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141027 58291318 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, overview of the carnage. Units visible awaiting the shears and gas are, EMD SD40 3079, which is behind the frame of GE AC6000 6071, AC6000 6074 and 6072 and SD40R 3092, 3089 and 3095 with a frame part from a former SD40R and the excavator with the hydraulic shears.
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170915 07091316 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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150130 76111312 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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160306 14281302 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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192-011295 viewsJunee, NSWSRA standard gauge locomotive depot, NSWGR 48 class unit 4890 in the Red Terror livery idles away, an ALCo RSD-8 or DL-531 model built by AE Goodwin in 1966 serial G3420-5.
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141027 58801294 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, General Electric AC6000 units 6075 serial 51067 is nose to nose with the remains of sister unit 6071 serial 51063.
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171204 1017r1283 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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141027 58331282 viewsWedgefield, Sell and Parker's metal recycling yard, view of Hitachi ZAXIS 350 LCH excavator fitted with the huge hydraulically operated shears that are making a meal of former EMD SD40 and GE AC6000 locomotives. Behind it lays the remains of an EMD SD40R unit which has been reduced to a few frame part with the EMD 645 engine laying over. Behind it sister units 3095, 3089 and 3092 along with an GE AC6000 6072 wait for a similar fate.
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5835 001 Welshpool 1987July1280 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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5953 001 Welshpool 1987Jan1276 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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54991269 viewsNelson Point, Mt Newman Mining Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 model locomotive 5499 serial C6096-4 is the last active ALCo on the roster of BHP 22nd April 2000.
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090122 1804r1269 viewsWedgefield, Asset Kinetics yard, off hire units from the FMG railway construction stored awaiting their fate. All Comeng WA ALCo rebuilds, DR 8404 'Vera' serial WA135 / C6040-01 and DR 8402 'Margaret' serial WA135 / C6011-02 are both C636R models, while the obscured unit is DR 8401 'Jean' serial WA143-1 also an C636R model.
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171222 11351268 viewsBallast Spur A, Roy Hill's General Electric built ES44ACi units RHA 1020 serial 64301 and RHA 1007 cover the three CFCLA Goninan ALCo to GE rebuild units CM40-8M CD 4303, CD 4302 and CD 4301 during mainline load testing of the three lease units. 22nd December 2017.
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061026 0359r1265 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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130815 25741259 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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141126 7252r1254 viewsKanga at the 105 km, the final member of FMG's thirty strong fleet of tank waggons TK 30, 95,000 litre capacity built in China by CSR at the Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works. 26th November 2014.
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160319 19201253 viewsGreat Northern Highway 18.2 km grade crossing, Roy Hill empty train #96 with General Electric built ES44ACi unit RHA 1004 mid-train unit between 116 ore waggons in front and behind. 16th March 2016. View map here.
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150412 7918r1247 viewsBoodarie, Roy Hill's General Electric built ES44ACi class leader RHA 1001 serial 62573 and named 'Ginny' after Gina Rinehart's daughter Ginia, leads the rest of the fleet near the Flash Butt Welding Yard. 12th April 2015. View map here.
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151230 97011233 viewsPort Hedland, left hand side rear view of Roy Hill's General Electric built ES44ACi unit RHA 1017 serial 63828, this angle shows the size of the radiator wing section. 30th December 2015.
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031119 165830r1230 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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