Flood Damage to Cairns Cane Railways! | The Cairns Railfan
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Hello everyone and welcome to a new video (finally) on the channel! Today we will be exploring the impressive damage done by Cyclone Jasper and it's record breaking flooding of Cairns to the northern sugarcane railways of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. We will be looking at damage such as an entirely collapsed bridge, lines buried in sand and mud as well as a discussion about what Mulgrave Mill; the owner of these 2ft (610mm) gauge sugarcane railways in Cairns will be doing in response to the damage as the collapsed bridge has isolated many cane farms served by rail.
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Will, Mel and I are currently watching this video. We are both very impressed and extremely proud of you. This video, the editing and your commentary is extremely detailed and very professional. Mel reckons this is very much university level stuff. Good on ya mate!🤠
Thanks Wil and Mel!! I’m very glad you enjoyed the video😄
Thank you very much for this fascinating video presentation which is very interesting and informative and very much appreciated. Your videos are always worth waiting for as they are always of the very highest quality, with most excellent quality of narration, too. We are delighted that they will be able to bring the sugar cane to the mill through this alternative way and at least they will be using the remaining part of the railway.
We are looking forward, with great interest, to these other aspects of the railway scene, that you have planned for us. We are absolutely delighted to receive this video at this time and are grateful for the immense amount of work that you put into these productions. You certainly deserve these subscriptions and we look forward to seeing them continue to rise as we pass through this current season. Take care.
Thank you very much for your kind words! Glad you enjoyed it😄
Nice one, love seeing this informative stuff about the rest of our country
Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!!
Great update once again
Awesome job on the video
Ten out of ten.🤙
Thank you!
Make that 517 subscribers.
Excellent update, I was up there during February and was wondering how the damage remediation was progressing? Thanks for the update and look forward to my next visit in July. Hopefully the Barron river bridge is rebuilt.😃
Thank you!!
Yes hopefully if the mill chooses to rebuild the bridge we will see re-construction starting later this year or the next. 😄
Very informational video, good job
Thanks!
I never realize how many miles the mill has, oh my goodness. I thought Mulgrave had maybe 10 miles and three or four locomotives but nope, on your map everything yellow is a rail line and many more locomotives. very impressive Thank you
No problem, thanks for your comment!
QLD sugarcane railways are very impressive and extensive! I find them to be very underrated, many people don’t realise how large these systems and operations are and I’ve wanted to make a video all about the sugarcane mill industry and operations in QLD as a whole but haven’t been able to get around to it properly.
There is just over 15 operational rail operation mills in QLD I think; combined they have around 2,000-4,000km worth of track I think! Very large networks indeed.
The largest locomotive fleet I am aware of is South Johnstones. They’re owned by the same company that operates Mulgrave Mill (MSF Sugar) and Mulgrave is connected with the South Johnstone network. The mill itself being located just south of Innisfail. I believe SJ has over 20 locomotives in service if I remember correctly!
@@thecairnsrailfan Sorry for my unchristian language but GOD DAMN, that's a lot of track. Never thought, nothing we got compares to that in America.
@@RyanHatterer-Ryanns999 Haha all good mate, yeah it’s fascinating seeing the size of the private 2ft gauge networks in Queensland for sugarcane; especially because 2ft gauge is mainly a railway practice left in the past in other countries becoming abandoned or entering preservation status so the scale of QLDs 2ft gauge sugarcane networks that still make profits to run are truly something to behold! 😄
Maybe build a higher bridge / railway with only 2 pylons on either side of the river which would allow debris to clear.
Seems to me that the cane railway bridge over the Barron River is a vital part of the Mill's infrastructure, so it seems logical that it will be rebuilt sooner, rather than later, and knowing that the old bridge couldn't withstand the force of the river in that cyclone, then building it stronger and a meter or so higher would be the way to go.
Good points; funnily enough the bridge that collapsed was a “flood resistant” design which unfortunately I think I may have forgot to mention in the video but anyways this means they’ll have to rebuild an even more flood resistant design with potential features that you brought up!
Hi there they are going to transport the cane Baron North with trucks to red Lynch that is how they gonna transport that cane and then the train red Lynch depot to Mulgrave mill
Yep, spot on mate! It's going to be a very interesting season watching this take place.
Yeah my house went underwater and i live in Cairns North lol.
Wow! I hope all has been well since then!
i'm glad i live in melbourne, we never have cyclons, droughts or floods and famines ????
Natural disaster is truly a challenge for railways
Certainly.
I work with qld emergency services during Tc jasper
Good on you mate, you and other emergency services and volunteers did amazing work with disaster rescue and relief work!!
All the dieseles we being from south Africa and bought it all way to Australia
And I enjoyed the video
@@birgitmaloney7637 Thank you!
Five hundred more into you will get 1000
Yep!!
How is the sugar cane train
@@birgitmaloney7637 If you mean the one at Herberton then it’s still being worked on, it will take another year or two to be completed.
If you’re referring to sugarcane trains in service around Cairns then there’s doing well aside from the northern Cairns damage of course. They’ve started driver training recently for the upcoming season starting in a few weeks! Some maintenance trains have been out too!
Do you know willmar
How long is the sugar cane train