Quoting Alec Cameron to Andrew Hamblyn 17 May 1997
Hi Alec...
 AH> Well it was those Aussies that made the biggest heaviest longest etc
 AH> train... 
 AH> powered by Diesels (10 of them I think) hauling some 15000 tonnes of 
ron
 AH> ore 
 AH> i forget the exact deatails..... in my eyes that is sheer power.
 AC> Wasn't it 45 000 tons?
If the record still stands, it was 57,309 tonnes of iron ore (72,191 tonnes
gross, including locos), on the BHP Iron Ore line from Newman to Port 
Hedland, on 28 May 1996. (Source: Railway Digest, July 1996)
Cheers, Steve..
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