Superb, very few people know how to use a drone - they think that just because you're in the air it's a cool shot. But you told the story by following that lorry, and when you panned over to catch it arriving at the mill with the train already in frame, I was blown away, not sure if you planned that or if it was a happy coincidence. This is one of your best short films yet! By the way, I wish we still had streamliners in freight service, but we don't! At least a local railroad by me recently purchased a pair for their passenger ops, so it's nice to have some in my backyard to see running every once in awhile.
This superb video has a high ratio of 'likes' to 'views', but it's surprising it hasn't been yet viewed thousands of times. Deserves to be. I have watched it several times because it's a lesson in how to properly use a drone. A non railfan who watched it said it was excellent.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER I hope that you have a very happy Christmas. Thank you for these delightful videos with your eye for detail, and also a huge thanks for reliably transporting by rail (mostly AWB/Cargills but sometimes GrainCorp, is that correct?) crops from silos/bunkers to Allied Pinnacle's Kensington mill or various ports. Great job, and motorists who are safer due to fewer B-Double or A-Double road cowboys driving long distances also have reason to be grateful.
Spectacular rural scenery, that's what Australia is all about. Such a shame that many silos were closed on our NSW branch lines, only Tottenham and Trundle open this season on that line while many along that same line lie crumbling away, big silos like Gunningbland, Forbes and Yarrabandai unused, such a waste and shame. Good to see old EMD's working hard on their home grounds of Victoria. Excellent production, thank you.
@@edmundcarew7235 Grain trains will start next week I think, wonder if it will be SSR or Pacific National, or maybe the Graincorp 482 class. Bogan Gate Sub had a line up of trucks yesterday with trains already running out of there. Posted a video of SSR ballast at The Troffs and the shunt at Trundle so it will bring back memories...
@@dieseldavetrains8988 Great. The more the merrier. I understood that the 16 GrainCorp 48 class locos had been in storage, but someone mentioned a while back that they may be brought back into service. So if happending, great - further fodder for videographers! I was also told that the Tottenham NSW receival point is likely to be about the busiest it's ever been. I hope John Holland have been fixing any track defects with the aid of the ballast train.
@@edmundcarew7235 Pacific National very short of branch line loco's as they "retired" and scrapped many 48 class, 81 and 82 class etc too heavy for the branch. SSR ex Victorian Railways P, and T class well suited but busy in Victoria. Interesting to see what turns up. I will sit in the pub at Tullamore and watch them sail past!
Top class cinematography and video production. The music and the drone shots were amazing and right up there to a professional standard. Oh and the trains were pretty cool too ;-)
Hi another fantastic lot of footage with limited time and equipment you have. Looks like the country has had a fair bit of welcome rain. Best of luck and stay safe. Cheers Lee.
For those of us who have shares in GrainCorp, great to observe the supplementary storage with tarpaulins at Piangil, the terminus of the line past Swan Hill. Shares are up this morning (as they were yesterday), no doubt partially thanks to you and your colleagues' efforts in seeing the grain railed to port or for domestic use via Kensington (Vic's) Allied Pinnacle mill. You keep B-Doubles off roads closer to Bendigo and Melbourne so well done. This is an absolutely beautiful video. The drone footage is wonderful: lovely countryside, showing the operations including at the silo and delivering trucks and of course the loco driver on the throttle as well as that departure shot with flashing lights at the level crossing and freshly ballasted track. First class, and while the music not quite to my taste, appropriate. Interesting that you leave some wagons away from the silo and don't just have them in a single rake. Maybe your real calling in life was a Hollywood film producer?
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it, its semi hard work trying to find the right shots and still keep it interesting to watch. I had a good friend pick the music, so I'll let him know.. I wasn't too sure on it but seemed to work so I edited around it. Yeah we load towards the dead end, only about 1 loco and 7 wagons fits or 2 locos and 5 wagons so we split the train up, which made for less moves for the same result. I've always been a fan of cinematography, cameras, lenses and setting up shots. But doing this solo most of the time I have to film, direct, produce and edit myself, so it can leave windows for error, not to mention this is all done on my phone, no some big expensive computer at this stage so I'm slightly limited but the good part is I can edit almost anywhere. Glad you enjoyed it. There's more being edited and coming soon.
edmund carew, as a shareholder, how do you feel about company money being wasted because trains have to be shuffled like a deck of cards because sidings and loops throughout the state are too short?
