I'm glad you liked it! Including some of the safeworking makes for a 'slower' video, but I think adds some interest other than trains passing the camera, and it'll all be history someday. From what you say, in this case, it sounds like sooner rather than later. I note that adding 'the missing leg' to form a triangle at the western end of Narromine is shown as a "possible future rail connection" on the Inland Rail website. If that ever goes ahead, that would avoid the need for trains such as this to run around, or even enter the yard at all. I don't know the history of the "Hilton", but there are surviving railway houses at Wyanga (only barely surviving!) and Peak Hill, so it wouldn't surprise me if this one has a railway origin too. It looks like they were a crew of three (note in the scene at Narromine there were two crew members on foot and another driving the train over the level crossing), so I wonder if a trainee might have been at the control stand coming into Manildra?

@@ALCo251B Pacific National and SSR, and probably Qube, often send a third person out to speed things along, could have been a trainee, but usually a "location qualified" third person. I done a video of the large frame near the crossing about 12 months ago if you are interested.

@@ALCo251B The video I done on that Narromine frame is "Narromine NSW 16 lever "A-Frame" walk. Third person is often sent to speed things along in most cases.

@@australiantrains8988 Interesting. I assume there must be several locations where the three-person crew has benefits for the companies to consider it worthwhile?

Here's the link, for anyone else interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKDXnGyelM5sd7Msi=OruSnA78g0e0qrTA

Sure did!

As per the description: 7 June 2009.

Thanks, glad you like!

I didn't have a ticket when I took this video. I don't remember seeing anything to suggest I wasn't supposed to be there, and certainly didn't sense any animosity from staff, but I'm not certain if it was strictly permitted.

The ticket gates are only at the bottom AFAIK Sooo you could ride down but you'd need to take a train back

Thanks! A pity about all the road traffic at the start, but at least most of the motorcade was ahead of the train.

Although the GE inspiration of the design is clear (I'm guessing a fair bit of reverse engineering would have contributed to the them), but the DF7Gs, as shown in this video, are actually Chinese designed and built. Cuba does have a small number of genuine GE C30-7s, which were bought second-hand from Mexico.

The GM is from 1955 two stroke engine, Cuba was buying all steam and diesel engines to USA before 1959, from 60's on Russia was the main engine supplier

Camagüey

As far as I'm aware, they didn't. This train was retrieving wagons that had been stored at Baal Bone Colliery and didn't convey any coal. I don't have access to my notes from this period right now, so not sure if I got a train number or if there were other similar movements.

By rail, the distance from Central station in Sydney to Blackheath is about 75 miles, while the distance by rail from Sydney to Melbourne is about 600 miles.

The 'straight line' distances are about 55 miles and 450 miles.

Myles Harris-Ayling And By Car

@@byronchavarria4954 By car, they're about 70 miles and 550 miles.

The main reason there is freight trains, it is the main western line from Sydney to all points west to Broken Hill, located on the western boarder of the state of New South Wales, it therefore has mixed rail traffic, the line continues via South Australia to Western Australia, it is the main east west line for all interstate freight traffic since 1970, the line also deals with intrastate freight & passenger traffic, as well export coal trains from the western coal fields west of Lithgow.

At the time it was, yes. If memory serves correctly, loading was containerised logs to Newcastle (Carrington?) for export.

De que gran nación eres que te expresas asi de un pais hermano yo soy de México y ya quisiéramos tener el sistema de salud y de educación de los cubanos

@@victorperez6185 es verdad cuba tiene muchas cosas Buenas

@@victorperez6185 Entonces por que los mejicanos no emigran para esa maravilla de pais.No manches.

@@victorperez6185 Bien dicho.

De que país eres?,yo sólo te digo que hay otras cosas maravillosas de cuba que admirar,y el hecho de que existan ferrocarriles para transportarse ya es lindo en México los quitaron y los extraño

Eres muy ignorante no sabes del bloqueo a cuba

@@victorperez6185 Andá y contale ese cuento a un dormido, por ahí te cree

@@robertoaraujo9834 si tu eres pro yankee es tu problema

@@victorperez6185 Yo soy pro yankee, y tu eres un necio. No hay peor ciego que aquel que no quiere ver...

Motors, not "engines". Electric = "motors".

Cheers, Ken! They certainly seem to have taken a lot of people's fancy.

It's an Up grain train, almost certainly supplying grain to the Weston Milling flour mill in Sydney. When the train was run by Pacific National and running on the West (as per this video), it normally ran as 1835 on the Down, and I think either as 8134 or 8136 on the Up. (SSR won the Weston Milling contract off PacNat in 2014 and runs the train using different rollingstock and train numbers, and rarely via the Main West.)

I now see that you have a shot of an SSR-operated Weston's train in one of your videos at Emu Plains.

Thanks!

On average, it only snows a couple of times per year in the Upper Blue Mountains, and snowfall as heavy as in the video doesn't occur every year. I believe Canberra is similar. The Australian Alps are the only area in Australia to have regular, deep snowfalls.

Myles Harris-Ayling thank you for your information. See that double train right? like double decker. I already tried. Nice double train ( kereta tingkat spt bis tingkat). Great video.

They have more snow on the Blue Mountains than Canberra. Katoomba is over 3000ft above sea level whereas Canberra is only about 2000ft. (I live in Canberra).

Thanks, Alexey! I have now changed my caption to reflect this. When I uploaded this video, I struggled to find information about ТЭМ15Кs online. I could find almost no information about them in English, my Spanish is very bad and I know almost no Russian. The sources that I did find and was able to understand/translate often contradicted each other too. However, your comment prompted me to do more searching, and I have now found a photo of 81008's builder's plate that confirms that it was built by БМЗ in 1990.

Yet by the standards of Hunter Valley coal trains, the ones over the SMR are about as small as they get! Thanks!

Thanks! I'll have to try to get out with the camera after work a few more evenings...