PN Freight 4PM6 stalls in the Belair National Park

On Saturday, the 11th of August 2018, PN Freight 4PM6 departed Belair Loop after a double-cross with 6MP9 & 6MP5. The train began to struggle from the start and only managed to make it 2.5 Kilometres up the hill.
Due to the line being blocked, Pacific National had to act fast. They sent two NRs (68/81) from Islington ex 6MA5 to return the service to Belair. The rest of the operation is seen in the video, including the train at Mount Lofty & Balhannah after being rescued.
7MP7 is also seen within the video (05:30) with NR54/NR75/NR25 at Belair after PM6 was pulled back into the Crossing Loop.
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[@PopCultureJunkie78]

Awesome capture. And love the atmospheric weather at Mount Lofty. 👏👍😍

[@aflsteve9139]

Great video... but an excellent catch with MP7 & the PN/Ghan/IP liveries together.

[@vsvnrg3263]

great stuff. thanks for what obviously took a long time to film.

[@greghale9972]

Very interesting video with plenty of variety. Hope to see a running session of your home layout sometime soon. Cheers Greg

[@jassirai8438]

Gud vidoz I'm from India 🇮🇳

[@549BR]

Who puts these trains together; can't they figure out how much motive power will be necessary? Seems like this is a good way to burn out generators and motors. Just spcalatin', but I do enjoy seeing the Australian landscape and the trains.

[@offthegridwithbert924]

Every locomotive I see is bloody filthy here in Australia, I live next to the Stony Point line in Victoria and the Pacific National loco's running on this line are also never washed, I guess the tight asses at PN can't be bothered keeping their loco's clean!

[@TheJRScratchy]

Why not try to push over the hill once they had the extra locos?

[@jamesbushell7280]

Why did the train fail? Loco failure? It would explain why they didnt just push it over and keep going...

[@charliepearson1174]

Great video, I was hoping for M&S vs wild tho.. jokes nice video, good to see you there

[@kyle.m5571]

How do you know when the trains go through?

[@DeansHome1]

Great and informative videos. Just love your work! My question, how are the DPU’s controlled? I assume it is by radio. Can you please confirm this for me and possibly tell me a little more about it, ie: FM, AM, Digital and what band and range? Control has come a long way in the 40 years since I was involved with the railway.

[@marty232]

Why are Australian locomotives so dirty why don't they clean them give a coat of paint