Iron ore road train - GIF

[desbromilow]

lived there (turned out to a fire at that very petrol station) - Port Hedland (Dixon's rest)
a road train like that is used by the "junior miners", the big players have private railway lines where the trains are 2x 120 or cars long, plus at least 2 locomotives (typically four) - each ore car is 10.38m long, a loco is about double that... making a typical ore train around 2.5 - 3km long