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040806 10271877 viewsFlash Butt yard, rear view of stored out of service LocoTrol waggons, 2626 closest to camera.
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041225 07055477 viewsNelson Point, Ore Car Repair Shop roads, flat waggon no. 5, later renumbered 6705. Originally in service with Goldsworthy Mining as a BC or BCV box van, built by Comeng WA in 1966.
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050315 023477 viewsRedbank Bridge, elevated view of empty 116 kL fuel tanks all built by Comeng in both NSW and WA, 0015 in the Earth livery and 0017 and others in the BHP blue and white livery.
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050315 023577 viewsRedbank Bridge, elevated view of empty 116 kL fuel tanks all built by Comeng in both NSW and WA, 0015 in the Earth livery and 0017 and others in the BHP blue and white livery.
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060414 343977 viewsNelson Point yard, originally a Magor USA built ballast waggon for the Oroville Dam construction, 507 seen here modified as a weighbridge test waggon with an axle load of 20 ton.
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040407 07325077 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, Barclay Mowlem track tamper a Fairmont Jackson model 6700 production and switch tamper serial 153172, runs east along the Goldsworthy line. 7th April 2004.
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080621 273077 viewsGillman Siding, new 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, detail of B end with squeeze rollers and chutes raised.
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081217 045177 viewsWoodstock Siding, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #30, 6702, heavily cut down and modified Magor USA ore waggon by Mt Newman Mining workshops, converted to a 50 tonne flat waggon and designated the winch waggon with generator set to power the winch and the crib car.
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060723 768477 viewsOriginal Hamersley Iron compressor waggon sets IC-6 and IC-7 which were made from cutting down condemned ore waggons and then fitting Atlas Copco XAS 97 air compressors, receiver tanks and fuel tanks. Seen here on the causeway just outside 7 Mile. 23rd July 2006.
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242-1077 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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242-1377 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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242-1677 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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242-2377 viewsPort Hedland, Don Rhodes Mining Museum, preserved Goldsworthy Mining B class unit #2 serial number A-105, these units of Bo-Bo design with a 6CSRKT 640 kW prime mover were built at the English Electric Rocklea Qld plant in 1965 and primarily used for the construction of the Mt Goldsworthy to Finucane Island railway. May 2002.
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200914 778677 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, bogie view of former Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates RSD-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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200914 780977 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society museum, Australian built by Comeng NSW an MLW ALCo M636 unit formerly owned by BHP 5502 serial C6096-7 built in July 1976, retired in 1994, donated to Society in November 1995. 14th September 2020.
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250-0977 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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224-3776 viewsBing siding, mid-train remote on the afternoon Yandi departure 6075 serial 51067 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie departs south. GeoData.
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228-1276 viewsYandi Two mobile machine parking bay, a new water cart for Henry Walker, operator of the BHP owned mine, WC201 is based on a Caterpillar 777B truck chassis.
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228-1776 viewsYandi Two, the only real land mark on the Yandi Two branchline is this bridge over an un-named creek at the YT307 km with the afternoon empty train on approach. Geodata -22.706976, 119.097651 .
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229-0A76 viewsYandi Two balloon switch looking east with the Three Sisters forming the background. Empty BHP train heading for the balloon loop for loading, grade crossing is the YT 311.5 km. GeoData.
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