As a kid, I lived opposite the Darra Railway Station, and I remember seeing many of these types of locos going past. Two of my elder brothers worked for QR in the steam era. One in the Mayne shunting yards, and the other on the Winton line. These clips shown here are a magnificent display of QR Steam!
A lovely selection of short clips - no long drawn-out sequences. Fast action - sure to please. An excellent production showing 11 of QR's at work, bringing back fond memories. Thank-you for allowing us to share in your fine photography and editing.
+Teddy Hancox Thank you Teddy .. you are right about the idea behind the production. It was designed to give pace and variety. Again thank you for your comments
I used to go to the Gabba with my grandmother when I was a young kid. It was in full swing back then. I will never forget the presence and aura of the steam engines belching smoke as they passed between buildings and along the main road. The smell and the sound was a true spectacle.
Thank you for sharing your memories of "The Gabba", as crews always referred to the station and depot. It was an intriguing place with various passages between buildings; street running: a tunnel to the wharves at South Brisbane and sidings into a range sites on what is now South Bank; an elevated turntable, and of course the Bell and Flag Man. A PB depot with many main line visitors over the years hauling trains in and out of yard. Once the station for south side and then no longer a station, The Gabba saw massive changes around the QR network but virtually none at The Gabba. I recall seeing the yard mostly from a passing car, with my father pointing out various features or indeed the names of drivers that he knew. Your memories make me feel that I missed an even greater spectacle. Being very young and more focused on Mayne and my father's role gave me quite a different experience but I suspect that The Gabba was a one of a kind sort of place. Over the years, I have met a few drivers and firemen that worked at The Gabba and I always like to learn of their history. Perhaps you saw them pass by.
The Gabba had a mass of overhead wires everywhere, because of the trams and trolley buses as well. It was such an interesting and quirky area, with heaps of character. I always remember seeing that bell and flag man walking in front of the engine as it came across the road and made its way through the corner entrance to the yard, cheers.
@@katnip8228 Thanks for the reminder about the trams. There was even a tram signal cabin. Great memories lost in time and dramatic changes to our city. Thanks again for your comments and please like my productions and subscribe to the channel.
Hi Shane, Thank you for your feedback and personal connections via QPSR observations. Perhaps you might like some of my other productions on my channel. Can you also please also consider subscribing? Thanks
Hi Gary, I see see that you are taking a look at some of my other productions. Thank you for your interest. Perhaps you might find some of my other productions interesting. Cheers Mike
+Jarrod Mitton (Mittens) Thank you Jarrod, I am glad that you enjoyed the production. Please let me know of any other clips that you like on my channel. Mike
Hello Buenos Aires, Rodo Rodo, Thank you for your question and I am pleased to say this is my first question or comment from Argentina. There are many gauges in Australia but principally three main line gauges; 1067mm or 3 feet six inches, 1435mm or 4 feet 8 1/2 inches and 1600 mm or 5 feet 3 inches. In this instance, you have viewed a production about Queensland trains that operate on 1067 mm gauge tracks. Despite the gauge there are many long and heavy trains as well some fast trains that operate on the system. If you look at some of my other productions you will see some examples of the larger and heavier trains. I hope this helps you understand the Australian rail system. I also look forward to hearing from you again. Please take a look at some of my other productions.
@@mikecondon9576 Hi Mike!! You are very kind, thanks!! My name is Rodolfo and I 'm very fond of trains all over the world, in Argentina there are three kind of gauges, broad 1676mm, standard 1435mm and narrow 1000mm and there is no conection between them, if you don't mind in a near future I will bother you with some questions. All the best to you and keep in touch!! R.
@@rodorodo3060 Hello Rodolfo, Thank you for informing me about your railway network and in particular the gauges. I should mentioned that we have an extensive tramway system of 610 mm or 2 feet that serve our vast sugar cane growing areas with my state, Queensland. There is about 3000 kilometres of these networks. I will be happy to answer your questions from time to time providing you understand that I am away from my office and home much of the time so I will respond to your questions upon my return. All the best for now. Regards
@@mikecondon9576 Hello Mike, I would like to get some information about Melbourne's Red Rattlers, if is it possible... Gauge, where the cars were made, and kind of electrification, overhead 1500v, 25000v or any other?? As in Australia there is another gauge in my country, 750mm (la trochita=the little gauge) that serve a short service in Patagonia with steam locos and cars made of wood. How is the weather like now in QLD?? Are there floods as in NSW?? Next time I going 'ah ask you something related to The Capricornian service. All th best to you and regards, R.
