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Local rail for Rio

Rio Tinto lead the way in building iron ore rail cars in WA.

 Image from Rio's rail yard at 7-Mile

Image from Rio's rail yard at 7-Mile

Rio Tinto has agreed to use WA suppliers to build ore rail cars for its Pilbara mining operations. The miner uses the world's first automated heavy-haul rail network Autohaul to service the 16 mines,...

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