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225-02425 viewsBing siding at the 17.5 km, Goninan rebuild CM40-8MEFI GE loco 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 was the last Dash 8 built for BHP Iron Ore, seen here sitting at BNN 6 signal awaiting a path, 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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226-02425 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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228-34425 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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229-00425 viewsYandi Two balloon switch looking east with the Three Sisters forming the background. Empty BHP train heading for the balloon loop for loading, grade crossing is the YT 311.5 km. GeoData.
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230-03425 viewsYandi Two switch looking east with the Three Sisters forming the background. Empty BHP train heading for the balloon loop for loading, grade crossing is the YT 311.5 km. Geodata -22.713725, 119.055762 .
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232-30425 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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234-30425 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. Left hand side cab view. Circa 1998.
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236-17425 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuilt CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 sits out the front awaiting attention.
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238-10425 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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238-12425 viewsNelson Point, traction bogie or truck off ex-SP SD40T-2 loco 8335. Geodata .
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238-24425 viewsNelson Point loco overhaul shop, former Union Pacific loco 3523 an EMD SD40-2 model, serial 786170-25 and now numbered 3085 for BHP Billiton Iron One service had only been in operation for eleven days when this shot was taken on the 27th November 2004. Geodata .
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239-22425 viewsOverview of Yandi One OHP plant as viewed from the head end of CV2 conveyor which runs from the primary crusher to the reclaim pile. Visible from the left is the screen house, radial stacker on the stockpile, power station, new and old side tertiary crushing structures, sub-station 4, the control room and on the extreme right the secondary crusher structure. GeoData.
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060110 2208425 viewsOn the curve near the 85 km between Yeelanna and Karkoo, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 leads an empty grain train. Approx. location of image.
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160523 2785425 viewsParkeston, APNY 31152, one of twelve built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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160523 3581425 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 525, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.
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160525 4827425 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTBF type fuel tank waggon NTBF 6118, with former owners name (Freight Australia) visible. Originally built by Comeng NSW in 1975 as an SCA type 69,000 litre bitumen tanker SCA 267 for Shell NSW.
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160601 10082425 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATMF 551 fuel tank waggon, one of three built by Tulloch Limited NSW as WJM type in 1971 with a capacity of 96.25 kL one compartment one dome, current capacity of 80500 litres. 551 and 552 for Shell and 553 for BP Oil.
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160524 4284425 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, NQTY 20261, originally build by EPT NSW 1979-81 as part of a batch of two hundred BDY type 14.20 metre open waggons before conversion in the 1990s, loaded with two RH type RH 108 and RH 116 coil containers or 'butter boxes'.
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160524 4299425 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKYY type wide steel plate tilt waggon RKYY 7091, one of twenty seven units built by AN Rail Islington Workshops in 1995-96. Loaded with steel plate.
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160524 4303425 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, RKAX 6, 2-pack rail transport waggon, Platform 1, this waggon was converted by Port Augusta Workshops from two original FBX type waggons built in 1968-69 by Islington Workshops in a batch of twenty later coded AFCX. AKAX 6 and AKCX 14 where the donors for this waggon. Loaded with a full load of rail strings.
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