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240328 2931311 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 30272 is one of a batch of one hundred and thirty built by Goninan WA between March and August 2001 with serial number 950092-022 and was fleet number 615 before getting the Aurizon yellow sides and logo. In Mineral Resources traffic 5040 empty Mount Walton iron ore train. March 28, 2024.
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258-25311 viewsNelson Point, old Loco Prep, 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. May 2002.
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240328 3186311 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Viva Energy's ATQF type fuel tank waggon ATQF 611, built by Indeng Qld 1982, in a batch of two, for Shell as type WJQ, 79,340 litre, one compartment one dome, fitted with type F InterLock couplers. Indeng name still visible at far end. Safe fill level of 72,000 litres. Pacific National empty fuel train 5445 to Esperance. March 28, 2024.
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250501 0421311 viewsAt the 88.448 km, just south of HPPL crossing loop on the Roy Hill line, loaded Roy Hill waggon pair GA 2111 - GA 2112, built in China by CSR Yangtze as an CCK138 model ore waggon. May 1, 2025.
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100731 03073310 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31275 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 157 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, empty train arriving at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010. This unit was converted to WOC for coal in 1986 till 1994 when it was re-classed back to WO.
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130704 0494310 viewsMoule, looking west towards Charra and Kevin along the roller coaster grades with the crossing loop on the right and the points for the ballast siding just behind the camera. Location here, 4th July 2013.
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050518 2088310 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 754.
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241-23310 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 cab view. June 2002.
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243-33310 viewsNelson Point departure yard, no. 2 end view of BHP Billiton's CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 and built new by Goninan WA in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it trails an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
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252-14310 viewsCockatoo Siding 273 km on the Hamersley Iron line to Yandi, General Electric built 9-44CW unit 7087 with serial number 47766 from the original 1994 build idles away on the western end of the ballast train as it is loaded and slowly progresses into the back track siding Ballast plough BP 01 is behind the locomotive. Location is roughly here. 24th November 2001.
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210322 9575310 viewsNear Gecko on Rio Tinto's Dampier - Tom Price line is Chinese built ballast waggon BAH 091 on a loaded ballast rake. Location is roughly here. 22nd March 2021.
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210510 1145310 viewsNear Galah on the Rio Tinto Dampier - Tom Price line at the 89.5 km, RTW type intermediate rail waggon RTW 008 on Rio Tinto's Gemco Rail built rail train consist. 10th May 2021. Location.
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253-33310 viewsNelson Point yard sees BHP dumper pilot locomotive 5666 'Taranto', a Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8MEFI model with serial 8412-11 / 94-157, 5666 was the first unit fitted with Electronic Fuel Injection to the 16FDL engine hence the EFI on the model designation.
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255-14310 viewsAt the 162.2 km looking south are the remains of the second Robe River loadout facility which was installed in 1975 to mine the Mesa 2402E mining area, the line was a four kilometre U shaped spur curving away to the left while the Deepdale line is on the right. Geodata location here. May 2002.
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257-05310 viewsFlash Butt yard BHP's stored Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5512 awaits its fate. Rebuilt in 1988 at Goninan's Welshpool factory from a 1970 AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 with serial number G6041-1 and road number 5455 and assigned new serial number 4839-01 / 88-077. It was delivered in Mount Newman Mining orange and was named Hesta. Late 2001.
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190129 4289310 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00024 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-24 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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269-02310 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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140409 IMG 1960310 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTBF 6122 fuel tank waggon detail image, built by Comeng NSW 1975 as an SCA type bitumen tank waggon for Shell Bitumen NSW as SCA 273. Peter Donaghy image.
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141028 IMG 3277310 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTAY type fuel tank waggon NTAY 5452, orignally built by Indeng Qld for Mobil as part of a batch of seven NTAF tanks in 1981 as NTAF 452. Refurbished by Gemco WA for BP Oil, capacity of 61000 litres. Peter Donaghy image.
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190108 1129310 viewsBinduli, AQHY 30011 with CSA 0134, 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. CSA 0134 was built by Vcare Engineering, India for Access Petrotec & Mining Solutions.
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