15 years ago, stored Robe River ALCo M636 units.

Robe River AE-Goodwin built M636 ALCo locomotive 9416 serial G-6046-16 was originally built for Hamersley Iron as 4045 but sold to Robe River and delivered in HI green and yellow in 1973, and originally numbered 1716 by Robe.

The piping on these units is for air-to-air intercooling in an effort to lower the air intake temperature and all three had the 251 Plus ALCo engine.

Behind 9416 are fellow AE Goodwin built M636 ALCo units, 9413 serial G-6060-4 built in December 1971, originally numbered 262.004 then 1713, and 9415 serial G-6060-6 built February 1972, originally numbered 1715.

Former BHP SD70ACe units bound for Chemin de fer Arnaud.

The Chemin de fer Arnaud is a private Canadian short line railway owned by Cliffs Natural Resources operating in the province of Quebec, they have picked up four of the original BHP SD70ACe/LC units.

Photos on the link below:

Photo by John Eagan (63), on Flickr, What's Going On In Dyer, IN Today 9-19-2018.

15 years ago, a loaded Yarrie train through Goldsworthy Junction.

Back on the 24th of August 2003 BHP Iron Ore's Goninan WA built GE model CM40-8 unit 5646 'White Springs' serial 8244-11 / 92-135 leads a loaded train from Yarrie off the Goldsworthy line and across the BHP Newman line as it heads for Boodarie and the unloader at Finucane Island.

This scene is much changed today with the former GML line now mothballed and the Goldsworthy Junction double tracked for the mainline and the line the train is on also double track with what is termed the 'avoidance road'.

And the locomotive has since been scrapped, the Tomlinson Steel built waggons on the rear have been sent east and the Goninan Golynx waggons behind the loco converted to rotary dump and are now in mainline service.

Roy Hill's RHA 1024 pink ES44ACi unit.

Roy Hill's brand new breast cancer awareness liveried ES44ACi unit RHA 1024 on track in the Pilbara.

The RHA class unit RHA 1024 was built at General Electric's Fort Worth plant in Texas and shipped out to Port Hedland on the vessel BBC Virginia which unloaded them with road delivery completed by Tutt Bryant on the 7-8th of September 2018.

The unit serial number is 64741 with a build date of June 2018.

A link to the unit in the US is here; railpictures.net.

Roy Hill's RHA 1022 pink ES44ACi unit.

Roy Hill's brand new breast cancer awareness liveried 'leader' ES44ACi unit RHA 1022 is on track in the Pilbara.

The 'pink leader' RHA class unit RHA 1022 was built at General Electric's Fort Worth plant in Texas and shipped out to Port Hedland on the vessel BBC Virginia which unloaded them with road delivery completed by Tutt Bryant on the 7-8th of September 2018.

The unit serial number is 64739 with build date of April 2018.

A link to the unit in the US here; railpictures.net

Roy Hill's new pink ES44ACi units.

Roy Hill's brand new breast cancer awareness liveried ES44ACi units are on track in the Pilbara.

The five RHA class units RHA 1022 to RHA 1026 were built at General Electric's Fort Worth plant in Texas and shipped out to Port Hedland on the vessel BBC Virginia which unloaded them with road delivery completed by Tutt Bryant on the 7-8th of September 2018.

The units' serial numbers are 64739-64743 with build dates of April and June 2018.

SCT service 6MP9 at Parkeston.

With the line reopened and a deviation in place at the derailment site at Coonana, SCT's Melbourne to Perth freight service 6MP9 powers through Parkeston non-stop on Thursday 23rd of August behind Downer EDI built EMD model GT46C-ACe unit SCT 001 serial 07-1725 and lease unit EDI Rail built Progress Rail model GT46C-ACe unit LDP 005 in the Progress Rail livery. Fuel waggon is PQFY 4256, and crew coach is PDAY 003 'Monica Ivey Smith'.

A video of the train can be seen here.

Loaded Roy Hill and FMG at the Roy Hill 63 km post.

Loaded Roy Hill train behind General Electric ES44ACi model RHA class unit RHA 1011 with CFCLA lease CM40-8M unit CD 4305 with two ES44ACi units RHA 1014 and RHA 1004 mid train visible around the curve as a loaded FMG train behind a pair of Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe model units.

The Roy Hill configuration is 2 locos, 116 waggons, 2 locos and 116 waggons, while the FMG train employs only two locos on the lead as they still bank their loaded trains away from the some of their mines.

1st of July 2018.

FMG SD90MAC-H2 units still stored.

FMG's SD90MAC-H2 units are stored at the south end of their yard, the line up from nearest the camera is: 910, 911, 912, 917, 913, 914 and 915.

Only 916 is operational and appears to be used as a shunt engine around the workshops, it was near the wheel lathe. 912 looks like it might have its engine removed. 917 has some engine parts removed, namely 'power assemblies'.

For more detail on these units see the power roster for FMG: FMG Motive Power Roster

AC 4306 with 3C74 empty lime / cement train.

3C74 empty lime / cement train powers upgrade away from Parkeston at the Yarri Road grade crossing behind Aurizon's AC class locomotive AC 4306 serial R-0006-04/09-377 a General Electric C43aci model built by Goninan NSW in 2009 for ARG with nine waggons. 21st of August 2018.

Roy Hill's pink locos arrive in Hedland.

Roy Hill's five pink, in support of breast cancer, ES44ACi units (RHA 1022 - RHA 1026) commenced being delivered to their Flash Butt yard on Friday 7th September, with the reminder to be delivered on Saturday 8th September.

The vessel BBC Virginia berthed in Port Hedland overnight (early AM Friday) Thursday 6th September 2018.

These locos will complement the already in service pink waggons and also mean that the currently on hire CFCLA CM40-8M unit should become surplus to power requirements.

An image of the units can be seen here.

CBH grain train 1A43 at Burngup.

During a recent trip south narrow gauge CBH grain train 1A43 was chased from Newdegate to Burngup. Operated by CBH 012 'Piesseville' and CBH 005.

The locos were both built by MotivePower, Inc. Boise, Idaho, USA in 2012 with 005 (serial 2363.05) being model MP27CN and 012 (serial 2363.12) as model MP33CN with the main difference being the horsepower rating, 2700 or 3300.

The train is seen here passing the old water tank at the former siding of Burngup.

A video of this train with footage from Lake Biddy, Buniche and Burngup can be viewed here or copy and paste this text: https://youtu.be/0MkjrVyYGK0