Australian Railways; EMD's down under; Three 567's, a full load and a 2% grade

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. Reminiscent of the old days when 567's could be heard for 10' before and after they were seen these three are hard at work on Warrenheip Bank with 9162 grain train from Charlton to Melbourne.
All video is now shot in HD do if you like this you will like these EMD 567 gems :-
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@TrainTrackTrav 13 лет назад

Here in the US, engine with 567s are rare, they're either in museums or working for a short line. Never thought i'd hear 567 hard at work in notch 8 in HD sound. Favorited right away! Great vid!!!!!

@777fuzzypeach 12 лет назад

Anyone else shiver listening to that? First time for me was 1964 on the N&W with 8 GP9's, 4 pulling, 4 pushing 100+cars, around 12,000 tons of coal. Sounded just like this. These vids are just simply priceless captures. Thanks so very much for bringing back memories.

@Shane-Singleton 6 лет назад

I've always preferred the Turbo powered 645's as far as sound goes (that low frequency rumble) but by far the prettiest thing to ever hit the rails were the F units. It makes me happy that there are still some putting in work "down under". Much love for our Australian brothers.

@777fuzzypeach 9 лет назад

Air conditioned cabs? Nope! Computer controlled adhesion control? Nope! Still pegging the amp meter after 50 years? Yep!

@ianbrown_777 7 лет назад

Were those things always that loud or is it just because they're old? Where I walk in the hills, you can always tell if a 2200 is coming. They sound like a chaff cutter.

@carl6956 7 лет назад

it's just the way they were built,the technology in the day wasn't around to make them quieter like now.

@1940limited 7 лет назад

The car body design of these locomotives is timeless. I wish they were still in production with modern prime movers and all the other amenities we have today.

@reefer2917 6 лет назад

Super charged 2 stroke engines have a sound all their own

@1575murray 5 лет назад

You just can't beat the sound of 567-16s in Run 8.

@1d0nT3x15t Месяц назад

Respect to the trainspotters for making Grade A content ahead of its time quality-wise. I’ll be adding all your videos to my train playlist.

@chrisnzella 9 лет назад

Crew members are all leaning hard on the throttle. Great show of power and determination. "I think I can..I think I can..."

@trillions5000 9 лет назад

Stalling could be very bad I think.

@777fuzzypeach 9 лет назад

Chris Rasmussen I KNOW I can...

@adamw.8579 6 лет назад

I doubt for this "suspension", I guess they pray for everything goes well. Small failure - temporary slip, even rat on rail - and end of ride.

@dennisyoung4631 2 года назад

If they have women train drivers, the ladies should be “on” - they get an extra three notches, such that the throttle goes up to eleven. (At least, that’s what happens in fiction.)

@JohnBachofer 8 лет назад

With the paintwork on those engines it really is easy to think of the Santa Fe. Nice to see that somewhere in the world these fantastic old timers still live.

@elenadurant2966 7 лет назад

Actually that paint scheme reminds me of Erie Railroad's freight paint scheme of the 1950's

@somerandomdude1552 6 лет назад

Victorian Railways Blue and gold

@RailPreserver2K 5 лет назад

At first I thought it was likely based on the virginian railroads livery

@brettb-h2831 4 года назад

The VR ripped the Erie Freight scheme and slapped it on to ours

@edkiess6953 4 года назад

Or the Erie, with the yellow wings

@bcstechnologylimited896 6 лет назад

Damn! I can almost smell the Diesel exhaust and hot traction motors! Those old beasts are really working their butts off.

@douglasskaalrud6865 9 лет назад

First-class video. See any hazy blue smoke from those 567's or around the trucks? That is some well-maintained power doing what it was designed to do and it's certainly not being abused.

@48alfaone 14 лет назад

Man, thank you, thank you! This was great! It takes me back to when i was a kid in Vancouver BC. Late at night in bed every so often i could hear this sound as units of CN to the north of me, and GN to the east of me would pull hard leaving town. Great job filming this for us all! Thanks, Kev from Canada.

@7822welshsteam 14 лет назад

What a cracking sound!! I have to admit I'v been searching the web for a non-British diesel that (in my opinion) makes a descent noise and I have to say this is the first time I've been really impressed!

@thomasninan947 8 лет назад

seems like Mr. and Mrs. emd and their friend made this climb up saying "getting old ain't for wimps" and "we made it from bottom to top"

@donotwantahandle1111 3 года назад

I love the double enders (no need for a turntable!).

