Power for the aircon and lighting provided by the SA power van at the end of the whole consist. And that's only for the cars behind the locos in the middle. The front cars use axle driven generators/ batteries to provide lighting, they are non aircon cars.
Sri Lanka Steam Coal Railway Engines were introduced to Sri Lanka during British occupation in the year 1864 Sri Lanka had Broad Guage 5' 1/2" tracks and narrow Guage 2' 1/2"lines For hill country climb Railway used Garratte Engines too in Sri Lanka Now we have Diesel Electric Engines Not cable run trains as yet
Thank you for capturing & sharing this video for everyone to see , if I was there - I'd have done the same thing as you - video the train ; the last time that I saw 6029 in person it was about to under go restoration in the Canberra rail museum & living in W.A. these days - I miss "home" for the steam action but hopefully I'll be back again some day soon.
Now that's a train. What i would like is something more than a train ride, maybe trips both ways with an accommodation package. A much larger revenue opportunity for Heritage coffers
Wonderful to see one of these old girls still going strong! UK followers who want to check one out can find a full size one at the Science Museum in Manchester and see 3 foot gauge versions on the Welsh Highland Railway- Caernarfon to Porthmadog.
I remember on occasion as a kid seeing Beyer-Garratts hauling coal and they were always a spectacle. I met 6029 at Goulburn once and she was utterly immaculate, like she just steamed out of the showroom. The irony is that I don't think they ever hauled passengers.
0:02 it was at that moment every diesel locomotive in the yard released all there oil on to the ground and every electric locomotive overloaded at the sight of an ancient monster pulling her consist from hell into the station and all was suddenly silent fearful to tell of the shame they felt knowing they were not even capable of such raw impressiveness.
Love those Beyer Garrett they’re big ugly beasts but they exude a sense of power you just don’t feel with any other locomotive. They could probably drag the diesel even if it was trying to go in the opposite direction.
The train is a combined consist due the wet weather & track closures. It was supposed be 2 trains to Bathurst. The steam with passengers & the diesels with the support carriages. The wet weeather changed all that.
Here in North America diesels are seen with steam engine specials because even our old coaches have long ago been converted to electric heat and systems and no longer from a steam line from the steam loco. The diesel(s) is along for the ride as a generator.
@@Terrys-Steam-and-Cobi Never thought about that before, I guess that explains why a diesel always pulls the Southern Aurora Carriages, the silver ones seen in the video. I think the red ones at the front are not AC, as ive seen videos of these carriages pulled solely by Steam
Look up the 3801 crash and you will see why the coroner ordered a diesel to be part of the consist. Also it can provide electrical power to whatever carriages need it. The Garret could easily pull the lot even if the diesels were not running, they are there for electrical power and safety. They used to go past my school (in the 60's) pulling huge loads.
@@stringpicker5468 What like 4201, whose sister train was still in mainline service up to 2019, pulling far heavier with no smoke? 4501 whose has two sister trains in current mainline? Or 4916 where 4904, 4908, 4910, 4911 and 4917 are also in current mainline pulling grain, which is far heavier? Yeah scrapheaps indeed verses a heritage steam train that spends most of it's time in the workshop because it's actually quite fragile. 6029 is a cool as hell engine but dont kid yourself, those workhorses behind would kick it's ass and also actually start in the morning without 5hours of work
