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051001 5681338 viewsFlash Butt yard, a newly delivered Knox Kershaw KBR 875 ballast regulator serial 015-875-05. 1st October 2005.
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060403 3268338 viewsTabba North backtrack, BHP clip driving machine, shows the foot pedals the operators use and basket loaded with rail insulators, modified from a former Plasser Australia USP 3000 ballast regulator. 3rd April 2006.
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060501 3907338 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Speno rail grinder RG 2, possibly an RR24 model grinder with 24 grinding wheels view of generator module with driving cab then the three grinding modules. 1st May 2006.
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110208 9434338 viewsFlash Butt yard, new Lead-Off Lead-On waggon STTR class STTR 6214 on the end of the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, built by Gemco Rail WA, the height adjustable lead roller guide is upright, squeeze rollers behind the mesh.
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110208 9443338 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6031 loaded with strings of rail, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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247-33338 viewsNear Cooya Pooya at the 37.5 km on the Robe River Cape Lambert line an empty train passes 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 and was originally an AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo serial C-6041-4 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, compare to second unit 9410 with a Comeng style large flat fuel tank. Location is here.22nd May 2002.
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249-24338 viewsFortescue River Bridge on the Robe River line at the 115.8 km in flood looking downstream to the west from the middle of the bridge following Cyclone John on 18th December 1999. Approximate location.
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256-26338 viewsMaitland Siding, Robe River CM40-8M unit 9418 on an empty train. 9418 was built by ALCo Schenectady NY USA as an ALCo C630 model in October 1967 with serial number 3486-02 for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company (USA) with road number 2101. It was purchased by Morrison Knudsen for Robe River (along with three sister units) and delivered in January 1975 and repainted and renumbered as 9418 on arrival. 9418 was rebuilt by Goninan WA in December 1990 to become an CM40-8M model with serial number 8109-12 / 90-118. May 2002.
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269-16338 viewsBing North and the Alstom 25-year service agreement special led by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5653 'Chiba' serial number 8412-10 / 93-144 heads back to Nelson Point with The Sundowner and 5634 on the rear of the train. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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160409 IMG 7094338 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 9867338 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, CQWY type well waggon 5044 well 2 with a RAND Refrigerated Logistics 46' 6" MFR3 type reefer container RAND 366. 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 9873338 viewsParkeston, 2MP5 intermodal train, RRXY 9, platform 3 with an SCF Rail Containers 40' 4EG1 type container SCFU 410248 with Austrans. 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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040804 155709338 viewsNelson Point, BHP ore waggon 3307 is one of three hundred and fifty waggons built during 1988 by Astra Vagoane of Arad in Romania for Lang Hancock as part of a waggons for iron ore arrangement with the then Romanian government, however only 75 found their way into service with BHP. 4th of August 2004.
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110620 2040r338 viewsWalla Siding, empty BHP ore waggon 2899, originally built in 1971 by Comeng WA as part of a batch of four hundred waggons. The steel panels in the ribs have been resheeted, but not the end panels. 20th of June 2011.
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231020 8151338 viewsParkeston, QQYY type 40' container waggon QQYY 57873 one of five hundred ordered by Aurizon and built by CRRC Yangtze Group of China in 2022. In service with two loaded 20' half height hard top 'rotainers' lettered CRM, for Cristal Mining before they were absorbed into Tronox, CRM 000732 with Tronox decal and CRM 001743 with Cristal decal, on Aurizon's Tronox mineral sands train 4UP1 from Ivanhoe / Broken Hill (NSW) to Kwinana (WA). 20th of October 2023.
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060528 4489337 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32385, fleet number 910, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55, 28th May 2006.
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100602 8547337 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33536 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-076 and fleet number 9023 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.
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100729 01513337 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33509 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-049 and fleet number 9004 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, Binduli 29th July 2010.
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100731 02296337 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33460 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-002 and fleet number 8965 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02327337 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33382 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Group Rail WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-087 and fleet number 881 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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