VR Liveried X31 & C501 on 7 Loco 7AM9! - Rare Action in The Hills

CORRECTION: Seymour not Seymore. Oops
Saturday was another interesting day in the hills with heritage locos X31 and C501 being seen on an SCT Intermodal. They arrived on Friday on MP9 making up 2 of the 4 loco train, and with them leading, making it the first time a good sounding horn has lead an SCT intermodal in a long time.
In this video, we see 7AM9 with the 7 loco consist at both Mitcham and Belair with not a peep of the horn sounding at both locations(which is possibly a good thing). But with the recent disasters involving trains and level crossings I'm surprised these drivers didn't seem to have a need to blow the horn.
Anyway, these locomotives are on hire to SCT as they are rebuilding their first generation CSR classes, which is apparently being done all the way over in China, but I'm not too sure about that, even though they are Chinese built. Two CF classes (CF4403 & CF4410) from RailFirst and CLF2 from RailPower are also apparently on hire to SCT which is good for us spotters!
Timestamps:
0:00 7AM9 - Mitcham
0:46 7AM9 - Belair
1:30 Outro
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[@TTTS107]

Wow! What a sight PTG! Great filming!

[@Planetrainguy]

Thanks alot!

[@peter.w79]

A small correction, correct spelling is Seymour. I like the concept of heritage operators leasing out their locos to freight operators, likely a good source of additional funds to support the restoration of these and other locos.

[@Planetrainguy]

Oh my god how did I not notice that my stupid autocorrect! That’s stuck with the video forever now >:( And yes I think that is a really good idea, just it only really benefits standard gauge railways since broad is not used on freight really.

[@NR17_lover]

good job i saw them at blackwood

[@theundeniedhugo]

nice video ptg, when are you going to work on traffic camera.?

[@apurbo79]

৬ খুব সুন্দর ভিডিও বন্ধু খুব ভালো লাগলো ভাই আপনার ভিডিওটা অসাধারণ হয়েছে ভাই 😊😊❤❤

[@Planetrainguy]

অনেক ধন্যবাদ ভাইয়া!

[@aussiejohn5835]

Excellent video PTG, were the 2 Vline livery locos dead or working?

[@thekingmeme1237]

those 2 locos are on hire to SCT from Seymour Railway Heritage Centre C501 and X31. X31 has been recently been gauge convertd from broad to standard gauge with S307 bogies.

[@Planetrainguy]

Thanks John! They were operating on the way to Adelaide, but I heard X31 had problems, and since this train was 7 locos, I think they were dead.

[@aussiejohn5835]

@@thekingmeme1237 Sorry for my late reply. Thanks for that information, I really appreciate it 😊

[@Planetrainguy]

@@aussiejohn5835 not your fault John, for some reason that reply from thekingmeme got flagged as inappropriate and I had to approve it.

[@aussiejohn5835]

@Planetrainguy You're very welcome, PTG 👍. Thanks for that. I assumed they were dead as I couldn't see any hint of exhaust, and there were 5 other locomotives that would make it unnecessary to use their horsepower.

[@SouthTrainsAndPlanes]

Is the cover image Mitcham? How didn’t I see you?

[@Planetrainguy]

I hid behind the bushes lol. I saw you there, I was held up when the hybrid train went across the crossing, which funnily enough I saw again at Belair

[@user-gk8gg1zt7l]

Great video - Like me

[@iwilkins8471]

😜 *Promo sm*

[@Planetrainguy]

no!