Huge Iron Ore Trains at Port Hedland Western Australia
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- čas přidán 10. 11. 2022
- A look from the ground and from the air of the huge Iron Ore trains that run into Port Hedland in Western Australia , featuring B.H.P. Roy Hill and Fortescue Metals all using imported locomotive from the U.S.A.
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In Mexico 🇲🇽, Ferromex's SD70ACe and ES44CA locomotives have the task of transporting gondolas loaded with steel plates. These gondolas can weigh up to 130 tons each. With an average of 110-130 gondolas loaded per train, a total transportation of around 15,600 tons is achieved in each load.
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This is a flat metal head from Ferromex
It shows how trains can carry the big loads
This is some excellent footage here. Love these trains. I'm in South Carolina, and have tentative plans to visit the Pilbara next year to see these for myself. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you and enjoy your trip to the Pilbara .
Make sure you know what the temperatures are going to be when you go…. The Pilbara in the (Southern) summer is pretty brutal….
I'd love to go railfanning in Western Australia one day
Greetings from Texas
Yes , its an interesting place but very remote .
I saw these trains 2013 -15 when I did fifo at Karatha and what I sight to see,they are so long + the sound of the engines under load WOW.They work in extreme conditions Great video 👍👍👍🇦🇺
Yes they do work them hard but they do a great job hauling those long trains
Beautiful shots. I always love the sound of trains (I actually sleep better on the train than in bed) but the hum of those big American locomotives resonating through the railcars is just beautiful and in a way soothing. Thanks for sharing. I wish to one day go railfanning in Australia..
Thanks for the comment , glad you enjoyed the video
Hey John, just to clarify and help you, the loaded trains out of the mines are 42 thousand tonnes and the empties are just over 6 thousand tonnes, train lengths are 2,950 metres long with 4 locomotives and 270 ore cars.
Thank you for that Anthony , but as mentioned in the video they do run smaller trains as well with no DPU/s , your information certainly shows the weight and size of the bigger trains they run .
@@johnphillips592 Very rare for single rakes to run mainline to the mines. Smaller rakes with no DP could be a Shuttle Rake being swapped out at Newman but otherwise all mainline trains are 135 cars, sometimes a couple less if cars have been cut out for the wheel lathe etc
These trains are VERY heavy, Great catches
A good blend of drone and lineside views there, John.
Thanks mate , it was a bit of an effort matching the live sound but worth it .
Thanks for sharing! Great cruise through there! I think they’re the best trains to drive, mainly because of the trip!
Wow American manufacturered locomotives hauling rolling stock manufacturered in Australia, China, Europe, and the USA
living up to our multi cultural country identity
All BHP mainline trains have DP and are 135 cars per portion and two loco's per portion though you will sometimes see 3 together if one is under test or 4 on the front if spare loco's are being moved to one of the minesites. Single rakes to the mines are very uncommon. Single rakes departing the Port or Boordarrie could be going to Bing or Mooka to join another portion to make up a complete train. Average weight per loaded train is around 41000 to 42000 all up.
Great footage - I loved my time in the Pilbara and always stopped if I was on the access roads going places for work, love the raw grunt of these trains.
Thanks for that , yes the trains are impressive .
Cool to see those big SD70ACes working so hard. The Pilbara iron ore railways seem similar to those in Northern Quebec, with long trains and big ACes. Greetings from Canada!
They are great to watch on those big trains , pity it's such a remote location
You have a great vantage point, for those es44 s in full power mode, Amazing videos John !! (=...Thanks !!
Thanks for that , glad you enjoyed it
Exactly
These trains are carrying for ore from in mining zone. Views are fantastic with enjoyfully.
Thank you my Indian friend
Wow SD70aces in Australia? Never thought I would see that. Nice catches
Yes , fully imported from the states ,
Hi John, many thanks for the awesome video.
Thanks , glad you enjoyed it , I certainly enjoyed filming and editing it .
Good ol 4300 Pumpkins I give them their fair share of wheel turns. Originally built for BNSF but Big Harry's People needed horsepower quickly on the mainline so you can have ours and we'll have yours when built.
These trains look like giant metal snakes slithering through the desert landscape
Awesome video and editing, very professional!
Thanks for that .Glad you enjoyed it .
I hear some of your trains from the company Rio Tinto are actually automated without a driver in the cab. That's both cool yet terrifying
Yes they are , please watch czcams.com/video/hf5iBbmas2w/video.html for video on those automated trains .
I work in the BHP Mooka ore car repair shop, hope to continue shunting and eventually become a yard driver then main line one day 👍🏻
Thanks for the reply , hope everything works out for you
A very interesting video 👍🏻
Railway Freight and Passenger Rolling Stock Vehicle Mechanical Maintenance Fitter, my most loved career.
Some neat work.
Thanks , glad you enjoyed it .
I seen these trains in Port Hedland 15yrs ago
Absolutely fascinating...👍👍👍
Do the locomotives have toilets on board?