@Rocketboy1950 11 лет назад

If only it had been after I upgraded to a HD camera. Still, the sound's good.

@fleecejackets 14 лет назад

Wow, this has got to be one of the best railroad videos around. Excellent camerawork, and those are some of the best EMD sounds I've ever heard. Wonderful footage!

@robbieperez3385 9 лет назад

Those are very nice, EMD oughta bring that design back for a while.

@bjrnpost4633 6 лет назад

Each night i listen for the sound of an EMD 645... It comes at around 23.42 going north. That bassy sound. Can hear it from about 2km away.

@harris9784 3 года назад

Ever notice ya just don't see old GE's or Alco's doing this sort of heavy lifting 65 yrs old. EMD is simply the epitome of sheer pulling power.

@harris9784 6 месяцев назад

I ran ex- GTW GP-9's on a Michigan shortline for many years. There was a 2 mile stretch of maybe 1 percent grade. Two Geeps, 567C, 3500 h.p., Roots blowers just a whining, pulling 30 loaded grain cars, uphill, at 10mph. Oh, on jointed rail, rocking a bit. The thumping, stacato roar from the stacks, with beautiful grey exhaust shooting fifty feet upward, was absolutely awesome & intoxicating to my senses ! Pure pulling power at notch 8 ! As sweet as a P-51 Merlin engine sound !!

@vrfan 11 лет назад

For some reason whenever I'm looking at rail videos on RU-vid I often seem to wind up at this one! :)

@raymurphy2182 11 лет назад

I still say the B class in RV blue and gold was the best looking and best sounding loco.

@Locoman3801 5 месяцев назад

Great footage there Rod , It's great to see them in their "Proper" colour scheme & sounding so good once more.

@tommyhaynes521 8 лет назад

Thanks for posting this !

@chrisbase 14 лет назад

Another "THANKS" shout-out from Canada!!! That was fantastic! I have to listen to that at home with the speakers cranked!

@789cman 11 лет назад

Love all the cool videos you got!

@dituwonga 14 лет назад

I remember them well. On Saturday arvos when I was playing cricket at Russell Square Ballarat East, the umps used to stop the game while a brace of 567s roared up the hill. Noel in Perth.

@Rocketboy1950 13 лет назад

@WBDE I think it was based on the SD7. We never used the 24RL brake here. We mostly had the A7EL and then went to the 26L. Of course the newer locos now have the modern computer based equipment but none that I get on do.

@vinsond25 10 лет назад

Downright beautiful to see, and especially to hear. Thanks for a great video.

@megatwingo 13 лет назад

That is the best diesel engine video I´ve seen so far. And I´ve seen a lot of railway videos. What a sound. Beautiful classic engines. Nice camera work. Thumbs up! :)

@WideWorldofTrains 9 лет назад

Awesome, id love to see old units like that. Used to see them all the time on New York Central until the late 80's early 90's

@richardgerlach5156 9 лет назад

Dunkirk NewYork FL9's.

@Rocketboy1950 11 лет назад

The best answer I can give you is that there are still similar 567's of this era running in Victoria and New South Wales.

@cuzinitr 14 лет назад

Great video! What a sound! 5* & fav's! Rich

@acw71000 14 лет назад

Superb video, what a great sound those loco's make.

@Cornelu 11 лет назад

Excellent video!

@Lee67001 9 лет назад

Fantastic video Rod.

@mike59317 11 лет назад

Nice to see a double ended diesel at work,it was good that you panned around as B74 went by.Cheers.

@Rocketboy1950 12 лет назад

These three are 1500 900 1800HP. All of the new stuff is up around the 4000. The trains have changed significantly since they built these old girls way back then.

@MickFix 13 лет назад

Awesome stuff mate, as always!

@phildoethedildoe 12 лет назад

Holy shit Mate! This looks just like being taken back in time to the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania and watching the Erie Lackawanna run Ore trains!! Glad to see that Australia uses our system for CTC and for trains and signaling to! I knew we Americans would rub off on someone sooner or later. :) :)

@Rocketboy1950 13 лет назад

@SD457500 The Victoria Railways C class would be the one most fitting the description. 10 were built and all are still running. C501 is in the original livery and currently on hire to the same mob that feature in this video.....also the same colours.

@joecameron3512 7 лет назад

that sound is amazing

@struck2soon 12 лет назад

Great clip! Those classic diesels look fantastic, and are obviously being shown no mercy despite their OAP status.

@formidable38 14 лет назад

Thanks for the info, thats mightily impressive work for that trailing load on a 2% grade with old power like these.

