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232-32412 viewsYandi One balloon loop cab-less BHP Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8ML (L for LocoTrol) 5665 'Rotterdam' serial 8412-10 / 94-156 in the mid train consist about to enter the tunnel on the 18th of February 1997. This loco was built cab-less to control remote consists and here is in use as a slave, being controlled by a unit with a cab. GeoData.
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233-15412 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. A loading train lead by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 as it drags the train through at 1.2 km/h with assistance from two sister units. GeoData.
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238-21412 viewsNelson Point loco overhaul shop, former Union Pacific loco 3523 an EMD SD40-2 model, serial 786170-25 and now numbered 3085 for BHP Billiton Iron One service had only been in operation for eleven days when this shot was taken on the 27th November 2004. Geodata .
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239-29412 viewsYandi Two, conveyor belt CV202 failure to the belt on the primary crushing circuit. Shows belt rolls bunched up near exit from primary jaw type crusher. GeoData.
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060110 2231412 viewsKarkoo, empty grain train behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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060110 2234412 viewsKarkoo, empty grain train behind ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge and to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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160528 8421412 viewsBinduli, intermodal train 6PM6, RRZY type five unit bar coupled well container waggon set RRZY 7030 platform 4, originally built by Goninan in a batch of twenty six RQZY type for National Rail, recoded when repaired. 48' MFG1 type Linfox container FXDU 328061 double stacked with an SCF 40' half height side door container TINT 607050.
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160524 3827412 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 2PM6 intermodal train, RRZY type five unit bar coupled well container waggon set RRZY 7028 platform 4, originally built by Goninan in a batch of twenty six as RQZY type for National Rail, recoded when repaired. Loaded with a Railroad Transport 40 4EG1 type container RTPU 4021 double stacked with Linfox 53' car container DRC 371.
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160524 4315412 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, 1MP2 steel train, container waggon RKLY 20925 with a couple of plastic wrapped flatrack units. Originally built in the third contract of two hundred NODY type open waggons built by EPT NSW in 1980/81. Several recodes later it is fitted for containers, primarily steel traffic.
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160522 2077412 viewsBinduli, 5MP2 steel train, Trans-Perth electric B set 116 on the rear of the train.
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160529 8788412 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RQFY 119 container waggon, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1980 as a batch of seventy five VQFX type skeletal container waggons, recoded to VQFY in 1985, recoded in April 1994 RQFY, May 1995 to RQFF and 2CM bogies fitted August 1995, loaded with a 48' Pacific National curtainsider PNXC 4455.
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160529 8818412 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRQY 8314
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060530 4898412 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation car RZAY 940 on train 2PM6 was built by Comeng NSW as an ARJ type stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car ARJ 240 in 1968, allocated to the Indian Pacific Joint Stock in 1970, renumbered to ARJ 940 in 1974 and sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997.
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161109 1931412 viewsMoule, originally built by Kinki Sharyo as the NH type for the NAR in 1968, sent to Port Lincoln in 1978, then rebuilt and recoded ENH type in 1984, ENH 14, refurbished and wearing current owner Genesee & Wyoming orange and decal with matching hungry boards loaded with gypsum.
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050315 0240412 viewsRedbank Bridge, elevated view of empty 116 kL fuel tanks all built by Comeng in both NSW and WA, 0013 and others in the BHP blue and white livery.
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050414 0945412 viewsFlash Butt yard, Speno Australia's double RR24 rail grinder setup for BHP. Front unit is serial M20. These were later numbered as RG 1 and RG 2 respectively. 14th April 2005.
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030404 103013412 viewsPort Augusta, Goninan built GE model Cv40-9i NR class unit NR 30 serial 7250-05 / 97-232 was painted in a Bessie Liddle of Alice Springs designed aboriginal livery titled 'Warmi' or the snake, John Moriarty of Balarinji Design did the artwork.
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170728 10030412 viewsHarding Siding, arriving around the large curve at the 46 km on the Robe line is General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8124 serial 59116 leading Dash 9-44CW unit 7094 and sister ES44DCi unit 8186 with a loaded train from Yandicoogina mine. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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170730 0523412 viewsMarubeni Siding, located on the Roy Hill railway at the 152.5 to the 155.8 km, view looking south. GeoData.
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IC22 070908 0595412 viewsRobe River compressor waggon set IC 22 with air receiver and IC 23 with two Ingersoll Rand air compressors. These waggons are ballasted to 100 tonnes each and are modified ore waggons and used on the pooled fleet rakes that come from HIY [Yandicoogina] and West Angelas mines. Cape Lambert yard, August 8, 2007.
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