How is refueling managed?
Yes they do have toilets and they are fueled at Port Hedland .
went thru Hedland in 82 , back then it was the biggest cash run in the world being over $4M a week in pays. It was protected by a dozen shotguns
Greeting sir , muhammad rarung from indonesia , the awesome video sir .. 🙏🙏
Thank you , glad you enjoyed it .
Wow
Why are they transporting the ore so far? Do they need to locate the processing facility closer to a population center? I guess that will be automated too at some point very soon; they can just put an automated processing facility right next door to the mining operation and just ship the steel.
great video i love these monster ore trains. fortiscue's SD9043'S look good far better CP/NS SD70ACu's , any word on how these perform
With their new engines they seem to work well
Have the Iron Ore railways gone back to “manned” crews or do they do a mix of both manned and remote operated trains. Because I’ve seen them do a lot of remote operations in the past and in this video it says they were doing a crew change???
The three iron ore railways that come into Port Hedland are all run with crews , Rio Tinto in Karratha are the only railway that runs driverless trains , see czcams.com/video/hf5iBbmas2w/video.html for video on that line
@@johnphillips592 oh ok. I wonder why Rio Tinto doesn’t want to run manned trains… it would seem having a manned crew would be safer than running one remotely. But I don’t know much about them. But thank you for the information. 😊
BHP are all crewed trains. Only time there is no driver on board is when they are in the dumpers but the train is being moved along by the pusher arms at the dumper.
hey Jhon. Si bien es interesante saber el tonelaje que se mueve, tambien seria bueno que pongas la cantidad de vagones que mueven los australianos. Por ahora los trenes mas largos que se han visto son los de EEUU y Canada. Ahora empieza la duda de sobre que cantidad de vagones se mueven en australia. Trate de contar vagones pero con los cortes del video no se logra saber la cifra. Es el segundo video que veo de tu produccion y estamos adoleciendo esa falta de datos. Gracias.!!
On average a normal iron ore train will consist of about 268 wagons pending on what mine they come from
@@johnphillips592 Thank You friend.!!
Applied for a job here as a train driver around 2007. Then the crash happened and all the jobs were stopped. Shame really. Still driving, just in the UK.
Would have been a bit of a shock weather wise for you
@@johnphillips592 Possibly, but I guess it’s something you eventually acclimatise to. And I imagine the cabs have very excellent air con!
You do get used to it but not my cup of tea .@@22pcirish
A long comment...
I just fine it funny that Rio Tinto put so much money into their auto haul system turn off or removed lineside signals along their mainline yet here the other big haulers in the area still us man crews and as people see in the beginning of the video line side signals (4:00). Another thing I fine cool is BHP use to use a mix bag of mod GE Dash8s and 9s SD40-2s and the huge (my favorite) AC6000 beside the now huge fleet of SD70aces yet Roy hill went with the tested ES44ACi used on the Rio Tinto... yet Fortescue is the only one with a mix fleet of EMD (SD9043macs and SD70ACE) and GE units. are the racks still about 112 cars for BHP then the DPUs or did they change that? I see Roy Hill went from having only 3 ES44ACis (two front one mid) to two and two. Just an amazing video you have here continue to impress us with these awesome remote Railroads.
Train length varies depending on what mine it came from , the ones with DPU/S can be very long , not sure how many wagons , didn't count them , too busy filming and flying drone .
There is a video coming soon on the driverless trains of Rio Tinto
@@johnphillips592 I remember a few years ago BHP ran the trains in sets of 112 cars, 224, and the massive 336 trains with engines every 112 cars. didn't know if that changed or not never the less a great video you have and I can't wait to see you Rio tinto video
@@RyanHatterer-Ryanns999 Used to drive what we called the 300's, 6 loco's. Everything now is 270 cars with a DP at the 135 mark except the Newman Shuttle Rakes. The 300's were beautiful trains to drive. The AC6000's were a nice loco to drive if you got one on the head end, savage DB, big spacious cab.
@gordonbermejo5558 I believe that the 6000s here in America once you got the bugs worked out they did very good machine
how can they start and stop without a human?
All trains in Port Hedland have drivers , only the trains of Rio Tinto in Karratha are automated
up to your normal standard of professionalism. you got photo-bombed by a large bird of prey at 2:06. it may have also been watching trains but flew off when you pointed the camera at it suspecting that you may have been pointing something else that shoots.
A Black Kite rail fan , now that would be interesting , lol
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Sankar. India
Hi John sir from India very long 🚆🚆🚆🚆
What can import
Yes they are very long trains
Returned from more than one Rio Tinto open pit mines 10 minutes ago.
Courtesy of Google Maps orbital photography. A more ugly view I've
seen personally outside Australia. I'll decline to visit Rio Tinto again .
railway ausrtralia of the diesel like sd70ace container in wagon 8 container 1 cargo passengger 8