CLF3 Australia's own 3000hp Streamliner - drivers cab. 

Glad you enjoy them :)

Me too, awesome video.

as a Young adult it's all I want to do haha the trouble is I have no idea where to even start with it haham theres no courses as far as I know and employment agents can't/won't help me

I got to run the train at work a few times. And yes it is so much fun it should be illegal.

What does notch 8 mean?

That's full power on the locomotive throttle

Yep still running almost every day if the week here on the south east coast.

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER Erie Mining, Hoyt Lakes Minnesota had a fleet, I think 5-6 F9 A units and 5-6 B units. Of course they were closed before I moved to the area. They donated one of the A units to the Railroad Museum in Duluth Minnesota, they still use it on their excursion train.

@@karlzwaschka4905 haha that's so cool! Our poor old girls are still crawling up hills at 5kmh.. I don't know how they do it still!

What state are you in aussietraindriver? Was she always white?

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You can get them, auscision make them if I recall.

It's a good job!

The issue you get with that is wagon wheel flat spots, usually it's good to avoid unless in an emergency.

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER Well, a knuckle will always break, not if but when ;)

This driver is more centrally seated. In Victoria, drivers sit on the left of the cab.

Was it always white? I cant remember what colour they were growing uo as a kid now. I remember every single noise theyd make but. Perfect

Not that early, more 1950s design but the CLs were built in the 1970sin Australia.

There is no routine mate. It’s weekends, nights, late starts, early starts, all in the same week. Plenty of sunrises and minimal sleep. It can be challenging in many ways. In particular the fatigue, missing social events and family milestones It’s also good pay, not labour intensive, interesting while you’re learning at least, lots of responsibility and challenging when things go bad.

@@NoBody-ht1oh I would love to listen to you guys talk about your experiences in your job, I’ve often wondered what it’s like to be a train driver. Much respect

@@R31Mark cheers mate. Any questions just ask. I’m sure both of us have plenty to share.

No body is right, its a mentally and emotionally tough job, it can be the best one week, and suck the life out of you the next, you sleep during the day, up all night, see the sun go down and up, there's countless rules and regs, every location is different, the signals, the different equipment, it's hard on relationships, it's hard on mates, you work rotating rosters that run around the clock 365 days, you work public holidays, Christmas, you miss out on time with family. It takes absolute dedication, you have to want to do it, and enjoy the challenges that are thrown at you almost daily, I could write for hours. I run the fb page, "tales of the footplate" hoping to get some anonymous railway stories from times gone, although people are quite shy when it comes to talking about rail experiences, because some stay with you forever. It's a great job, it's rewarding, you habe an enormous amount of responsibility, and you have to know everything about just about everything before they will let you drive these on the mainline. My videos are to show the fun parts but there's plenty I could show you of the job that would turn people off.. Hmmmm maybe an idea for another short film

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER spot on

Yes our rules here are different, 1 long one short here minimum for level crossings.

Cheers mate, no this was the Samsung S21ultra footage. It's not bad. 4k 30fps

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER Very clear and sharp, colours are good too. So the GoPro9 not as expected?

@@dieseldavetrains8988 yeah still got the go pro just depends what I have handy at the time, got. Got more gorpro footage coming.

That's the later dash built by Morrison Knudsen.

How so?

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER its probably camera angle and I'm only seeing that.

No that one is a new cast, but it does sound slightly odd. Never been a huge fan of the NC P5 but some do sound nice!

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER really? I thought it was an old cast. So.... you mean the new cast P5, when it's become out of tune (odd), it's make pretty sound? Wow, what a discovery. But, to be honest with you, I've never heard new cast P5 sound so pretty like yours. Or maybe it's have different tuning for Australian use, like the K5-UL-AU-LS version of K5LA? I don't know a lots about it, because the information from the internet is so little, seems like restricted. So did Australian get it's own tuning on P horn? Like on the K horn BTW, what gauge you use in Aussie, because I've been watched video about flying scotsman while back, and it's use standard gauge. While on Wikipedia I've read about some of Indonesian locomotive have been shipped to Australia, it is CC203 or GE U20C, and in Indonesia we use metre gauge. So, what gauge did Australian use?

@@rahmanaridho yes it's an odd sounding new cast we have various P5s here and many sound different, possibly due to fouling or bells not sounding maybe even casting or machining differences. In Australia we have a few gauges, standard Guage is Australia wide or interstate, victoria still has broad gauge for its suburban and regional trains, so has south Australia but limited to heritage networks. NSW is almost all SG Tasmania, QLD and westen Australia have extensive Narrow gauge networks - 3' 6" There some isolated 2' 6" railways around too. As well as the sugar cane railways in QLD which use 2ft gauge. So there's quite a mix here!! I

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER wow, thanks for the information. So the conclusion is, in Australia you have all kind of season, any train horn sound, and any gauge. What an awesome country.

Yes it's quite a mix here! We have many different horns, leslie, airchime, Nathan, kockum sonics, westinghouse, to name a few of the larger manufacturers, as well as some hybrids. And a mix of gauges

They are reasonable in the cab, both sound and layout.

Look at railtrain they take on guys off the street, might be a shoe in.

The CL rode quite well, other locos do tend to hunt a bit more though.

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER It's amazing there was so many of that type made by GM like the F7 , the Swiss Blomberg bogie was chosen then as GMs experience with these was limited for passenger speeds.

We have so many F type units still running here on the east coast and some central south, and they will be going for a long time yet.

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER They would go forever.

It will be going for some time yet. It's only just been re activated.

The B class in Victoria are nearly 70 and still going strong

Yeah true, I'm not too sure what had to be done to them before they were active again.

It’s a Wallaby.

We have those too.

Sure is.

The engine is 3300hp - they have 3000hp available for traction.

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER The other 300 HP is for the air compressor I think? Great cab video by the way, it’s good that you are allowed to do it. Well, I hope so anyway haha.

@@gm16v149 air compressor, auxiliary alternator, fans and traction motor blowers.

Both are very fun most of the time! 😊

At least 18

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER ok because I whant to be a train driver for picific national or g&w gen and.whyo

@@lcstrainspotter3888 defs work on that spelling buddy, and keep trying to get in.

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER I'm 13 I film trains all the time

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER thanks for the nice comment I have had horrible ones before

That's where they are in Australia

@@calcutt4 Never realized that they would move the controls like the cars

Agreed! Although I'll admit it's one of the better emd desk top controllers ive driven.

@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER Ha!, yes there is a bit of a mish-mash out there! the ALF, your mate could reach the headlight switch better than the driver!

Well this is even bigger and better, a one of a kind with the 645e3,

It is a streamliner given that it has a get this, STREAMLINED BODY