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.
It was reported to me a few days ago, Wednesday 27th February that Rio Tinto has shut down and stored their remaining CM40-8M or Dash 8 units which have been in operation on the Robe River system since 9417 was rebuilt and entered service with Robe River in June 1989.
9417 was rebuilt from ALCo C636 serial 6010-1 of November 1968 for Spokane Portland & Seattle as #340.
The image shows 9417 working out of Seven Mile towards the dumper as a shunt unit, the Dash 8 units didn't have the ICSS fitted to them so were relegated to trailing units on the Deepdale line or shunt jobs in the yards and working dumper shuttles.
Well, it's been a while between posts, a trip to Kalgoorlie, the Eyre Peninsula and Port Augusta was undertaken in January and the videos have now all been sorted and uploaded to ewetube. Link to videos is here!
The image is priority Pacific National intermodal train 2SP7 around the big curve 4km east of Mount Gipps on the Broken Hill line with NR 53 leading NR 118 and 37 vehicles for 1680 metres and 3466 tonnes on the 22nd of January 2019.
Some sightings around SA:
6MP9 SCT 013 SCT 009 Bookaloo
2NY3 NR 88 Broken Hill
SCT 5 ran out as light engine, I think 2SP7 dragged GX1 into Yunta as it was there a long time and reported as shunting around. SCT departed long end lead with the CSR shut down.
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
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
