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225-27357 viewsBing siding backtrack, a ballast consist of 17 GML bottom discharge waggons and 6 Difco side dump rip rap waggons, possibly an 'emergency' ballast train for the GML line following flood damage. GeoData.
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227-11357 viewsPort Hedland harbour control tower, the salt conveyor is at the bottom of the picture, the high building beyond the tower is the Esplanade Hotel, with the two story building to the right of the tower the Port Authority offices. GeoData.
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227-35357 views25 km signal location on the BHP Newman mainline. 25 S for south bound trains, the other signal is 25 N. Toyota tray back. GeoData.
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235-04357 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 arrives with the afternoon 240 waggon empty train, the hydraulic lines and dust extraction equipment frame the loco.
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235-28357 viewsYandi One, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11 / 93-145 sits on a loaded train awaiting departure time and also has the late marigold style BHP logo, cab side and Alco Hi-Ad bogie.
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236-34357 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.
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160525 4810357 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30006 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0131, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana, part of empty acid train 4405 departing in the yard. CSA 0131 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4831357 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATHY 522 fuel tanker, one of two built by Comeng NSW in 1971 for Caltex as WJH type. With a capacity of 103000 litres but a safe full level of on 72000 litres.
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160525 4839357 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTBF 6119 fuel tanker, originally built by Comeng NSW in 1975 as SCA type SCA 270 69000 litre bitumen tanker for Shell NSW, diesel capacity of 62700 litres.
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060528 4527357 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Pacific National BRS type crew accommodation coach BRS 221, originally built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops in November 1940 as an AS type first class sitting car for the Spirit of Progress as AS 6, in April 1983 converted to a combined sitting accommodation and a mini refreshment service as BRS type BRS 1, then in September 1985 renumbered to BRS 221. Sold to West Coast Railway mid 1990s, converted to crew car after 2004.
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161116 5559357 viewsBinduli, empty Shell fuel train 4443, tank waggon NTBF 6119, built by Comeng NSW 1975 as a bitumen tanker type SCA for Shell Bitumen NSW as SCA 270.
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040814 091958357 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA ballast waggon CHQY type 730 just being delivered to BHP Iron Ore as part of the Rail PACE project, 3/4 view from handbrake end.
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050319 0143357 viewsNelson Point, rail recovery and transport train, 2nd lead off waggon 6201, built by Comeng WA, the mesh guarding is for the winch cable. The chute arrangement for the discharging and recovery of rail is visible.
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050518 2111357 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 756.
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050518 2162357 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 502, 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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050801 4747357 viewsFlash Butt yard, BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 1st August 2005.
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050801 4756357 viewsFlash Butt yard, a Knox Kershaw KBR 850 ballast regulator lettered for Railway Equipment Leasing And Maintenance RELAM Inc. 1st August 2005.
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050801 4762357 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem ballast regulator. 1st August 2005.
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050801 4773357 viewsIn the Flash Butt yard a line up of Barclay Mowlem track machines from the closest to the camera, tamper, regulator, regulator, tamper, clip installer, tamper then BHP's mainline tamper. 1st August 2005.
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060811 8013357 viewsGarden Siding, Speno rail grinder RG 2 coupled with RG 1 in the passing track. 11th August 2006.
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