BROAD GAUGE STREAMLINERS ON THE ALLIED GRAIN. a short film.
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- A short film I made up from a few jobs, recently up to charlton and Nullawil, which includes the run up the main street of Wycheproof Victoria. All shot on a gopro 9, on either a Stick or magnet base.
* I must mention that safety is my absolute number one priority, what the camera sees doesn't always depict what I'm focused on which is driving these trains, and doing my work safely.
I edit together what is generally random unseen footage, I clip the camera to my hat or helmet also, so my hands are free to do my job, if I can't film a shot safely, I won't shoot it, until I can assess all risks Involved.
That being said, always open to feedback and comments, i try to make these videos appeal to non rail fans also, I have a love of film/cinema, and a love of cameras.
The money I make from these advertisements gets me more camera gear, to make better videos for you, and I'll continue to make them as long as Im permitted by the company I work for, and I can do it safely.
I'm a locomotive driver of 15 years, I've driven for numerous rail operators, Intermodal, bulk freight, passenger, grain, as well as works trains and special services.
I love making these vids, and please please please, go and visit some country towns when covid restrictions ease in Australia, these towns need you, it's heartbreaking seeing places who go through floods and drought so often are forced to shut down because they don't have anyone stopping through town for a rich coffee with milk from local farmers and a Homemade bacon and eggs, from the local butcher and the chooks up on the corner.
Cheers watchers! 🍻 Adam. 🤟
… grew up in Queensland but watching from my home in Tucson, Arizona … American EMDs are my favorite locomotives and to think these beauties were built years ago in Sydney and they’re still going strong … a testament … I followed along on a map of the area and enjoyed seeing Australia immensely .. thank you
The colours of rural Australia are magnificent. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks mate, I film in log profile on the go pro and punch the colours up in post, then try and match each scene to they look as close to eachother as possible.
It’s great to see these veteran locomotives that are approaching 70 years old still doing mainline work. My favorite will always be the B class.🇦🇺
Great shots of the country side and locos. I still love my old stomping ground(mallee)
Lovely footage! The scenery is greart - sunsets, early morning mist - excellent!
Nice one. It was like I was there.
Great video and I like how you make it clear that it doesn’t effect your job in the moment. I’d really like to see back of the S and more specifically, the controls for shunting at the back. Something I can’t find anywhere on the internet are images of that area
Love those bulldogs. Music to my ears.
I once painted an L class for one of the boys at the Newport workshops I just love the shape of these things
Oooooooo! This one’s got everything 🤩 Love the captions and the longer length, not to mention the sneaky peek of the engine room at the end. Well worth missing a day of work to meet you and see your office in action😃 Let us know when you’re close by and we’ll bring you coffee and cake☕️ 🍰 💜
For sure! Love these towns! Kills me atm not being allowed into pubs for those amazing meals.. And the country atmosphere.
Nice video mate. Probably my favourite line in the state. I have camped at Kurting a few times. You can see the charred ashes of my fire in the middle of the path around 4:02. I also liked the interior shots. Great to see "ancient" locos still earning their keep.
great to hear an old 567 still going at it on the mainline in vic
love the views and the sounds
Watching this one, I had an interesting thought.
Imagine Australia's road-network (loco drivers know this one) each loco is a blood vessel, moving life sustaining 'energy' from point to point.
Learning from this video that you essentially work split-shifts, and resting midpoint was seriously cool - another unique look that you provide us into the industry.
Cheers for the feedback, always appreciated.
Great fottage mate nice lash up of vintage streamliners and hood type locomotives. They are some of my favourites.
He's retired now but was also a radio ham and when he did the lysaght rail run would send me morse code on the horns when he went through Chelsea on his way to Hastings, Loved your vids well done
Oh how cool! Cheers man.
finally some very good out back train videos,,,,cool
Thank you. Fantastic
Hi Adam, many thanks for your awesome extended version of your last video, great country side. Cheers Lee.
Beautifully shot video. You've done a great job here. Hope to see the full length video one day. Thank you.
Fantastic video thanks for the ride,can't beat those grain trains
Bloody awesome, you gave us the heads up it was coming and you delivered.