@@rodorodo3060 Hello Rodolfo, Firstly may I say, I live 1600 kilometres from Melbourne and I am no expert of Victorian Railways. As I understand it, Tait Trains were in fact steam hauled wooden cars capable of conversion to electric units. Wikipedia has some detailed information and there are groups in Victoria that are involved in restoring and maintaining some of these cars. The Victorian system is broad gauge as per my previous comments. As these cars were developed in the period around 1919, the power system chosen was overhead and 1500 volts DC. For your background, both Sydney and Melbourne use 1500 volts DC. Subsequently developments in Queensland in the late 1970's used 25.000 volts AC. Queensland has a very large electrified network. Later in the 1990's Perth and most recently Adelaide have chosen the 25,000 AC system for the urban operations in those cities. I hope this helps and look up Tait Electric Trains Melbourne and you will see the Wikipedia and other sites that outline information about the Tait cars.
Hi The D601, Sorry for not responding earlier but I have been away for work. You are correct with the gauge descriptions. In this instance these are Queensland Rail locomotives and are 3 feet 6 inches gauge. Thanks for your question.
In Queensland, there are two gauges (apart from the 2-foot gauge sugar cane Tramways). The main QR Gauge is 3'6" - Australian Narrow Gauge (also found in South Australia and Western Australia as well as the whole of Tasmania). In Queensland, we have a relatively small amount of standard gauge which forms the interstate line from Sydney to Brisbane and to the Port of Brisbane. That is the only SG in Qld. NSW has only standard gauge, Victoria used to be all broad gauge except for 3 short lines of 2'6" gauge, 2 in the SW and the now-famous Puffing Billy Railway near Melbourne. A lot of lines have now been converted to standard gauge for interstate operations. SG first entered Victoria from Albury (NSW) to Melbourne around 1968. Subsequently, the mainline to Adelaide and several other lines have also been converted to SG. In Sth. Australia, like Victoria, broad gauge 5'3" was dominant (read up on the history of Australia's rail gauges - it is almost a comedy how they came about), but in the north, there was a lot of 3'6" gauge with Peterborough as the hub. It was situated about halfway between Broken Hill NSW and Port Pirie SA. The entire line from Broken Hill to Port Pirie was narrow gauge (now converted to SG as part of the Trans-Continental Railway link which also saw Kalgoorlie (WA) to Perth converted to SG). Originally the approx. 35 km section of line between Broken Hill and Coburn, on the NSW SA border, was owned and operated by the Silverton Tramway Company Ltd, as when SA offered to connect Broken Hill to Adelaide and the west by continuing their line across the border, the NSW Govt. reply was a very curt, No! So in order for BHP (now BHP - Billiton) to get their minerals to a smelter (the NSW line had not reached Broken Hill at that time), the Silverton Tramway Company was born to fill in the gap. Though a proper railway in every respect it was called a tramway because only the Government could own/operate a Railway. Since the SG went through STC has still maintained a role in freight within NSW. Also within SA, you had the original line from Peterborough to Port Augusta (part of which is now the Pichi Richi Railway) and on to Alice Springs (NT) which was also all narrow gauge. It was intended to link up with a never completed line from Darwin which was stopped at Birdum due to the outbreak of WWII. The line from Port Augusta to Alice Springs was owned/operated by Commonwealth Railways who also owned and operated the line and services between Port Augusta and (SA) and Kalgoorlie (WA). The line from Adelaide to Port Augusta was broad gauge, then standard gauge to Kalgoorlie and then (originally) narrow gauge to Perth. There is also a Narrow Gauge line in SW Sth. Australia that was owned by Commonwealth Railways and carried minerals. Talk about a mess! Western Australia was always narrow gauge and until the arrival of the Trans-continental line, it had no standard gauge. Tasmania is the only state (being an island that nobody [ailway wise] gives a toss about what they do) is the only state never to have had anything but narrow gauge, though someone did suggest an undersea channel tunnel (like the English channel tunnel) to link Tasmania's railways to the mainland, it was never even a serious proposal and also there are almost no tracks left in Tasmania and no passenger rail services, so why would you bother? Of course, now, the new standard gauge line to Alice Springs and Darwin branches from the Trans Australian line at Tarcoola and cost about $8 billion dollars. I hope this makes our messed up rail gauges a bit clearer for you. This link will enlighten you about the Adelaide - Alice Springs - Darwin line, who owns it, when it was built etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide%E2%80%93Darwin_rail_corridor
I appreciate your interest. I draw your attention to the description and of course the production images. Within this context, I am at a loss as to why you would think there would be full of crashes. Perhaps you thought it relates to another topic. The notion that I would be trackside whilst smashes occurred is rather challenging to understand. I encourage you to read my production description.
