I worked at the London Ontario Canada shop that built these units. They were monsters.

I lived in Exmouth WA Mum and Dad came over one year and got photos of one of these engine's on a float being trucked up to Headland.

I find it incredible that just four locos can haul something so enormous

@gt-lv3zo

Жыл бұрын

as i understand it, the gradient is down hill all the way from the mine to the port

@xnatov2334

Жыл бұрын

because of the traction from steel going on steel is greater therefor more loads can be hauled

@amtrakmidwest4830

Жыл бұрын

Well good ol american loco's do the job much better than standard australian locos and their loading gauge

@jordanalexander615

Жыл бұрын

Aren't those America made locomotives? Looks like big GE possibly EMD

@jamesduff6937

8 ай бұрын

@@gt-lv3zo i've heard that too.

The sound of those wagons give me goosebumbs😂

Thanks my Son drives these trains for BHP, great to see them in operation. Thanks

@seanirwin1303

3 жыл бұрын

You must be proud

@ishtiaqahmedqamar8771

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps, most fascinating and adventurous job of your son. I am sure you might have enjoyed journey with your son in engine cabin...take me with you.... Love from Pakistan ❤️

@lachiecatt5960

Жыл бұрын

thats so awesome Brad. i,m really interested in working as a loco at BHP. how did your son get accepted, as the compeition is high? thanks

I saw one of these 53 years ago. It took me just over an 3/4 hour (Dirt roads back then) to pass this thing. I am amazed that in 2020, I'm very glad to see that they're still very much operational.

@ianmccluskey2293

2 жыл бұрын

This is a fully loaded train. I wonder how many MT wagons are on a retune trip to the mine.

@michaelhayden725

Жыл бұрын

I lived in Port Hedland from 1971 to 73. At the start of the mine (then known as Mt Mewman Mining) the mine site was Mt Whaleback. Now I understand they are some 30 of more metres below natural ground level. Oh and the line is now duplicated - 250 miles times 2.

@geoff_vadar

Жыл бұрын

@@ianmccluskey2293 just came back my daughter and SIL work for BHP; they are unit trains, I believe 268 "wagons". They loop through the car-dump and head right back to Newman, the only disconnections are if they separate at the mid-engine for siding in PH until the timing is clear going south. The entire line between Newman and PH isn't completely 2 track, so they have to stop the empty going south to allow the north bound loads to pass, and there is only so much space apparently, that and crewing schedules I'm told.

@user-vf4pu8qp9d

Ай бұрын

Roadtrains are big in Australia

This is the longest train I have ever seen.

EMD 710 howl can be heard sooooo clearly!

Holy crap that gave me goosebumps thinking about how much kinetic energy that has!

@thatplaneandtrainguy6309

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Mark, I worked it out at 43000 tonnes travelling at 60kph to be a tad under 6b joules. (but don't hold me to that).

@yxx_chris_xxy

3 жыл бұрын

​@@thatplaneandtrainguy6309 I think you are exactly right -- the kinetic energy of 43000 tonnes at 60kph is 6 gigajoules. On paper, these four locomotives could burn up to 3200 kW * 4 * 450/60hrs * 3600 = 345.6 gigajoules. So 340 gigajoules go into making the beautiful sound. Of course, this is an extreme oversimplification (starting with the assumption that acceleration and deceleration is immediate, that the engines run at full power all the time, ...).

@ImMasteR_Shorts

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatplaneandtrainguy6309 How Many Wagon Is Total Have?

@hstath80

2 жыл бұрын

And consider that BHP have had several runaways averaging 130km/hr

Great to see this often forgotten part of Australian railroading. I'll get there one day!

@speedymouse2859

3 жыл бұрын

"Often forgotten" in which way? Model RR mfger making models, regular articles in local magazines covering it, brass models that sold out all the time....

Interesting to see that the bells stop when the barrier arms are not moving Your channel deserves more subscribers, I've subscribed after watching only this video. Anthony.

amazing footage.. thank you for sharing this.

Loved your video! I am really big fan of those railroads in the Pilbara region.

