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040419 102228384 viewsAbydos back track, riveted flat waggon 202 with three water tanks fitted, 3/4 view from non-handbrake end, shows access ladder profiles, originally part of the 'camp train', modified by Mt Newman Mining railway workshops.
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170726 9430384 viewsRedbank, a loaded BHP iron ore train from Yandi arrives into Nelson Point yard on the west mainline with mid-train remote units built by Progress Rail as SD70ACe unit 4377 serial 20108424-004 leading an SD70ACe/LC unit 4345. 26th July 2017.
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22331384 viewsBassendean, Goninan inside workshops, CM40-8M frames being modified. July 20 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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23143384 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin built ALCo model M636 5482 serial G6061-3 is undergoing rebuilding into a GE CM40-8M unit, it would emerge rebuilt in September 1993 as 5652. March 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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242-14384 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, General Electric built AC6000 locomotive 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 with engine and alternator removed. May 2002.
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180614 1342384 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, Lead-Off Lead-On waggon STTR class STTR 6214 on the end of the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, built by Gemco Rail WA, the chutes can be seen standing up with the squeeze rollers, the straddle crane SD 1 is a new unit built by Vaia Car model no. TCR-V. GeoData. 14th June 2018.
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180616 1668384 viewsCooya Pooya, at the 32 km on the Cape Lambert line a loaded HIY train on the East Mainline led by Rio Tinto loco 8142 with serial 58723 a GE Erie built GE model ES44DCi from the 3rd order in Rio Tinto Stripes livery as it powers past the disabled train stabled on the West Mainline with sister 8158 and Dash 9-44CW 9428 assisting 8142. 16th June 2018. GeoData.
Toad Montgomery image.
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200914 7804384 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, ALCo built locomotive model S-2 serial 69214 built in 1940 for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle as their #21 and retired in 1964 before coming to Australia in September 1965, numbered 007 and called 'Mabel'. Retired in December 1972 and donated to the Society in 1976. 14th September 2020.
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041014 142704384 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. 14th October 2004.
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210510 1108384 viewsNear Gull on the Rio Tinto Dampier - Tom Price line at the 101.5 km, RTC type centre rail waggon RTC 012 on Rio Tinto's Gemco Rail built rail train consist. 10th May 2021. Location.
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160128 00654383 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M unit 5661 cab has had the drivers side torn out revealing the remains on the control stand.
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160128 00876383 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, the almost unmarked front of Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M unit 5661, serial 8412-06, builders no. 94-152 is surrounded by the twisted scrap that earlier formed the rest of the locomotive.
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040502 085622383 viewsMooka Siding, trailing view of the 'Pony' heading south, with the Harsco Pony track re-laying machine on the rear.
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180616 1660383 viewsCooya Pooya, 32 km on the Cape Lambert line, Rio Tinto loco 9108 with serial 62539 a GE Erie built GE model ES44ACi from the 2nd order in Rio Tinto Stripes livery side view, following a total loss of air, the train is tied down while the driver walks the consist. The train pulled a coupling around the 45 car position. 16th June 2018. Geodata
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6986 001383 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. Mt Newman Mining's Goninan new build GE CM39-8 model loco 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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151206 9655383 viewsBoodarie, parked up in a parking bay just out of town on a Sunday awaiting delivery on the following day, on a Gavin Transport Drake float, BHP's new track recording vehicle which is a Mermec ROGER 800 imported from Italy. ROGER is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control.
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200914 7779383 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, former Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates RSC-3 model ALCo locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1951 for NSWGR as the 40 class 4002 serial 77733, purchased by CRRIA in 1971 and numbered 261.002, then 1705 and finally 9405. 4002 is preserved in an operational state and another claim to fame is it run the Royal Train in NSW February 1954. Donated to the Society in 1979. 14th September 2020.
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250-06383 viewsPelican Siding on the Hamersley Iron Tom Price line about the 208 km with an empty train behind the standard pairing of two General Electric built 9-44CW units 7068 serial 47747 and 7067 serial 47746 stand on the loop or passing track for a meet with a loaded train. 21st October 2000.
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150507 8108382 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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170728 09697382 viewsArches Siding on the Robe line sees empty train behind Rio Tinto 8109 serial 58005 a General Electric built ES44DCi unit with sister 8178 in Rio stripes and stablemate 9433 on approach to the 25 km grade crossing. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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