The Pilbara Port Authority has unloaded another batch of waggons for FMG from the Chinese manufacturer. There are currently sitting on the wharf hard stand area within the port and the other half at the Gobi Yard where a lot of the giant modules have been parked in the past.
The highest numbers reported seen so far are 9537 and 10538. These are 130 higher than the last highest numbers seen 9407 and 10408 back in late September. This current batch also look to be CRRC Qiqihar built with the CNR style body as the last batch.
It is thought the vessel was the Greenery Sea as its last port prior to Port Hedland was Dalian in China which is a known loading point for CRRC waggons.
FMG has been taking delivery of more ore waggons over the last few days. This is believed to be the second part of an order for 248 new cars as part of expansion and removing bottlenecks in the supply chain.
The first 124 waggons arrived in February.
Numbers in this second batch look to be filling in some gaps in the numbering sequence. Numbers seen have been 10018, 9017, 9033 and 7997.
By the style they are from China Southern CSR Yangtze.
BHP Iron Ore operated a 'Hospital Train' which arrived back into Nelson Point yard late on the 18th of November 2018. Included in the consist were the last twenty-six waggons from the recent Turner derailment, some ballast waggons, ballast plough, #8500 flat waggon and some ore waggons with flat wheels.
The consist was:
A video of the train also filmed by Roland Depth can be found here, or copy and paste this into your browser https://youtu.be/O0c6kzpJI6s
Over the last couple of days unloading or Roy Hill's pink fleet of 130 ore waggons has happened in Port Hedland, built by CRRC Corporation Ltd and delivered by the vessel Daiwan Fortune from Changshu Port in China.
Just need to wait for the five pink ES44ACi units to arrive now!
A rare sight in the Pilbara, a Rio Tinto pink iron ore waggon pair to raise awareness for breast cancer.
Chinese built Bradken control waggon 20475 and slave waggon 25475 make the pair with a build date of July 2014, still holding colour pretty well in June 2018.
Full size link to image here.
BHP stabled empty steel or rail train sits on the former Goldsworthy Line between Goldsworthy Junction and Node 1 due to rebuilding works at their flash butt yard.
Here we see BHP SD70ACe unit 4340 'Woodstock' serial 20078915-007 is shutdown on the mine end with the Gemco Rail built Lead-On/Lead-Off waggon STTR 6214 and rail handling straddle crane Vaia Car model no. TCR-V.
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 BP01 and BP02.
We finally caught them top and tail on a ballast consist at Walla Siding.
Here's a pic of BP01.