@@vsvnrg3263 Can you give some examples? I'm not quite sure what you mean - are you referring to how say a crossing loop is too short for a 40 wagon grainy with a couple of locos, and hence has to be placed in a refuge siding taking extra time? Is this in reference to NSW or Victoria?
@@edmundcarew7235 ,its a reference to wa, vic and nsw. the other states i don't know about but they are probably bad too. in this video the train has to be broken up. it should be able to do a straight drive-through. this breaking up bull shit happens everywhere. four corners or landline did a show about the nsw grain system about 10 years ago. . wagons were loaded 1/4 or 1/2 full depending where in the train they were. the track couldn't handle the weight of fully loaded wagons. when the train got to the dock it was broken up into little pieces. north geelong has a loop but not long enough. i think canada does wheat trains 4 km long. in wa they have what are called standing derailments - that's where the track may collapse under unloaded wagons while they are standing still. i saw it somewhere recently how it was cheaper to get wheat from a farm in ukraine to newcastle than it was to get the wheat from moree to newcastle. during the recent qld/nsw drought, grain for stockfeed was coming by train from the great southern region of wa, going north to the trans australian line then turning west, not east, to then go south to bunbury to be loaded on a ship to go to the east. wrong rail gauge. cbh is screwed as hard as the regulators will let westnet rail screw cbh because it has the railway monopoly and trucks are an unacceptable option. monopolies are against the law in this country. how westnet rail is allowed to do this is beyond my comprehension. and there is the total balls-up on the murray basin plan. total balls-up. right now china is screwing our country. the governments rely on immigration to grow the economy. and right now they can't do that. they should fix up the food distribution system. fix up the rail gauge problem. make it efficient. your shares would be worth a lot more if we weren't governed by idiots.
Piangil is the end of the line here, just passed this is a road then the continuation of the old road, but some locations do have this issue. Tocumwal is one with a 3/4 grain loop, if they made it a full loop it would be excellent in and out without excess shunts all the time.
Reports from elsewhere is that grain (in NSW) is not too badly affected overall, and quality and the yield per hectare are allegedly great. But yes, some parts of various areas (say around Gunnedah NSW) were hit by hail or 'excessive' rain.
@@edmundcarew7235 I just got back from Toowoomba last night (in Melbourne now) and harvest is in full swing in SE Queensland, crops look magnificent, but I think they’re waiting for the ground to dry out in Central NSW. As long as the rain stays away and we get some heat it’ll be a record harvest with great yields.
@@gm16v149 Great information. Nothing like a man on the spot! SE Queensland is not a major winter crop producer: this year, NSW expected to have a 12.5 million tonne winter harvest and Vic about 4.5mt. In Dubbo NSW today, it's only 21.6 degrees at 1230 hours but the next six days are predicted to have temperatures between 25 and 30/31, so latter should help things along.
On 16 November 2020, GrainCorp reported that it had received 300000 tonnes of Victorian grain from the Mallee (I assume out to Walpeup, Murrayville, Ouyen and so on) plus Swan Hill. Wimmera receivals should start soon. Not every rail-serrved site is a GrainCorp one, as AWB (Cargill) also handles the golden grains.
On Wednesday 18 November 2020, GrainCorp had its biggest ever single day of receivals in eastern Australia: 360000 tonnes. Still heaps more to be received.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER ,errr yes, but there are multiple handling issues here. but as you say, still better than 30 trucks to melbourne. which is better than 300 trucks to melbourne. or 3000.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER GrainCorp and others will have done the sums. Must be cheaper than constructing permanent storage. If graingrowers were assured of a high yielding, high quality and extensive harvest every year, the sums may be different.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER How often are SSR grainys running from Piangil (or other loading points on the Swan Hill line) at present? How many hoppers on broad gauge does SSR have? By the way, this must be one of the best RUclips rail videos I've seen in the past month. You are very skilled (even if the drone does the work). Cup Day was Tuesday 3 November, not 2 November.
