RARE STREAMLINER, PACIFIC NATIONAL GRAIN TRAIN & BALLAST TRAIN - A Day in South Australia's North

A rare day of rail movements in South Australia's Mid North: a classic Streamliner EMD, loaded Ballast Train, and a highly unusual Pacific National Interstate Grain Train make their way through. Meanwhile, a CF unit powers an SCT Freight, and Aurizon's Mineral Sands Train adds to the bustling rail traffic. An epic day out making this railfan's dream come true!
At this stage, Pacific National is back hauling Grain interstate weekly out of South Australia to New South Wales until September. Twin 82s have been used on all four services so far, and the train we captured was the third run with a mixture of liveries across two units.
#Timestamp
00:00 - Introduction
00:15 - RARE Ballast Train
01:30 - Streamliner EMD GM
04:45 - CF leads SCT's 1PM9
07:40 - Aurizon Mineral Sands 1501s
09:10 - RARE PN Grain Train with 82s
10:20 - PN Grain Train 2nd Shot
Starting early in the morning, not long after Sunrise, a rare ARTC Ballast Train hauled by Pacific National is captured at Tent Hill with locomotives NR1/NR43. This train will drop ballast between Pimba and Burando before returning to Whyalla for another load of ballast.
1960s EMD Streamliner GM43 prepares and departs Spencer Junction with a transfer train, including a Crew Van and Inline Refueller Wagon bound for Whyalla as 4611s. The 62 Year Old unit passes an old L-class Steam Engine Tender and Pacific National's NR34 in a special Reconciliation livery.
On lease to SCT Logistics from Railfirst, CF4410 leads Intermodal 1PM9 away from Port Augusta with CSR019. The cross-country Intermodal is double-stacked and has Greater Freighter Vans in the consist. It's unclear how long SCT will require the use of CFs on its trains, with first-generation CSRs currently undergoing overhauls.
Aurizon's Mineral Sands Train 1501s is captured climbing the grades towards Huddleston with GWU013 on the lead and 6025 bound for Ivanhoe in New South Wales.
RARE Pacific National Grain Train 4503s is captured twice on its way out of South Australia after loading at Gladstone. These services will operate weekly, collecting grain from South Australia and taking it across the border to New South Wales.
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[@dieseldavetrains8988]

Great collection of various trains, much enjoyed.

[@MS_Trains]

Thanks for watching mate! Matt - M&S Trains

[@Paul-pn1vc]

Thank you for posting this.

[@blueskyboys9855]

Great video, some really great catches. Like the sunset shots

[@MS_Trains]

Thanks mate! Glad you enjoyed. Matt - M&S Trains

[@ferdyahern4355]

That shot of the 82s just before sunset was beautiful great capture!!

[@MS_Trains]

Thanks mate! All came together that day. Hoping to chase this one again before the contract is over. Matt - M&S Trains

[@GoldM4official]

Clicked for the 900

[@rodneyjeffery9726]

cool mate

[@aussiejohn5835]

This is an excellent video, and I especially like the narration, which is clear and informative. The drone shots are magnificent. Well done 👏 👍

[@MS_Trains]

Thank you very much John! Matt - M&S Trains

[@aussiejohn5835]

@MS_Trains you're very welcome Matt 👍

[@patrickbryant5224]

Another excellent video. I was surprised how dry the countryside is in SA.

[@MS_Trains]

Cheers Patrick! It’s been a very dry year so far. We’ve only just had some rain in the last week so hopefully that helped out the farmers. Thanks for watching! Matt - M&S Trains

[@jamesupchurch6037]

2:45 nice catch of a Rail Link F unit

[@Planetrainguy]

lol no that ain't an F unit

[@jamesupchurch6037]

@@Planetrainguy actually, that is an F unit. Notice the old nose and circle shaped window to the engine room

[@Planetrainguy]

@@jamesupchurch6037 not an F unit. GM class

[@lachlanbaker2031]

@@jamesupchurch6037it’s not an F unit. It’s an A16C GM Class built locally based on the F unit. It’s longer and has Co-Co bogies for example.

[@gtptvanbuuren3795]

Thank You.

[@Urnieburns70]

The PN grains are a weekly service for 10 weeks, will be loading at Gladstone again tomorrow

[@DomQuartuccio]

Longer than 10 weeks, there's supposed to be around 18 trains and they're only running one a week.

[@jesstill7833]

Hi Matt nice place Tent hill I got some killer shots up there ,nice video mate cheers ❤️🙏🦘🇦🇺👍👍🧌

[@MS_Trains]

Cheers! I was excited to return to Tent Hill even for a brief hour. It’s a killer spot. Do you post your shots anywhere? Would love to see them. Matt - M&S Trains

[@lachlanbaker2031]

Amazing what happens when SCT put a decent loco on the nose 😛. That Land Cruiser of yours must be clocking up some serious km’s!

[@MS_Trains]

For sure mate! The Landcruiser and dad haven’t been out with me much this year. Been using my Pathfinder for all the Vic trips and this one up north. Either way somethings always clocking Kms! Matt - M&S Trains

[@SouthTrainsAndPlanes]

This was like the best day for trainspotting ever! How do you know when the PN grain trains run?

[@MS_Trains]

Was a very cool day out! Got a few ore trains too but they didn’t make the cut. I saw a post on Sightings page about the upcoming weekly PN movements about a month ago from a reliable source in the industry. Hopefully you get a chance to see one for yourself at some Point! Matt - M&S Trains

[@Mick_4591]

Time to get these " polluting dinosaurs " of the tracks. Or be given " defect" notices which happens with cars and trucks. Dont see why these " polluting dinosaurs " are any different.