Double-Headed Steam Powers to Ballarat! (Steamrail Victoria's Eureka Express) | R711, A2 986 

Great video. I was riding on the train with my mum and it was lots of fun. We were very lucky to get tickets because there was only 5 left when we booked ours and the 3 remaining tickets sold just minutes later. The old wooden carriages were very cool. I had a window seat and had the window open for the entire time. I saw heaps of railfans and I gave them a wave as we passed. The geelong detour was cool because I got to travel down a freight only line on a steam train and experience steam on the mainline at night. When we got back to Southern Cross, I got to go in the drivers cab of A2 986 witch was awesome! It was a very great day!

Amazing shots with the train and rainbow!!

Magnificent display of steam power and a rare mainline double tender-first return to Melbourne!

Excellent video! The days of steam are welcome back albeit in this limited way. The A2 although built as a express passenger engine, and became Victoria's 'go to' engine for almost every iteration of steam operations. The A2 famously in dual configuration, pulled The Spirit of Progress ('the Spiter') when it was in the last years of its 'heydays'. The bigger R class locomotives (engines) were built in Glasgow post WW2 and were the last of steam engines before Diesels became the 'in thing'.

Heard them coming through last night. Beautiful locomotives 🚂.

How pleasing to see lots of crowds out to see them. Awesome whistles.

Great video Adam! Looking forward to the Rail and Sail next weekend.

You got very lucky with the sun in a few places on the return journey. Well done, a great cross-section of the day's trip.

Great video. Love the rainbows too.

Great work

Great footage as usual :) Thanks for sharing 18:03.. proof that there is gold at the end of the rainbow haha

Nice video good to see steam return to Ballarat after so many years. the A2 and the R look great together.

Nice. Thanks for getting the footage at Nth Geelong.

bring back the panini intro

Nice Pannier Was some nice toots yesterday

Great I was in your video

I really like Victorian steam and i think the R class are the best looking locos in Australia and good do they look in blue. With the demise of broad gauge I wonder if they can be gauged. How good would it be to see one in Sydney

I wonder how the two locomotives coordinate the speed, braking etc!

You were the one who wandered up the line at lethbtidge

Excellent videography as usual mate!! 👍 May I ask, how do you manage to catch up to the train to video it? It's gotta be pretty difficult.

We were on that run but there was no explanation as to why we couldn’t run tender first back to Spencer St. Any idea why that’s the case?

What was the issue with the turntable at Ballarat East? In fact, surprised there is one given the destruction that has happened to the Ballarat Station precinct.

Don't know how you do it. You must have contacts,inside information to get those pics!

Great video as always, thank you. Do you know why the locos were not turned in Ballarat? There is a turntable in the East Ballarat depot. Sorry, just noticed the caption explaining that the turn table was not available. So why couldn’t they run tender first through Ballan?

Is there a speed restriction on running tender first?

see the rabbit at 7.18 on right side

are you a volunteer for steamrail

I’m RU-vid famous 😀😀😀