K5LA Locomotive horn, Australia!
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- My K5LA Locomotive Airhorn on an Ex Victorian Railways X class, With some echoes at the end that would make the American horn collectors blush!
Skip forward to 5:58 for one of the best K5 Echoes ive personally ever heard!
Thanks to some fellow crew members who i was able to organise for this horn to be fitted for a weekend in July 2014.
This is an Ex Union Pacific K5La I brought a few years back, and this is the first time it has been on a Locomotive, and is also the First ever K5LA on any Locomotive in Victoria, Australia, with Excellent sound Quality and some brilliant echoes through hills and buildings.
This Horn was temporarily fitted and has since been re fitted with the original Nathan NC P5.
The end of the video shows Steam Locomotive R707, an Ex Victorian Railways Hudson Steam locomotive, on a Heritage train excursion blowing its whistle with a brilliant echo across the Flinders street Viaduct, in Melbourne Australia
Special Thanks to Dave and Matt for the Impressive Horn work.
I never get sick of watching this video. This is just too cool! That last night scene is amazing with the R707 in addition to the X31!
Cheers! A bit of planning When into That, had a ball chasing and filming!
CoasterFan, i have always been a fan of your videos. Especially Steam Trains Galore 1. What Australian state has the best trains?
oh hello @coasterfan2105
Australia has a cowl Unit named the EMD AT42C aka Australian National DL Class. They should be preserved.
You're right, as an American that K5la sound at 6:00 hit the spot.
Sounds like Amtrak
@@ns_guy5149 Chessie
Josue Rodriguez also that
Whats so Suprising or Impressing?
The musical beauty of the K5La echo!
6:00. I got chills down my spine from that echo! Nice!
Glad you enjoyed it!
repeatman; and what about the timeless ambiance of a city 7:40? this feels like a literal ghost train to me.
I just wish I could hear the bell too. That's the typical Amtrak arrival sound.
Good old X31 in service as a heritage unit and the leader of the VR X class diesel locomotives.
Man! Train's in Australlia and trains in the U.S.A have alot in common, but Australlia is even better, cause when you have steam engines running through the downtown area of a big city, you know it's gonna be spectacular! I'm from California so, it's cool to see steam is alive and well in Australlia
That is because a good portion of Australia's locomotives are American made or based on American Designs
@@zackboone15 this particular locomotive was built in England, by the Hudson locomotive company. R707
@@zackboone15 only WA really had the most american made locos. victoria, NSW and maybe SA had aussie built stuff
@@buzzytrains9037 alot of SA's locomotives were american based though.
@@Planetrainguy true that actually
one of the best sounding K5LA's I have heard
That horn is awesome!! Especially when it echoes around Southbank.
That's one of the best K5LA's I've ever heard!
One of the best, if not the best K5LAs I’ve ever heard. Fantastic video!
You’re right
5:58 BEST ECHO EVER
you have similar locomotives as the USA!
Very similar, yes.
Same engines, different locomotives. But some similarities.
Same engines, different locomotives. But some similarities.
Adam Hollins Australia uses EMD F-Units and E-Units. They also use some GE Dash 8's and Dash 7's, also, some AC44's.
The Victoria Railways logo reminds me of the Virginian Railway logo!
that steam engine at the end was awesome
6:00 sounds like CSX GP38 Ac400cw GP40 MP15ac
Australia needs more K5LAs. I agree. We have a ton of K5LAs here in the United States. 🇺🇲🤝🇦🇺. VR #X31 has a superb K5LA.
after 1 decade, this killer k5la still stands!
Yeha she's a good one!!
Yes a bunch of Gunzels playing trains and stinking up the amenity.
The chant of the 567 with that horn has well given me the 'orn.
I declare bias (BG Junkie) but after watching hundreds - maybe thousands - of train vids on CZcams from all over the world, this is one of the best I have ever seen.
You've really nailed it with this.
106 likes and 0 dislikes that's a record because there is always that one guy who dislikes everything
haha so true!
Still no dislikes now.
Now there is....
It was YOOOOUUU!!!!
Don't forget Canada as well.
American & Canadian trains together would be alot in common with Australia if you agree with me.
Great vid and well done for doing something lots of us would love to do! The driver certainly co-operated too - love that run through Hallam!
That is a wonderful sounding K5LA, thumbs up!!
