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228-25356 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, the afternoon empty train arrives at the load-out tunnel behind a standard pair of Goninan rebuilt GE CM40-8M model units 5649 'Pohang' serial 8412-07/93-140 and 5644 'Kangan' serial 8281-09/92-133. Geodata -22.720824, 119.043410 .

232-17356 viewsYandi One backtrack, following a cyclone shutdown of the mainline and severe flooding around Yandi a 'mixed' freight train was operated to Yandi to deliver food, mail and diesel fuel to the mine and camp. Here BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128 idles away in the backtrack awaiting its path back to Port Hedland with flat waggon 6703, four fuel tank waggons and a broken ore waggon. February 1997. GeoData.

232-24356 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, waggons are standard Comeng WA builds. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.

233-05356 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. An empty trains headlight can be seen in the tunnel. GeoData.

233-10356 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. GeoData.

236-29356 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuilt CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 sits out the front awaiting attention.

238-15356 viewsNelson Point, ex Southern Pacific tunnel motor locomotive 8335 an EMD SD40T-2 unit, serial 786175-9 built in April 1979 and retired by Union Pacific 23rd May 2001, purchased as a spare parts source for the other SD40 style units BHP Billiton purchased in 2003/04. 19th November 2003. Geodata .

060110 2199356 viewsYeelanna, 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 shunts a rake of waggons into the grain siding with the 5 ton crane also visible. Approx. location of image.

160523 3576356 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WNB type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WNB 546, the final of six built by Bluebird Rail Services SA in 2010 for BHP Billiton.

160524 4369356 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 3438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 504, one of thirty built by AE Goodwin NSW as WN type in 1970 for WMC.

160524 4047356 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKQF 60229, empty slab steel waggon, originally a Tulloch NSW built louvre van type JLY/X from 1969-70, NLJY/X, converted at Bathurst Workshops to NQRX in 1988, then in 1989/90 to NKQF.

160529 8821356 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRQY 8314

070526 9097356 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation coach RZAY 944 on train 6PM6 originally built by Comeng NSW in 1969 as a stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car, renumbered to 944 for Indian Pacific service, sold to National Rail Corporation in 1997 and converted to a crew coach.

070527 9237356 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation coach RZAY 986 on train 6SP6 originally built by Comeng NSW in 1972 as a stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car, renumbered to 986 for Indian Pacific service, sold to National Rail Corporation in 1997 and converted to a crew car.

161112 3455356 viewsBinduli, loaded Hampton acid train 7406 with AQHY 30082 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0112, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana. CSA 0112 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions.

161116 5542356 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443 departs West Kalgoorlie behind UGL Rail built GE model C44ACi unit ACC 6031 serial R-0093-01 / 13-485 with 17 waggons for 345 metres and 425 tonnes on the overnight run to Esperance.

040814 092225356 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA ballast waggon CHQY type 740 just being delivered to BHP Iron Ore as part of the Rail PACE project, handbrake end view.

050412 0776356 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 529, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.