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110208 9441395 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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150620 9328395 viewsQuarry 8 ballast loading area, CNR-QRRS of China built 99 tonne ballast waggon 0209 waits to be loaded.
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160128 00334395 viewsMooka Siding, empty 116 kL CNR-QRRS of China built tank waggon 0025, one of a batch of ten built in 2014.
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170728 09906395 viewsWestern Creek, the disabled Mesa A train gets underway with relief power from General Electric built ES44DCi unit 8137 serial 59140 and Dash 9-44CW unit 7082 as the operate the train with the two ES44ACi units isolated. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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170730 0435395 viewsBoodarie, a loaded FMG iron ore train rounds the large curve at the 5 km as it approaches the car dumper balloon loops behind Progress Rail Muncie USA built SD70ACe/LCi unit 719 serial 20118693-011 and sister 704 with the first four waggons showing panel repairs and re-lining recently undertaken. 30th July 2017. GeoData.
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5944 001 Welshpool 1987April395 viewsWelshpool, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining C636 ALCo unit 5453 serial G6012-2 built by AE Goodwin in 1969 is undergoing a world first as it gets rebuilt into a GE C36-7M locomotive. In this April 1987 view the process has started with the bogies and fuel tank removed. By February 1988 it would be the final C36-7M built for Mt Newman Mining as 5513. April 1987.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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171121 0960395 viewsBarker Siding, FMG's ballast loading single ended siding, stabled are the Loram MPC 2 grinder and the FMG ballast waggon set. 21st November 2017.
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171121 0964395 viewsBarker Siding, Loram rail grinder MPC 2, control and grinder car. 21st November 2017.
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080116 1374395 viewsChapman Siding, FMG master waggon 2396 tare 22.9 tonnes coupled with Janney Type F Interlock couplers and CSR type bogie. Built by CSR (China Southern) Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China during 2007. 16th January 2008.
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080116 1380395 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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080124 1631395 viewsChapman Siding, side view of control waggon 2314, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 24th January 2008.
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110620 2275395 viewsChapman, FMG TK type fuel tank waggon TK 06 built by China Southern CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works plant in China in 2008 as part of an order for twelve tanks, is on the loaded fuel train to Cloud Break. 20th June 2011.
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246-02395 viewsCape Lambert, view of the then new extension to the south for the West Angelas mine was coming on stream, the siding furthest from the camera will become a compressor waggon holding road while the original line or Mainline is the second from the camera, with the car dumper one Empty Car line closest, and what becomes the car dumper two Loaded Car line is third. 22nd May 2002.
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248-01395 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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248-09395 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. The signal marker boards are in the distance. Approximate location. 24th April 2004.
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249-28395 viewsA loaded Hamersley Iron train runs across the plains north of Dugite Siding near the 70 km as it nears the destination of its cargo behind the standard pair of GE built Dash 9-44CW locomotives 7084 serial 47763 and 7079 serial 47758 both in the original Pepsi Can livery. Approximate location. 18th December 1999.
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251-05395 viewsNelson Point, BHP's recently retired Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5513 awaits its fate. Rebuilt in 1988 at Goninan's Welshpool factory from 1970 AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 with serial number G6012-2 and road number 5453 and assigned new serial number 4839-02 / 88-078. It was delivered in Mt Newman Mining orange and was named Kalgan. 22nd April 2000.
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251-15395 viewsNelson Point, the South Yard 'prep shed' located on the dumper exit roads 102, 103 and, 104. This facility was used to service and fuel locomotives while their respective waggon rakes were being tipped through the car dumpers. 22nd April 2000.
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257-17395 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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267-03395 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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