People in the streets were probably like damn, never heard one before but its beautiful
Upload of the year mate, well done.
6:00 that sounds beautiful!
Outstanding video, Adam!
Awesome film; loved it!! Amazing sounds & vision too. Thanks for sharing.
More VR locomotives should have a KL5A permanently!
3:53 If you just play the audio of this without the video, people might mistake for a recording in the US, not Australia!
7:46 i like that R class whistle! were you expecting it?
I knew the R class was on its way but not as close as it was that if get both within minutes of eachother.
X31 is nice. SRHC originally acquired X35 for preservation but they sent it back to Freight Australia for rebuilding as XR551 with one condition: when X31 is retired, it'll be passed to Seymour for preservation. X31 is like a heritage unit for Australia.
3:50 - just awesome..
Omg,That Is The Bestest Sounding K5la I Heard And It Sure Does Fit The Setting Of Downtown Melbourne At Night!Cool Video!
lol the echo through the cbd xD
the k5la sounds an Amtrak f40 k5la!! beautifal sound!!
That is so wrong but it sounds so good LOL. Top video mate, they should be fitted to the X more often!
I just love that K5LA
Wow! That Was A Really Nice One!
It sounded like a k5la in TRS2006 (on an amtrak) [edit: nice hornshow on 6:00]
Awesome, thanks for sharing
6:00 Is my most favorite
Now Adam I am still waiting for my cut on the royalties from this video. I know X31 and the Horns, Plus R707 are the stars but I need to feed my family. Pay up!
😂😂😂😂 My wallet only contains moths!
BEAUTIFUL!
Thanks for sharing this it's great
I'm pretty sure the MZ classes in Sydney have the same horn but on a different manifold.
Really does sound like a K5LA!! 😁
That's because it is, haha
Acquired from the US and shipped to Australia where AUSSIE TRAIN DRIVER temporarily put the K5LA on the nose of X31.
You should bring a K5L or K5H on that engine next time.
wow!
At 3:52 and 6:00 was the best Doppler effect
Adam, a question. I know that the railroads in Vic., don't share US Railroad practices but the one thing is blowing for someone or for a road or grade crossing. I notice that you only blow the horn once where as here we blow 2 longs a short and a long for someone or a road crossing. so the question, why do the railroads in Vic, and elsewhere only blow the one time instead of more of a warning, thus giving more notification a train is about to you and also so we can enjoy the horn? Just curious.
Jim the Standard in Victoria is a minimum of one long, one short before each crossing. But any more is at the descretion of the driver/engineer, If the trains prescence is seen to be un noticed or ignored by animals or people on or near the line, using the horn more frequently is required. after all it could save someones life, or keep the locomotive crew safe or out of jail when an investigation takes place after an accident.
The sound of a long whistle should be distinct, and used in
proportion to the distance at which the whistle is required to be
heard.
www.artc.com.au/library/TA20_Section_10.pdf
The 2 engineers at the end only blows the horn for no reason. Its running grade separated and there's a very unlikely there's a crew working on track as the train goes.
4:35 and up: This is a true reference to the honking beat that is widely used in the US when approaching a railroad crossing.
It's the classic 14L sequence.
That's what we call the crossing sequence.
Sounds like something that a CSX engine predating the 2000s would have!
Just came back to this as it was recomended to me, A Young Scotty firing for Smithy?
Sure was!!
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER I heard on the drivers grapevine that he Recently became an Instructor. Poor Bastard will now spend 99% of his time in a bloody 2x2m office. Yuk!
Dude It Needs to Happen AGAINNNN AND AGAAIIINN Till 2200
My wild guess is that it’s a Wide Font K5LA!!!
Cool!!!😎👌
America, Canada and Australia:
*Shakes Hands*
Why does everything look normal? Isn’t it all supposed to be upside down?? 😂
What I have noticed about the Australian and New Zealand freight trains is they are on the right side of the tracks and left hand drive and the freight trains in Canada and the US are on the left hand side of the tracks and right hand drive
Correct to some extent. Yeah
Very cool!
If you're still fitting horns to locos, can you fit a Southern Pacific P3? And then let me know where you'll be tooting it!
Does Australia have a certain rule regarding the sounds of horns? For example, there's an Australian version of the K5LA; I'm assuming that would be the K5-AU-LS.
No not really, just a Min decibel requirement but no set chord. We do have the K5 variant here, the k horns are coming more popular here as other models are becoming extremely expensive.