It's hard to know as allied picks where it goes, but it's off to Manangatang next monday night, I'm back on it to Quambatook. The only other places we load on the Swan Hill line are woorinen and mitiamo atm. Currently we have 22 wagons, but there's more coming I'm told, which will need 3x S class's on the lead which will be cool! Good to get feedback as it helps me for the next job, I've got big plans but little time and often I'm also working so that take priority over being Mr Hollywood.. 😂 Also the drone is flown on semi manual mode and the camera is in full manual mode, so all settings are chosen depending on the light and what I plan to film.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER 3 S classes sounds awesome but arent they already on borrowed time given NSW' so called "emission standards" coming in for locomotives... only be a matter of time before Vic has something similar to weed out these museum pieces...
Today (24 November 2020), GrainCorp will receive its millionth tonne of Victorian grain from the 2020 winter harvest. Heaps more to come from the Mallee and Wimmera. While my care factor is lower due to it being a competitor and foreign owned, AWB/Cargills must also be receiving much grain from Victorian growers. So plenty of work for our esteemed freight train driver Aussie! No Christmas leave (sadly if AUSSIE has a family). Let's all thank him for the great work he and his colleagues, plus SSR, QUBE Holdings and PN among others, do in keeping grain ON RAIL.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER As at 7 December 2020, GrainCorp had received 2,068,300 tonnes in its Victorian silos/bunkers. Next update on Monday 14. We don't know what its market share is - on farm storage keeps rising - but a year or two ago its east coast market share was 42 per cent, so it's fair to assume that with AWB/Cargills and small Viterra Victorian receivals, we're looking already at well over 3.5 million tonnes of receivals at rail facilities. There are a small number of silos no longer connected by rail such as on the former Carpolac line. GrainCorp alone from brisbane, Newcastle, Port Kembla, Geelong and Portland is looking at exporting one million tonnes of grain a month although sometimes it can act as agent for other companies (as it has the most portside handling facilities) so it gets complicated. No wonder there are for GrainCorp alone 30 PN rakes of grain hoppers, plus separately for the harvest the SSR and QUBE Holdings rail contributions.
A week later (14 December), 648300 more tonnes have been received in GrainCorp 'upcountry' silos and bunkers (the vast majority of which are on working rail lines), bringing total Victorian receivals for this Australian-owned grain handler to 2716600 tonnes. It's just short of what was received by GrainCorp in the 2019 winter harvest so this week, that total will be surpassed. Aussie, I lack the ability to be prescient (predict the future) but we can probably say that you are going to be busy for the next 12+ months assuming GrainCorp gets the customers it needs overseas and the bulk ships to carry the grain. It said today in its media release that some ports are already booked out 'well into 2021' so probably its hardest task is obtaining shipping capacity. It isn't a big seller to mainland communist China thank God, as most of the grain goes to southeast Asia and the Middle East, although Africa also apparently features.
Awesome and spectacular country side.
Superb, very few people know how to use a drone - they think that just because you're in the air it's a cool shot. But you told the story by following that lorry, and when you panned over to catch it arriving at the mill with the train already in frame, I was blown away, not sure if you planned that or if it was a happy coincidence. This is one of your best short films yet! By the way, I wish we still had streamliners in freight service, but we don't! At least a local railroad by me recently purchased a pair for their passenger ops, so it's nice to have some in my backyard to see running every once in awhile.
Great video love the drone work.
This superb video has a high ratio of 'likes' to 'views', but it's surprising it hasn't been yet viewed thousands of times. Deserves to be. I have watched it several times because it's a lesson in how to properly use a drone. A non railfan who watched it said it was excellent.
Cheers! :)
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER I hope that you have a very happy Christmas. Thank you for these delightful videos with your eye for detail, and also a huge thanks for reliably transporting by rail (mostly AWB/Cargills but sometimes GrainCorp, is that correct?) crops from silos/bunkers to Allied Pinnacle's Kensington mill or various ports. Great job, and motorists who are safer due to fewer B-Double or A-Double road cowboys driving long distances also have reason to be grateful.
