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050409 0409443 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 engine compartment. 9th April 2005.
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050412 0818443 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, front view of BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 12th April 2005.
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6031 Gemco WA 100717 0682443 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6031, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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0004 Comeng NSW 110411 10034443 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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20859443 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, sitting outside the locked gates having just been bought down from Port Hedland, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin ALCo C636 unit 5454 serial G6012-3 on a ninety six wheel road float. 5454 will be rebuilt into CM40-8M unit 5641 by June 1992. Image taken January 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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241-07443 viewsNelson Point, Mt Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW sits awaiting partial dismantling before being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's museum at Bassendean, Perth for preservation, cab side view. June 2002.
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01395-02396 080116 1365443 viewsChapman Siding at the 69 km on FMG's under construction line to Cloud Break mine, new waggons stabled in the passing track awaiting service, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007, here slave waggon 1395 and master waggon 2396 sit in the arvo sunlight. The yellow circle indicates the rotary coupler end and the tare weight of the slave waggon at 22.6 tonnes, while the master weighs 22.9 tonnes as it hosts the brake control equipment. 16th January 2008.
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01395 080116 1382443 viewsChapman Siding looking at the F type Interlock coupler on 1395. Hand brake chain and hose bag and electric jumper cable on the left.
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250-19443 viewsWater hole somewhere in the Pilbara around the Dampier - Tom Price railway area. 21st October 2000.
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1418 Goninan 110620 2296443 viewsWalla, loaded BHP ore waggon 1418 is a Goninan WA build to the Golynx design as a replacement body from February 2011. This replaces the original Comeng WA waggon of the same number. June 20, 2011.
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221-32442 viewsYandi One mine loadout balloon loop, near new General Electric AC6000 unit 6074 serial 51066 leads sister unit 6071 serial 51063 at the Y312.1 km crossing while controlling a train being loaded.
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224-22442 viewsBing siding, the afternoon empty to Yandi was a staple of the AC6000 units when delivered, operating the train as a pair, 112 waggons, AC6000 and 112 waggons. 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie awaits the road to depart south with sister unit 6073 as a loaded behind two CM40-8M units rolls through on the mainline. GeoData.
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225-17442 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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225-29442 viewsBing siding backtrack, Tomlinson WA built GML ore waggon 8104 loaded with ballast, side view. GeoData.
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151111 9532442 viewsA loaded train behind General Electric ES44DCi units 8113 serial 59105 in the original silver livery and 8145 serial 58726 in the tiger strip Rio livery and Dash 9-44CW 9433 serial 54766 in ROBE Pilbara Iron livery runs along on the West Mainline bound for Cape Lambert viewed from Table Hill.
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CHQY 730 040815 164610442 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA ballast waggon CHQY type 730 and 740 both just placed on rail for BHP Iron Ore as part of the Rail PACE project.
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CHRY 750 050518 2109442 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 750.
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6010 Scotts of Ipswich Qld 051001 5703442 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #20, 6010, detail of tare and gross with original G506010 number, a Scotts of Ipswich Qld built flat waggon from September 1970.
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6208 Comeng WA 050522 2733442 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #23, 6208, built by Comeng WA in February 1977 under order number 07-M-282 RY.
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050724 4243442 viewsNelson Point yard, flat waggons in service on the Pony re-laying train as transport waggons for sleepers, with a gantry car sitting atop a heavily modified and cut down Oroville waggon, with the left waggon a Scotts of Ipswich built flat waggon from in 1970 for then Mt Newman Mining Company.
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