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255-16129 viewsAt the 162.2 km looking south are the remains of the second Robe River loadout facility which was installed in 1975 to mine the Mesa 2402E mining area, the line was a four kilometre U shaped spur curving away to the left. Geodata location here. May 2002.
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256-05129 viewsMaitland Siding located between the 92.8 and 95.1 km on the Cape Lambert line, view of the south end points and swing nose frog with dragging detector bars, solar panel and cabinets for signal and point control with an empty train sitting in the passing track awaiting a meet. May 2002.
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257-06129 viewsFlash Butt yard BHP's stored Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5510 awaits its fate. Rebuilt in 1987 at Goninan's Welshpool factory from a 1969 AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 with serial number G6027-2 and road number 5458 and assigned new serial number 4839-07 / 87-075. It was delivered in Mount Newman Mining orange and was named Newman. Of note is the Dash 8 radiator frame, the unit was converted to a Dash 8 radiator following loadout damage. Late 2001.
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258-08129 viewsNelson Point, Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5512 serial 4839-08 / 87-076 is in the process of being removed from site bound for Asset Kinetics in Maddington, Perth. May 2002.
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258-10129 viewsNelson Point, Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5513 serial 4839-02 / 88-078 is in the process of being removed from site bound for Goninan, Bassendean, Perth. May 2002.
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240701 2742129 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Bellary' was originally built by Clyde Engineering at Granville NSW in 1936 for the NSWGR as a second class railway carriage FS type FS 2143. In 1987 it was purchased by the Society and is named after a local river. July 1, 2024.
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243-28128 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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247-25128 viewsCape Lambert overview of the fuel point, with a brace of four Goninan WA CM40-8M GE rebuilds finishing up refuelling before departing with another empty train as a loaded rake is dragged to the dumper behind them. 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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252-01128 viewsCockatoo Siding 273 km on the Hamersley Iron line to Yandi, National Steel Car Company of Canada built ballast hopper waggon BH 047 built in January 1971. A batch of twenty were built for Hamersley Iron. Location is roughly here. 24th November 2001.
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252-18128 viewsRosella Siding looking north from the south end. Dampier is 250 km away. Location is roughly here. 24th November 2001.
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255-11128 viewsAt the 162.2 km looking south are the remains of the second Robe River loadout facility which was installed in 1975 to mine the Mesa 2402E mining area, the line was a four kilometre U shaped spur. Geodata location here. May 2002.
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256-02128 viewsMaitland Siding on the Cape Lambert to Deepdale railway has a late afternoon empty train with the quad CM40-8M working of 9425, 9410, 9420 and 9414 in the siding waiting for a cross with an opposing loaded train. At the time of this image Siding 3 or Murray Camp was unable to cross ore trains so Siding One - Harding or Siding Two - Maitland were used. May 2002.
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256-18128 viewsMaitland Siding, early morning loaded train waiting for a meet with an empty behind the quad CM40-8M working of 9414, 9420, 9410 and 9425. May 2002.
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257-19128 viewsFlash Butt yard bogie and radiator fan drive view of Mount Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW awaits its fate. Late 2021.
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240701 2762128 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, former ALCo built demonstrator locomotive model C-415 serial 3449-1 built April 1966, currently carrying number 1000, it was originally numbered 008 when Hamersley Iron purchased the unit in 1968. It was retired from service on the 24th February 1982. It then spent some time carrying number 2000 while building the Marandoo railway line from Sept 1991. July 1, 2024.
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284-25128 viewsNarngulu, Geraldton, former Westrail P class loco P 2014 'Shire of Wongan-Ballidu' built by Goninan WA as a GE CM25-8 model with serial number 6320-12 / 90-099 sits in the yard in-between shunt movements. November 10, 2004.
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252-26127 viewsAbydos area, known as the China Wall or London Wall.
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253-18127 viewsView of Nelson Point B Berth with the vessel China Steel Developer being loaded, China Steel Developer carries the IMO #9171424 and was completed in November 1998 by CSBC Corporation at Kaohsiung in Taiwan with yard number 688, reported as scrapped at Gadani Beach 27th May 2016.
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253-32127 viewsNelson Point yard sees BHP dumper pilot locomotives 5666 'Taranto', a Goninan GE rebuild CM40-8MEFI model with serial 8412-11 / 94-157, 5666 was the first unit fitted with Electronic Fuel Injection to the 16FDL engine hence the EFI on the model designation, and in the background with compressor set #2 is 5633 which was a new build CM39-8 GE model by Goninan. A sharp eye will notice the difference in the fuel tanks of the two locomotives.
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254-27127 viewsBing Siding at the 20 km, an empty train departs south with Goninan rebuild unit 5668 'Dunkirk' an CM40-8MEFI model with serial number 8412-01 / 95-159, one of the last four rebuilds with an EFI 7FDL engine. It is trailing AC6000 unit 6071. September 2001.
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