@Rocketboy1950 14 лет назад

The operator is ( really ) El Zorro Transport. The locomotives are hired from a heritage group. I drive for them on a casual basis.

@richhood9934 6 лет назад

Who knew I'd have to go halfway around the world to see F-unit look-alikes in Erie Railroad livery.

@erinheim54 11 лет назад

Great locos working hard. Nice video.

@Rocketboy1950 14 лет назад

Firstly thanks. Tthese are really two separate tracks in that the older one is freight only and low speed whilst the other is a high speed almost entirely passenger traffic.

@rhondaw1 12 лет назад

I live about 5 mins away from there. I can usually hear them as they start off from the station. I sometimes drive up there and catch them as they go under the bridge at the top of the grade. The sound is fantastic and extremely loud as they slowly go under. Yes, the track diverges soon after the bridge, right to Geelong and left Melbourne.

@FlipRailVideo 14 лет назад

Wish I coul have been there!!!!!!! I've just up loaded my vid of an A class departing Werribee with a down Geelong pass. Love your videos man, been a fan for months.

@chrisnzella 11 лет назад

Thanks, Very nice video I enjoyed watching a couple times...or more.

@307OLDS 14 лет назад

Damn Right!!!! I live in Milwaukee and Milwaukee Road's old mainline to Chicago is in my backyard which is uphill for a few miles. and when CP runs a couple SOO SD40's at notch 8 with a full load, you can hear it and feel it for miles!!!!!! I know it's not the same as a 567 but kinda close.

@TheNickchriss 13 лет назад

Mate you have goto admit if only 6 poeople didn't like this after 105 000 viewings it must be alright. I just tought my son (3.5 years) how to count to 30 watching this! Keep up the good work Trainspotters!

@Rocketboy1950 13 лет назад

@WBDE Now there's a coincidence because I am also working on the ML2 in this clip tomorrow evening. Happily with just four passenger cars. The roadbed in the foreground is for 100mph passenger trains. The freight is on a poorly maintained 50mph freight line. The railway here always flogged everything and we frequently ran over the ruling grades at about 10-14 mph. This hill is just a few miles long and then it gets a down hill run for about 50.

@ttrainmixx 13 лет назад

Very nice video !

@locomotion60 14 лет назад

orsome footage with the locos at full power. Well done Rocketboy. Wish i was there to see and hear the sound of the locos working hard.

@RODALCO2007 10 лет назад

Great video. Those engines are working very hard.

@pwalpar 14 лет назад

Exceptional camera work. Great video

@09beegee 12 лет назад

A great clip of some handsome locomotives hard at work. My compliments

@flyingpigstuff 14 лет назад

Reminds me of the days of Arrarat with big C's blasting over the hill and the lights of an arriving jet shining down the highway. Was always good to hang around the bridge and take a peek at the shunting in what was a very busy yard.

@dtiehuis 11 лет назад

Great to see B74 and S303 etc all still running around. I used to chase these trains and many more all over vic to refuel them at all hours of the night and day. Great work

@juvmol 12 лет назад

great video , thumbs up!

@CentralPennRailProductions 9 лет назад

Excellent video and beautiful sound!

@tracynation239 3 года назад

An excellent video. ♡ T.E.N.

@ed777tx-edward8 2 года назад

Not many cars, but loaded to the gills, great video thank you.

@TrainTrackTrav 13 лет назад

Sweet sound my friend, God bless!

@Rocketboy1950 13 лет назад

@19021986a It's a grain train and not that many years back they always gave us a full load and that's how fast we went over the steep grades.

@Rocketboy1950 14 лет назад

You're welcome and thanks for watching.

@trampl69 12 лет назад

nice art work on grain cars

@trillions5000 9 лет назад

Such power, fantastic.

@Rocketboy1950 12 лет назад

Correct, we never used them here but old folk like me that used to buy things like "Trains" magazine ( because we had none of our own back then ) certainly know about them/

@svenwillumsen6691 6 лет назад

Yes, I love this video.

@Tom-Lahaye 13 лет назад

This is the perfect acoustic orgasm, it even beats the Tailem grainy chase, another Aussie video with these old beauty's hard at work. The sound remembers me the chase of iron ore trains with classes 52 and 53 in Belgium, for witch the class B was the pattern.

@ap70621 11 лет назад

Thanks for the info.

@wack66 6 лет назад

i remember these with the blue white livery when my dad was the station master at Maroona

@Geebax2 2 года назад

I don't believe they were ever painted in a blue & white livery.

