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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Amtrk14 Since you are going to be modeling the railroad, you will need this: [img]http://www.broadway-limited.com/products/images/ac6000cw/photos/acbhp02.jpg[/img] Broadway Limited HO Scale AC6000CW Sean [/quote] Hi Everyone, If you want info for the Iron Ore Railways of Australia I'll post a couple of websites that might be of use? http://www.hamersleyiron.com/ http://www.railways.pilbara.net.au/ http://www.roberiver.com/operations/pilbararail.html http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?railroad=Pilbara%20Rail http://www.holiday-wa.net/loco.htm http://www.railways.pilbara.net.au/ Roster + Pics The railways started with a small loco roster the roster can be found at the Pilbara Railways Historical Society's website above. (holiday-wa.net) Over the years, the railways of the Pilbara have run some interesting locos, from standard C636's, M636's, C36-7's, SD50's, Dash-8's, Dash-9's, AC4400's, AC6000's and soon SD70ACe's. Currently there are a few SD40 or SD40-2's used as second or helper units as well as switching of yards and loaders and unloaders. I know that the C36-7's and the SD50's were built locally in Australia with the C636's and M636's were rebuilt to dash-8's. The C36-7's and SD50's were sold to American loco lease companies and I have seen both models on American rails in pictures. I think that the C36-7's went to Minnesota Commercial and I'm not sure about the SD50's. I think that they belong to NREX? Incidently, I forgot to add that most of the rebuilt loco's if not all from the C636/M636 models had had a unique cab added. Here it's called a "Pilbara Cab". It's a big boxy style cab, I don't know what the room was like in them, but I think that they were better than the old ALCo/Montreal Cabs. I know that the cabs were all airconditioned because of the extreme heat up there and the cabs had extra insulation. The cab was used on the on the dash-8's with the exception of the C36-7's which had the standard GE spartan cab. Also, you'll need to scratchbuild the ore cars as there is no-one building models of these car in any scale. The cars have a load capacity of 106 tonnes of ore.
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