Spectacular rural scenery, that's what Australia is all about. Such a shame that many silos were closed on our NSW branch lines, only Tottenham and Trundle open this season on that line while many along that same line lie crumbling away, big silos like Gunningbland, Forbes and Yarrabandai unused, such a waste and shame. Good to see old EMD's working hard on their home grounds of Victoria. Excellent production, thank you.
But at least Tottenham is the terminus of that branch so it remains open. (I have been on a special train to it: pleasant location).
@@edmundcarew7235 Grain trains will start next week I think, wonder if it will be SSR or Pacific National, or maybe the Graincorp 482 class. Bogan Gate Sub had a line up of trucks yesterday with trains already running out of there. Posted a video of SSR ballast at The Troffs and the shunt at Trundle so it will bring back memories...
@@dieseldavetrains8988 Great. The more the merrier. I understood that the 16 GrainCorp 48 class locos had been in storage, but someone mentioned a while back that they may be brought back into service. So if happending, great - further fodder for videographers! I was also told that the Tottenham NSW receival point is likely to be about the busiest it's ever been. I hope John Holland have been fixing any track defects with the aid of the ballast train.
@@edmundcarew7235 Pacific National very short of branch line loco's as they "retired" and scrapped many 48 class, 81 and 82 class etc too heavy for the branch. SSR ex Victorian Railways P, and T class well suited but busy in Victoria. Interesting to see what turns up. I will sit in the pub at Tullamore and watch them sail past!
@@dieseldavetrains8988 Well done: a video for railfans would be even better if you or a friend can manage it. Enjoy a beer or three!
Whoever designed the livery on the b class deserves a gold star and an elephant stamp.
Fantastic! Another winner! Really well done
Top class cinematography and video production. The music and the drone shots were amazing and right up there to a professional standard. Oh and the trains were pretty cool too ;-)
Legend thanks for the feedback!
Hi another fantastic lot of footage with limited time and equipment you have. Looks like the country has had a fair bit of welcome rain. Best of luck and stay safe.
Cheers Lee.
For those of us who have shares in GrainCorp, great to observe the supplementary storage with tarpaulins at Piangil, the terminus of the line past Swan Hill. Shares are up this morning (as they were yesterday), no doubt partially thanks to you and your colleagues' efforts in seeing the grain railed to port or for domestic use via Kensington (Vic's) Allied Pinnacle mill. You keep B-Doubles off roads closer to Bendigo and Melbourne so well done.
This is an absolutely beautiful video. The drone footage is wonderful: lovely countryside, showing the operations including at the silo and delivering trucks and of course the loco driver on the throttle as well as that departure shot with flashing lights at the level crossing and freshly ballasted track. First class, and while the music not quite to my taste, appropriate. Interesting that you leave some wagons away from the silo and don't just have them in a single rake.
Maybe your real calling in life was a Hollywood film producer?
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it, its semi hard work trying to find the right shots and still keep it interesting to watch.
I had a good friend pick the music, so I'll let him know.. I wasn't too sure on it but seemed to work so I edited around it.
Yeah we load towards the dead end, only about 1 loco and 7 wagons fits or 2 locos and 5 wagons so we split the train up, which made for less moves for the same result.
I've always been a fan of cinematography, cameras, lenses and setting up shots. But doing this solo most of the time I have to film, direct, produce and edit myself, so it can leave windows for error, not to mention this is all done on my phone, no some big expensive computer at this stage so I'm slightly limited but the good part is I can edit almost anywhere.
Glad you enjoyed it. There's more being edited and coming soon.
edmund carew, as a shareholder, how do you feel about company money being wasted because trains have to be shuffled like a deck of cards because sidings and loops throughout the state are too short?
@@vsvnrg3263 Can you give some examples? I'm not quite sure what you mean - are you referring to how say a crossing loop is too short for a 40 wagon grainy with a couple of locos, and hence has to be placed in a refuge siding taking extra time? Is this in reference to NSW or Victoria?
