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239-00107 viewsView inside the diesel power station located at Yandi One of a freshly overhauled Caterpillar 3516 engine and Kato alternator. Genset no. 1. GeoData.
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040419 102145107 viewsAbydos back track, riveted flat waggon 202 with three water tanks fitted, view of non-handbrake end, originally part of the 'camp train', modified by Mt Newman Mining railway workshops.
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050704 3970107 viewsBing Siding, empty 116 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0012 from 1972, one of three such tank waggons, on the rear of a loaded ore train.
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22668107 viewsBassendean, during an Open Day at the Goninan workshops, a stripped back ALCo locomotive frame under re-construction which will become a GE CM40-8M in the background and some ALCo Hi-Ad trucks being overhauled. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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22926107 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin built ALCo model M636 units 5473 serial G6047-5 and 5477 serial G6047-9 are undergoing rebuilding into a GE CM40-8M unit, 5473 would emerge rebuilt as 5649 in July 1993, while 5477 would emerge rebuilt in June 1993 as 5648. November 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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22927107 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, view of several Mt Newman Mining ALCo units awaiting rebuilding or scrapping. November 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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23694107 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's AE Goodwin built ALCo model M636 unit 5473 serial G6047-5 undergoing rebuilding into a GE CM40-8M unit, 5473 would emerge rebuilt as 5649 in July 1993. December 1992.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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180616 1771107 viewsAt the 81 km on the Tom Price West mainline, Rio Tinto loco 7056 with serial 55881 a GE Erie built GE model Dash 9-44CW from the 8th order in HI Pilbara Iron livery leads sister 7047 and ES44DCi unit 8115 in Rio Tinto silver with a loaded train of B and Q series waggons operating in AutoHaul™ as they approach Emu and then continue onto Dampier. 16th June, 2018. GeoData.
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200914 7780107 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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200914 7791107 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Bellany' 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. 14th September 2020.
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220-12106 viewsShay Gap, Mable Bar Rd grade crossing at the 187.6 km on the line to Yarrie, hills, Toyota HJ75 Landcruiser.
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223-33106 viewsPossum Siding, a loaded train behind a pair of Hamersley Iron General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 7072 serial 47751 and 7074 serial 47753 on a loaded train ex Marandoo with the crew change completed, the empty is rolling past on the passing track. 21st October 2000.
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224-04106 viewsBing siding, the extent of the General Electric AC6000 radiators is evident in this back to back image of a pair of units.
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225-09106 viewsBing siding, signal post BGN 3 stand sentinel as the end of the afternoon Yandi train is seen heading south with last waggon 4305, one of 126 such waggons constructed during 1997 out of 3CR12 stainless steel in an effort to eliminate painting and to reduce wear on the waggon body. This design was designated HC7081. GeoData.
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150523 8230106 viewsNelson Point Yard, wide view across BI-LO Crossing, a throw back to days that the supermarket was in fact a BI-LO, well before the current Woolworths, and Action before that. Dash 8 units in the yard, on the 5642 with the Steel Train and 5648 with another on a rake of index waggons.
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5945 001 Welshpool 1987April106 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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24905106 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 5503 serial C6104-1 sits out the back in a partially stripped state. This unit was subsequently scrapped. July 1995.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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242-04106 viewsNelson Point, BHP Goninan GE rebuild C36-7M unit 5509 serial 4839-05 / 87-074 about to be trucked to United Goninan Perth for eventual cutting down to the frame and heading to United Goninan Broadmeadow NSW as an engine test bed. May 2002.
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240-14106 viewsWickham, right hand side number one end view of former Robe River and NSWGR MLW built ALCo RSC3 serial 77737 of October 1951, was originally 40 class 4006. Shows modified bogie to convert the A1A to a BO bogie type. 31st August 2002.
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223-32105 viewsPossum Siding, a loaded train behind a pair of Hamersley Iron General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 7072 serial 47751 and 7074 serial 47753 with the crew change completed, the empty is rolling past on the passing track. 21st October 2000.
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