Kevin EuDaly's Railroad Adventures: Australia's Pilbara, Part 3
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Ep. 3: A Beacon in the Night: Experience railroading in the heart of the Pilbara as we stay at Auski Roadhouse, accessing all four Pilbara railroads: Rio Tinto, BHP (Broken Hill Propriety), FMG (Fortescue Metals Group), and Roy Hill.
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Some really great coverage again Kevin and I loved the still photos with the various cloud effects.
Your videos on the Pilbara are top notch. Keep them coming!
Another great episode to inform those who have yet to see real 'heavy haul' railroading.
When watching your videos, I accidentally hit ‘like’ and never knew when.
Enjoyed the third episode!
2 Dash 9s at 10.43. A sight that'll probably never be seen again. Another Fantastic video
Love the video series, amazing stuff
Nice documentary friend, I hope there are more videos of these Pilbara railways, and there is a video of the Pilbara trains, thanks for sharing.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all three videos, I hope you’ve got some more coming up. I bring up mining and railway equipment from the eastern states by truck, so get to see the mines from an insider perspective and also the railways trackside. Very few people come up to the Pilbara for a look, mainly its workers fly-in / fly-out and they don’t really have time to do any exploring.
Auski. Yes it is an oasis in the wilderness. Pretty expensive but the food is generally okay. The truck parking area used to be a dust bowl until recently when they tarred it, the roadtrains generally come in at a snail pace to keep the dust down but 4WDs are another story. I don’t know if it was tarred for your last trip.
I guess you already know the Pilbara is the only place in Australia where they use these fully imported GEs and EMDs. I believe these Pilbara trains are the longest and heaviest in the world, especially BHP’s. BHP use exclusively SD70ACe after they had a poor run out of 8 x GE AC6000s which they subsequently scrapped.
Anyway, I’ll be up there next week, it’s going to be in the 40°C vicinity with rain, so it won’t be very pleasant. Looking forward to your next video.
There will be two more videos in the Pilbara, then three more that cover the other areas we visited in Australia. After that it will expand to coverage of things here in the U.S., and I have a New Zealand trip organized but the videos aren't produced yet. Motive power on the four Pilbara railroads is interesting in that BHP is all EMD, Rio Tinto and Roy Hill are all GE, and FMG has both EMDs and GEs. From a motive power perspective, BHP is the most monotonous, but at least there are the two variations of the solid orange paint scheme. I caught the tail end of the Pilbara cabs, which I liked because they were so different. We've never been in the summer -- it's not as much fun when you're captive to the air conditioning inside the SUV, and we've had some pretty warm days even in winter.
@@WRPadventures , did you catch the double ended emd dinosaurs (vr b class) still operating in victoria amongst the other areas of australia that you visited?
@@vsvnrg3263 We didn't get to Victoria on the 2023 trip and didn't get any dual-cab bulldogs, but we shot some of them in 2011 and 2018. The B75 has a particularly attractive paint scheme to me.
@@WRPadventures , its good that you have seen them. theyre quite a feature for train nerds especially for those from other countries.
@@vsvnrg3263 Quite right! We are always on the lookout for Bulldogs of any type. It's amazing they're still in regular service there -- their cousins here are relegated mostly to museum and tourist operations.
Pretty cool trip. I wish I could have made it with you.
Fantastic footage and photos again. On a side note, what did you think of the Road Train trucks in the outback?
In the outback they're not the end of the world, but that's only because traffic is sparse. Put those on any American highway and you have a disaster. We already have one interstate Highway in the East that no one will drive because it's wall-to-wall trucks -- one wrong move by anyone and cars just get squished in between 80,000-pound rigs. I drove it for about 30 miles once and got off and took a two-lane highway; not as fast, but I arrived alive!
@WRPadventures those road trains can reach 385,000lbs. It's crazy stuff, but as you say, ok on those roads.
Excellent video as were the last two. I have a few questions to ask. We had a driver at Deepdale who lived in Perth but was from somewhere in Virginia and I asked him which way he goes home when he does go home. Does he fly across the Indian Ocean, across Europe to London, and across the Atlantic to the US or does he fly across Australia, across the Pacific, and across the US? He said he's done both and they take about the same time so, I know Texas is not on the east coast but even so, which way do you guys go? What do you think American truck drivers would think of the 4-trailer rigs that run into Port Hedland? Do you think anyone who hasn't been to the Pilbara could imagine the sunrises and sunsets the place sees? Do you think anyone who hasn't been to the Pilbara can imagine how isolated it is? Do you think anyone who hasn't been to the Plibara can imagine the size and scale of the iron ore industry?
Thanks! We've always flown across the Pacific. We've also always ended our trips in either Melbourne of Sydney. We want the grueling nature of the 40-hour travel day getting to the Pilbara behind us, so we start at Port Hedland or Karratha and then work our way east over the course of the trip. The four-trailer road trains are a mess. Hopefully no one over here ever gets that idea! In the remote Pilbara they're not hard to get around, but on the busy roads here they would be an absolute nightmare. The vastness of the Pilbara is difficult to communicate. I don't think anyone will understand the appeal who hasn't been there. And no, the scale of the iron ore industry in the Pilbara is beyond belief, so I don't think it can be grasped without seeing it. We ran out of raw ore with high enough iron content for steel making here in the 1960s, so it's all pellets here (except for trains hauling rock to the crushers). I suspect a week's production in the Pilbara probably matches everything we do here in a year. The scale is just staggering.