@Rocketboy1950 13 лет назад

@mercenary454 Its more of an F unit based on an SD7 I believe.

@kurtarmbruster 11 лет назад

Thanks for the clarification, Rod. The slogs certainly make a good spectacle!

@NS2589 14 лет назад

wow, you could hear those long before you can see them. nothing like hearing a 567 or a 645 in run 8!!

@Rocketboy1950 13 лет назад

@LanceCampeau This was shot some time back with an older Sony DCR-TRV50E standard definition unit. I have since changed to a Sony HVR Z5P.

@Rocketboy1950 14 лет назад

Simple control cables that plug in to each unit.

@avrrailfan 10 лет назад

that sound is pure awesomeness

@kurtarmbruster 11 лет назад

PS: I also sure to love that Erie RR livery. Wish other Australian lines could be as tasteful! These are great videos, thanks for posting.

@Landaux 14 лет назад

Now this is what you call TRAIN STRAIN! Beautiful sound as well as country wherever it is. :-)

@RYNT1157 5 лет назад

The re-engined Metropolitan Vickers C class in Ireland had an 8 cylinder 645 GM unit of 1,100 hp with the double exhaust outlet similar to these units. Only the roar was a bit louder at 900 rpm in notch 8.

@barroningram7286 5 лет назад

loud when i was a kid back in the 50s and early 60s we lived right on southern railways main line in greensboro nc those f and e models were real loud i'll never forget that sound

@johnd8892 3 года назад

These bulldogs look like E units but are all single motored F7 derived on C-C SD trucks requested by VR in 1949. So the VR request is a major part of the reason the SD truck was developed.

@Rocketboy1950 13 лет назад

@TheCleaner001 Thanks for the comment. I will reserve my opinion on the maintenance regime......we have a few failures with these very old girls.

@EMDSD14R 13 лет назад

Ah Australian EMD's...love tht sound..the first unit reminds me of my F24C..which is based off of the Class A... except my (American Version) of the Class A has only one cab..i hope to buy or build a Class A soon... great vid!!!

@Rocketboy1950 13 лет назад

@TrainTrackTrav We have a pile of the old girls working down here. CFCL have quite a few on the books here.

@TrainsUnlimited 14 лет назад

Wow... That's a really nice video!!! I like it :)

@HabTasianet 14 лет назад

Very Good!

@mateuszmattias 12 лет назад

I like the guy walking the dog at around 1:05, the dog obviously barking like crazy at the train.

@Rocketboy1950 14 лет назад

Thanks,these are old cars and 76 tons loaded.

@Rocketboy1950 11 лет назад

It's always nice to be able to duck below the windows just before you hit a fallen tree. It's also an advantage to know if that thump you just heard was a sheep or a human.

@TemplarKnight1177 2 года назад

Yeah. And also, if the driver see something he can blow the horn. Not to mention that everybody likes to see exactly where the oncoming train is.

@OutbackSPoT 14 лет назад

i WILL HAVE TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU TOLD ME IN THE PAST ABOUT VIDEO SETUP. THATS SOME NICE QUALITY VIDEO WELL DONE.

@keithode1737 8 лет назад

Listen to those 567s!

@Rocketboy1950 12 лет назад

Japanese passenger trains. Apologies for any misunderstanding. However, we do have some luxury passenger trains down here that would compare very well to the streamliners of yesteryear USA. Look up The Ghan, Indian Pacific, Southern Spirit or The Queenslander. With almost the same land mass and a small fraction of your population to support a rail system we do OK.

@46Nailik 13 лет назад

great video with fantastic sound! Greetings from Germany:)

@Rocketboy1950 10 лет назад

It's been quite a few years since a 567 hauled a passenger train in Victoria ( other than charter ) and West Coast was dead and buried more than five years ago.

@Rocketboy1950 11 лет назад

The two bigger units were geared for 'about ' 80 mph ( allowed 70 ) with the smaller unit in the mid 60's ( allowed 60 ) IIRC. They ran them in MU for years before some genius figured that the combined loads had to be reduced due to the larger units running below their continuously rated speed and above the continuous AMPS.

@ryherdbuckmaster 14 лет назад

awesome vid! Sure love the covered waggons!

@jtaship 13 лет назад

Very nice video and sound :o)

@Rocketboy1950 11 лет назад

Yep 100 forward, 2 up can be inches metres miles, it's just the ratio. Black smoke is usually indicative of improper fuel air mix. Causes may be multiple.