BHP Billiton Iron ore

[Anonymous]

does anyone have any info on this railroad in austrailia, i am trying to model this area and would would like to have all in fo i can get. thanks in advandeds[:)][:D][8D]

[andrechapelon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bassmaster

does anyone have any info on this railroad in austrailia, i am trying to model this area and would would like to have all in fo i can get. thanks in advandeds[:)][:D][8D]

There's this fantastic search engine out there called Google. Found this in under 5 seconds (including my typing)

http://ironore.bhpbilliton.com/repository/operations/rail.asp

http://www.railways.pilbara.net.au/bhp.htm

Andre

[GDRMCo]

You wont find a track map too easy and trust me i have tried, oh and do you have enough space to run 300 car trains?
Mitchell

[Amtrk14]

Since you are going to be modeling the railroad, you will need this:


Broadway Limited HO Scale AC6000CW

Sean

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Amtrk14

Since you are going to be modeling the railroad, you will need this:


Broadway Limited HO Scale AC6000CW

Sean

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.