Well done Adam 👍
Great work. I love the angle of the setting sun at 4:20 Keep up the good work!
Love the sound of the diesels
Absolutely love the views and the sounds!!! Thank you!!! 8D
I loved the journey. Look forward to more. Thanks! 💖🤗
Beautiful footage, thank you for the posting.
absolutely love your videos
Oh boy how good is this! 👌
Love the work and locos
Fantastic stuff! Really well put together from a view some of us can only dream of!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Nicely made and produced video Adam. Thank you and well done. ;-)
great views !!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, that was cool. 18:36 You could tell me thats in a WW2 U Boat and I'd belive you.
Interesting view of level crossings we don't get to see. I don't trust those things and treat every one of them as broken cuz me figures being mechanical they all gotta not work at some point sometime.
They are tested often, also most crossing have a "healthy state indicator" if it's not flashing you can assume something isn't working, but I cant say I've had many issues with them. Also many are operated by axle counters now, in favour of old track circuits.
Love these types of videos....
I think it must have been your train I followed and photographed at 3 locations on Monday 13th Sept between Sea Lake and Boigbeat, where the emergency brakes appeared to activate with the train pulling up right next to the silos. The S-class sounded great pulling up the slight rises. S302 / T363 / P14 / S317 was the order I saw.
Thank you so much, that was outstanding
Ya know what, I think Australia is on the radar now...
Haha cheers! Hope you enjoyed it.
Wow! That’s a crazy gauge! Definitely not 4 foot 3/4 like here! Edit: I love this video keep it up! Got to love that sound of the rail joints!
The Gauge that this Train is on is 5’ 3”, or what’s called “Irish Gauge”.
Correct, the Irish Guage.
Thank you for the video. Great stuff.
Great clip aussie train driver. I shall share it again with Jawtooth
Awesome!!
Awesome stuff mate! Cheers for the vid.
Where do you start & end your runs ,when you pick up your change crew Where do they stay while they wait for their shift to start. Or do they live where you picked them up from .
Usually Melbourne to Wycheproof, get relived by another qualified crew who take it to sea lake or nullawil load and return and stable, we sign back on after 8-12 or so hours off, and take it back to melbs loaded.
Great stuff. 👍
That was great thank you
It's such a shame to see so much track being torn up :/
ALLIED GRAIN!!!!!!
Fantastic film!
Excellent footage, how's the track up that direction since the work being done on it, crops look alright but the pressure will be on shortly with not rain being a bit on the scarce side and last one, what's the name of the creek in the footage right at the end, trickling along nicely, very picturesque. cheers.
excellent TX
Another great cinematic experience!!! p.s. Check out the new Go Pro 10
You have a great eye for a shot and i love your editing.
I wonder if you could include the locos and consist weight/length in your videos? I was just chilling watching this with the Sweetheart when she asked "how heavy is this train?". I be like [shrug]..
Yeah can defs do that!
Great video
Goodday Adam,
What a great video capturing all the beauty of Australia rural landscape with the roar & purr of EMD power in the background.
Right now I see this combo rolling through Middle Footscray on its way to Emerald Grain. Are you in the pilot seat atm 14:10 on Monday Arvo.
Just trying to understand when you split the loco's. Why wouldn't you run the whole 4 loco's as one combo around to the other end instead of 3 at 1 end & the lead loco at the other.
Cheers
Louis 👍
Nope I'm currently out near Elmore, doing track work tests with T385 & S312.
Also the whole train and locos dont fit at Nullawil so locos have to be detached.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER
Thanks for that totally understand.
Seems like a pain spliting the combo then split again & hook up.
Hate to be doing it in the rain.
Stay safe
Cheers
Louis 👍
Great video, thanks for your efforts. Question, what is the connection between multiple engines to control them from the primary, is it electrical, hydraulic . . . . . ?????, just often wondered !!!!. Thanks for sharing, take care and stay safe, Cheers.
It's all electrical, via the jumper cable. (mu cable)
Music again at 11minutes thought I wouldn’t catch you… 😂
By the way appreciate your work ✌🏻!
