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190107 0478368 viewsParkeston, Mineral Resources MRL class loco MRL 002 'Spirit of Yilgarn' with serial R-0113-03/14-505 a UGL Rail Broadmeadow NSW built GE model C44ACi in 2014 is pushed back along the loop to as the power consist of Pacific National NR 60 and NR 8 runs around the waggon rake while Aurizon Q 4006 looks on.
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190107 0548368 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00097 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-97 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190107 0581368 viewsBinduli, on empty Mineral Resources Ltd iron ore train service from Esperance to Koolyanobbing 2034 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00370 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-370 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190109 1620368 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00209 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-209 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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080304 2187368 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of control waggon 2238, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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080304 2205368 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of slave waggon 1527, 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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248-05368 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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248-07368 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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248-24368 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 9426 a Comeng WA C636R rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania Railroad as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Behind it is sister unit 9427 and ALCo M636 9412. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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251-04368 viewsNelson Point, BHP's recently retired Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5512 awaits its fate. Rebuilt in 1988 at Goninan's Welshpool factory from 1970 AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 with serial number G6041-1 and road number 5465 and assigned new serial number 4839-01 / 88-077. It was delivered in Mt Newman Mining orange and was named Hesta. 22nd April 2000.
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255-20368 viewsWestern Creek, looking south alongside the Hamersley Iron Dampier to Tom Price line on the right with the new Robe River interconnecting line on the left as both lines pass under the Robe River Cape Lambert to Deepdale line bridge. Geodata location here. May 2002.
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140601 4655368 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHCH type waggon CHCH 7789 these waggons were rebuilt between 2010 and 2012 by Bluebird Rail Operations SA from former Goldsworthy Mining hopper waggons originally built by Tomlinson WA and Scotts of Ipswich Qld back in the 60's to early 80's. 1st June 2014.
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140601 4682368 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHCH type waggon CHCH 7673 these waggons were rebuilt between 2010 and 2012 by Bluebird Rail Operations SA from former Goldsworthy Mining hopper waggons originally built by Tomlinson WA and Scotts of Ipswich Qld back in the 60's to early 80's. 1st June 2014.
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267-08368 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, BHP's 1230 empty departure behind General Electric AC6000 unit 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial number 51068 leads CM40-8MEFI 5669 on the point with two CM40-8M mid-train units an 208 waggons powers along the Newman mainline with the Goldsworthy line to Yarrie curving away directly in front of 6076. 1247 hrs 12th of April 2002.
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268-14368 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year service agreement special, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8M unit 5653 'Chiba' serial number 8412-10 / 93-144 stands on the Newman mainline with The Sundowner and 5634 on the rear of the train as the party conducts an inspection of the site. Friday 12th of April 2002.
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268-23368 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year special, the Sundowner coach, originally built by E. G. Budd in 1939 numbered 301 as the Silver Star, a diner-parlour-observation coach on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's General Pershing Zephyr train from the 1930s and 1940s. Donated to Mt Newman Mining Co. by AMAX an original joint venture partner to commemorate the projects first 100 million tonnes of iron ore railed between Mount Whaleback mine and the Port Hedland port. 12th of April 2002.
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140406 IMG 1930368 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTBF 6122 fuel tank waggon, built by Comeng NSW 1975 as a bitumen tanker type SCA for Shell Bitumen NSW as SCA 273. Peter Donaghy image.
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150326 IMG 4343368 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AZAY type waste oil waggon AZAY 23439, detail image, this waggon usually operates between Merredin Loco and Forrestfield, not normally seen here in the Goldfields. Peter Donaghy image.
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160409 IMG 7094368 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 9867368 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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