@thatplaneandtrainguy6309

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gabriel, there's a part 2 coming in the next few weeks for you.Your channel looks great too!

Awesome job!

That's a very heavy product , not a bad show 👍👍

Nice footage

Nice Video.

Even the sound of it is terrifying...

@jamesduff6937

8 ай бұрын

that's what i thought too. It's very visceral.

Given the length of this train you would not want to get caught at on the level crossings, you could be there for 10 or 15 minutes

What gets me is how quiet the EMDs are, I was at the rail crossing about 70 kms north of Auski on the Roy Hill road last month and you can hardly hear the engines. Compare that to Rio’s GEs that you can hear for miles, they don’t seem to have much muffling at all.

@thatplaneandtrainguy6309

4 жыл бұрын

I know, forget the EPA, the louder the better for me! PS: great burgers at Auski!

@ericbleasel5907

4 жыл бұрын

I miss the Auski,expensive but at night a beacon in the wilderness for a hot coffee and chat with other travellers.

My uncle surveyed this line.

@thatplaneandtrainguy6309

3 жыл бұрын

It would have been a tough environment to work in back in the 60s, but its an awesome landscape that really grows on you over time.

I luckily bought some stock in Bhp, Rio, & Fcx. Metal prices are really starting to rally here.

I am a geologist in Italy. Famosi that pilbara iron ore for make pellets. Great video.

Highest paid train drivers in the world $240,000 a year 🚂

At the crossing i was counting cars and i was around 80 and you moved the camera !! Appears to be around 110 between locomotives tho :)

Nice dpu units.

So, how to I explain to people that I watched this entire video and I'm not obsessed? (Well, okay, I'm obsessed.)

@thatplaneandtrainguy6309

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO! Tell them you're not the idiot who made it.

Saw the first train into Paraburdoo ,we had a party

What happened to the ACE's that ran on these trains

That sounds like a railroad crossing to me

How do the locomotives mid-way receive power / braking signals from the head-end units?

@SebisRandomTech

Жыл бұрын

Radio.

@ph11p3540

Жыл бұрын

It's called distributed power technology. It heavily computerized and each engine exchanges data with each other as well as GPS and satellite uplink. 30 year old technology. These trains don't look advanced but they sport technology that can turn them into remote controlled or fully autonomous vehicles. In fact, one rail line in Northern Territory is autonomous on most of it's rail line. Only needs human drivers when near the destination.

At least they keep the cleaning of their locomotives up compared with their Rio Tinto neighbours which are disgraceful can’t keep the outside appearance up you have to wonder what the rest of the maintenance is like

How many dudes with spades does it take to fill that lot?

Iseen these trains from port Hedland and fuicane island bhp iron ore mine site at mt tom price and mt whaleback iron ore mining towns

I grew up in mt tom price iron ore mining town back in 1980.s and the two owned by Hamersley iron ore mining company and Pannawonica had robe river iron associates and mt Newman mining company companies

Grrrrr8 !!!!!

0:38 - that's about 280 miles.

Is a "tonne" the same as a metric ton? That is does 1 tonne = 1Mg?

@gregsmith4102

Жыл бұрын

1 tonne = 1000kg = 1 million grams It is very close to a long ton.

Pain in the arse if you have to wait at a crossing on the way back to camp after your shift tho. Not so bad waiting at the start of you shift but the guys wanting to get to camp aren't so happy.

You got your work cut out for ya when you greese all of 'em wheel bearings, mate. Unless you have central greaser lines.

@apuuvah

3 жыл бұрын

Wait, me thinks every cart has one central greasing point.

@gamerjay6624

Жыл бұрын

sealed bearings mate ,they aren't touched until axles come off bogie for pm and machining

Was speaking to an iron ore train driver, said had a top speed of 75 kmph and an emergency stop took 2.5 kilometres.

@jamesduff6937

8 ай бұрын

how on earth could the driver see 2.5 kilometres ahead anyway. God knows how he could stop for anything.

