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051001 5677391 viewsFlash Butt yard, Jackson model 6700 tamper serial 153246 lettered for Railway Equipment Leasing And Maintenance RELAM Inc undergoing delivery checks view of the builders plate. 1st October 2005.
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060403 3267391 viewsTabba North backtrack, BHP clip driving machine, modified from a former Plasser Australia USP 3000 ballast regulator. 3rd April 2006.
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060429 3772391 viewsBing Siding, switch tamper SW 02 hurries into Nelson Point, a Plasser Australia Unimat S4 model. 29th April 2006.
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060501 3922391 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Speno rail grinder RG 1, a RR24 model grinder with 24 grinding wheels, serial M20, generating set and second driving cab module. 1st May 2006.
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060811 7966391 viewsNorth of Gillam is track machine BR 33 a Plasser Australia ballast regulator model SSP 302 serial M486. 11th August 2006.
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060811 8012391 viewsGarden Siding, Speno rail grinder RG 2 coupled with RG 1 in the passing track. 11th August 2006.
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110411 09986391 viewsNelson Point, empty 82 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0008 one of six such tank waggons built in 1970-71.
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110606 1749391 viewsFlash Butt, CNR-QRRS of China built 99 tonne ballast waggon 0209 waits to be loaded.
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150314 7745391 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0011 from 1972, one of three such tank waggons.
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243-11391 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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080116 1380391 viewsChapman Siding 69 km, the Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works cast bogie underneath FMG master waggon 2372, bogie has a cast date of 08-07 for August 2007 and is riding on Timken AP Glass G 7 x 17 bearings. 16th January 2008.
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080304 2204391 viewsThomas Yard, down the rail welding end, side view of control waggon 2516, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 4th March 2008.
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110620 2281391 viewsChapman, FMG TK type fuel tank waggon TK 01 built by China Southern CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works plant in China in 2008 as the first of an order for twelve tanks, is on the loaded fuel train to Cloud Break. 20th June 2011.
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246-06391 viewsCape Lambert, yard view of the then new extension to the south for the West Angelas mine was coming on stream as a Robe River loaded Deepdale train arrives on the main behind the standard quad Dash 8 power with 202 waggons, the just visible siding (rejoining) on the far left will become a compressor waggon holding road, the 6 km and Boat Beach Rd grade crossing are around the corner to the left. Closest to the camera is the extended No. 1 Road which becomes the Empty Car Line from car dumper one for the Deepdale traffic. Next is the original line or Mainline and the third line across is the Loaded Car Line for the West Angelas traffic to the new car dumper 2. 22nd May 2002.
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248-01391 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. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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267-03391 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, BHP's 1230 empty departure behind General Electric AC6000 unit 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial number 51068 leads CM40-8MEFI 5669 on the point with mid-train units CM40-8M units 5651 and 5645 104 waggons back with 104 waggons trailing. 1247 hrs 12th of April 2002.
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268-31391 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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030712 143247391 viewsNelson Point, empty BHP ore waggon 9024, originally built by Comeng in Mittagong NSW as a part of seven prototype ore waggons made from low carbon 301 stainless steel with an higher volume and aerodynamic flat sides and were bogieless with four independent radial wheel sets. Of the seven waggon, the first four had a flat floor and final three had a drop belly floor. The radial wheel sets were later replaced with conventional bogies. This view shows the reduced gap between waggons reduced from 1084 to 934 mm to aid the aerodynamics. 12th of July 2003.
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221-24390 viewsYandi One mine loadout balloon loop, overview of the stockpile, the train can be seen in the middle distance on the right.
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221-25390 viewsYandi One mine loadout balloon loop, General Electric AC6000 class emerges from the loadout portal at 0.9 km/h as it leads a train through the loading vaults, the dust extraction ducting is also visible.
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