Brand new ES44ACi locomotives from Inpasa, partnership with Rumo.

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Triple GE locos 9106, 8125 & 8103 pull their empty ore train through Wombat Junction in Tom Price, branching off towards the Mt Tom Price mine for loading.

The newer ES44ACi 9146 leads ES44DCi units 8140 & 8111 with an empty Rio Tinto iron ore headed to Paraburdoo as they cross the Spring Creek bridge just south of Tom Price.

Rio Tinto use banking units on their Paraburdoo ore trains as seen in this image on Friday 11 September 2020. 9137, 7063 and 9430 push this loaded train from Paraburdoo across the Spring Creek Via... (more)

Rio Tinto 9133 pauses briefly near the end of track off of Justin Cemetery Rd before reversing back to the GE plant. Already there are 2 of these tarped and prepped for shipment.

Oh no, stop, end of track ahead! Actually, not to worry; this set of new Rio Tinto ES44ACi locomotives are undergoing validation tests on the GE-FW test track at Justin, TX, and have just reverse... (more)

On their next to last run of the morning, Rio Tinto ES44ACis 9129, 9131 and 9130 head to the south end of the west track near Lambert, TX while undergoing validation testing.

The Mongolian Railway got only one locomotive of the Evolution series from General Electric, the ES44ACi MR # 1001. The locomotive was built in Eire/USA in 2008 and is stabled on the depot area of... (more)

After having completed the day's testing, Roy Hill Australia ES44ACi 1023 awaits further validation testing later in the morning at the GE Fort Worth assembly plant. This would be one of the last ... (more)

After the tests and validation runs have completed for the night, Roy Hill Australia 1023 and 1024 sit at the GE Fort Worth assembly plant awaiting testing later in the morning on the test track.

A third Roy Hill unit was just released from GE-FW today, shown here at Harmonson Rd. in Justin, TX, on it's first ever run and first validation run for the day.

A third Roy Hill unit was just released from GE-FW today. Here, on it's 3rd validation run, it is being pushed at 5 mph by two differently geared CP AC4400CWMs.

On the first validation run of the day, Roy Hill Australia 1022 pauses momentarily 1000 feet shy of the north end-of-track in Justin, TX, before reversing back to the south end of the GE-FW test t... (more)