3:52
For another clip and display of this horn, skip to 2:14 of the video in this link, czcams.com/video/OVPbr4BgjQ4/video.html
I don't think Union Pacific had any K5LAs. The horn was probably from a different railroad, like CSX or Norfolk Southern.
+stampycatfan01 Some of UP's SD70Ms have K5LAs
Bryan McKenzie From all of the UP SD70M's I've heard, only 2 had horns other than a K3LA: one with a GEVO horn, the other with a K5LLA.
I actually caught one yesterday going up Cajon. They're out there but extremely rare.
Speaking of which, I caught an SD70M owned by UP which seemed to have either a very fouled K5LA or a fouled K3LA. It's on one of my compilation videos.
Actually never mind. Union Pacific DOES have locomotives with K5LA's, but it's VERY rare to catch one.
wow! Canada, Mexico, America, Brazil, & Australia all use American made engines from EMD, GE! and they all sound american made too!
these locos are Australian made, not American.
Sounds like a K3LA for some reason
thats sounds like a Amtrak to me
You Aussies really like 5 chimes. The engineer in that locomotive was blowing American crossing signals here and there.
Yeah it was semi set up for the locomotive and camera.
"I didn't see you get on"
Get on what? 🤔
Amtrak in Australia well..... thats new
Austrak
wait in the description you said it was a UP k5la and union pacific never used k5la's except for on some of the dash 8 9 and the sd70mac witch was rare. Now uinion pacific's tier 4 sd70ace's have k5la's but first AWSOME!! K5LA!! what loco is it from?????
It was actually a hybrid with an ex UP K3la.
Looks like that horn came with smoke too.
Imagine if the P5 or the K5LLA made it to Australia
They have, and are
Well the K5la and K3la
1:39
6:00
Play it over a CSX train please
Si es mía está casa
Do you still have that K5LA? It sounds really nice. I also noticed that the bell arrangement on the manifold is a bit different from a regular ABF K5LA (The correct bell arrangement for an ABF K5LA is for the #2 bell to be to the right of the #1 bell, the #3A bell to be to the left of the #1 bell, the #5 bell to be left of the #3A bell, and the #4A bell to be to the right of the #2 bell).
I guess to be original that's true, still does the same thing I guess, with all bells forward you get the true power of the K5! 👌
I don't have it atm, but the guy who does is a good friend and we have an agreement that it's not for sale to anyone but myself so I know it will always be mine again if he decides to part with it. I do have another K5la at home but it's not as beautiful as my old one.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER That's interesting. I'm currently trying to build a horn, but parts are just so expensive and hard to come by nowadays.
They sure are!
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER It's even worse for you, as Nathan horns are mostly for sale in the US, which means you have to go through the process of importing, which is costly, lengthy, and risky as horns are very fragile.
Why did it get get that horn? Has a different one now
Read the description
I'm impressed! By any chance has this horn been anywhere near manor loop 18 months ago?
Sure was, did you hear it?
I didn't but I was working a particular Signalbox when a certain (now) driver asked if I had any trains about 👍
lol
Sounds like a trains coming, how all locos should sound, your engineer mate was'nt holding back either.
Is that a D Smith I see in this Video?
Sure is!
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER Good Bloke, For a grumpy old man!
only throwing it out, but the Union Pacific never used k5la they had k5lla, it sounds like a csx k5la
Strange, the bells actually have UPRR stamped on them. So assumed they were.
Correction, this is a hybrid set, made from a UPRR K3HA with 2 bells added later.
well UP Sd70ace-t4 has K5la
Oh my god! This sounds just like the railroads back here in the United States!
Sounds like Amtrak also.
Same horns yes! 😊🤘
1:38 the train is not even at a railroad crossing
AmtrakChaser7 no he's not. This is just replicating the U.S horn sequence. Was filmed in Australia.
aussietraindriver I knew that
An X class with a K5LA?
Was fitted for a week or so.
Adam Hollins ok thanks. i had a look at it a few days ago and it went back to the original horn that it had
+Henboman yeah normally has a new cast Nathan P5
r707s 5 chime whistle is better... dont get mad at me! its MY opinion.
ex r704 whistle.
yep
Australian trains should have not only K5LAs, they should also have the Graham White E-Bell as well
Or EMD Steel bells
J