I've noticed on a few U.S. rail fan videos that there seem to be a lot of fault detectors around the place over there.
Do we have them in Australia?
Thx for the great videos you keep putting out.
Nice vid, what's the go with those stations with a rail along most of the platform - never seen anything like that before.
They are stations now closed.. If you look at a map of Victoria, north of Shepparton Echuca, Maryborough, are all freight only lines now, these old stations are no longer serviced by trains other than freight, it's sad in some ways, they are starting to be re used and reconditioned due to heritage listing's as some of these old stations date back well into the late 1800s, up till the early 1900s and are being used by local councils, or as little cafes, clubs etc.
The editing is really getting good! Looks like this was a nice run. That street run in Wycheproof was very cool. It was so quiet when you ran through there. was it very early?
About 8am ish, also regional was still in lockdown.
Quick look at shadows will confirm.
@@greghenderson6782 I'd also have to look at a map to determine the relative orientation of the landmarks casting the shadows since no direction of travel was indicated on that stretch. Figured it'd be easier to ask rather than to orienteer.
@@Trains-With-Shane My apologies,. I took it you knew Wycheproof a bit, if not first hand perhaps its numerous 'feature' roles in rail fan videos.
Fabulous video this, really features the journey into the Mallee via this line.
@@greghenderson6782 lol no worries, mate! I'm up in the states so not even the same half of the globe. I have to admit I'd REALLY like to visit AUS some day, though.
Why are these still in use?? Still can't get enough modern locomotives?
Victorian broad Guage is captive and no one wants to spend money on modern locomotives.
Plus vline is still stuck in the 1970s while the rest of the country goes 21st century
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Good video, correct me if i am wrong, broad gauge makes the train look steady and safer as opposed to narrow gauge i.e. Narrow gauge makes the loco looks top heavy, and rocks terrible.
To some extent yes, correct.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER BTW what is the measurement of the broad gauge versus the narrow gauge.
@@ferdinandfrancis9673 Broad 5'3" 1600mm - Standard 4' 8-1/2" or 1435mm
do you know Barry Watkins? old mate of mine
I can't say I do, where does he work?
Do you mostly drive alone? Or with a conductor?
I hope your locos get sanitised. Stay Safe!!!
Absolutely, we often carry our own wipes and clean down surfaces between crews.
Cringe
I believe this track Is the way to mildura line am I correct
Sea lake line
That Inglewood line qld or somewhere else
Victoria, Australia
Vic
The relief crew at Wyche, where are they based?
Usually Melbourne or Bendigo crews go up and rest up there for the loads, as they are somewhat infrequent.
I want to see this in real life so looks like im on a road trip
when this stupid lockdown rules garbage we are currently in
goes away and i can hop in the Ford and go for a drive.
Oh, im over 800K's away one way so epic trip.
How often does a train go down the line like this??
Just so i can plan.
I'll let everyone know. I'm working out a way to place the Info up, stay tuned.
How many trains run the street in Wycheproof in a typical day?
It varies, some days maybe 1 up one back, others no trains, or possibly 2 trains other days.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER is the only traffic through this section grain trains?
@@dougkoontz1752 pretty much yeah!
Drop the saturation on the camera. Looks like Brazil.
Yeah I since have, was on spark profile
So, how does the Wycheproof town approach from the station doesn't at least have lights to warn motorists? Not busy enough to warrant it? 🤔
Blind approach, boggles the mind. I suppose if they don't hear the horn they shouldn't drive 😂
Great video. 😎
Yeah no lights just stop signs. We just roll out onto the street, and look both ways for cars.
Kinda sounds like an RS5T or similar horn.
Yes, it is a RS5T.
What is the track gauge?
Broad 5'3"
wow this makes me want to be a train driver, I'm victorian what do I have to do to get to this stage? Any info would be much appreciated :)
they once paid you if you could get someone to join as a trainee driver(1970's) . Train driver jobs are now sought after and long wait applications and a rather difficult aptitude test...Ring the rail employment office and see what their requirements are these days...you never know your luck.