The brief 'bright light in the sky' referred to at around the 27 minute mark, was likely the effects of a bright fireball / meteor not in their direct line of sight (above or behind perhaps) from the description given by the SCT driver, which would light up the sky especially at a very dark location as might often be true of the line in South Australia... This is a great interesting series, once you tune out the 'disaster is just around the corner' elements of the commentary. I would also have preferred one episode on each of the trains featured rather than the constant chopping around, but that clearly wouldn't fit the 'house' style of modern popular documentaries...
1.5km train length is on the short side by American standards. Average train length here is about 2.5km, and now we're regularly seeing 4km-long trains in some areas. However, the longer trains are coming at the price of safety. Major railroads are also looking to reduce train crew size to one person. When a knuckle breaks and splits a train, a driver by himself won't be able to do anything; if it happens in a built-up area, it would block crossings for hours and cause problems with emergency vehicles trying to get through. A general strike over this issue + serious wage and work hours was to have started today, but was temporarily averted; a 60-day clock is ticking though. But certainly trains through the Outback come with their own perils, as I learn from this video. We don't have sheep or kangaroos loitering on tracks! And our train crews tend not to know about rescuing crocodiles either.
Exactly. Know-nothing talking heads reading "disaster just ahead" scripts written by know-nothing writers. I could never figure out why they couldn't just let the content speak for itself.
we lived in a pub in London which had a train driver hostel just over the road and one driver took me to a train yard. It was in Stratford, London and I had a drive of a 37 & 47 class diesel engine. I was 12 and loved it. There is a Westfield shopping place there now.
The Savannahlander train looks like like a wonderful scenery trip with wild-life rescues thrown in as an extra. I wonder if that 297 mile length of straight track to Perth is still a world record since it was completed in 1917.
I love trains, but the required schooling (book work) I would never pass, I have to do everything hands on to learn, my learning disablity really is in the way and at my age, learning by hand is the only method, I play so many train sims and know so many rules and regulations and train operations, but places such as these do not want some one like me.
Wonderful adventure. The people take things in their stride,never flustered by events which maybe due to living in a vast country that is sparsely populated Great sense of humor .
Terrific video! Never took my eyes off the monitor the whole 44:07 minutes! I'm just sad I couldn't witness this venture in person, thanks again for sharing it with all of us.
Agreed, WV and KY and PA trains are longer, heavier, same kinds of grades and curves. Lots more engines too. A little too overly dramatic for my likes. Great trip across a great continent.
60 or so cars doesn't seem all that "big" to me, I dunno maybe eastern Canada is an outlier, but I grew up with average trains being 60-80 cars, with the occasional 120-150 car behemoths. I guess maybe oil trains heading to the refinery are lighter, so these trains are hauling more actual weight?
In America they are bigger, too, but in Canada, the US, and Australia, special couplers are used to allow such trains. Most countries have much weaker couplings and thus are required to have much shorter freight trains.
Well, after listening to the introduction I stopped looking. It might be an interesting documentary but the narrator treats me like I'm an eight year old almost pissing in my pants from the upcoming events... Please fire this guy so he can do commercials.
initially, a very good and interesting documentry BUT ,BUT absolutely ruined by the excessive amount of unwanted, annoying , unnecessary and infuriating adverts and pop-ups that interrupted the program EVERY 4 minutes and ultimately made me turn off as the documentry became unwatchable ! grrrrrrrrrrrhh !!!
looks like in every country youtube is showing differently? i am watching that film in Moscow ( the one in Russia not the one in Idaho) and there is not one advertisement. Not at the beginning, neither at the end. Though what i would liked to have on this film, a little bit - Houston We Have A Problem - comments and also music and other sounds. Still, a great movie and - chapeau - to the people who work there...
@@FIAFY111 i have NO ad blocker and also have no ads. maybe it is country specific? I live in Moscow in Russia, maybe they realise, some advertisement that is not russia specific is of no interest to me?
The brief 'bright light in the sky' referred to at around the 27 minute mark, was likely the effects of a bright fireball / meteor not in their direct line of sight (above or behind perhaps) from the description given by the SCT driver, which would light up the sky especially at a very dark location as might often be true of the line in South Australia...
This is a great interesting series, once you tune out the 'disaster is just around the corner' elements of the commentary. I would also have preferred one episode on each of the trains featured rather than the constant chopping around, but that clearly wouldn't fit the 'house' style of modern popular documentaries...
Too much drama.
1.5km train length is on the short side by American standards. Average train length here is about 2.5km, and now we're regularly seeing 4km-long trains in some areas. However, the longer trains are coming at the price of safety. Major railroads are also looking to reduce train crew size to one person. When a knuckle breaks and splits a train, a driver by himself won't be able to do anything; if it happens in a built-up area, it would block crossings for hours and cause problems with emergency vehicles trying to get through. A general strike over this issue + serious wage and work hours was to have started today, but was temporarily averted; a 60-day clock is ticking though.
But certainly trains through the Outback come with their own perils, as I learn from this video. We don't have sheep or kangaroos loitering on tracks! And our train crews tend not to know about rescuing crocodiles either.
I clicked because I was interested in the subject in the title, now 10 minutes in, but only heard general stuff that you can get anywhere.
These documentaries would be quite interesting enough without the American-style hyping-up of small events to seem like everything is a crisis.
