Don’t forget that wonderful GM I’ve worked on as a fireman on it and quailed for all steam except for oil burners thou I did my A trails on 5910 in the 60’s. Thank you.
Just steamed past my house at Concord West heading city bound..... would be a very loud trip through the North Strathfield tunnel!!! They let the whistle go waiting for a signal and my poor dog nearly went through the roof lol . Looked great at night with the firebox glow.
Thanks again Bevan , she looks bloody awesome once more , I just wish that I could be there with you to enjoy the experiences chasing her & 4201 , I so recall Cowan Bank for steam power.
Conditions on Cowan bank are different today than in 1960. The railheads today are cleaner because there are no steam eugines spewing an unholy brew of lube oil and water onto the railheads. Likewise rolling stock today run on sealed roller bearings rather than bronze slippers running in an open oil box which also leaked 90 SAE lube oil onto the track. Another hazardous stretch was on the down main at Beecroft, I remember seeing suburban electrics getting stuck there . They were glory days and the smell of Steam, oil and fire never leaves your nostrils. Great videos!!! Stavros on Steam
@@mitchellgreen6891 I'm pretty sure he's referring to the Hawkesbury/Cowan crash back in 1990, the driver car from the V set that ran into the rear of 3801's consist ended up at Elcar Chullora workshop when I was working there in the early 90's.
This locomotive looks and sounds very much the WP series locos of the Indian Railways. Even the coaches look the ones in India used in the 1960s and 70s. This loco has been restored very well.
Hmmmm, good point. I grew up with the rail line just over my back fence - Parents still live there, perhaps not everyone is as keen - but they should be hahahahahaha
I don't know why I shed a tear when watching this! That era of transport was something special in a train. The travelling was just as special as the destination.
True, but 3801 is the closest thing you'll see to a New Haven I5 class (which the 38 class streamlining was based on). Personally, I prefer the non-streamlined 38s.
Not sure about the ton, but my dad timed a 38 on the Friday evening Flyer to Newcastle in 19476-47 at 39 seconds to the mile, which I think would be low 90s.
@@michaelstuddert2198 Hey Micheal, are you related to a guy called John, used to race motorcycles in the 70s and 80s, he lived just north of Goulburn, but worked in a car model shop in Canberra??
Steam locomotives will never pass home in Japan! If a steam locomotive comes up, everyone will shoot with a camera! I was moved by the video of a steam locomotive passing through the platform! Thank you very much for this video!
I could not agree more well worth the expensive re-build. A Huge Thank You to those who restored the Locomotive. From a ex Cowan resident who now lives in Townsville. My Margaret was the Post Mistress at Cowan for quite a few years before the Post Office was moved down to the Local Shop. It used to be in the front of our house at 1181Pacific Hwy, the service road section. Cheers from Denis & Margaret. Townsville, Qld.
this is one of the oldest trains yet to still live today glad that this marvelous locomotive avoided being scrapped and the extinction of her class so beautiful
The fresh paint job looks fantastic. It looks like it just walked out of the 1930’s. I can imagine Hercule Poirot at the station and climbing aboard :)
artistjoh Me too, but really only because I saw Suchet before I saw Finney's version. He was quite good, of course (He's Albert Finney, what do you expect?). Both are. It's interesting, though, to look at Suchet as Poirot, and then look at him as some of his other characters, like in "Executive Decision", where he played a damned fine villain in an otherwise pathetic movie. A villain who was, of course, utterly different from Hercule Poirot. It really shows how good an actor Mr. Suchet is.
FS2K4Pilot To me, Suchet is the closest, amongst all the various players, to my internal vision that the writer inserted in my head about Poirot. All of the movie and TV players are, for me, secondary to Christie’s descriptions. That is the greatness of Suchet - he was always trying to be true to Christie and nothing more, while the others all put their personal spin into the role. When seeing this train, it is Suchet’s Poirot that I see climbing aboard, following Ms Christie herself.
What a beautiful piece of machinery 3901 is! Was diesel unit 4201 built here in the US? I've never seen an American unit with the horns on the nose of the cab. Wish I was down there with you guys to see it and ride behind. I'm not familiar with Australian railways, but they seem like a combo of North American and British.
Apparently it's a NSWGR 42 class. They were based off of the EMD F9 series, iirc. The Victorian Railways had similar diesels, such as the B and S classes, built for 5'3 broad gauge.
Built by Clyde engineering NSW Australia under licence, also all were built in CoCo wheel arrangement not BoBo like most of yours however the 1st 10 or so built for the Commonwealth Railways were A1A wheel arrangement, the Southern Australian state of Victoria were all Clyde EMD products in their mainline Loco’s (in diesel) & most shunters ( switchers) with a handful of exceptions.
I am amazed. Never thought I would ever see her with a fire in her belly and steam thru her pipes again. Hope the boiler has a long life in front of it. 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🇦🇺🇦🇺
Technically the old sound of the whistle was not the real sound of the whistle, it was heavily damaged and did not sound like a real 38 class, this one is far more accurate Note- The whistle is the same, it has just been refreshed
@@danielcook9032 100% Daniel. Over time, steam pressure and other factors distort the internals of the whistle, particularly on the 38s with the steam pressure they operate at, which change the sound of the whistle. Of the preserved 38s, 3820 had the high pitched whistle typical of 38s of the '60s. 3813's whistle was awful. 3830's whistle was, I think, rebuilt as part of '30's 1992-97 overhaul; it sounded beautiful. 3801's rebuilt whistle, like 3830's, should sound just like it did when it went into service in 1943 and be like 3830's. There is a wonderful video by Bevan Wall which explains why, despite being essentially the same design (except the 59 cl), whistles vary so much in sound. It's on RU-vid.
Actually she much better resembles on of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad's streamlined Hudsons, the big difference is, as a Pacific (4-6-2) she has a two-wheel trailer truck, where a Hudson (4-6-4) has a four-wheel trailer truck. Also, for the record, 4449 is a Northern (4-8-4) with an oscillating signal light above it's headlight, something 3801 lacks. Come to think of it, 3801 resembles a slightly shorter version of Norfolk and Western Railroad's J-class Northerns like 611. Stay safe and healthy.
Try to copy? The diesel was made in Australia under license. As for the 38 class, they weren't trying to reinvent steam locomotive streamlining, it's very much influenced by the fashion at the time. The streamlining is pretty basic though, and only applied to the first 5 of the class.
The diesel is doing all the work by the sounds. Not sure about when trailing like that, but there are/were quite heavy speed restrictions on the 38s being driven tender first.
@@mdgfb05 Yep, wouldn't be much of a load trial if it wasn't doing the work, I was referring to when the 42 is leading, per the question that was asked.
