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230-02382 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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238-01382 viewsPort Hedland Harbour, heavy lift ship Happy Buccaneer, call sign PEND (IMO: 8300389) built in 1984 at Hitachi Shipbuilding Osaka Japan as class LRS X 100A1 X LMC UMS, 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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238-03382 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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050412 0768382 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 523, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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050518 2123382 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 746, shows bogie detail, Barber S-2 type bogie, with CFCLA id of CQFE 097.
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050518 2178382 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 520, the last of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.
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051001 5626382 viewsFlash Butt yard, heavily stripped down riveted waggon 206, possible original ballast waggon, number 206 was originally a waggon in the 'Camp Train' and appears to have USA origin, view of handbrake end, pushed into earth bund.
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051001 5643382 viewsFlash Butt yard, side view of ballast plough converted from Magor USA built Oroville ore waggon 538, still visible is the ODCX 82160 number from original service building the Oroville Dam, through brake pipe is visible over the top of waggon.
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051001 5731382 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #30, 6702, heavily cut down and modified Magor USA ore waggon by Mt Newman Mining workshops, converted to a 50 tonne waggon and designated the winch waggon with generator set to power the winch and the crib car.
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060429 3751382 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony waggon 9001, originally built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld as a box car or covered van in December 1971, heavily modified and converted for Pony traffic, side view.
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050410 0522382 viewsNelson Point yard hard stand area rear view of 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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050410 0526382 viewsNelson Point yard hard stand area rear view of 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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050414 0938382 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem ballast regulator. 14th April 2005.
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050421 1623382 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's two 24 stone rail grinders coupled together before they had id stickers fitted, the front unit was later stickered as RG 2, the rear unit was stickered as RG 1 and is serial M20. 21st April 2005.
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050625 3812382 viewsNode 2 at the 38 km on the GML or former Goldsworthy mainline, a Barclay Mowlem track machine sleeper crane off clear of the running lines. 25th June 2005.
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060501 3910382 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Speno rail grinder RG 2, possibly an RR24 model grinder with 24 grinding wheels view of generator module driving cab. 1st May 2006.
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110411 10013382 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0011 from 1972, one of three such tank waggons.
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150523 8201382 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0035, one of a second batch delivered in 2015 with safety slogan 'Take time to work safely'.
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150523 8218382 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0021, class leader of a batch of ten built in 2014.
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150619 9101382 viewsFlash Butt yard, CNR-QRRS of China built side dump waggons, built and delivered around 2011-12, waggon 0713 loaded with fines for sheeting, A end and bogie detail.
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