Alco smoke (and flames) as three 44s and a JL meet a V set and two NRs at Cowan.

Three 44s and a JL on 4168, a V set and double NRs converge on Cowan at the same time in 2005. Lots of Alco smoke and a few exhaust flames from one of the 44s.

[@albert3801]

Fantastic! Almost as if the V Set stopped to avoid photobombing :D

[@thomashninan3825]

No probably the line was not clear

[@belchy94]

Great footage, the variety of Locos and cool to see a v set with a series 1 trailer

[@jimstrainsandstuff9539]

Some very tired old 44s doing tough; but doing it. Those Alco Diesels!!! They will not die!

[@MoonwolfeConsulting]

I'm loving these sweet little old Alco workhorses chuggin' and a tuggin'. They do get the job done, don't they?

[@muhammadchalidafin5644]

Right on! Great! You still have Old American Alco?

[@muhammadchalidafin5644]

in your rail yard?

[@dennisyoung4631]

“Soot!” roars the ALCO.

[@TickholeProductions]

Great capture thanks for sharing

[@G516R700]

Fantastic, well timed.

[@michaelnaisbitt1639]

Great clip Graeme love the Alcohol chugging sound 🚂🚂

[@trainity7330]

Wait a minute. At 2:19 one of the V Set cars appears to be a 1st batch connected to a DJ series. Idk if its normal or something but the video is still legendary.

[@davidjames38589]

Full marks to the V set driver for stopping so everyone could get a clear shot of the 44s!

[@alcopower5710]

👍Gotta love those Alcos 👍

[@SpoonyMcSpoonface]

They may be old and inefficient as mentioned in another comment but they look and sound wonderful. The JL sounds rather ill though.

[@fordlandau]

Steam would have done better. Those old girls are clapped out ! The front loco has PTC of NSW markings ! Great vid.

[@stevenkaiser3064]

Its usual to stay off the platform if its not a tabled stop. Looks like a controllers nightmare!

[@LyallBoulton-Bell-xg1kx]

Looks like the trains were trying to figure out who goes first, the vintage 1s should have gone, not the intercity because of another freight locomotive was doing the right thing, what does anyone think, yes or no!

[@robweckert5689]

Dirty as! Great video though

[@chrisb3189]

What year is this? 2006?

[@muhammadchalidafin5644]

Streamliner Era do you know guys?

[@zdravkoleski2375]

Fark these alcos sound like albo Is that middle 1 meant to be red just covered in black soot?

[@Bull3tBikes]

Is this in AU? Doesn’t look like the US

[@bennickss]

Sounds kind of like a Maybach MD870

[@dannyjones3840]

What country puts a friggin cab in the ass end of a FA??

[@zdravkoleski2375]

ASStralija?

[@professorjamesmoriarty5191]

Most of them.

[@voidjavelin23]

these are no FAs lmao, they are DL500. Theyre ALCos export locomotive

[@professorjamesmoriarty5191]

@@voidjavelin23 same loco, different trucks.

[@muhammadchalidafin5644]

The sound of locomotive is like A truck! Yeah truck rail hahahahahah just kidding

[@Dave-ww5tl]

Ah the good old days, plenty of carbon and growling engine noise.

[@AustNRail]

Wasn’t that nice of the inter urban not mess up the shot.

[@williamradford8817]

They look very old, need a good clean up and re painting

[@schmoburger6086]

The leading loco 4498 is one of the last 44 class built at Goodwins, in around 1967... The first 44's were built in the 50's. So yeh, the newest is nearly 40 years old in this video. And the Candy paint scheme on that loco dates to the early 80's, while the rear looks to possibly be whats left of the old FreightRail blue scheme.

[@1950accordionman]

It sounds like those engines are starving for fuel

[@muhammadchalidafin5644]

I know hehehhehehehe

[@tristanmccauley2318]

What station?

[@BelbinVideo]

As per the title "at Cowan".

[@tristanmccauley2318]

Sorry didn't see the whole title

[@BelbinVideo]

@@tristanmccauley2318 , no worries at all. seems to depend on what you're viewing on.

[@tristanmccauley2318]

@@BelbinVideo probably close to 25 years ago I walked from Cowan station to Jerusalem Bay and went fishing was good fun.

[@petersaunderson2710]

B

[@kehldendavid4779]

They are so dirty

[@beagle7622]

This is a national disgrace, 60 plus year old diesel locomotives on the main line between Sydney & Brisbane. God knows how inefficient they are.

[@markrhuett]

No, it's a national treasure. It depends on how you look at it.

[@schmoburger6086]

You must be fun at parties. Also, the last 44's were withdrawn from State Rail service in 1997, so this video is clearly over 20 years old. The first was built in 1957, and the last in 1967, so your maths are out by about 20-30 years my friend. And the JL, that was built in the early 70's as a 442, so it's not even 30 years old in this video... It might pay to do a bit of super simple fact checking next time you decide to shake your fist on the internet, lest you make yourself look silly again.

[@GRclass]

@@schmoburger6086 spot on

[@pecheur1951]

@@schmoburger6086 This video was shot in 2005. Now who looks dumb... Try reading the description.

[@schmoburger6086]

@@pecheur1951 cool story bro... So the video is still 16 years old, which means that these were owned by LVR/IRA/Qube who knows which one at that point? And were about 3 seconds away from being relegated to running trip trains to Botany. The point is, these are currently now sitting around gathering spiders and not going anywhere. The 2nd one has been sitting in the Goulburn sidings rusting away for ages along with 3 or 4 others. Have a nice day, bruh.

[@muhammadchalidafin5644]

The sound is ugly Machine because this locomotive is very old from 1940-2018

[@schmoburger6086]

The 44's were built between 1957 and 1967. The JL was built from.1970-1973.