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                                        131122 3312330 viewsRio Tinto compressor waggon set CB 08, has been upgraded from the original Robe River compressor waggon set IC 22 with air receiver and IC 23 with two Atlas Copco XAS 97 units replacing the original Ingersoll Rand air compressors. These waggons are ballasted to 100 tonnes each and are modified ore waggons. Cape Lambert 22nd November 2013.
                                        
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                                        171018 0957330 viewsTad Yard, overview of Roy Hill's fuel tanks and waggon loading gantry with a fuel train being loaded headed up by ES44ACi unit RHA 1020 serial number 64301 and sister units RHA 1015 serial number 63826 with RHA 1017 serial number 63828 awaiting their next call to duty. All three RHA units were built in Erie Pennsylvania, USA by General Electric. 17th October 2018.
                                        
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                                        241-20330 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. June 2002.
                                        
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                                        243-11330 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM39-8 unit 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 and built new by Goninan in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it trails an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
                                        
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                                        248-14330 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 powers away to the south back onto the mainline with the signal marker board DI19 for Dingo 19. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
                                        
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                                        210322 9574330 viewsNear Gecko on Rio Tinto's Dampier - Tom Price line is Chinese built ballast waggon BAH 121 on a loaded ballast rake. Location is roughly here. 22nd March 2021.
                                        
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                                        267-24330 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, CM40-8M GE rebuild unit 5653 'Chiba' serial number 8412-10 / 93-144 trails sister unit 5634 as 5634 turns on the power as it passes Goldsworthy Junction relay room and continues along the Newman Mainline with the Sundowner Special. Friday 12th of April 2002.
                                        
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                                        268-31330 viewsAt the 39 km detection site with the Alstom 25-year special, the Sundowner coach, originally built by E. G. Budd in 1939 numbered 301 as the Silver Star, a diner-parlour-observation coach on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's General Pershing Zephyr train from the 1930s and 1940s. Donated to Mt Newman Mining Co. by AMAX an original joint venture partner to commemorate the projects first 100 million tonnes of iron ore railed between Mount Whaleback mine and the Port Hedland port. 12th of April 2002.
                                        
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                                        240701 2796330 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, Simplex Dorman 0-4-0P model builders number 14033 built in 1957, locomotive originally numbered NW 12, renumbered to PW 22 in 1969. It was donated from the Public Works Department at Point Samson in 1976. A picture of it in service can be found here at Weston Langford site. July 1, 2024.
                                        
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                                        224-30329 viewsBing siding, the afternoon empty to Yandi was a staple of the AC6000 units when delivered, operating the train as a pair, 112 waggons, AC6000 and 112 waggons. 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie departs the loop south with sister unit 6073. GeoData.
                                        
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                                        230-12329 viewsYandi Two load-out tunnel exit side portal, Goninan rebuild GE CM40-8M model 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11/93-145 creeps out of the tunnel as its train is loaded at 1.2 km/h. The livery is the marigold version of the BHP Australia logo. The pipe is for the dust extraction system. Geodata  -22.718338, 119.039909 .
                                        
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                                        231-31329 viewsYandi Two balloon loop 316.2 km grade crossing, BHP Iron Ore 5652 'Villanueva' serial 8412-09 / 93-143 an Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M GE unit loads a train at 1.2 km/h with second unit 5650. GeoData.
                                        
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                                        233-12329 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. GeoData.
                                        
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                                        235-15329 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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                                        236-16329 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's General Electric built AC6000 unit 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 sits out the front with new windscreen protectors or 'blinkers' fitted.
                                        
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                                        050518 2110329 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 750.
                                        
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                                        050518 2170329 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 533, originally in ore service before conversion to a ballast waggon.
                                        
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                                        050704 3975329 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0017 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons, detail of A end and bogie.
                                        
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                                        050801 4765329 viewsFlash Butt yard, rail recovery and transport train, builders plate of 1st lead off waggon 6011, built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld on 04-09-1970.
                                        
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                                        050315 0241329 viewsRedbank Bridge, elevated view of empty 116 kL fuel tanks all built by Comeng in both NSW and WA, 0011 and others in the BHP blue and white livery.
                                        
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