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080304 2190200 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of slave waggon 1335, the yellow circle around the tare weight 22.6 t indicates the rotary coupler end, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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246-02200 viewsCape Lambert, view of the then new extension to the south for the West Angelas mine was coming on stream, the siding furthest from the camera will become a compressor waggon holding road while the original line or Mainline is the second from the camera, with the car dumper one Empty Car line closest, and what becomes the car dumper two Loaded Car line is third. 22nd May 2002.
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247-06200 viewsCape Lambert fuel point, Robe River locomotive 9410 which is a Goninan WA ALCo to GE rebuild CM40-8M with serial 2160-03 / 96-202 from March 1996 riding on Dofasco bogies and was originally a Comeng NSW built M636 ALCo serial C-6096-5 and built new for Mt Newman Mining (later BHP Iron Ore) in November 1975 and numbered 5500. Everything below the frame is ALCo, with the Comeng build style flat fuel tank, while above is GE and Pilbara Cab. Approximate location of the locos is here. 22nd May 2002.
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247-15200 viewsCape Lambert overview of the fuel point, with a brace of four CM40-8M rebuilds finishing up refuelling before departing with another empty train. The workshops are to the left of the picture. Where I'm standing to take the picture is now all stockpile. Approximate location of photo is here. 22nd May 2002.
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248-05200 viewsDingo Siding on the Hamersley Iron railway at the 39 km with an empty train headed up by a pair of General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 9408 serial 54158 from the fourth order in 2003 wearing the Pilbara Rail livery with Robe ownership markings. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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248-09200 viewsDingo Siding on the Hamersley Iron railway at the 39 km with an empty train headed up by a pair of General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 7077 serial 47756 from the original first order in the Pepsi Can livery and 9408 serial 54158 from the fourth order in the Pilbara Rail livery with Robe ownership markings. The signal marker boards are in the distance. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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248-18200 viewsSeven Mile yard, stored Robe River ALCo locomotives at the south end of the Hamersley Iron Seven Mile yard on roads N2 and N3. On road N2 is 9427 a Comeng WA C636R rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-2 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania Railroad as #6331, Penn Central 6331 and finally Conrail 6781. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in January 1987. This loco also went on to become DR 8403 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Behind it is sister unit 9426. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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249-02200 viewsYule River bridge looking north from the 160 km on the BHP mainline. The third pier from the southern end was undermined by flood waters from Tropical Cyclone John in December 1999. The rail line was closed for two weeks while repairs were effected. Approximate location.
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251-13200 viewsNelson Point, BHP's recently retired Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5513 serial number plate. 22nd April 2000.
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251-16200 viewsNelson Point, the South Yard 'prep shed' located on the dumper exit roads 102, 103 and, 104. Goninan GE rebuild unit 5656 a CM40-8M unit with serial number 8412-01 / 94-147 sits on shed with a sister units. This facility was used to service and fuel locomotives while their respective waggon rakes were being tipped through the car dumpers. 22nd April 2000.
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253-30200 viewsNelson Point hard stand, CFCLA CHRY type ballast hopper waggon CHRY 746.
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256-17200 viewsMaitland Siding, early morning loaded train waiting for a meet with an empty behind the quad CM40-8M working of 9414, 9420, 9410 and 9425. May 2002.
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257-32200 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, empty train with second unit BHP Iron Ore loco 5632 'Poseidon' one of four new built GE CM39-8 model locomotives by Goninan in late 1998 with serial number 5831-11 / 88-081.
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190129 4343200 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00371 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-371 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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267-13200 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, BHP's 1230 empty departure trailing mid-train unit Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE units 5645 'Sherlock' serial number 8281-11 / 92-134 104 waggons from the lead passes the Goldsworthy Junction relay room as Pope reads the newspaper. 1247 hrs Friday 12th of April 2002.
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210407 9848200 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, CQWY type well waggon pair CQWY 5015, platform 2 with a Royal Wolf 48' type MFG1 container RWTU 922049 and platform 1 with Aurizon 48' MFGB type container AEHQ 100608. The CQWY well waggon pairs were built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in a batch of sixty pairs in 2008 for CFCLA.
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210407 9853200 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRXY 2, platform 4 with a CEVA RFSB type 51' container IYV 706 built by Transmech SA. 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 9868200 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, CQWY type well waggon 5044 well 1 with an SCF MFGB type 48' container SCFU 419070. The CQWY well waggon pairs were built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in a batch of sixty pairs in 2008 for CFCLA.
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210407 9890200 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRZY 7049 platform 1 of 5-pack well waggon set. Originally was an RQZY type, 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. Recoded to RRZY when repaired. Loaded with a Toll 48' MEG1 type container TCML 48459. National Rail logo still visible.
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130710 1026200 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1, ABSY type covered van ABSY 4479, originally built by Comeng WA in 1977 in a batch of one hundred for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type. Recoded to ABFX, then to ABFY in April 1996. To SCT as ABFY before being converted by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.
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