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040804 155856392 viewsNelson Point, empty BHP ore waggon 1354 is a Comeng WA build from a batch of two hundred and twenty-six in 1973/74. Waggon has been resheeted with new side walls. 4th of August 2004.
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225-07391 viewsBing siding, the afternoon departure for Yandi mine heads south past the ballast consist, behind the standard double General Electric AC6000 units with GE Erie built 6075 serial 51067 second unit to lead sister unit 6074 with another AC6000 unit mid-train. This was before the units were named. GeoData.
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227-26391 views30 km looking south, empty ore train with mostly Comeng built ore waggons. GeoData.
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229-15391 viewsYandi Two loadout, looking at the exit portal of the tunnel as Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5650 'Yawata' serial 8412-07 / 93-141 drags a loading through at 1.2 km/h, the massive pile of ore is gravity fed into the waggons via two sets of hydraulic chutes, the red and amber lights control access through the tunnel and the steel pipe is for dust extraction. GeoData.
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230-18391 viewsYandi Two load-out tunnel exit side portal, Goninan rebuild GE CM40-8M model 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11/93-145 leads a loading train 1.2 km/h. The ore stockpile and pedestal stacker are visible. The livery is the marigold version of the BHP Australia logo. Geodata -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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151111 9542391 viewsAn empty train led by General Electric ES44DCi units 8162 serial 60226 and 8167 serial 60231 both in the Rio Tinto tiger strip livery leading Dash 9-44CW 7093 serial 47772, the last of the original build of Dash 9 units crossing Lake Poongkaliyarra.
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232-28391 viewsYandi One balloon loop, as a train is being loaded the mid-train remotes approach, Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 shows the cab front with the sheet metal windscreen protectors. 18th of February 1997. GeoData.
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234-12391 viewsYandi Two, loaded BHP Iron Ore waggon #4316 a Goninan built 3CR12 style stainless steel construction from 1997. Handbrake and bogie view.
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234-20391 viewsYandi Two, BHP Iron Ore Goninan rebuild CM40-8M GE unit 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 on the front of a 240 waggon loaded train, this configuration was trialled for a time with two Dash 8 locos, 120 waggons, Dash 8, 120 waggons and Dash 8. Cab front on view. Circa 1998.
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235-15391 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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236-18391 viewsNelson Point Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Iron Ore's Goninan GE rebuilt CM40-8MEFI unit 5669 'Beilun' serial 8412-02 / 95-160 sits out the front awaiting attention.
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238-01391 viewsPort Hedland Harbour, heavy lift ship Happy Buccaneer, call sign PEND (IMO: 8300389) built in 1984 at Hitachi Shipbuilding Osaka Japan as class LRS X 100A1 X LMC UMS, sits at Finucane Island D Berth delivering a new shiploader for BHP Billiton. 1st November 2003. Geodata . Back in time here the ship cranes were only 550 tonne each, these are now 700.
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040805 095714391 viewsNelson Point, CFCLA CHQY type ballast waggon CHQY 741.
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040806 091154391 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, trailing view of the weighbridge test train with the four orange weighbridge test waggons and two Comeng built ore waggons to provide braking, 5666 is the power.
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040806 101934391 viewsFlash Butt yard, heavily stripped down riveted waggon 206, possible original ballast waggon, number 206 was originally a waggon in the 'Camp Train' and appears to have USA origin, view of brake lever arrangement.
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050518 2084391 viewsFlash Butt yard, CFCLA hire ballast waggon CHRY type CHRY 755.
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050518 2189391 viewsBing Siding. Side view of 1963 built Magor USA waggon 508, 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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051001 5695391 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, builders plate detail of flat waggon #16, 6009, a Scotts of Ipswich Qld built flat waggon from September 1970.
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051001 5740391 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, cut down by Mt Newman Mining workshops, a Magor USA built former Oroville Dam 91 ton ore waggon 665, seen here being used as the crib waggon on the end of the steel train.
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050315 0237391 viewsRedbank Bridge, elevated view of empty 116 kL fuel tanks all built by Comeng in both NSW and WA, 0012 and 0016 and others in the BHP blue and white livery.
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