type Interlock fixed and rotary couplers between master waggon 2396 and slave waggon 1187. Note the difference in the tare weights, 2396 with the fixed coupler is the master waggon, while 1187 is the slave waggon with the rotary coupler. The yellow circle also denotes the rotary coupler end. 16th January 2008.
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080116 1383106 viewsChapman Siding, builders plate on FMG waggon 2396, CSR Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works, year of 2007 and month 10 for October.
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080304 2177106 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of control waggon 2168, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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210510 1117106 viewsNear Gull on the Rio Tinto Dampier - Tom Price line at the 101.5 km, RTS type straddle crane carrying rail waggon RTS 003 on Rio Tinto's Gemco Rail built rail train consist. 10th May 2021. Location.
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222-31105 viewsSomewhere on the original single line section between Gull and Rosella Hamersley Iron 7071 serial 47750 a General Electric Dash 9-44CW built by GE at Erie brings a loaded train away from the passing track back onto the mainline following a crew change with second unit 7066.
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222-32105 viewsSomewhere on the original single line section between Gull and Rosella Hamersley Iron 7071 serial 47750 a General Electric Dash 9-44CW built by GE at Erie brings a loaded train away from the passing track back onto the mainline following a crew change with second unit 7066.
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225-14105 viewsBing siding at the 17 km, Goninan rebuild CM40-8MEFI GE loco 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 was the last Dash 8 built for BHP Iron Ore, heading into Nelson Point, note the CCTV camera mounted under the radiator wing as a trial for single man crewing when long end leading. GeoData.
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225-17105 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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226-03105 viewsYule River bridge showing new piles and deck to replace flood damaged piles after a cyclone that closed the line for two weeks in the late 1990s. GeoData.
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226-04105 viewsYule River bridge showing new piles and deck to replace flood damaged piles after a cyclone that closed the line for two weeks in the late 1990s. GeoData.
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226-05105 viewsRedmont, at the 202 km, a loaded Yandi train descends the .76 percent grade with the standard of the time Double Dash 8 combination with 5653 and 5643 leading the charge. GeoData.
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226-17105 viewsShaw North, 216.5 km, departure signals SWN 4 for the mainline and SWN 6 for the loop for loaded trains that are about to descend the steep 1.5 percent decent to Garden Siding. Dragging equipment detection bars visible, they are painted yellow and the interlocking room with solar array mounted above the cutting. The signal on the top of the cutting on the right is SWN 6R the repeater post for SWN 6 due to the 700 metre radius curve north bound trains approach this location. GeoData.
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226-33105 viewsShaw siding at the 219 km, mid-train remote units Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuilds power past the rail grinder. GeoData.
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