CPH Railmotor ride. Culcairn to Henty 30-7-16

[@125sloth]

These units are in far better condition than when they still ran in normal services back in the 70's . I recall travelling from Albury to Wagga or Culcairn to Wagga on these rail motors. Even with gas heating , freezing in winter and almost crematoriums in summer. In heavy rain some leaked like a rusty roof. The upside is they rarely broke down. Slow? Yes. They had a reasonable top speed actually, 100 kph was quite easy to maintain, but the timetables were done so the rail motors had to go into loops for passing passenger and good trains, so late running was not the fault of the rail motors usually.

[@clayton4115]

nice footage especially of the driver operating the controls.

[@JRussellProductions]

Very good Video mate. and I can't believe I'm on this video. LOL ;) (was beside the driver in the C class shirt.)

[@BearsTrains]

Thanks. You had a better view than me lol

[@JRussellProductions]

+Bears Trains haha. yeah. the guys at LVR arranged it for me to have a cabride to Henty from Albury as a thanks for helping out with getting the new lettering to put onto the Rail-Motors which will be on sometime soon.

[@AllianceB95]

Lovely! Goood old 6-71 engines screaming away... Hopefully they get pushed to the edge regularly... That's what them old Detroits prefer to last longer than thier modern brothers. Tough Screamers them Screaming Jimmies. Great train! Great vid!

[@AlanSurgeoner]

Wow great video mate. Fantastic to see old trains like this still running passenger services. I must say the cows in Australia must be some size ,what with the cow rack on the roof 'n'all, lol

[@BearsTrains]

Thanks Alan. Cows come in all sizes in Oz and you never know just where they will pop out.

[@125sloth]

In some parts of Australia we need cow catchers to keep pedophiles off the tracks from getting near kids who are riding the trains. Well Im kidding about the cow catchers, but not the other. Historic trains with kids especially attract some very weird people. Even Historic train organisations. Not this one thank Christ.

[@ChapelEndJunctionUK]

Great ride on the DMU but funny to see a modern control panel in an old unit . Cheers......Peter .

[@BearsTrains]

Yes Peter, I thought the same but I guess as they run on the network, they would have to have the same equipment as every other train. This is on the main line between Sydney and Melbourne

[@neilforbes416]

Three CPH Tin Hares: 12 & 24 but what was the one in the middle(which, for a laugh, we'll call "Malcolm")?

[@Markintheshed]

very nice video Mr Bear, thanks for sharing. the rails looked in great condition. and so is the unit, how you getting on with the layout ????

[@BearsTrains]

Thanks Mark. Making good progress on scratchbuilding the platforms.

[@Markintheshed]

good to here, I'm in the middle of making a concrete yard area out of Polyfiller, bit of a nightmare cos now the whole shed has a layer of filler dust lol, but it should be worth it in the end

[@hovermotion]

cool nice vid....jim

[@BearsTrains]

Thanks Jim

[@AlanSurgeoner]

In the UK health and safety would have a great time telling you off for talking to the driver while the train is running.

[@neilforbes416]

Only just got the briefest look. Was our "Malcolm In The Middle" CPH #25?

[@BearsTrains]

yep, 25

[@neilforbes416]

Thanks for that! Cheers! Actually they scrub up quite well in that Brown livery with yellow trim. Sort-of befits their vintage.