Well thank you Aussie Train Bloke for hopefully alerting others to this production. You are indeed correct and it underlines the historic nature of the vision used in the production. I too would like to see rails and trains on those lines but sadly most of the lines have been abandoned, just rusting away or completely removed. I hope you enjoy some of my other productions and give my productions a "like".
Hello and thanks for your comment. I apologise for the the delay in responding but I have been away for work over the last three plus weeks. I am pleased to hear your comment and I hope you share details of channel. You might also enjoy some of my other productions.
It never said it was crashes. This is a collection of video clips of steam locomotives from Queensland Australia. Real steam locomotives. Which means you can't crash them, considering the danger, damage, and extremely high price to repair and replace things.
As a kid, I lived opposite the Darra Railway Station, and I remember seeing many of these types of locos going past. Two of my elder brothers worked for QR in the steam era. One in the Mayne shunting yards, and the other on the Winton line. These clips shown here are a magnificent display of QR Steam!
A lovely selection of short clips - no long drawn-out sequences. Fast action - sure to please. An excellent production showing 11 of QR's at work, bringing back fond memories. Thank-you for allowing us to share in your fine photography and editing.
+Teddy Hancox
Thank you Teddy .. you are right about the idea behind the production. It was designed to give pace and variety.
Again thank you for your comments
I used to go to the Gabba with my grandmother when I was a young kid. It was in full swing back then. I will never forget the presence and aura of the steam engines belching smoke as they passed between buildings and along the main road. The smell and the sound was a true spectacle.
Thank you for sharing your memories of "The Gabba", as crews always referred to the station and depot. It was an intriguing place with various passages between buildings; street running: a tunnel to the wharves at South Brisbane and sidings into a range sites on what is now South Bank; an elevated turntable, and of course the Bell and Flag Man. A PB depot with many main line visitors over the years hauling trains in and out of yard. Once the station for south side and then no longer a station, The Gabba saw massive changes around the QR network but virtually none at The Gabba.
I recall seeing the yard mostly from a passing car, with my father pointing out various features or indeed the names of drivers that he knew.
Your memories make me feel that I missed an even greater spectacle. Being very young and more focused on Mayne and my father's role gave me quite a different experience but I suspect that The Gabba was a one of a kind sort of place.
Over the years, I have met a few drivers and firemen that worked at The Gabba and I always like to learn of their history. Perhaps you saw them pass by.
The Gabba had a mass of overhead wires everywhere, because of the trams and trolley buses as well. It was such an interesting and quirky area, with heaps of character. I always remember seeing that bell and flag man walking in front of the engine as it came across the road and made its way through the corner entrance to the yard, cheers.
@@katnip8228 Thanks for the reminder about the trams. There was even a tram signal cabin. Great memories lost in time and dramatic changes to our city.
Thanks again for your comments and please like my productions and subscribe to the channel.
Wonderful. The 221A is still my favourite. Seen it in person several times on the QPSR.
Hi Shane,
Thank you for your feedback and personal connections via QPSR observations.
Perhaps you might like some of my other productions on my channel.
Can you also please also consider subscribing?
Thanks
Queensland's rasilways are quite different to hose in the res of Australia! Good thing so many Queensland locomotives are still operational!
MrBnsftrain in NSW we have nothing much running. So sad.
I dont think to many of these are operational most are static in museums
Wonderful video!!
Thank you for your comment it is appreciated.
Beautiful, great video.
Hi Gary,
I see see that you are taking a look at some of my other productions. Thank you for your interest.
