Thank you for capturing & sharing this video for everyone to see , if I was there - I'd have done the same thing as you - video the train ; the last time that I saw 6029 in person it was about to under go restoration in the Canberra rail museum & living in W.A. these days - I miss "home" for the steam action but hopefully I'll be back again some day soon.
I remember on occasion as a kid seeing Beyer-Garratts hauling coal and they were always a spectacle. I met 6029 at Goulburn once and she was utterly immaculate, like she just steamed out of the showroom. The irony is that I don't think they ever hauled passengers.
Now that's a train. What i would like is something more than a train ride, maybe trips both ways with an accommodation package. A much larger revenue opportunity for Heritage coffers
The train is a combined consist due the wet weather & track closures. It was supposed be 2 trains to Bathurst. The steam with passengers & the diesels with the support carriages. The wet weeather changed all that.
Here in North America diesels are seen with steam engine specials because even our old coaches have long ago been converted to electric heat and systems and no longer from a steam line from the steam loco. The diesel(s) is along for the ride as a generator.
@@Terrys-Steam-and-Cobi Never thought about that before, I guess that explains why a diesel always pulls the Southern Aurora Carriages, the silver ones seen in the video. I think the red ones at the front are not AC, as ive seen videos of these carriages pulled solely by Steam
Look up the 3801 crash and you will see why the coroner ordered a diesel to be part of the consist. Also it can provide electrical power to whatever carriages need it. The Garret could easily pull the lot even if the diesels were not running, they are there for electrical power and safety. They used to go past my school (in the 60's) pulling huge loads.
Thank you for capturing & sharing this video for everyone to see , if I was there - I'd have done the same thing as you - video the train ; the last time that I saw 6029 in person it was about to under go restoration in the Canberra rail museum & living in W.A. these days - I miss "home" for the steam action but hopefully I'll be back again some day soon.
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Fantastic footage mate. What a magnificent locomotive!
Wonderful footage and yes, that's a huge consist.
They did a similar consist after the Hunter valley steamfest
Thank you, great video.
FANTASTIC CAPTURE
I remember on occasion as a kid seeing Beyer-Garratts hauling coal and they were always a spectacle. I met 6029 at Goulburn once and she was utterly immaculate, like she just steamed out of the showroom. The irony is that I don't think they ever hauled passengers.
Well that was different. Good catch!
The reason they put a Diesel on is to provide heat and power to later model coaches. Plus assistance should the Steam Loco fail.
Poetry in motion ❤
Now that's a train.
What i would like is something more than a train ride, maybe trips both ways with an accommodation package.
A much larger revenue opportunity for Heritage coffers
Fantastic Footage, annoying that the tain station staff was the only one to cross the yellow line and block your view
Ah, but yes they are safe and protected from injury as they have a hivis vest on to protect them.
How did we manage to run railways for over a century without bloody diesels on the rear
Presumably because back then they did not need simultaneously to pull their fuel and/or water in tankers behind them.
The train is a combined consist due the wet weather & track closures. It was supposed be 2 trains to Bathurst. The steam with passengers & the diesels with the support carriages. The wet weeather changed all that.
Surely with that load the extra power is welcome.
Here in North America diesels are seen with steam engine specials because even our old coaches have long ago been converted to electric heat and systems and no longer from a steam line from the steam loco. The diesel(s) is along for the ride as a generator.
@@Terrys-Steam-and-Cobi Never thought about that before, I guess that explains why a diesel always pulls the Southern Aurora Carriages, the silver ones seen in the video. I think the red ones at the front are not AC, as ive seen videos of these carriages pulled solely by Steam
What a beautiful machine!
Smoke gets in your eyes 👀
Isn't there someone in Australia who makes an N scale Garratt? Can someone supply contact info? I would appreciate it!
Very good video, like
Where are the first set of carriages themselves housed and maintained ?
Thirlmere I'm pretty sure. at the NSW Rail Museum
@@l1l2r3c4h5j Thanks for reading and advising.
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What station is that?
Campbelltown.
Nice
One steamer up front for show. Three diesels further down doing the real work.
Look up the 3801 crash and you will see why the coroner ordered a diesel to be part of the consist. Also it can provide electrical power to whatever carriages need it.
The Garret could easily pull the lot even if the diesels were not running, they are there for electrical power and safety. They used to go past my school (in the 60's) pulling huge loads.
Not those old scrapheaps. If they'd been pulling they'd be smoking as much as the steamer.