Trains cross at Mount Lofty: Adelaide Hills Rail Movements December 2018 Edition
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2019
- Across the last month of 2018, the Adelaide Hills line came alive with rare movement including a Qube light Engine movement, BL33 returning to its home state of SA & a few GWA Grain Trains with G533.
Train details & timestamps:
00:35 - First up we have the Overland of 3MA8 which we all thought was one we wouldn't be seeing 2018. Here its seen at Murray Bridge crossing the Murray River with NR113 on the 4th of December 2018.
02:10 - For the first time in a while BL33 returns to South Australia on Pacific National Freight 5MA5. Locomotives NR61/AN4/BL33/G519 pass Belair Railway Station on the 5th of January 2018.
04:40 - A slightly late Pacific National Steel Train of 3XM4 climbs Warla Bank between Callington & Monarto South with NR75 on the 12th of December 2018.
06:00 - Qube light Engine 8037 (TN: D432) from Crystal Brook to Nhill has had a busy last couple of days running from Melbourne to Broken Hill & back conducting Driver Training for future Qube Grain Trains in South Australia. The light engine is seen crossing another at Mount Lofty Railway Station on the 13th of December 2018.
06:40 - SCT Logistics light engine SCT015 departs Mount Lofty after crossing D432. This engine was rushed from Tailem Bend to SCT Penfield for use on 5AP9 after being run out of 2PM9 earlier in the day.
07:20 - The first Tailem Bend Grain Train for the 2018/19 Harvest is seen at Yantaringa with GWA004/G533/GWU002 with 40 Hoppers full of Canola on Friday the 21st of December 2018.
09:20 - GWA Keith Grain Train is seen at Nairne & Mount Lofty (10:10) with FQ03/GWA009/CLP14/G533 on the 28th of December 2018.
12:20 - SCT Logistics Freight 5PM9 from Perth to Melbourne is seen powering though Upper Stuart with SCT011/LDP002 on Sunday the 30th of December 2018.
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Merry Christmas to you from Neil schwerdt in west valley city Utah
Merry Christmas, Neil! Have a good one.
Cheers!
Matt - M&S Trains
Thansk for a very good video; every thing looked outstanding on wide screen
Great video!
Great stuff
The one thing I noticed from your videos are that Australia has beautiful locomotives that are aestatically pleasing.
The loading gauge, axle loads (locos & cars) + total loco weight is lower than North America. More like Europe, but loading gauge somewhat larger than UK mainlines.
These diesels have American equipment inside, but are lighter (130-134 instead of almost 200t) & though the HP is typically the same (4,000 or 4,400) The frame is lighter, traction motors smaller & the loco a bit smaller, so not quite as capable.
Hunter coal lines have locos like 90 class. Almost full size weight, but still Australia's loading gauge to haul very heavy coal trains.
Queensland has even heavier electrically hauled coal trains, on 3" track.
The heaviest trains in the World are the Pilbara ore trains. Full size American locos & well over 30,000t
Be nicer if they had a wash every now and again
Would I be right in speculating the loading gauge on the trans-Australian railway is somewhere in-between that of Britain railways and that of American railways? (I realise there is no one consistent loading gauge across the entirety of these three systems, but I choose to simplify the question)
Can I ask for someone who doesn't know what is carried in the small yellow containers on the 04:40 steel train
Great footage!
where abouts is Warla Bank?
Between Callington & Monarto South
That's quite a load for NR75. It must have been crawling up the grades? Remember this a DC not an AC motor locomotive.
I remember that shot well! I was on my way to work at Tailem Bend and when I heard about the single camel doing the climb up, so I chose to stop in quickly. Luck, I didn't have to wait long and still got to work on time and saw it again as it went through Tailem Bend. I had easily beaten it by 15, if not 20, minutes, just showing how slow it must've been going compared to the freeway.
Warla Bank is a fair grade in itself-1 in 50, I believe. Obviously, it's not as steep as Mount Lofty, but still, you'd expect the old NR to struggle a bit. Not so much, it seems.
Thanks for watching mate.
Matt - M&S Trains
@@MS_Trains Plenty of Adelaide Hills train vids, but it's odd workings like this that really stand out & show the real power of locomotives. even Australian mainliners, which are built down to a lower weight, than their American or Pilbara counter parts. Another beauty is a lone 930 topping Mt Lofty with the transfer of Steamranger stock from Dry Creek to Mt Barker in 1995. 19 bogie vehicles, mostly carriages, it was utterly crawling. I did not expect such a load.
@@johnsergei The Adelaide Hills are definitely something special! I wasn’t around yet for that SteamRanger Transfer or anything in that Australian National era but from what I’ve seen on RUclips and in the Hills Alive DVD it was probably the best era for spotting in her hills! Lots of real power struggling!
Matt - M&S Trains
@@MS_Trains Not a patch on 30 years ago or earlier. There were 3 or 4x as many freights on the line + Overland, every night. & concentrated to make it seem more like 5X as many trains. Down trains in the evening, up trains from the early morning hours & usually no crossing in the Hills at night.
@@MS_Trains Because the trains were so grouped (several down trains in the evening, then a few hours break before the first up trains after 2 or 3AM. I didn't have to spend a whole day getting bored shitless just to see what 3 or 4 trains? I'd usually see that many ups before dawn & in the evening sometimes 3 or 4 downs or more freghts & Overland, within 3 or 4 hours. Then, if no further out than Belair I'd usually head home. West of Mt Lofty, down trains were more important, while East, up trains were, though with downs I liked that generally the further out, the faster these trains were going. In the late 80s & early 90s I was all over this line, even as far out as Balyarta or Monatro South.