@user-kp2rr8xf7x

Ай бұрын

@@jamesduff6937 It's desolate out there, no cars, no trucks just kangaroos. on the track

@anthonyj7989

26 күн бұрын

@@user-kp2rr8xf7x you forgot the cows.

Just imagine if that thing comes off the rails! Take bloody weeks to clear!

@ianrx122

Жыл бұрын

Actually clearing the track and relaying doesn't take long. They bring in the big dozers and excavators and literally push it all aside. Later they decide if they are going to recover any of the ore cars.

Trains are 4 x SD70ace putting out 4500hp, 270 ore cars for an empty weight of 6800t fully loaded from Yandi is average of 41200t, Mac is 42,500t and Newman 43,000t. Max network weight is 43187 tonnes. After this the trains need special permission to run with extra locos or have ore cars cut off.

@thatplaneandtrainguy6309

4 жыл бұрын

These numbers are mind blowing, sure puts it in the extreme railways category.

@-watermelonking

3 жыл бұрын

4 SD70ACE's can put out 17,200HP

@kanga1234567

2 жыл бұрын

@@-watermelonking I'm sure he meant each

@geoff_vadar

Жыл бұрын

@@thatplaneandtrainguy6309 in turn, they push out 4-5 ore boats a day full of ore. Takes 30 hours to turn an ore carrier. there are over 30 anchorages 20km off shore, which if you check the ship tracking apps, they show them all taken; the turn of ships through the loading process is insane, 285M BHP tons in 2022, nearly 580M total for the port between FMG and BHP, shooting to expand to 660M!

Would love to drive one of these one day,who can make it possible for me i'm used in driving 75 and 65 cars here in RSA.

Valio valio Australijai ,Australijai valio!!!

A case of ‘seen 1 , seen ‘em all’ (with the exception of the autonomous 1 that got away in 2018) . . ! Surely someone has some good footage of that ‘induced’ derailment , no ?

Would that be a full ship load in one train?

@ianrx122

Жыл бұрын

We calculated once that it takes about 5 or 6 trains to fill a ship depending on the size.

25 full trains a day...about one an hour, 24/7/365. It's about $7 million per train in iron ore. Thanks China!

@Track_Tranzit

Жыл бұрын

Australia*

@jamesduff6937

8 ай бұрын

he thanks China for buying Australian iron ore. China is the biggest buyer of Australian iron ore.

Very cool 🇦🇺🦘

269 vans and 2 loco.

Yea not a bad rail road, twin Track carrying almost 300 million tonnes PA.....

270 coaches

No shops or houses for hundreds of kilometers. I don't know if there's a place at least down in the lower 48 states of USA that have that thinly populated an area. Desolate.

Neat stuff there. That area looks like parts of the American west, except for less mountains and different vegetation. I hope they aren't selling that iron ore to China.

@randompersononyoutube5673

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, they probably are

.. No grungies outback doing graffiti on these old dogs.. Working hard only..

looks like the united states nobody can imagine that is actually northwest australia

@gregsmith4102

Жыл бұрын

Australians can. And we can see the difference quite clearly.

@alexwood5425

Жыл бұрын

Which bit of the us? Alaska, Rhode Island, Florida?

@TheAbderaman

Жыл бұрын

@@alexwood5425 the locomotives are american in australian desert and it gives some similarity to the nevada or the arizona plains except the red soil colour and plants that are native to australia , and the locomotives were bought second hand from the US and crossed the pacific by ship

@smartliving4464

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAbderaman BHP purchased some 19 second hand locos in 2003 that dated from 1996, but only because of expected long delays in securing new ones. In 2006 they started to receive the first of 105 new EMD locos to update their entire rolling stock.

There goes Australia, to China.

It’s super cool and weird how American this is

Australia Stop to sale mineral to CHINA ?. China has the most Big mineral reserves in the world ??.

I see why they can haul so much because everything’s flat

@greghenwood8094

Жыл бұрын

No not quite right Tom Price is the highest town in western Australia

Pov tu viens de trash

And Who is BHP? Rothschild. ☠️🇬🇧☠️

The last rail was 135 in total so amazing.