South Australia Rail - 1989 VHS edit

[@SirRamone]

AN green and gold was defiantly a vibe.

[@ThePaulv12]

That's actually some good old school filming there. It is so enthralling one barely notices the lower quality. In fact I might go so far as saying it adds a certain charm even if it is only VHS.

[@tedbear4243]

Thx for your comments. All these early vids were assembled between two domestic video recorders way back in the 1980's- a JVC and a Panasonic, both expensive machines at the time, with many many hours sitting on the floor with them going back and forwards and gradually piecing the videos together. As ive commented a few times elsewhere, I have digitised all the camera tapes and will digitally re-edit these and tidy them up a bit, plus fix the frame rate. Some how the setting found its way to 24 fps instead of 25, thats why a frame is dropped every second. I realised way too late. One things for sure, the Leigh Creek coal train sequence will remain largely as is, complete with the awesome Tangerine Dream track of music - to my mind it works just nicely and is one of my favourite sequences of all the videos Ive done :-)

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

Class leader GM1 "Robert Gordon Menzies" sat in old Parkes NSW loco yard for near four years deteriorating, it left in the first week of April bound for WA, an eight day road journey on a low loader. I loved that green and gold AN livery, especially when the loco bogies were painted silver or yellow.

[@tedbear4243]

The green and gold was very pleasant. I especially like the 930's with yellow bogies.

[@zdravkoleski2375]

Wow that coal train had a million wagons must be a record

[@robertcameron2808]

Another nice little video thanks for the memories I worked plenty of trains with the old gm dl and alco junk

[@tedbear4243]

Thx Rob. I kinda liked the Alcos! Fond memories of having 4 or 5 930's on one of my trains.

[@avlisk]

1989, we rode the train from Perth to Alice, pulled by a pair of GM's like these. It was the Indian Pacific part way and The Ghan the rest. We had a great conductor who let us take a free room in the crew car on the last half of the journey because he found out we were rail fans. His name was Ivan. (Don't tell anyone because he'd probably get in trouble!) I don't recall if the IP took us all the way to Adelaide where we changed to the Ghan, or if we changed at a town in northern SA. Anyone know? My memory ain't what it used to be. Thanks.

[@tedbear4243]

Thx for comment and sharing. I'm yet to do the trip by train across the Nullabor (done it 5 times by car), and really look forward to it

[@andrewgoldbergs4474]

Nice footage of an era about to be transformed with the withdrawal of much of the GM and 930 fleet in the coming years and changes in rolling stock. Glad you shared it with us being an old AN man.👨

[@tedbear4243]

🙂

[@darylephillips6778]

Great Video I miss the green and gold and the grunty sound of the older locomotives

[@tedbear4243]

I thoroughly enjoyed working on all the old gear. This new stuff is quite boring though conditions generally quite a lot better

[@C21L01]

Ah the good old Australian National. Knew them well. Dad was one of the many drivers they had back when this was filmed.

[@C21L01]

Ah the good old Australian National. Knew them well. Dad was one of the many drivers they had back when this was filmed.

[@brianjonas950]

Fantastic video my friend those were the day of the ol green and gold beauties along with that mustard pot flavour popping up to seal the deal lol 😊 and of course the lovely G class v-line scheme i must say im a big fan of that livery for a vic loco

[@tedbear4243]

Thanks 👍

[@buzzytrains9037]

I like how green they are, it looks nice

[@noelhass3712]

Great memories of ANR days!

[@tedbear4243]

They were indeed awesome days. I regret not doing the Tea and Sugar when I had the chance.

[@noelhass3712]

@@tedbear4243 l was a Fireman then Loco Driver with ANR, started as Trainee Engineman Cleaner at Port Pirie, so got to see myriad of motive power, 600,700,830,GM,CL&AL on standard gauge, 700,900,930 on broad! Even occasional 80 class from NSW! Hauled a Hammersley loco back on 413 goods ex Mile End once, and I've a photo of Westrail DB at Pirie loco, would've been when Clyde's had factory at Rosewater in Adelaide. I transferred to Dry Creek when Pirie line was standardised. Forgot to mention, had English Electric 50O on Broad and Standard gauge at Port Pirie too!!

[@tedbear4243]

The job was infinitely more interesting back then.

[@C21L01]

When did you transfer to Dry Creek? My Dad was a fireman in Peterbough for ANR then he transferred to Dry Creek when Peterbough was being "shut down" in 1982. He became a driver after that & remained a driver until he decided to leave in 1993. Curious to know if you ever met or worked with my Dad. 😊

[@Match2100]

Those 600s are monsters, I'd love to see one in the flesh!

[@tedbear4243]

Things are usually better in the flesh ;-)

[@grooverdavid1732]

Bravo depuis la France, une belle video d'époque (1988) de bonne qualité et bien réalisée. Les musiques de l'époque sont meilleures que la bouillie sonore d'aujourd'hui.

[@tedbear4243]

Hello to you in France. Thank you for your interest and nice comments, and I agree, there was indeed some good music back then :-)

[@kehldendavid4779]

I see the AN still uses vans for their goods train

[@MySteamChannel]

Steam guy here but this is still cool!

[@tedbear4243]

Thx, appreciate your comment :-)

[@movierazor]

Pet Shop Boys for added bonus!

[@tedbear4243]

I had totally forgot I had used that track!

[@benchurchill1939]

Awesome, flinders ranges coalie.

[@tedbear4243]

It was the first truly big train I had seen and remain impressed by it and the country side it used to pass thru.

[@kylestennings456]

Some great SA stuff, the Alco’s & the 500 class 👌🏻 Did you get much other 830 stuff in SA ???! I spent 3 weeks over there in 2015 chasing them up the Barossa Valley & eyre peninsula

[@tedbear4243]

Didnt get as much 830 or 930 coverage as I would have liked 😞

[@kylestennings456]

Always the way ! Cant get everything.

[@livinlifetothefullest2750]

Seems to me the NSW 44s were a large success weras the SA 930s they were much quicker to scrap as most were gone before the 90s compared to the later model 44s which survive years longer until the great SRA Alco purge.

[@Eugeniy1968]

Отличное видео! 👍👍👍

[@tedbear4243]

Thank you :-)

[@howardschmerl9927]

Was that yard shunting at Spencer Junction

[@tedbear4243]

I cant recall tbh, sorry

[@jesstill7833]

Yes 👍

[@ryanclarke2161]

Wow I wasn't even one yet

[@ALFATH5758]

So nice video my friend 👍👍 best regard from your new subscriber 🤝🤝 have a great weekend my friend 🤝🤝

[@tedbear4243]

Thank you 👍

[@jesstill7833]

A good video lots of memories me doing the same chasing trains all over the country ,I know most of the places on this video ,very good v c r cheers ❤️🙏👍🕯️🦘🇦🇺

[@tedbear4243]

Cheers Jess. I will be digitally re-editing this video soon, so expect some improvements. It will transferred at the correct frame rate for starters!