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6011 Scotts of Ipswich Qld 050801 4765436 viewsFlash Butt yard, rail recovery and transport train, builders plate of 1st lead off waggon 6011, built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld on 04-09-1970.
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170728 09688436 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 12, receiver waggon with two air tanks or receivers. Note the waggons are modified ore waggon frames. Seen here at Cape Lambert. 28th July 2017.
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22453436 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, partially built BHP Iron Ore GE CM40-8M unit, possibly 5645 coupled to the 'on loan' ARHS ex WAGR B class shunt loco. November 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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240-22436 viewsWickham, left hand side number one end view of former Robe River and NSWGR MLW built ALCo RSC3 serial 77737 of October 1951, was originally 40 class 4006. Shows modified bogie to convert the A1A to a BO bogie type. 31st August 2002.
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242-15436 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, General Electric built AC6000 locomotive 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 with engine and alternator removed. May 2002.
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242-36436 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 unit 5497 serial C6096-2, view looking at back of cab wall. May 2002.
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180615 1574436 viewsWalla Siding, BHP took delivery of two new ballast ploughs in December 2017. They were built by CRRC Yangtze China in 2017 and weigh in at 65 tonnes. The ploughs are numbered BP 01 and BP 02. We finally caught up with them top and tail on a ballast consist, here's BP 02.
Roland Depth photo.
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252-11436 viewsCockatoo Siding 273 km on the Hamersley Iron line to Yandi, ballast plough waggon BP 02 is on the end of a ballast rake being loaded. BP 01 has been converted from an Nippon Sharyo ore waggon with the fitting of a plough blade, the waggon is also loaded with ballast for ballast. Location is roughly here. 24th November 2001.
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8415 Goninan 040912 132238436 viewsNelson Point, view from above of BHP ore waggon 8415 showing the internal plates fitted for the bottom discharge arrangement of the Goninan WA build of the Golynx design built in November 2001 as a bottom discharge waggon for Goldsworthy service with serial number 950088-345. September 12, 2004.
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240701 2796436 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, Simplex Dorman 0-4-0P model builders number 14033 built in 1957, locomotive originally numbered NW 12, renumbered to PW 22 in 1969. It was donated from the Public Works Department at Point Samson in 1976. A picture of it in service can be found here at Weston Langford site. July 1, 2024.
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225-04435 viewsBing siding, the afternoon empty train to Yandi was a double AC6000, 112 waggons, AC6000 and 112 waggons for a long time, here's one on approach behind General Electric AC6000 6074 serial 51066 built by GE at Erie. Flashbutt yard is to the right. GeoData.
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228-24435 viewsYandi Two branch, trailing shot of the afternoon empty train mid-train remotes heading west near the YT307 km in the form of elephant style Goninan final rebuild GE CM40-8MEFI model unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02/95-160 and CM40-8M model 5638 'Mallina' serial 8281-02/92-127. Geodata -22.706976, 119.097651 .
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151111 9533435 viewsView north from Table Hill, line curves around to pass through Lockyer Gap.
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236-03435 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Dash 8 class locomotive 5653 'Chiba', a Goninan 1994 rebuild to GE CM40-8M model, serial 8412-10 / 93-144, view of pilot with horn and ditch light arrangement.
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238-03435 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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238-08435 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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0020 Comeng NSW 040815 171318435 viewsNelson Point, view of hand brake end of fuel tank waggon 0020, 82 kilolitre capacity built by Comeng NSW for BP as RTC 2, used by Mt Newman Mining, unsure when converted to 0020.
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0520 Magor USA 050518 2178435 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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0508 Magor USA 050518 2188435 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 508, one 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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6007 Scotts of Ipswich Qld 050522 2731435 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #21, 6007 with registered number G506007, built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld in 1970.
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