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232-18430 viewsYandi One backtrack, following a cyclone shutdown of the mainline and severe flooding around Yandi a 'mixed' freight train was operated to Yandi to deliver food, mail and diesel fuel to the mine and camp. Here BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128 idles away in the backtrack awaiting its path back to Port Hedland with flat waggon 6703, four fuel tank waggons and a broken ore waggon. February 1997. GeoData.
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236-03430 viewsNelson Point, Loco Overhaul Shop, BHP Dash 8 class locomotive 5653 'Chiba', a Goninan 1994 rebuild to GE CM40-8M model, serial 8412-10 / 93-144, view of pilot with horn and ditch light arrangement.
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0001 Comeng NSW 050414 0943430 viewsFlash Butt yard, Comeng NSW built 82 kilolitre water tank waggon 0001, one of two such tank waggons built in November 1970.
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6011 Scotts of Ipswich Qld 050801 4765430 viewsFlash Butt yard, rail recovery and transport train, builders plate of 1st lead off waggon 6011, built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld on 04-09-1970.
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6012 Scotts of Ipswich Qld 051001 5698430 viewsBoodarie, the Steel Train or rail recovery and transport train, flat waggon #18, 6012, a Scotts of Ipswich Qld built flat waggon from September 1970.
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0013 Comeng WA 050315 0240430 viewsRedbank Bridge, elevated view of empty 116 kL fuel tanks all built by Comeng in both NSW and WA, 0013 and others in the BHP blue and white livery.
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6206 Comeng WA 050522 2725430 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #15, 6206 built by Comeng WA in January 1977 under order number 07-M-282 RY.
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6009 Scotts of Ipswich Qld 050522 2726430 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #16, 6009 built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld in September 1970.
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6005 Scotts of Ipswich Qld 050525 2992430 viewsMooka Siding, rail recovery and transport train flat waggon #24, 6005 with registered number G506005, built by Scotts of Ipswich Qld in September 1970.
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0510 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 060414 3443430 viewsNelson Point yard, originally a Magor USA built ballast waggon for the Oroville Dam construction, 510 seen here modified as a weighbridge test car. The others in the fleet are 40, 60 and 100 tons. April 14, 2006.
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060429 3762430 viewsFlash Butt yard, Pony re-laying waggon, #2, originally built for Goldsworthy Mining as one of a batch of six with a 55 tonne rating by Tomlinson Steel in 1966.
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050411 0601430 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, BHP track machine ballast regulator BR 31 a Plasser Australia SSP 110SW model with serial 401 comes off the former Goldsworthy line with the Newman mainline in the foreground. 11th April 2005.
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050412 0809430 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, builders plate of BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 12th April 2005.
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050412 0816430 viewsAbydos Siding backtrack, view of cab side and the tamper mechanism of BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 12th April 2005.
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6101 Mt Newman Mining Workshops 110208 9437430 viewsFlash Butt yard, one of a batch of six flat waggons converted by Mt Newman Mining workshops by cutting down a pair of ore waggons to make one flat waggon, 6101 in service with the rail recovery and transport train.
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22656430 viewsBassendean, during an Open Day at the Goninan workshops, a new 'Pilbara' cab under construction which will be fitted to a GE CM40-8M. 20th July 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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242-15430 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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241-31430 viewsNelson Point, Car Dumper 2 holding roads, a pair of CM40-8M units 5649 'Pohang' and 5640 'Ethel Creek' wait their turn through the dumper to discharge. June 2002.
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180615 1574430 viewsWalla Siding, BHP took delivery of two new ballast ploughs in December 2017. They were built by CRRC Yangtze China in 2017 and weigh in at 65 tonnes. The ploughs are numbered BP 01 and BP 02. We finally caught up with them top and tail on a ballast consist, here's BP 02.
Roland Depth photo.
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01395 080116 1367430 viewsChapman Siding at the 69 km on FMG's under construction line to Cloud Break mine, new waggons stabled in the passing track awaiting service, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007, looking south along the rake with 1395 closest to the camera. 16th January 2008.
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