@@edmundcarew7235 ,its a reference to wa, vic and nsw. the other states i don't know about but they are probably bad too. in this video the train has to be broken up. it should be able to do a straight drive-through. this breaking up bull shit happens everywhere. four corners or landline did a show about the nsw grain system about 10 years ago. . wagons were loaded 1/4 or 1/2 full depending where in the train they were. the track couldn't handle the weight of fully loaded wagons. when the train got to the dock it was broken up into little pieces. north geelong has a loop but not long enough. i think canada does wheat trains 4 km long. in wa they have what are called standing derailments - that's where the track may collapse under unloaded wagons while they are standing still. i saw it somewhere recently how it was cheaper to get wheat from a farm in ukraine to newcastle than it was to get the wheat from moree to newcastle. during the recent qld/nsw drought, grain for stockfeed was coming by train from the great southern region of wa, going north to the trans australian line then turning west, not east, to then go south to bunbury to be loaded on a ship to go to the east. wrong rail gauge. cbh is screwed as hard as the regulators will let westnet rail screw cbh because it has the railway monopoly and trucks are an unacceptable option. monopolies are against the law in this country. how westnet rail is allowed to do this is beyond my comprehension. and there is the total balls-up on the murray basin plan. total balls-up. right now china is screwing our country. the governments rely on immigration to grow the economy. and right now they can't do that. they should fix up the food distribution system. fix up the rail gauge problem. make it efficient. your shares would be worth a lot more if we weren't governed by idiots.
Piangil is the end of the line here, just passed this is a road then the continuation of the old road, but some locations do have this issue.
Tocumwal is one with a 3/4 grain loop, if they made it a full loop it would be excellent in and out without excess shunts all the time.
Love the drone footage.
Excellent shots Aussie train driver
Cheers!
Excellent video, great work.
superb...❤️❤️
It’s going to be a massive harvest this year in most of Eastern Australia, ground looks a bit waterlogged in a lot of parts at the moment though.
Reports from elsewhere is that grain (in NSW) is not too badly affected overall, and quality and the yield per hectare are allegedly great. But yes, some parts of various areas (say around Gunnedah NSW) were hit by hail or 'excessive' rain.
@@edmundcarew7235 I just got back from Toowoomba last night (in Melbourne now) and harvest is in full swing in SE Queensland, crops look magnificent, but I think they’re waiting for the ground to dry out in Central NSW. As long as the rain stays away and we get some heat it’ll be a record harvest with great yields.
@@gm16v149 Great information. Nothing like a man on the spot! SE Queensland is not a major winter crop producer: this year, NSW expected to have a 12.5 million tonne winter harvest and Vic about 4.5mt. In Dubbo NSW today, it's only 21.6 degrees at 1230 hours but the next six days are predicted to have temperatures between 25 and 30/31, so latter should help things along.
On 16 November 2020, GrainCorp reported that it had received 300000 tonnes of Victorian grain from the Mallee (I assume out to Walpeup, Murrayville, Ouyen and so on) plus Swan Hill. Wimmera receivals should start soon. Not every rail-serrved site is a GrainCorp one, as AWB (Cargill) also handles the golden grains.
On Wednesday 18 November 2020, GrainCorp had its biggest ever single day of receivals in eastern Australia: 360000 tonnes. Still heaps more to be received.
SSR should def sponsor you!
excellent. is that truck delivering grain from the ground storage to the silos for train loading? that would seem to be double handling.
It is to some extent but that's how they designed it, still easier than running 30 trucks to Melbourne.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER ,errr yes, but there are multiple handling issues here. but as you say, still better than 30 trucks to melbourne. which is better than 300 trucks to melbourne. or 3000.
@@vsvnrg3263 it's pretty standard practice for most silos and seems to be somewhat cost effective.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER GrainCorp and others will have done the sums. Must be cheaper than constructing permanent storage. If graingrowers were assured of a high yielding, high quality and extensive harvest every year, the sums may be different.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER i've just seen the trucks doing the same thing on abc landline today.
