Classic EMD Makes a Come Back : B75's Return to Service.

On Sat 28/06/14, B75 hauled its first train in close to 20 years.
Having been withdrawn from government service, and then being sold and resold over the years, it was finally brought back to life by Southern Shorthaul Railroad at their Nth Bendigo workshops, and painted in CRL ( Consolidated Rail Leasing ) livery.
After a couple of light engine tests on the Thursday & Friday to Rochester, and Echuca with ex El Zorro unit T386, now wearing SSR colours, the pair ran a trip to Echuca taking a fleet of CRL wagons along. The pair are seen in various locations on both the up and down journey, on a COLD and wet day.

[@peterclarke945]

Hey emd645 ..... I am from NSW, but your Vic stuff makes me proud to be an Aussie. World beater, man

[@dieselmanmike]

Love that rootes blower whine. Lovely stuff.👍

[@briankelly3931]

That's a lot of work and restoration time there. It's so clean. You can't hide the dents. Does old cars have lots of dancing and from being worked over the years. Shiny paint just brings it out. But is good looking

[@briankelly3931]

You have to love that yellow and black that's cool looking especially from the front. Very nice

[@MickFix]

Looks great! A far cry from it's days sitting on the Seymour TT in ruins!

[@andygreen6726]

long live the vintage diesels! engines with soul

[@richardwilkes6468]

This type engine was perfect for it's intended purpose and need. For profitability, why not keep these engines, well painted, and maintained. Will last forever. Will never loose it's style

[@jimcrawford5039]

Beautiful video!

[@john1653]

That was VERY nice of the driver to stop and let you get those good shots at about 5:00 minutes to the video. US drivers don't do that...but they WILL give you the finger as they go by.

[@woobyvr9654]

John not uncommon for suburban drivers to give you a look in the cab at the end of lines

[@rearspeaker6364]

in the U.S. they consider railfans domestic terrorists and call the cops on you-never knew a camera was a lethal weapon!! an the scanner is the trigger to stop the train.......its a complete shame!!

[@briankelly3931]

OH that's a bunch of B S

[@royscreen61]

Nice video,the wagons are interesting too

[@TrevsOutbackandGoldAdventures]

Absolute quality video.Thumbs up!

[@PoathTV]

A great collection of scenes.

[@darylcheshire1618]

I read that in the early ‘50s GM weren’t convinced why anyone would want a double ended locomotive and the VR CME went to Detroit to discuss it in person.

[@Willowfs4472]

Great clip thanks for sharing I hit the like button for this one..

[@AlarakTheHighLord]

It's super beautiful. I wish they would use them again

[@ijakis1891]

11:40 bad rails!!! Nice video, nice quality and sound Greetings from Greece

[@DounutCereal]

That E wagon at the very end of the train, I never thought I'd see one of those going back into service! I mean, they're a 1927 invention!

[@roguesandraiders]

Absolutely beautiful

[@markfryer9880]

Nice video. While viewing I couldnt help but think that if you were to model this consist and show it at a model train show, the bolt counters would say that it wasnt real. "No loco in Victoria is that clean, bright and colourful" would be some of the comments.

[@bushranger51]

The thing about the private operators is they don't let their rolling stock stay still for long enough for the graffiti vandals to get to them, except maybe PN. If it ain't moving, it aint making money.

[@tryhardparrot]

Top vid. Plenty of colour. Echuca at 7.40 looks like its shot on a cool HO layout. Cheers.

[@willkortekaas2107]

great man

[@andygreen6726]

the triple articulated flat wagons are I assume for container carriage duty? interesting concept int hat it reduces the number of wheels by good percentage

[@lowndesj515]

Nice Video!

[@donaldbartram6315]

Nice paint scheme..

[@YangEdwinWildlifeNZ]

nice sharing ！

[@zdravkoleski2375]

Vintage they do sound the best. They should paint them black

[@MrMacAttacker]

This great old gal was spotted unattached near Warrnambool freight yards unattached. Don't know if she hauled anything though

[@sambo9855]

Wow I've seen a lot of videos with these F units but this is the only one I have seen that is two cabs on a single unit

[@macauleyhaywood8643]

Sam Luce The B class is a double cab design built by Clyde Engineering.

[@steamingeagle7552]

There's a few down here

[@piabrink5064]

Great!

[@Railhead1956]

A sweet video

[@davidallen6333]

Nice motive power what are these short flat cars used for ? This has to be a rare one a double ended F unit !

[@emd645e3c]

dave allen The flat wagons are for containers, and yes, I think the only loco of its type ever built that had the 2 cabs. If you search my channel for B74, you'll find some of them

[@Kentucky_Trainiac]

emd645e3c Looks like an american EMD E8 with 2 cabs

[@pearlyhumbucker9065]

+emd645e3c AFAIK the B75 like the other B-Types are all CLYDE ML2 (EMD AAA16C) and therefore in no way difficult to find. In fact, they exist all over the world, variants of this Clyde-originated adaption of the EMD F-type can be found in Scandinavia, Hungary, Pakistan and - Australia naturally...... ;)

[@meranda555]

HI Steve About 18 months ago we built some standard gauge track for SSR have you any video of the locos they built for the standard gauge ?

[@emd645e3c]

I have a couple of videos of them being trucked out, but not out working.

[@rg92]

Superbe !!!!! :-)

[@VictorianRailHeritage]

I've got photo of B 75 and T 386

[@jamesmark782]

Nice color scheme on the B75.What are they hauling? Is it unfinished steel?

[@emd645e3c]

Just empty wagons.

[@Fcole_99]

What's the NSW carriages doing at North Bendigo???

[@emd645e3c]

If you mean pass cars...no idea, they have been there for years.

[@lowndesj515]

emd645e3c they were going to be an SSR commissions train so to speak. Still on the cards, just other work needs to be done first.

[@jimcrawford5039]

That’s broad gauge there is’nt it?

[@bushranger51]

@@jimcrawford5039 at the moment the Bendigo area is stil single guage, ie Broad guage, and I am not sure if there's a move afoot to go to standard just yet, they are still finishing the Murray Basin Rail Project.

[@darylcheshire1618]

@@bushranger51 There are two tracks to Echuca, one via Bendigo and the reinstated line from Toolamba on the Shepp line. Presumably they don’t want to convert both yet. They only recently too delivery of SG Velocities for the North East line.

[@rosarioamaya8423]

De Donde Es Este Ferrocarril?.

[@dantemadden1533]

Antarctica clearly

[@cnsm411]

I Love the sound of 567 when they notch out. there is not dought it is a EMD 567 in that car body

[@ergotot45]

How annoying for you that in the first clip the locos didnt throttle-up until they had passed you !

[@lowndesj515]

Once the train was out of the siding, then the driver was able to throttle up.

[@paulmoloney5162]

More rubbish locos on the mainline to fail in the section

[@rearspeaker6364]

jealous, aren't you??