@@VictorianTransportSpotter Be good to see a few more of the loco classes covered like this. I'm always amazed of he service life of some of the aussie loco's. 48 class are a good example, still going strong for loco's 60+ years old and still in regular service somewhere
Aurizon's fleet is huge. The CLF and CLP class are some great locomotives and they were unique for their mansard roof and bulldog nose pair. Wow. Thanks for the information on the locomotives on Aurizon grain service. CLP10 is preserved thanks to Streamliners Australia and is currently under restoration as CL17 but however she's still retaining CLP fittings.
Very good information presented here.Can please explain the last goods wagan on the wheat train in the first video please . Looks like a wagon that may have had railing steel or some sort . I'm in Sth gippsland VIC thanks for your efforts. Cheers Kenny
Cheers Kenny. The last wagon is a shunters float, which is required for trains loading grain in Snowtown, which have to reverse into the grain siding across a highway for loading. The process I observed when the train was entering the siding was like this: . Train stops in loop . Grain rake is split into front and rear halves, the rear half has the shunter’s float . Locomotives and front half of grain rake comes out of the loop onto the mainline .Locomotives and front half of grain rake reverses across the highway crossing into the grain siding .Locomotives uncouple from front half of rake and head forward back out onto the mainline . Locomotives reverse into loop, and couple up to rear half of grain rake which has the shunter’s float on the rear .Locomotives and rear half of grain rake head forward onto mainline .Locomotives and rear half of grain rake reverse onto grain siding across the crossing, shunter’s float with crew member on board leads through the crossing . The shunter’s float comes in handy for this section, it provides visual sight via the crew member on board for reversing onto the siding so they don’t run into the other half of the grain rake which is already on the siding, the crew member would be radioing the driver as to when to stop etc I assume when the train has finished loading they do something similar in reverse, then use the loop to run around the locomotives to lead back to Adelaide.
How about not taking the text down as quick. I don’t have time to read it all before it disappears and am getting sick of pausing or scrolling back to finish reading it.
Thanks for watching! During editing, I read out each caption to decide how long to make each one, in fact, some are actually longer than needed because enough information had been presented before transitioning to the next locomotive. My next video will have voiceover at a medium speed which most people would probably prefer, hope that helps explain the speed of the captions!
