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150523 8270276 viewsFinucane Island, empty train heading back to Boodarie behind Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe unit 4379 serial 20108424-006 and a newly arrived and named sibling 4474 'Raymond White' serial 20148001-007. View of 4474 looking south across grade crossing and new Roy Hill conveyor and road bridge. Geodata: -20.3341700 118.5504083 .
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200914 iPhone IMG 8841276 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, Comeng WA ALCo rebuild C636R locomotive 3017 serial WA-135-C-6043-04. The improved Pilbara cab was fitted as part of the rebuild in April 1985. Donated to Society in 1996. 14th September 2020.
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220-09275 viewsHills around former Shay Gap mining area.
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223-14275 viewsPossum Siding, Hamersley Iron loco 7082 a General Electric built Dash 9-44CW serial 47761 leads sister unit 7080 with an empty train just inside the loop waiting to effect a crew change. 21st October 2000.
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150507 8108275 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bank engines General Electric Dash 9-44CW locomotives, units 006 serial 58183 and 005 serial 58182 run back light to Solomon for their next duty, seen here on the second bridge over the Fortescue River South which drains out of Hamersley Gorge. Geodata: -22.1844217 118.0313467 .
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150523 8197275 viewsNelson Point Yard, a pair of BHP Billiton SD70ACe units waits in the arrival yard with a loaded rake for the dumpers. Lead unit 4327 'Hamersley' is from an order originally built by Electro-Motive, London Ontario for BNSF, a US Class 1 railroad, but BHP secured 10 of them during construction, this unit 4327 serial 20066862-056 was destined to be BNSF 9185 before coming to BHP. The second unit 4402 is from a batch of Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe units serial 20118575-012.
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21248275 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, sitting on shop bogies out the back, BHP Iron Ore Goninan GE CM40-8ML - L for LocoTrol - rebuild unit 5664 serial 8412-09 / 94-155 was rebuilt without a cab and fitted with LocoTrol II from AE Goodwin ALCo M636 5469 serial G6047-1. September 1994.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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180614 1334275 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, Node 1 at the 17 km looking south west, new type LED tilt mast for signal GJ18. Steel train stabled at the junction. GeoData. 14th June 2018.
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200914 7788275 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Weelumurra' was originally built by Clyde Engineering at Granville NSW in 1936 for the NSWGR as a second class railway carriage FS type FS 2138. In 1975 it was purchased by the Society and is named after a local river. 14th September 2020.
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220-08274 viewsRubin Junction looking north from the Nimingarra Mine end of the triangle, the track to the left leads to Yarrie and the track to the right to Hedland.
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040407 072701274 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, Barclay Mowlem's Knox Kershaw KBR 850 ballast regulator lettered for Railway Equipment Leasing And Maintenance RELAM Inc. 7th April 2004.
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170726 9429274 viewsRedbank, a loaded BHP iron ore train from Yandi arrives past the arrival signals for Nelson Point yard on the west mainline behind Electro Motive built SD70ACe unit 4331 'Withnell' serial 20066862-060 leading an SD70ACe/LC with another two SD70ACe/LC units in the middle of the 264 waggon consist. 26th July 2017.
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040407 080434274 viewsToy Titan had the LHS rear wheel part company and went bush at the 23 km on the Newman mainline, this is the scour mark. Wednesday 7th April 2004.
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180527 1207274 viewsPippingarra, near the 17 km on the former Goldsworthy line, BHP has stored some redundant service waggons, flat waggon AQPY 2916 , the two heavy weight waggons, the old winch and crib waggons from the steel train and Difco side dumps. Looking west. 27th May 2018. GeoData.
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040412 144343274 viewsNelson Point, Comeng WA built ore waggon handbrake end view. 12th April 2004.
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040413 165855274 viewsNelson Point, ore waggon bogie, Bradken cast SSRC bogie which stands for Super Service Ride Control.
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040502 080108274 viewsBoodarie, Goninan built Golynx waggon 8408 which is a modified version of the BHP mainline waggons for service on the Goldsworthy system as a bottom discharge waggon. 2nd May 2004.
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150619 9159274 viewsWalla back track, BHP track machine Tamper 3 a Plasser Australia unit model 09-3X serial M480. 19th June 2015.
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197-03273 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, looking west with the end of the triangle or wye, signal post is GJ 7, empty iron ore train on approach.
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218-20273 viewsDe Grey, Great Northern Highway grade crossing at the 57.15 km with a loaded train on approach.
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