Perhaps you might find some of my other productions interesting.
Cheers
Mike
The Good old days always need to be remembered
Thank you for your comment. I am pleased to hear that you enjoyed the clip. I hope you explore other elements of my channel.
Nice to see 974 with her angle iron cow catcher and cab stays.
Apologies Dave, I have been away for work and unable to respond.
The image of 974 has changed forever which is a shame.
Great video
+Jarrod Mitton (Mittens)
Thank you Jarrod, I am glad that you enjoyed the production.
Please let me know of any other clips that you like on my channel.
Mike
I wish the QR steam locomotives could come back soon.
Hi Mate!! Could you please tell me if the gauge here is narrow 1067mm or standard 1435mm?? Regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hello Buenos Aires, Rodo Rodo,
Thank you for your question and I am pleased to say this is my first question or comment from Argentina.
There are many gauges in Australia but principally three main line gauges; 1067mm or 3 feet six inches, 1435mm or 4 feet 8 1/2 inches and 1600 mm or 5 feet 3 inches.
In this instance, you have viewed a production about Queensland trains that operate on 1067 mm gauge tracks. Despite the gauge there are many long and heavy trains as well some fast trains that operate on the system. If you look at some of my other productions you will see some examples of the larger and heavier trains.
I hope this helps you understand the Australian rail system. I also look forward to hearing from you again.
Please take a look at some of my other productions.
@@mikecondon9576 Hi Mike!! You are very kind, thanks!! My name is Rodolfo and I 'm very fond of trains all over the world, in Argentina there are three kind of gauges, broad 1676mm, standard 1435mm and narrow 1000mm and there is no conection between them, if you don't mind in a near future I will bother you with some questions. All the best to you and keep in touch!! R.
@@rodorodo3060
Hello Rodolfo,
Thank you for informing me about your railway network and in particular the gauges.
I should mentioned that we have an extensive tramway system of 610 mm or 2 feet that serve our vast sugar cane growing areas with my state, Queensland. There is about 3000 kilometres of these networks.
I will be happy to answer your questions from time to time providing you understand that I am away from my office and home much of the time so I will respond to your questions upon my return.
All the best for now.
Regards
@@mikecondon9576 Hello Mike, I would like to get some information about Melbourne's Red Rattlers, if is it possible... Gauge, where the cars were made, and kind of electrification, overhead 1500v, 25000v or any other??
As in Australia there is another gauge in my country, 750mm (la trochita=the little gauge) that serve a short service in Patagonia with steam locos and cars made of wood. How is the weather like now in QLD?? Are there floods as in NSW?? Next time I going 'ah ask you something related to The Capricornian service. All th best to you and regards, R.
@@rodorodo3060
Hello Rodolfo,
Firstly may I say, I live 1600 kilometres from Melbourne and I am no expert of Victorian Railways. As I understand it, Tait Trains were in fact steam hauled wooden cars capable of conversion to electric units. Wikipedia has some detailed information and there are groups in Victoria that are involved in restoring and maintaining some of these cars. The Victorian system is broad gauge as per my previous comments. As these cars were developed in the period around 1919, the power system chosen was overhead and 1500 volts DC.
For your background, both Sydney and Melbourne use 1500 volts DC. Subsequently developments in Queensland in the late 1970's used 25.000 volts AC. Queensland has a very large electrified network. Later in the 1990's Perth and most recently Adelaide have chosen the 25,000 AC system for the urban operations in those cities.
I hope this helps and look up Tait Electric Trains Melbourne and you will see the Wikipedia and other sites that outline information about the Tait cars.
From what I am aware of, Australia has a multitude of track gauges. Are these 3 foot 6, standard or 5 foot 3 gauge engines?
Hi The D601,
Sorry for not responding earlier but I have been away for work.
You are correct with the gauge descriptions. In this instance these are Queensland Rail locomotives and are 3 feet 6 inches gauge.
Thanks for your question.
