Around 0023 hours on Monday May 13, 2024, three Rio Tinto EVO ES44DCi locomotives ran into the rear of a disabled train just north of the crossovers located at Galah on the Dampier to Tom Price mainline, near the 82 km location.
Here are a couple of images of the locomotives stored, minus bogies and engine hoods whilst they await recovery, and by the looks of it, potential scrapping.
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| From the left, 8183, 8175 and 8188 |
8118 with serial number 59110 is from the second order of these units, with a build date of 04/2008 and is the highest numbered ES44DCi in the plain Rio Tinto silver livery, all the following DCi units being in the 'tiger stripe' red livery.
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| 8118 serial number 59110 from the second order |
8175 with serial number 60773 is from the ninth order of GE ES44DCi units with a build date of 01/2021 and wears the Rio 'tiger stripes'.
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| 8175 serial number 60773 from the ninth order |
8183 with serial number 60781 is also from the ninth order of ES44DCi locomotives with a 02/2021 build date and also wears the Rio 'tiger stripe' livery.
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| 8183 serial number 60781 from the ninth order |
3 comments:
Any details on the cause of the accident - were the trains running in remote control?
Yes, the train that was involved was running in AutoHaul.
You can find some comments about it by a simple google search.
Here is one link:
https://meu.org.au/workers-lucky-to-be-alive-after-automated-rio-tinto-iron-ore-train-derailment/
thank you for the reply,
As always.
Timothy
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