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205-36153 viewsKoodaideri, track leading up to the underground drive, about 500 metres before the drive was a big warning sign about radio active substances.
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207-26153 viewsHardie Siding, BHP unit 5669 'Builen' is the highest numbered CM40-8MEFI rebuild by Goninan, serial 8412-02 / 95-160, leading an empty train pauses to allow the 2nd person to alight and set the road for the passing track.
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211-25153 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point railway workshops, 3/4 LHS or driver's side view of Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 while is sits at the fuel point, items of note are the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. Also noticeable, the units don't have dynamic brakes fitted so there is no brake 'blister' in the middle of the hood like the WAGR L or VR C classes which are also GT26C models.
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220-02153 viewsTaplin Siding, located between the 135 and 137.5 km on the former Goldsworthy Mining Ltd line, now part of the BHP Iron Ore network looking east past the point indicators and the 136 km post.
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030409 122808153 viewsKielpa, loaded grain train with 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4 rumbles over the north end points heading south.
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221-11153 viewsHardie Siding, with the switch now set for the siding, the empty train is reversing out back onto the mainline, the ore cars are Tomlinson Steel built bottom discharge units. Note the end of train device are two flashing red lights, and no digitair.
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160103 9839153 viewsLocated in the bush near Colonial Mill is this relic of a Fordson One Man Power Grader originally supplied by Lynas Motors Ltd. An old newspaper article on these graders can be found here . Geodata: -22.3057767 118.3247750 .
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150505 7996153 viewsFMG Solomon Line, view looking west from station location board. Geodata: -22.0222833 118.5092267 .
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160524 3662153 viewsKalgoorlie, SCT train 2PM9 operating from Perth to Melbourne, PWWY type PWWY 0034 one of forty well waggons built by Bradken NSW for SCT, loaded with an SCT 40' box SCT 40209 and a 48' MFG4 type curtainsider for Unit48 PVDU 485038.
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170726 9430153 viewsRedbank, a loaded BHP iron ore train from Yandi arrives into Nelson Point yard on the west mainline with mid-train remote units built by Progress Rail as SD70ACe unit 4377 serial 20108424-004 leading an SD70ACe/LC unit 4345. 26th July 2017.
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170728 09682153 viewsCape Lambert South Yard, and empty train await departure time behind Rio Tinto 8109 serial 58005 a General Electric built ES44DCi unit with sister 8178 in Rio stripes and stablemate 9433. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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22452153 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 5504 serial C6104-2 sits out the back in a partially stripped state. This unit was subsequently scrapped. November 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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180616 1679153 viewsCooya Pooya, instrumented ore waggon 1031, part of a second batch of extra 'J' waggons built by Bradken in September 2008 and painted rather than the plain steel finish. Solar panels adorn the waggon sides. 16th June 2018. GeoData.
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040413 165913153 viewsNelson Point, ore waggon bogie, Bradken cast SSRC bogie which stands for Super Service Ride Control.
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190107 0342153 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources MRL class loco MRL 002 'Spirit of Yilgarn' with serial R-0113-03/14-505 a UGL Rail Broadmeadow NSW built GE model C44ACi in 2014 stands in the Engineers Siding with a string of eighteen, or nine pairs of MHPY bottom discharge hopper waggons awaiting transfer over to West Kalgoorlie.
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150619 9100153 viewsFlash Butt yard, Speno owned and operated rail grinder RG2 for BHP, overview of entire unit, from the left is the driving and grinding module, then two grinding modules and the power and driving unit.
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151206 9658153 viewsBoodarie, on a Gavin Transport Drake float, BHP's new track recording vehicle which is a Mermec ROGER 800 imported from Italy. Max speed 80 km/h, tare 65 tonnes, minimum radius R 80 m.
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200914 7789153 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Fortescue' was originally built by Clyde Engineering at Granville NSW in 1936 for the NSWGR as a second class railway carriage FS type FS 2141. In 1975 it was purchased by the Society and is named after a local river. 14th September 2020.
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200914 7791153 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Bellary' was originally built by Clyde Engineering at Granville NSW in 1936 for the NSWGR as a second class railway carriage FS type FS 2143. In 1987 it was purchased by the Society and is named after a local river. 14th September 2020.
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105-23152 viewsWallan, station platform 2 waiting room, door detail.
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