Once again.....brilliant.
So which do you prefer?? The B or the S??
Personally the S class.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER nice.
That last scene, isn't that Elmore? Sure looks like it.
Good pick up! I often see how long it takes for people to pick things up when add them in during editing, you may notice similar in my other vids too.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER It adds a touch of fun to your videos, brings people back to see if they figure out the next one.
@@patrickstransportchannel exactly, not all have it but some definitely do. To the untrained eye it all looks the same.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER All thanks to your great cinematography
It's strange that y'all still own Double sideded EMD F7's
Why so?
One thing I forgot: if I may ask, what date was this shot? The description on the video doesn't tell us.
Was shot on the 2nd November. (cup day?)
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER How often are SSR grainys running from Piangil (or other loading points on the Swan Hill line) at present? How many hoppers on broad gauge does SSR have? By the way, this must be one of the best RUclips rail videos I've seen in the past month. You are very skilled (even if the drone does the work).
Cup Day was Tuesday 3 November, not 2 November.
It's hard to know as allied picks where it goes, but it's off to Manangatang next monday night, I'm back on it to Quambatook. The only other places we load on the Swan Hill line are woorinen and mitiamo atm.
Currently we have 22 wagons, but there's more coming I'm told, which will need 3x S class's on the lead which will be cool!
Good to get feedback as it helps me for the next job, I've got big plans but little time and often I'm also working so that take priority over being Mr Hollywood.. 😂
Also the drone is flown on semi manual mode and the camera is in full manual mode, so all settings are chosen depending on the light and what I plan to film.
Yeah extra will be for the docks when they run the BG emerald trains.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER 3 S classes sounds awesome but arent they already on borrowed time given NSW' so called "emission standards" coming in for locomotives... only be a matter of time before Vic has something similar to weed out these museum pieces...
Today (24 November 2020), GrainCorp will receive its millionth tonne of Victorian grain from the 2020 winter harvest. Heaps more to come from the Mallee and Wimmera.
While my care factor is lower due to it being a competitor and foreign owned, AWB/Cargills must also be receiving much grain from Victorian growers.
So plenty of work for our esteemed freight train driver Aussie! No Christmas leave (sadly if AUSSIE has a family).
Let's all thank him for the great work he and his colleagues, plus SSR, QUBE Holdings and PN among others, do in keeping grain ON RAIL.
Cheers for the kind words edmund :)
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER As at 7 December 2020, GrainCorp had received 2,068,300 tonnes in its Victorian silos/bunkers. Next update on Monday 14.
We don't know what its market share is - on farm storage keeps rising - but a year or two ago its east coast market share was 42 per cent, so it's fair to assume that with AWB/Cargills and small Viterra Victorian receivals, we're looking already at well over 3.5 million tonnes of receivals at rail facilities.
There are a small number of silos no longer connected by rail such as on the former Carpolac line. GrainCorp alone from brisbane, Newcastle, Port Kembla, Geelong and Portland is looking at exporting one million tonnes of grain a month although sometimes it can act as agent for other companies (as it has the most portside handling facilities) so it gets complicated. No wonder there are for GrainCorp alone 30 PN rakes of grain hoppers, plus separately for the harvest the SSR and QUBE Holdings rail contributions.
A week later (14 December), 648300 more tonnes have been received in GrainCorp 'upcountry' silos and bunkers (the vast majority of which are on working rail lines), bringing total Victorian receivals for this Australian-owned grain handler to 2716600 tonnes. It's just short of what was received by GrainCorp in the 2019 winter harvest so this week, that total will be surpassed.
Aussie, I lack the ability to be prescient (predict the future) but we can probably say that you are going to be busy for the next 12+ months assuming GrainCorp gets the customers it needs overseas and the bulk ships to carry the grain. It said today in its media release that some ports are already booked out 'well into 2021' so probably its hardest task is obtaining shipping capacity. It isn't a big seller to mainland communist China thank God, as most of the grain goes to southeast Asia and the Middle East, although Africa also apparently features.