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100609 09969353 viewsMidland, AQRY 1004 two-pack platform B loaded with two 20' CNC Line and Mediterranean Shipping 22G1 type containers carrying lead, CNCU 161438 and MSCU 132445. The AQRY are a bar-coupled pair and were used for rail transport as the AFRF type on the Darwin line and are originally former ANR-CR waggons.
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227-20353 views30 km area on the Newman mainline, east of the original Quarry 1, an empty train powers along the gentle .17% rising grade behind a pair of Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild units and an General Electric AC6000. GeoData.
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230-35353 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, mid-train remote unit Goninan GE CM40-8M rebuild 5657 'Fukuyama' serial 8412-02/94-148 is from Comeng ALCo M636 unit 5492. Note the marker lights, silver BHP Australia logo, ALCo Hi-Ad bogie and the sheet metal windscreen protectors to prevent the blown ore pitting the screens. Geodata -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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233-31353 viewsYandi Two loaded car side of load-out tunnel, a loading train lead by BHP Iron Ore's Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 as it drags the train through at 1.2 km/h. GeoData.
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233-36353 viewsYandi Two balloon loop, new United Goninan WA built iron ore waggon 4161, delivered in March 1997 as part of a batch of 126 waggons made from 3CR12 steel with tapered floors. GeoData.
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235-17353 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 leads the afternoon 240 waggon train with second unit Goninan built CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus' as the exit the loadout tunnel, notice the fuel tank differences between the lead unit an ALCo rebuild and the second unit built new.
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235-29353 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 with second unit also a Goninan GE rebuild 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128, note the differences in the two locos as 5653 is rebuilt from a Comeng built ALCo M636 while 5639 was an AE Goodwin built ALCo C636. 5654 also has the late marigold style BHP logo.
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160523 3339353 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30054 with CSA 0132, originally built by the 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 to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth. CSA 0132 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160523 3587353 viewsBinduli, nickel concentrate train 2438, WNB type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WNB 543, one of six built by Bluebird Rail Services SA in 2010 for BHP Billiton.
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160531 9883353 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, diesel fuel tank waggon ATEY 4725, BP Oil service, ex Ampol, other codes include ex NSW NTAF, WTEF and WTEY.
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161111 2521353 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30095 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0125, originally built by the 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.
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161116 5559353 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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050412 0758353 viewsQuarry 8, Shaw Siding area. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA ballast waggon 512.
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050518 2100353 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 748.
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050518 2115353 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 746, rear view.
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050518 2157353 viewsBing Siding. 3/4 view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 501, the first 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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050522 2728353 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #18, 6012, built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld in September 1970.
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060714 6815353 viewsHesta Siding, view from the rear of the rail recovery and transport train as it snakes around the curves. Crib waggon 665 a former Magor USA built ore waggon, heavily modified by Mt Newman Mining workshops and fitted with an ATCO donga.
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050421 1613353 viewsHesta Siding backtrack, Speno Australia's 24 stone rail grinder before they had id stickers fitted, this front unit was later stickered as RG 2, rear view of the driving cab on the third grinding module. 21st April 2005.
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100717 0656353 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6020, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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