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160306 1425951 viewsGreen Pool, Rio Tinto General Electric built ES44ACi unit 9103 serial 61941, driver side cab view. 6th March 2016. View location here.
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150412 7929r946 viewsBoodarie, north of the Flash Butt yard, Roy Hill's General Electric built ES44ACi units lined up on the mainline facing the port. RHA 1013 serial 62585, RHA 1012, RHA 1011, RHA 1010, RHA 1009, RHA 1014, RHA 1005, RHA 1006, RHA 1007, RHA 1008, RHA 1003, RHA 1004, RHA 1002 'Ginbata' and RHA 1001 'Ginny'. With a track supply train rake behind them. 12th April 2015. View map here.
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141027 5882930 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, General Electric AC6000 unit 6071 serial 51063 is reduced to frame level with only the nose which contains the collision posts and the 6600 hp EVO motor and alternator awaiting the thermal lance.
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150314 7807930 viewsWedgefield, stowed in a yard awaiting more rail to be laid, Roy Hill rotary tip 70m³ capacity ore waggon GA 2231 built by China Southern Rail in Zhuzhou China. The yellow circle indicating the rotary coupler end. 14th March 2015.
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081225 0587r927 viewsBuilders decal for FMG's General Electric built Dash 9-44CW unit 004 serial 58181. 25th December 2008.
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5835 001 Welshpool 1987July921 viewsWelshpool, Goninan rebuilt GE C36-7M unit 5509 'Chichester' serial 4839-05 / 87-074 rebuilt using Mt Newman Mining AE Goodwin ALCo C636 5452 serial G6012-1, on a Bell road float in July 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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141027 5867908 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, line up of units awaiting their fate, General Electric AC6000 unit 6072 serial 51064 and EMD SD40R units 3092 serial 31498 / 7861-8, 3089 serial 31512 / 7861-22 and 3095 serial 33677 / 7083-7.
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141027 5846906 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard sees redundant BHP Billiton GE AC6000 locomotives 6076 in the bubble paint livery and 6072 in the blue and white livery flanked by EMD SD40R units with 3090 visible beside 6076 their days numbered since being the largest locomotives to operate in Australia, they being destined for nothing more than scrap.
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031119 165830r892 viewsNelson Point, Ex Southern Pacific SD40T-2 loco 8335 serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, this unit was purchased as a spares source for the other SD40 style units. The T signifies that it is a Tunnel motor with a modified radiator intake to allow 'cool' running through the Sierra Nevada tunnels. And the 'M' with a lighting rod through it meant that it was a master unit for radio controlled helpers, used in the Tehachapi mountains. 19th November 2003.
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141027 5834889 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of EMD SD40R unit 3095 serial 33677/7083-7 watching a former sister unit being reduced to bits, a primer mover 645 EMD engine and fuel tank tipped on its side, and the excavator with the hydraulic shears.
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141027 5889888 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of the trailing bogie and frame of GE AC6000 unit 6071 as sister unit 6972 awaits the same treatment.
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141027 5838886 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of and EMD SD40R unit primer mover 645 EMD engine, alternator and fuel tank tipped on its side.
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5953 001 Welshpool 1987Jan883 viewsBuilders plate on Goninan rebuilt GE C36-7M unit 5506 'Mt Whaleback' serial 4839-01 / 87-071 rebuilt using Mt Newman Mining AE Goodwin ALCo C636 5455 serial G6012-4. January 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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061026 0359r873 viewsSeven Mile, retired Robe River ALCo units in preparation to travel to Perth. Comeng WA ALCo rebuild C636R 9426 serial WA143-1 leads the all ALCo line up. 26th October 2006.
Geoffrey Higham image.
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050824 0681872 viewsCape Lambert, Pilbara Iron Robe River Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M locomotive 9424 serial 6266-7/89-84 from Robe River C636 ALCo 9424 which was originally built in November 1968 as #343 for Spokane Portland & Seattle serial 6010-4 prior to be purchased by Robe in May 1981. Seen here on the 24th August 2005. Photo by Phil 'Fridge' Ludbrook.
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130815 2574872 viewsBarker Siding, FMG has ten 82.4 tonne capacity air operated side dump waggons built in USA by JK-CO in 2012. SDC 09 sits at the ballast loading point. 15th August 2013.
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160306 1428871 viewsGreen Pool, two Rio Tinto General Electric built ES44ACi units 9103 serial 61941 and 9110 serial 62541 coupled back to back, view of radiator sections. 6th March 2016. View location here.
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170915 0709869 viewsGreat Northern Highway 18.2 km grade crossing, empty Roy Hill fuel train powers along bound for Tad Yard with General Electric built ES44ACi unit RHA 1019 serial 64300 leading eleven of Roy Hill's twelve tank waggons. 15th September 2017. View map here.
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171204 1017r864 viewsBoodarie, BHP over bridge, CFCLA's Goninan ALCo to GE rebuild CM40-8M locomotive CD 4301 serial 2160-03 / 96-202, was originally Mt Newman Mining's Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 serial C6104-1 #5500, then Robe River unit 9410 before going to CFCLA in 2012. Be being delivered to Roy Hill's flash butt yard by Doolan's Heavy Haulage. 4th December 2017. View map here.
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150130 7611862 viewsPort Hedland, right hand side rear view of Roy Hill's General Electric built ES44ACi unit RHA 1010 serial 62582, this angle shows the size of the radiator wing section. 29th January, 2015.
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