These videos taken on broadcast quality equipment in the early nineties show vintage EMD powered cab and hood units working passenger and freight trains in Victoria , Australia.
Fantastic videos of the good old days. Also great to see several of the streamliners of course still around even today and several even running quite often.
3:40 guys picking up rubbish, no vest. Totally unheard of today, that particular line would probably be closed if this still happens now days. Absolutely love these videos, Subscribed 👍
I live in Lara I’m a young bloke to see what Lara looked like in the early 90s is amazing the grain hopper next to the silos is even more exciting too see Lara has changed alot the station the surroundings the silos aren’t in use for the rail way anymore
Thanks so much for your postings. So much once commonplace but now historic. The kangaroos at 6:00 will be a surprise to many so close to Melbourne then. Although a family friend around that area had her Corolla wrecked by hitting one at dusk. Fortunately no serious injury to her.
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good stuff as we expect from you. 3:24, the long island coil train. i couldn't see any coils. i thought the coils were reloaded from sg on to bg wagons at dynon. has this always been done at totty?
@@johnphillips592 ,they aren't bogie exchanged nowadays are they? i assume the quickest way now would be a reachstacker. if so, when did they stop bogie exchange?
@@johnphillips592 ,i just spent some time trying to find out when it was stopped. no luck. but i found figures for how many conversions were done in 1981 or 82. i figure bogie exchange probably stopped when the adelaide sg line opened.
@@vsvnrg3263 before standard gauge to Adelaide trains ran between Long Island and Adelaide without bogie exchange directly on broad guage. The standard gauge meant the transhipment delay and cost was needed whereas previously it did not . Steel to NSW needed bogie exchange. The Adelaide steel was a major regular traffic that standard gauge made worse. No reachstacker needed for Adelaide steel back before standard gauge just direct.
The wagon is a 'PH' type power van, used to provide power for lighting and air-conditioning for the carriages. Even though the N class locos have generators to do this themselves, these power vans are still often used when the loco generators fail.
Power for the carriages were from either axle driven generators or diesel generator sets (as in N Car sets) slung under the carriage. The dedicated Guard's Van (CP Class) was no longer included in the consist because the N Car sets had a Guard's Area; but this area didn't have much room on board to carry the items commonly seen on country services e.g. Packages, Parcels & Bicycles, Motor cycles, etc. Hence the additional louvred van.
