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257-01353 viewsFlash Butt yard BHP's stored Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5513 awaits its fate. Rebuilt in 1988 at Goninan's Welshpool factory from a 1970 AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 with serial number G6012-2 and road number 5453 and assigned new serial number 4839-02 / 88-078. It was delivered in Mount Newman Mining orange and was named Kalgan. Late 2001.
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267-14353 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, BHP's 1230 empty departure trailing mid-train units Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units 5645 'Sherlock' serial number 8281-11 / 92-134 and lead remote 5651 power up at 104 waggons from the lead and passing the Goldsworthy Junction relay room. 1247 hrs Friday 12th of April 2002.
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228-36352 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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230-37352 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, 3/4 view from no. 2 end of Goninan rebuilt GE CM40-8M model 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03/92-128 from AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 5459. Shows the silver BHP Australia logo, the logo on the hood has been painted out. Geodata -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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232-21352 viewsYandi One loadout portal as a train is being loaded. Waggons are from left, a 3CR12 re-sheeted Comeng, an Oroville built by Magor USA and a standard Comeng WA build. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.
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233-09352 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. A loading train lead by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 as it drags the train through at 1.2 km/h. GeoData.
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236-34352 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 'Chichester' serial 51063 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted.
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050518 2086352 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 757.
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050525 2951352 viewsMooka Siding, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #18, builders plate of 6012, built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld on 11-09-1970.
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060429 3760352 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony waggon 6017, built by Comeng WA in 1971 in a batch of three numbered 6014-6017, view of asset number 6506-017.
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050801 4756352 viewsFlash Butt yard, a Knox Kershaw KBR 850 ballast regulator lettered for Railway Equipment Leasing And Maintenance RELAM Inc. 1st August 2005.
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080621 2718352 viewsTabba South, one of a batch of six flat waggons converted by Mt Newman Mining workshops by cutting down a pair of ore waggons to make one flat waggon, 6106 in service with the rail recovery and transport train as waggon #4.
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080621 2727352 viewsGillman Siding, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #1, rear lead off waggon 6203, built by Comeng WA in January 1977. The straddle crane is a newish unit built by Vaia Car model no. TCR-V and the four wheels are chain driven, replacing the original Gemco hydraulic unit.
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110411 10032352 viewsNelson Point, empty 82 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0004 one of six such tank waggons built in 1970-71.
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150314 7740352 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0030, the final member of a batch of ten built in 2014.
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150314 7741352 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0030, the final member of a batch of ten built in 2014.
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248-16352 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 road N2 is 9426 a Comeng WA C636R rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania Railroad as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Behind it is sister unit 9427 and ALCo M636 9412. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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249-19352 viewsTable Hill on the Robe River railway line, a microwave radio communications site powered by solar panels. Approximate location.
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250-15352 viewsPelican Siding on the Hamersley Iron Tom Price line about the 208 km with an empty train behind the standard pairing of two General Electric built 9-44CW units 7068 serial 47747 and 7067 serial 47746 stand on the loop or passing track for a meet with a loaded train. 1550 hrs 21st October 2000.
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255-19352 viewsAt the 162.2 km a Robe River Pettibone 445-E Speed Swing high rail crane. CRD 238.
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