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6001 Tomlinson Steel 060429 3739421 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon, 6001 originally built for Goldsworthy Mining as one of a batch of six with a 55 tonne rating by Tomlinson Steel in 1966 of which three were sold to Mt Newman Mining in 1967 and numbered 6001-6003.
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0589 BHP OCRS 060618 6218421 viewsFlash Butt yard, modified original Magor USA built Oroville waggon 589, cut down and covered for use as indexing waggon at Finucane Island car dumpers, note the original ODCX marking visible.
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050412 0812421 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, view of the rear of BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 12th April 2005.
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050801 4720421 viewsNelson Point yard, ballast plough waggon 538, modified by the Mt Newman workshops from an Magor USA built Oroville Dam ore waggon and originally coded ODCX 82160 which is still visible. 1st August 2005.
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060501 3927421 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, Speno rail grinder RG 1, a RR24 model grinder, serial M20 bar coupled to RG 2. 1st May 2006.
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6027 Gemco WA 100717 0693421 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6027, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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6033 Gemco WA 110208 9441421 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6033 loaded with strings of rail, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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6031 Gemco WA 110208 9443421 viewsFlash Butt yard, new rail stock carrier waggon 6031 loaded with strings of rail, built by Gemco Rail in late 2009-10 with Barber bogies.
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0017 Comeng WA 110411 10011421 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL Comeng WA built tank waggon 0017 from 1974-5, one of six such tank waggons.
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0020 Comeng NSW 110411 10022421 viewsNelson Point, fuel tank waggon 0020 82 kL capacity, built by Comeng for BP as RTC 2, last of two such tanks, used on Mt Newman line, unsure when converted to 0020.
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0214 CNR - QRRS China 130720 1447421 viewsFlash Butt yard, CNR-QRRS of China built 99 tonne ballast waggons 0214 and 0212 loaded awaiting their next duty.
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0209 CNR - QRRS China 150620 9328421 viewsQuarry 8 ballast loading area, CNR-QRRS of China built 99 tonne ballast waggon 0209 waits to be loaded.
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0045 CNR - QRRS China 160128 00329421 viewsMooka Siding, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0045, one of a second batch delivered in 2015 with safety slogan 'Safety doesn't stop at work'.
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243-13421 viewsNelson Point departure yard, BHP Billiton's CM40-8M unit 5634 'Boodarie' a Goninan WA GE rebuild unit serial 8151-07 / 91-120 in the new 'earth' or 'bubble' livery as it heads up an empty train waiting departure time. August 2003.
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246-36421 viewsCape Lambert, a Robe River loaded Deepdale train rolls along the mainline behind the standard quad Dash 8 power with 202 waggons which are a mix of builds from Nippon Sharyo Japan and Tomlinson Steel and Centurion Industries both WA companies. The ore is a ROM product and will be dumped over the gyratory crusher to be correctly sized. The newly extended roads can be seen either side of the train and in the distance can be seen are the railway workshops. 22nd May 2002.
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247-15421 viewsCape Lambert overview of the fuel point, with a brace of four CM40-8M rebuilds finishing up refuelling before departing with another empty train. The workshops are to the left of the picture. Where I'm standing to take the picture is now all stockpile. Approximate location of photo is here. 22nd May 2002.
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249-34421 viewsLoaded Hamersley Iron ore waggon pair Tomlinson Steel WA built 5708 and Nippon Sharyo Japan built 906. Approximate location. 18th December 1999.
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252-12421 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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257-17421 viewsFlash Butt yard, view of Rail Dynamics Laboratory test waggon 2703 - Test Car R2, modified by BHP from waggon number 2716 in 1975, originally a Comeng built waggon dating from 1971. Late 2001.
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3307 Astra Vagoane 040804 155643421 viewsNelson Point, builders plate on Astra Vagoane of Arad in Romania built ore waggon 3307. Shows the date year of 1988 and what looks like a serial number. Three hundred and fifty waggons built during 1988 for Lang Hancock as part of a 'waggons for iron ore arrangement', only seventy-five found their way into service with BHP. August 4, 2004.
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