Beautiful video! Such a shame that locomotive services have been replaced on the Bairnsdale line. The V/Locity replacement is really not adequate IMO.

Great video

First🎉

Here to stop kids from saying first!

Nice trip, then you get to Melton

Awesome ❤❤

I wish I had them as a neighbour...

the black one seems to be a copy of the baldwin sharknose from the early 50's. i had to search that one up.

just wonderingbwhy you split and set back to a 3 car set for the return journey.. surelly vline and PTV have worked out that Tfnsw dont want rail transit as is highlighted by the journey from Wodonga to Albury?

Some of those curves appear even sharper than my own 5" gauge line. 😲

i loved riding these when i was 5

I would never tire of getting to drive something like that!

That C class is a work of art, credit to the builder. Another great small scale railway video.

Was the loco coal or oil fired? Would love to have seen external shots as the consist climbed some of the inclines.

Amazing

Very cool. If you ever go to Perth, check out Castledare miniture railway .i live close and see it operating all the time .kids love it 😀

Wish I could take one of these trains to work!!

Love it. Some people seem to get all the good toys.

(King Arthur) "Behold this beautiful C Class Locomotive!"👑 (His horse Patsy) "It's only a model."🐴 Does the C stand for Camelot? 🤔

Hi All, I would like to get some info on the RDC? 1) Who built it? 2) At what cost? 3 Can I get the plans for it? And at what cost? Thanks for your time and help.

See what happens if you leave those trains in the wash for way too long 😆 The Adelaide Hills yes i stayed there wonderful area

How did all those Sheep get on the line, that's a bit dangerous😕

Oh my goodness Sheep on the Line 😮😕 13:37

Living the dream 💯

hahaha. CHOO CHOO ALREADY! (3:09)

Love the C Class, just needs to add a sub woofer and C Class sound track to complete the atmosphere. Thanks for the vid. :)

[ x ] That is some really nice scenery, and a beautiful day! Indeed, that is a good touristy rail line ... glad to see it in operation. [Greetings from Tucson]

I'm building an Australian themed map in cities skylines. This video is very good with helping me see how to design it!

Good video

Where does the rack portion start?

another great watch! thanks for making these videos 😁

Another part of Tassie I haven't been to yet and am happy to see here.

My wife and I drove our Mini Minor out there and a short distance on the old rail bed in the 1970s. This was after the original track had been pulled up.. Could not believe how muddy and dead that the King River looked beside us? I still look at the old pictures? I have only ever been up the West Coast a few times, but always remember it.. Never been on the train though? It all looked a lot different then.. The old rail bed soon got too rough (and the wet potholes too deep) for the Mini, (The same Mini, that I drove to see a lot of the Bell Bay line as it was built)? Then we returned to Strahan and then back to Queenstown, on our honeymoon.. Thanks for another great view of the tracks in Tassie.. I Really appreciate it, as I doubt that we will ever get up that way again?

The Swan Hill Piangil was a service paid for by the Education Department. I travelled in the van of a wheety to Kooloonong, the guard told me there are two mile posts, it was reported missing and a crew came to replace it but found the original buried in the sand so placed it opposit it. The guard told me near Natya the loco ran out of fuel and had to get a light engine from Bendigo. The line was meant to run to Boundary Bend but never happened. The Kooloolong line had the last Postal Motor, a gangers trolley service paid for by the Postmaster General’s Department to deliver mail. Ran from Piangil, it had to be push started and the petrol turned off when starting so it wouldn’t run off on it’s own. The driver would turn off the motor as it approaced a station and it would stop exactly at the platform.

Croatia loves Tasmania

Nice ocean views, and a train you could chase on an electric mountain bike.🌊🚴😄

If only Tasmania didn't scrap the Mt Lyell Company Baldwin tank locomotives, the two ex New Zealand D class tank engines....or the L and M class 8 cylinder Garratts, Australia Standard and Beyer Garratts....etc..etc..etc...Brings a;...... 'Cinder To My Eye'

I frequently had to stay in Strahan for work. Bob Williams was the Marine Board of Hobart Strahan slipway master. Bob and his lovely (name I just cannot remember apologies), wife would ask me for tea after jobs done. Bob had been a fettler (ganger) before 1963 on the Abt and explained in detail how important to pack and keep the rail head at a heights (surface) relative to the root of the rack, 4 -1/4 inch?, otherwise the loco cogs would not mesh properly and if too high lift the engine if it went beyond allowable floating tolerance of cogs bottoming out. From around (about 1993) the kitchen table the couple told me of their wedding day when bride and her father (station master at one of the stations Dubbil Barril??) had to Kalamazoo (gangers hand trolley) to Strahan to meet the groom and wedding partyin her wedding dress..year?...Something right out of 'Petticoat Junction'!

i have rode this recently, including filming it, on this same service. its strange seeing it from the front, especially on a day hen there was good weather

Piangal has now become one of the worst shunts to do in the entire state. Pain in the bum. Driver/driver required.

'Invincible'...The man who build the tramway and steam locomotive. I still remember his workshop made traction engine running at the old Wantirna site of the Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club back in the 1970's. It consisted of a vertical boiler, motive power from locomotive stoker motor and a Sullivan steam winch out from....'Invincible'.

ive been a disused railway chaser since i was in nappies. we found a very narrow gauge railway buried in the back yard of the building across the road. it was used to move goods off the street into directly behind the old bakery. there was a set of points and i think there was a sort of turntable. i cut my finger on broken glass digging for it. my friend's mother saw the blood and panicked. she held me over a concrete laundry trough to wash the dirt off then took me home. i didnt know what blood was. ive still got the scar. bonus information. this yard was the long-term storage location of the jennings cart. the jennings sold it to the carlton and united breweries who dragged it out every moomba and royal show. cub had more than one cart. the jenniongs cart had a roof and was the biggest they had. my mum used to go to the royal show in it when she was a kid.

Appreciate the footage and the history lessons. I may not have known otherwise.

I go have a look, but can't find any timetabled rail services to get me there. 😁

Never noticed a very small single line section in Welshpool.

When I visited the site of Yungera 5 few years ago, there were some concrete foundations of what I presume were the rest huts etc for the crew still visible, close to the platform but not on it. The buffer was pretty much in the same condition as in the video.

Well, that was terrific. Thanks mate. At least the rail mob haven't sold the land off. Maybe one day??????

Yungera is pronounced closer to Yungra - Yun gerr rah. We had farms at Kooloonong and Yungera

Yungera is pronounced closer to Yungra - Yun gerr rah

Always great to see my line from a different perspective. Keep up the great stuff mate!