In Queensland, there are two gauges (apart from the 2-foot gauge sugar cane Tramways). The main QR Gauge is 3'6" - Australian Narrow Gauge (also found in South Australia and Western Australia as well as the whole of Tasmania). In Queensland, we have a relatively small amount of standard gauge which forms the interstate line from Sydney to Brisbane and to the Port of Brisbane. That is the only SG in Qld. NSW has only standard gauge, Victoria used to be all broad gauge except for 3 short lines of 2'6" gauge, 2 in the SW and the now-famous Puffing Billy Railway near Melbourne. A lot of lines have now been converted to standard gauge for interstate operations. SG first entered Victoria from Albury (NSW) to Melbourne around 1968. Subsequently, the mainline to Adelaide and several other lines have also been converted to SG. In Sth. Australia, like Victoria, broad gauge 5'3" was dominant (read up on the history of Australia's rail gauges - it is almost a comedy how they came about), but in the north, there was a lot of 3'6" gauge with Peterborough as the hub. It was situated about halfway between Broken Hill NSW and Port Pirie SA. The entire line from Broken Hill to Port Pirie was narrow gauge (now converted to SG as part of the Trans-Continental Railway link which also saw Kalgoorlie (WA) to Perth converted to SG). Originally the approx. 35 km section of line between Broken Hill and Coburn, on the NSW SA border, was owned and operated by the Silverton Tramway Company Ltd, as when SA offered to connect Broken Hill to Adelaide and the west by continuing their line across the border, the NSW Govt. reply was a very curt, No! So in order for BHP (now BHP - Billiton) to get their minerals to a smelter (the NSW line had not reached Broken Hill at that time), the Silverton Tramway Company was born to fill in the gap. Though a proper railway in every respect it was called a tramway because only the Government could own/operate a Railway. Since the SG went through STC has still maintained a role in freight within NSW. Also within SA, you had the original line from Peterborough to Port Augusta (part of which is now the Pichi Richi Railway) and on to Alice Springs (NT) which was also all narrow gauge. It was intended to link up with a never completed line from Darwin which was stopped at Birdum due to the outbreak of WWII. The line from Port Augusta to Alice Springs was owned/operated by Commonwealth Railways who also owned and operated the line and services between Port Augusta and (SA) and Kalgoorlie (WA). The line from Adelaide to Port Augusta was broad gauge, then standard gauge to Kalgoorlie and then (originally) narrow gauge to Perth. There is also a Narrow Gauge line in SW Sth. Australia that was owned by Commonwealth Railways and carried minerals. Talk about a mess! Western Australia was always narrow gauge and until the arrival of the Trans-continental line, it had no standard gauge. Tasmania is the only state (being an island that nobody [ailway wise] gives a toss about what they do) is the only state never to have had anything but narrow gauge, though someone did suggest an undersea channel tunnel (like the English channel tunnel) to link Tasmania's railways to the mainland, it was never even a serious proposal and also there are almost no tracks left in Tasmania and no passenger rail services, so why would you bother? Of course, now, the new standard gauge line to Alice Springs and Darwin branches from the Trans Australian line at Tarcoola and cost about $8 billion dollars. I hope this makes our messed up rail gauges a bit clearer for you. This link will enlighten you about the Adelaide - Alice Springs - Darwin line, who owns it, when it was built etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide%E2%80%93Darwin_rail_corridor
I appreciate your interest. I draw your attention to the description and of course the production images. Within this context, I am at a loss as to why you would think there would be full of crashes. Perhaps you thought it relates to another topic. The notion that I would be trackside whilst smashes occurred is rather challenging to understand. I encourage you to read my production description.
I like them
Thank you for your comment. I appreciate the feedback. I hope you might find some of my other productions interesting.
i can tell u now that half those lines the steam trains once did tours on a now abndoned
Well thank you Aussie Train Bloke for hopefully alerting others to this production.
You are indeed correct and it underlines the historic nature of the vision used in the production. I too would like to see rails and trains on those lines but sadly most of the lines have been abandoned, just rusting away or completely removed.
I hope you enjoy some of my other productions and give my productions a "like".
Wow
Hello and thanks for your comment. I apologise for the the delay in responding but I have been away for work over the last three plus weeks.
I am pleased to hear your comment and I hope you share details of channel.
You might also enjoy some of my other productions.
This isn't crashes it's more like trains going by
It never said it was crashes. This is a collection of video clips of steam locomotives from Queensland Australia. Real steam locomotives. Which means you can't crash them, considering the danger, damage, and extremely high price to repair and replace things.