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229-07399 viewsYandi Two balloon switch looking east with an empty BHP train heading for the loadout with mid-train remote units Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units 5660 'Kure' serial 8412-05 / 94-151 leading sister unit 5657, note the sheet metal windscreen protector plates, grade crossing is the YT 311.5 km. GeoData.
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229-22399 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking at the exit portal of the tunnel as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 drags a loading train through at 1.2 km/h, the massive pile of ore is gravity fed into the waggons via two sets of hydraulic chutes, the original pedestal radial stacker is visible above the ore along with the extraction fan. GeoData.
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232-20399 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 loaded Comeng WA built ore waggon 2871 has been re-sheeted with 3CR12 stainless steel side walls, view of broken coupler. February 1997. GeoData.
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233-28399 viewsYandi Two loaded car side of load-out tunnel, 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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236-02399 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Dash 8 class locomotive 5653 'Chiba', a Goninan 1994 rebuild to GE CM40-8M model, serial 8412-10 / 93-144.
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236-36399 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 'Chichester' serial 51063 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted, cab side and bogie view.
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160523 3297399 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATBY 14592 fuel tank waggon, built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1981 for Bain Leasing as narrow gauge type JPB, 82000 litre capacity.
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160524 4363399 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 3438, WN type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WN 540, the final of a further ten built by WAGR Midland Workshops as WN type in 1975 for WMC.
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160524 4369399 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.
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160524 4041399 viewsBinduli, Melbourne bound steel train service 3PM4, RKMY 327, originally an ELX waggon, heavily modified to cart butter boxes, possibly ex Victorian Railways ELX / VOBX waggon 1969-70 vintage.
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060107 1975399 viewsSpencer Junction yard, FreightLink FDAY type crew accommodation car FDAY 05 on train 7AD1, built by SAR Islington Workshops as a Bluebird second class railcar in 1956 and named 'Kookaburra'. Written off in 1995 and later bought by Bluebird Rail Systems and converted to crew car for FreightLink in 2003.
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070531 9710399 viewsParkeston, Pacific National RZAY type crew accommodation car RZAY 985 on train 4PM6 was built by Comeng NSW as an ARJ type stainless steel air conditioned first class roomette sleeping car ARJ 285 in 1972. Allocated to the Indian Pacific Joint Stock in 1974 and renumbered to ARJ 985, sold to National Rail and converted to crew car in 1997 by AN Port Augusta Workshops.
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161109 1974399 viewsThevenard, train 4DD4 rumbles across Bergmann Drive as third unit Genesee & Wyoming locomotive AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 unit 859 'City of Port Lincoln' serial 84705, built in 1963, 859 started life at Peterborough, spent some years in Tasmania and even spent time in Perth on standard gauge before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 2003.
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0532 Magor USA 050518 2185399 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 532, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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0504 Magor USA 050518 2195399 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 504, one of twenty waggons originally used on the Oroville Dam construction before coming to the Pilbara in January 1968 as ballast waggons.
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0536 Magor USA 050518 2198399 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 536, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
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0016 Comeng WA 050704 3994399 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0016 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons, detail of A end and bogie.
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6702 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 051001 5730399 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #30, 6702, heavily cut down and modified Magor USA ore waggon by Mt Newman Mining workshops, converted to a 50 tonne waggon and designated the winch waggon with generator set to power the winch and the crib car.
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6014 Comeng WA 050522 2735399 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #25, 6014, built by Comeng WA in November 1971.
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