Victorian Railways R class. 4-6-4 Hudson. The last and best of main line passenger steam power in Victoria. Unfortunately, they arrived at the start of the diesel era, and never really got to show what they could do, and spent much of their career hauling goods trains. A number have survived and now run tourist passenger trains on the main line at speeds of 100km/h plus - where they belong.
2:56 I never knew they had InterCity 125 HSTs in Australia Anyways. I’m glad that I finally found this video again, because I used to watch this when I was young and used to play Trainz 2 on my iPad
That's not a Hancock 4700 whistle. It's an Australian made R.V.B Hurricane 3 chime air horn in the 1950's and 1960's with the older round style screw in back caps. Horrible sounding things. A proper Hancock air whistle sounds much better than our horrid RVB's.
Hancock's may not be loud, but they sound soothing and mellow when they operate properly. Unlike our R.V.B's... which almost always produce a shrieking sound closely likened to a "screaming cat" or "strangled duck"...
Did the engineer of the train at 2:58 start blowing for the crossings with two long, one short, and a long like we do it here in the USA, Canada, and Mexico?
Yes indeed. In fact, many of the engines used the the locomotives are even American, such as ALCO and EMD primarily. The horns are also 95% American. We have Leslies, Nathans, WABCO and a few Swedish Kockums in use here in AUS.
The second loco at 1:39 is an MZ class. Originally a Danish State railways loco. The fleet, 20 were purchased by Lachlan Valley Rail Freight and shipped to Australia. They look like no other Australian loco - but are powered by EMD engines. They are nicknamed Helga. The grey and yellow lead loco is an DL class.
I would say technically we do, since most of what your referring to are probably American horns. But you guys take way better care of P5’s and RS5T’s then we do anyway, so whatever.
@JS317Productions There are K5LA's mounted on those American locos in the mining areas. Rio Tinto I think - I'm not too familiar. AFAIK there is one Leslie RS3 chime in use in Australia. Mounted on the nose of GM10 is an RS3L. It was fitted with that horn sometime in 2011. Prior to that it had a P3.
All I know is that it is some kind of five chime. All the NR class (Cv40-9i) units seem to have it. But the horns on the AC versions sound a bit like K5LAs, but I don't think they are. God bless.
Yes that is an Australian Clyde Engineering 'G' class locomotive and it is powered by a turbocharged Electro Motive Diesel 16-645 prime mover. That particular on at 2:58 is fitted with a "new cast" Nathan P5. The horn may have some issues, because the G class locomotive has a sufficient air supply to power pretty much any horn fitted to it. When the G class locomotives were delivered, they were originally fitted with the traditional "pull cord" ceiling mounted horn valve to operate the whistle. In recent years, however, I believe that the pull cord has been replaced with a smaller toggle valve on the main driver's console. FYI there were no Nathan M3's ever used in Australia. AFAIK, only one Nathan M3 has ever made it into Australia. I have no idea why and how it ended up here, but it may have been a demonstration model, but was never considered.
Hi there. Here in Victoria there are many locomotives including the ones that haul passenger carriages that are equipped with RS5T's. From my knowledge, most and maybe all of the locomotives that haul passenger carriages have their RS5T's fitted with air restrictors to limit the sound output as to minimise noise pollution in populated areas. Many of our locomotives also have a second horn which is a singe chime WABCO 'C' low note horn that can be used as a "quiet" horn in populated areas. A few of our 'N' class locomotives are also fitted with newcast P5's.
stampycatfan01 P5's are good. Shame we have hardly ANY old cast P5's here. New cast P5's are ok, but I much prefer old castings. Leslie RS5T's are my favourite. The Nathan Airchime K5UL-AU-LS sounds quite nice too.
@JS317Productions Fun fact for you: When the BL Class locos were delivered in the early 80's, their RS5T's were mounted in the correct orientation (3 large bells at the bottom and 2 small bells at the top). Unfortunately, this direct contact fitment with the locomotive resulted in extreme cab noise when the horn was operating. The horn mounts were quickly redesigned. The result was two rubber coated rails from which the horn is "resiliently mounted" on, and hangs upside down. The rubber coating acts as a damper and thus reduces overall vibrations that are transmitted to the cabin.
@JS317Productions Check out the video link at the bottom of my comment above. That's how a healthy RS5T will perform when fed what it really wants. They don't call em the king of loco horns for nothing.
Incorrect... That is a Nathan K5UL-AU-LS, which is a K5 5 chime mounted on an ultra low profile manifold. There are two air ports on the manifold. In reality this "5 chime" is actually operated as a four chime for mainline, and the fifth chime is operated separately to act as a "quiet" horn in urban areas to minimise disturbance and noise pollution.
And if you are referring to the 44 class at 0:25... That is fitted with two Westinghouse (WABCO) Pneuphonic Type A & B horns. One is 12 inches long and the other is 16 inches long.
