Amazing that 1960s ALCOs are still at work in regular freight service down under. By the 1980s, ALCO was long gone but their prime movers were still being made licensees couch as Comeng in Australia, DLW in India, and Bombardier in Canada.
Excellent locomotive and video!!! We saved one in Greece earlier this year ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l3pJ4XjyXvc.html My best greetings from Greece to spectacular Australian Trains :-)
Awesome video, love the sound of a Mk1 44 class alco (4458) with its unsettled governed cranky chanting idle, shame there's not many left, could listen to it all day,👍
Really nice video. Used to cross from the USA to Sarnia ONT in the 80's to catch ALCOs. Unique sounding locomotives, that's for sure. Thanks for posting this!
It's hauled by Alco 250 as prime mover it's once used to haul meter gauge locomotives ydm4 in india and now those Alco prime movers are used in braodguage shunters
The mixture of different kinds of signals that a single line in Melbourne's network could have always interested me. The semaphores look quite different from what I've seen in Geelong, Wallan, and the Hurstbridge line. Wish they were still around. The same signal masts are still used to this day, but they're all LED signals now.