AUSTRALIAN TRAINS, SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DESERT!

A compilation of various trains running to and from Adelaide to, Western Australia and the Northern territory.
Mid October 2013, Locations from the Book by Julian Insall - "My Desert Backyard"
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[@xela-nw8eh]

Great, some great shots in there

[@peterscandlyn]

The sheer visual impact of those wide gauge runners is outstanding IMO. Big and brutal in their landscape.

[@jimcrawford5039]

Fantastic video!

[@amtrakharry]

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing...:D

[@locojoe2004]

Great video compilation & some awesome locations. Thanks for sharing

[@rond6783]

Should have taken a close up shot of how they grind the rails coming out of Lake Hart. Great video. Been up and down the Stuart Hwy that many times between 1983 and 2008 it's nice to see that country again.

[@Thewhitedoggang6]

Great stuff, my workplace n you've shown it really well

[@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER]

Glad I could portray it as close to how it looks and feels out there, ik a driver also but we don't get the double stackers on the east coast.

[@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER]

If i had every train in full the video would have gone for over 30 mins, most people are interested in the locomotives as appose to double stacked containers, which there are many of in this video.

[@aussierailways6339]

Nice Bunch of Videos. :)

[@markrichardson5536]

awesome video,loved every minute

[@gm16v149]

I'd like to see imported SD70s or GEs in front of those double stacks. Maybe BHP or Rio might have some for sale with the mining downturn. Pimba is a desolate place but there's a great pub there and the Woomera rocket range is worth a look.

[@Greensleeves94]

The passenger car is for the other crew of the train, west of Adelaide the crews typically run in relay with one crew in the loco driving the train and the other resting/sleeping etc. in the crew car. As for the tank car, they use it so that the locos of a train can refuel while the train is still moving, similar to what fighter jets do when they need fuel

[@psynriter]

Why are the signal lights not facing where the drivers can see them at the 7:30 mark in video ? 🤔. I frequent the sth australian and western NSW when I can and some signals for trains are that bright at night they almost pierce your eyes kilometres away. Loved railways all my life 👍

[@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER]

It was all train orders out there back then, now it's signalled. This was while they were installing the CTC system.

[@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER]

As said above, the passenger coach is a crew carriage, as its far more efficient to carry on board fuel, and crews as accomodation and reasonably priced fuel in bulk is extremely scarce in the Australian Outback.

[@samueljesse2179]

Drivers used to rest at Rawlinna TAR

[@Crosshead1]

I tend to agree with Michael Smith. Most of these locos are a dime-a-dozen here on the East coast. What we don't see is the rolling stock/loads that would be out of gauge here such as the double stacks, the triple deck car carriers and the high cube boxcars. Maybe you could post a few more videos with full consists and still keep within a reasonable 7 or 8 minutes per video. Other than that, great videos.

[@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER]

I figuer at the end of the day, once you have seen 500m of train you have seen 1500m of train and it sucks the video time up. but in future i will keep it in mind when editing and see what i can do.

[@SantaFe19484]

Awesome video! Do the railway use solar panels to power the signals? Greetings from the USA!

[@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER]

Good question, I'm not 100% sure. It is very isolated out there though.

[@jimcrawford5039]

Yes!

[@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER]

Yes that would be nice, but even with the remaining infrastructure in adelaide, perth darwin and in betweeen, these U.S locos would be much too large for these tracks. i have been to both Pimba and Woomera before this also.

[@supercuda1950]

What's the passenger car behind the engines for?

[@jimcrawford5039]

extra crew. there are no towns out there!

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

Is that water or fuel between the locos and the crew car? o.O

[@jimcrawford5039]

Fuel. they refuel on the move.

[@henboman]

Do you know the horn model for the C44-ACis?

[@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER]

Airchime K12

[@coasterworld9448]

Austrailia uses European trains for American size loads, incredible

[@macdonaldjohnstonfan]

Australian locomotives are actually based on American GE and EMD locomotives but are smaller than their American cousins, the same prime movers are used, but they are ligher in weight and smaller to be able to run on the smaller loading guage we have over here apart from the private Pilbara iron ore railways.

[@Johnantonelli1]

Great vids. Why is there a passenger coach and a tank car behing the engine. PAssengers???

[@williamstone2917]

Johnantonelli1 extra crew quarters.

[@jimcrawford5039]

Fuel car there too. NO towns for vast distances. Extra crew with food, showers and beds. Change every 12 hours.

[@MichaelSmith-lc4de]

SHORTENED VIDS NOT GOOD. WHERE ARE STACKS??!

[@Rhys4AUFC]

7:10 easily one of THE worst train horns around (along with the nr’s), WTF were downer thinking?!?