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180615 1513104 viewsIndee Station road grade crossing 53.3 km, loaded Roy Hill mid-train units General Electric built ES44ACi model RHA 1014 serial 62586 and sister unit RHA 1004. GeoData. 15th June 2018.
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6983 001104 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. View of the assembly floor area, brand new GE CM39-8 locomotive 5631 serial 5831-10 / 88-080 under construction for Mt Newman Mining masked up ready for painting with sister unit 5632 inline behind it.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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151206 9651104 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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247-19104 viewsCape Lambert, Robe River's 9426 a Comeng WA rebuild from ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 3499-3 originally built in January 1968 for Pennsylvania as #6332, Penn Central 6332 and finally Conrail 6782. Purchased in 1986 and rebuilt by Comeng WA into C636R before delivery to Robe in November 1986. This loco also went on to become DR 8401 for construction of FMG's railway in 2007-08. Seen here dragging a loaded 101 waggon rake down to the car dumper at Bells Crossing. Approximate location of train is here. 22nd May 2002.
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218-26103 viewsYandicoogina or HIY as Hamersley Iron identify it, located 445 km from Parker Point yard in Dampier. Bank engine units General Electric Dash 9-44CW models 7090 serial 47769 and 7089 idle away waiting their next loaded train to push out.
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218-31103 viewsYandicoogina or HIY as Hamersley Iron identify it, located 445 km from Parker Point yard in Dampier. Bank engine units General Electric Dash 9-44CW models 7090 serial 47769 and 7089 idle away waiting their next loaded train to push out.
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219-24103 viewsGoldsworthy Siding, C36-7M unit 5507 'Nimingarra' serial 4839-03 / 87-072, an original Mt Newman Mining ALCo C636 5461 to GE C36-7M rebuild carried out by Goninan, leads an empty train into the siding at Goldsworthy as the second driver sets the road.
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151111 9560103 viewsGreen Pool, a loaded train holds the East Mainline behind triple General Electric ES44DCi units 8169, 8128 and 8163, serials of 60462, 59120 and 60227, the east line was booked out to track work between Green Pool and Harding.
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236-11103 viewsNelson Point, Car Dumper Two delivery roads, BHP Dash 8 class locomotive 5636 'Munda', a Goninan 1991 rebuild to GE CM40-8M model, serial 8151-11 / 91-122 with a sister unit await to dump their train of Comeng style waggons, next to them is a string of Golynx style waggons.
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22658103 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 the two types of bogie which rode under the Mt Newman Mining ALCo units, in front is the ALCo Hi-Ad truck and behind is the MLW Dofasco truck. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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22666103 viewsBassendean, during an Open Day at the Goninan workshops, new GE-7FDL-16 prime-movers, some with GMG187 main alternators for install into a GE CM40-8M rebuilds and some GE752 AH traction motors. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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23878103 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, an unidentified ALCo to GE CM40-8M rebuild unit, could be 5648. July 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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24901103 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, Mt Newman Mining's Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 5504 serial C6104-2 sits out the back in a partially stripped state. This unit was subsequently scrapped. July 1995.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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240-17103 viewsWickham, left hand side number two 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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180616 1758103 viewsAt the 81 km on the Tom Price West mainline, Rio Tinto loco 9431 with serial 54241 a GE Erie built GE model Dash 9-44CW from the 6th order in ROBE Pilbara Rail livery, this unit was from the sixth order of Dash 9-44CW units built at GE Erie in July 2003. 16th June 2018.
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200914 7794103 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, a pair of NSWGR 2AE type bogies. 14th September 2020.
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200914 iPhone IMG 8830103 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, in this panorama image you can see from the left, the PWD crane, waggons and Simplex loco from Point Samson, a couple of ALCo engines, the Locotrol 'cab'; off of BHP 5663, the ALCo S2 Hamersley Iron 007 'Mabel', ALCo C415 demonstrator Hamersley Iron 1000, former NSWGR ALCo RSC-3 Robe River Iron Associates 9405 renumbered to 4002, English Electric ST95B Goldsworthy Mining 1, ALCo M636 BHP 5502 and EMD F7A Mt Newman Mining 5450. 14th September 2020.
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220-20102 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, looking north east along the Goldsworthy line as a loaded train ex Yarrie mine approaches rounding the curve, the grease pot for the curve behind the photographer is visible.
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224-12102 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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224-13102 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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