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241-21339 viewsNelson Point, Mt Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW sits awaiting partial dismantling before being sent by road to Rail Heritage WA's museum at Bassendean, Perth for preservation. Drivers side view of the radiator section and bogie. June 2002.
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190109 1609339 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00312 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-312 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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246-30339 viewsCape Lambert, a Robe River loaded Deepdale train rolls along the mainline with the normal 202 waggons which are a mix of builds from Nippon Sharyo Japan and Tomlinson Steel and Centurion Industries both WA companies. The ore is a ROM product and will be dumped over the gyratory crusher to be correctly sized. 22nd May 2002.
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248-11339 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. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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250-15339 viewsPelican Siding on the Hamersley Iron Tom Price line about the 208 km with an empty train behind the standard pairing of two General Electric built 9-44CW units 7068 serial 47747 and 7067 serial 47746 stand on the loop or passing track for a meet with a loaded train. 1550 hrs 21st October 2000.
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251-07339 viewsNelson Point, BHP's recently retired Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5507 builders plate. 22nd April 2000.
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252-02339 viewsCockatoo Siding 273 km on the Hamersley Iron line to Yandi, ballast plough waggon BP 02 is on the end of a ballast rake being loaded. BP 02 has been converted from an Nippon Sharyo ore waggon with the mounting of an air compressor on top and the fitting of a plough blade, the waggon is also loaded with ballast to ballast the plough. Location is roughly here. 24th November 2001.
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210322 9586339 viewsNear Gecko on Rio Tinto's Dampier - Tom Price line is CRRC Yangtze Rolling Stock Co of China built ballast plough waggon BP 04 on a loaded ballast rake. Location is roughly here. 22nd March 2021.
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257-31339 viewsGoldsworthy Junction an empty train thunders through the junction behind 6000 horsepower behemoth 6072 'Hesta' serial number 51064 and built by General Electric in Erie USA in 1999 and a new built CM39-8 unit 5632 'Poseidon' by Goninan with serial number 5831-11 / 88-081. Late 2001.
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190129 4282339 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00101 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-101 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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160708 iPh5S 2784339 viewsWittenoom, view looking south at the fog hanging over Mount Watkins and the Hammersley Range from 53 Fifth Avenue Wittenoom, taken at 3:15pm, 8th of July 2016. Geodata.
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160710 iPh5S 2809339 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine, old underground 'jumbo' box for power distribution to electric pumps and drills. Jumbo is a modern mining term, so these would have been called something else…
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160710 iPh5S 2815339 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine adit #30, looking inside through the removed blanking plate. Geodata.
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140406 IMG 1931339 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Peter Donaghy image.
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190109 1405339 viewsBinduli, WNB type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WNB 542, one of six units built by Bluebird Rail Services SA in 2010 for BHP Billiton.
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100602 8554338 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33556 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 950211-096 and fleet number 9049 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.
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100731 02283338 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 31125 is one of a batch of one hundred and thirty built by Goninan WA between March and August 2001 with serial number 950092-115 and fleet number 707 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02349338 viewsWOC type iron ore waggon WOC 31353 is one of a batch of thirty built by Goninan WA between October 1997 to January 1998 with fleet number 413 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02476338 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33278 is one of a batch of thirty five built by Goninan WA between January and April 2005 with serial number 950104-018 and fleet number 777 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, on empty train 6418 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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100731 02530338 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31472 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-044 and fleet number 535 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance, now with PORTMAN painted out, on empty train 6418 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.
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