22:05 they pass an old 1950s F unit
such a shame that an interesting topic like this gets reduced to short attention span Discovery Channel schlock
Exactly. Know-nothing talking heads reading "disaster just ahead" scripts written by know-nothing writers. I could never figure out why they couldn't just let the content speak for itself.
we lived in a pub in London which had a train driver hostel just over the road and one driver took me to a train yard. It was in Stratford, London and I had a drive of a 37 & 47 class diesel engine. I was 12 and loved it. There is a Westfield shopping place there now.
Me with a Common English House spider: ARGH! Spray it. Stamp on it. Kill it. Aussies with trapped Freshwater Croc: Jump in. Pick it up. Release it.
super video
"How Do you Stop A 5000 Ton Juggernaut?"
Is it a secret? 😂
The Savannahlander train looks like like a wonderful scenery trip with wild-life rescues thrown in as an extra. I wonder if that 297 mile length of straight track to Perth is still a world record since it was completed in 1917.
The NTSB would never let this happen in the United States lol
Love your Channel ! Above all about Trains. Greatings from Spain - Mallorca. The Ghan must be wonderfull...
Glad you enjoy it!
I sooo enjoyed this journey,thanks for the upload.
You just made my night..
Thanks for the upload, D.C..💖
Impressive! Mad Max runs a railroad!! Cheers!
Good vid but please, lose all the ridiculous embelishments of the situation.
Great insight and documentary. Enjoyed the watch
I love trains, but the required schooling (book work) I would never pass, I have to do everything hands on to learn, my learning disablity really is in the way and at my age, learning by hand is the only method, I play so many train sims and know so many rules and regulations and train operations, but places such as these do not want some one like me.
Really excellent documentary, what a great job driving that train right across the continent.
I prefet Great Railway Journeys version of narrating, not the Discovery Channel absurdity.
Wish I was in Australia for a few months...A impossible dream...😢
Nothing is impossible!
Mega journey to the maximum with raiders in the desert with that guy with chopper like of travelling thingie. With max of course and his dog.
Brilliant documentary, thanks really enjoyable.
looks like a hard job, keep up the hard work and pass me a donut.
US and Canadian "class one" railroads: How do you stop a 15,000 ton (plus) ; two miles or longer (2 miles = ~ 3.2 km) freight? Carefully.
The Cape York peninsula is not the outback. It's the peninsula. The outback is the bush south west of it. West of it is Arhnemland.
Dam man I really love Australia, here in Kentucky where I lay my head is ok but , maybe I'll travel there one day
It's pretty much a snore for me.
Like a long home movie. Of your neighbours vacation.
Wonderful adventure. The people take things in their stride,never flustered by events which maybe due to living in a vast country that is sparsely populated Great sense of humor .
Why dont they use DPU power?
They haul juggernauts by train down there??
Terrific video! Never took my eyes off the monitor the whole 44:07 minutes! I'm just sad I couldn't witness this venture in person, thanks again for sharing it with all of us.
Thanks for posting. Great show. Better than Railroad Alaska, which is full of unnecessary drama, and scripted scenes.
Glad you enjoyed the series!
What a country
Not really buying the absurdly high stakes presented here, no matter how "epic" and suspenseful the soundtrack attempts to be.
Guess youve never been a train driver
Always someone has to try and sound smart by making miserable comments.
Yes, the script sounds like the railway and railwaymen are walking through hell.
Agreed, WV and KY and PA trains are longer, heavier, same kinds of grades and curves. Lots more engines too. A little too overly dramatic for my likes. Great trip across a great continent.
Advice… just enjoy what intrigues you AND quit analyzing by your ‘standards’ what is good or bad according to your experience OR lack of.
Soooo how do you stop it !?? Very Carefully, of course
I love ❤️ media dramatize everything.
UFLB : unidentified flying light bulb. 🚂💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡 🙄
60 or so cars doesn't seem all that "big" to me, I dunno maybe eastern Canada is an outlier, but I grew up with average trains being 60-80 cars, with the occasional 120-150 car behemoths. I guess maybe oil trains heading to the refinery are lighter, so these trains are hauling more actual weight?
In America they are bigger, too, but in Canada, the US, and Australia, special couplers are used to allow such trains. Most countries have much weaker couplings and thus are required to have much shorter freight trains.
The American trains are over well over 5,000 tons now
16,000 ton coal trains 30 years ago
@yrunaked4 yep I would not be surprised if you ever hear of a 40,000 ton coal train in the near future
One sock too many, jesus crust 💀😂
Well, after listening to the introduction I stopped looking. It might be an interesting documentary but the narrator treats me like I'm an eight year old almost pissing in my pants from the upcoming events... Please fire this guy so he can do commercials.
@26:30 😲😱👽👽👽
initially, a very good and interesting documentry BUT ,BUT absolutely ruined by the excessive amount of unwanted, annoying , unnecessary and infuriating adverts and pop-ups that interrupted the program EVERY 4 minutes and ultimately made me turn off as the documentry became unwatchable ! grrrrrrrrrrrhh !!!
looks like in every country youtube is showing differently? i am watching that film in Moscow ( the one in Russia not the one in Idaho) and there is not one advertisement. Not at the beginning, neither at the end. Though what i would liked to have on this film, a little bit - Houston We Have A Problem - comments and also music and other sounds. Still, a great movie and - chapeau - to the people who work there...
@@benediktmorak4409 I use an ad blocker. I don't get any ads.
@@FIAFY111 i have NO ad blocker and also have no ads. maybe it is country specific? I live in Moscow in Russia, maybe they realise, some advertisement that is not russia specific is of no interest to me?