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243-15268 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' a Goninan WA GE rebuild unit serial 8151-07 / 91-120 in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it heads up an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
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150619 9091268 viewsFlash Butt yard, Speno owned and operated rail grinder RG2 for BHP, rail grinding module, from the left, water tank, electrical cabinet, blower fans and filter housing, water tank, water tank, electrical cabinet, blower fans and filter housing, fuel tank.
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080124 1628268 viewsChapman Siding, new FMG ore waggon pairs 1179 slave and 2180 control and 1259 slave and 2260 control, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 24th January 2008.
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080304 2202268 viewsThomas Yard, 21 km post looking north, long rake of waggons being run up and down the mainline to keep the wheels turning. 4th March 2008.
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246-25268 viewsCape Lambert, Robe River locomotive 9425 which is a Goninan WA ALCo to GE rebuild CM40-8M with serial 6266-8 / 89-85 from August 1989 riding on Hi-Ad bogies and was originally an AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo serial C-6041-4 and built new for Mt Newman Mining (later BHP Iron Ore) in April 1970 and numbered 5468, sold to Robe and delivered by road 17th August 1982. Everything below the frame is ALCo while above is GE and Pilbara Cab. 22nd May 2002.
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247-31268 viewsNear Cooya Pooya at the 37.5 km on the Robe River Cape Lambert line an empty train is about to pass under the town water supply pipeline and pass through Lockyer Gap behind the standard Robe power of quad CM40-8M or Dash 8 locomotives led by 9425 which is a Goninan WA ALCo to GE rebuild CM40-8M with serial 6266-8 / 89-85 from August 1989 riding on Hi-Ad bogies and was originally an AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo serial C-6041-4 and built new for Mt Newman Mining (later BHP Iron Ore) in April 1970 and numbered 5468, sold to Robe and delivered by road 17th August 1982. Location is here.22nd May 2002.
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250-17268 viewsPelican Siding on the Hamersley Iron Tom Price line about the 208 km with an empty train behind the standard pairing of two General Electric built 9-44CW units 7068 serial 47747 and 7067 serial 47746 stand on the loop or passing track for a meet with a loaded train. 1550 hrs 21st October 2000.
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251-02268 viewsNelson Point, BHP's recently retired Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5506 awaits its fate. Rebuilt in 1987 at Goninan's Welshpool factory from 1969 AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 with serial number G6012-4 and road number 5455 and assigned new serial number 4839-01 / 87-071. It was delivered in Mt Newman Mining orange and was named Mt Whaleback, then in 1991 5506 emerged in BHP livery carrying Ethel Creek, it was later changed to Mt Goldsworthy, it was also one of three units to carry the Goldsworthy Joint Venture lettering. 22nd April 2000.
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252-10268 viewsCockatoo Siding 273 km on the Hamersley Iron line to Yandi, National Steel Car Company of Canada built ballast hopper waggon BH 058 built in January 1971. A batch of twenty were built for Hamersley Iron. Location is roughly here. 24th November 2001.
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254-29268 viewsEnroute to the former Stannum Mine, bogged in a tributary of the Yule River, looking east, the way we came in. GeoData location here. September 2001.
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245-08268 viewsPort Lincoln loco workshops, still in former owner AN livery, Australian Southern 830 class locomotive 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137 which has been on the Eyre Peninsula Division since being built in April 1962, stabled motive power over the weekend downtime. 6th April 2003.
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267-28268 views39 km Newman line, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' serial number 8151-07 / 91-120 slows as it brings the Sundowner special to a stop at the 39 km detector site on the Newman mainline.
The trailing unit is 5653.
This was a special for the 25 years of the Alstom / BHP service agreement.
Friday 12th of April 2002.
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160409 IMG 7098268 viewsParkeston, Aurizon rail grinder MMY type MMY 034, built in the USA by Loram as RG331 ~2004, imported into Australia by Queensland Rail, now Aurizon, in April 2009, detail picture. Peter Donaghy image.
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210407 9854268 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRXY 2, platform 5 with a CEVA 51' container IYV 538. The RRXY type 5-pack well waggon set is one of eleven built by Bradken Qld in 2002 for Toll from a Williams-Worley design.
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210407 9858268 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RQZY 7062, platform 4 with an Aurizon 48' MFGB type container AEHQ 100637. The RQZY type is a five unit bar coupled well container waggon built as one of a batch of thirty two by Goninan NSW for National Rail in 1995/96.
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040804 155856268 viewsNelson Point, empty BHP ore waggon 1354 is a Comeng WA build from a batch of two hundred and twenty-six in 1973/74. Waggon has been resheeted with new side walls. 4th of August 2004.
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110620 2296r268 viewsWalla, loaded BHP ore waggon 1418 is a Goninan WA build to the Golynx design as a replacement body from February 2011. This replaces the original Comeng WA waggon of the same number. 20th of June 2011.
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100603 8963268 viewsParkeston, SCT's 3MP9 service operating from Melbourne to Perth, SCT crew accommodation coach PSDS type PSDS 02280 'Peterborough Boys' converted by Gemco WA in 2008 from former Comeng NSW built SDS class sitting car SDS 2280 for the NSWGR.
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179-36267 viewsGheringhap, track view looking east back towards Geelong with V/Line broad gauge G class G 521 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 85-1234 locked away with down empty grain train 9121 in Siding A, semaphore signal post 2 is the down home for the mainline, the points and point indicator are set for in the reverse for Siding B.
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148-33267 viewsWangaratta yard looking north (down direction) from footbridge at Nos. 5 and 4 Road extensions, point blades and K crossing for Siding J still in situ on No. 5 Road, double compound points on No. 4 Road to Siding 'C', then Main Line and Signal Post 23, standard gauge line in cutting at extreme right.
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