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233-21383 viewsYandi Two exit portal or loaded car side of load-out tunnel, the Yandi Two load-out has two load-out stations or vaults to allow to different products to be loaded. Only one vault is used at a time. 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 with assistance from two sister units. GeoData.
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234-23383 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM39-8 GE unit 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 is second unit on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, engine hood and fuel tank arrangement view, note the difference to the ALCo rebuilds. Circa 1998.
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160525 4808383 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30026 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0122, 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 0122 was built by VCare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4811383 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30057 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0089, 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 0089 was built by VCare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4814383 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30036 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0117, 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 0117 was built by VCare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions in 2015.
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160525 4837383 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 576 fuel tanker, one of nine built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 for Shell, with a capacity now of 80,000 litres.
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050625 3595383 viewsMooka North, BHP's new Tamper 3 track machine a Plasser Australia 09-3X model serial M480. 25th June 2005.
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051001 5672383 viewsFlash Butt yard, Jackson model 6700 tamper serial 153246 lettered for Railway Equipment Leasing And Maintenance RELAM Inc undergoing delivery checks view of the light buggy and rods. 1st October 2005.
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6020 Gemco WA 100717 0656383 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6020, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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6029 Gemco WA 100717 0670383 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6029, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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0002 Comeng NSW 110411 09981383 viewsNelson Point, empty 82 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0002 from 1970, one of two water tank waggons, later converted to a weed spray tanker in 1977, then converted to fuel.
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0037 CNR - QRRS China 150523 8223383 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0037, one of a second batch delivered in 2015 with safety slogan 'Safety is a core value'.
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241-03383 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. June 2002.
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190109 1665383 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00280 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-280 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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249-13383 viewsYule River bridge looking north from the 160 km on the BHP mainline. The third pier from the southern end was undermined by flood waters from Tropical Cyclone John in December 1999. The rail line was closed for two weeks while repairs were effected. Approximate location.
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249-35383 viewsBurrup Peninsula gas plant, view of plant and flare tower. Approximate location. 18th December 1999.
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210322 9586383 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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253-11383 viewsPort Hedland harbour sees the suction / cutter dredge Vlaanderen XI with IMO #7712080. The Vlaanderen XI was originally built in 1978 by IHC Dredgers with yard number 1108 and originally named New Amsterdam, named the Vlaanderen XI in 1986, renamed again in 2007 to Kaveri and again to Huta 15 in 2014.
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255-25383 viewsWestern Creek at the 71 km on the Cape Lambert to Deepdale line an empty Robe River train powers upgrade as it heads to Mesa J for loading behind the standard quad CM40-8M lash up. Geodata location here. May 2002.
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256-26383 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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