60 Years of the SOUTHERN AURORA Australia, A Drivers View!
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Shot with 3 cameras over the course of a few hours while crewing this train from Albury to Benalla while it was down from Nsw rail heritage museum in joint partnership with Seymour rail heritage centre, as flooding in Nsw had blocked the original Alco locomotives that were meant to be on the train, so SRHS helped out with the T, P & S class locomotives.
Myself and kev decided to get some footage, the rest was in the editing which has taken me some time in dribs and drabs, had lots of footage to go through and wanted to keep it short enough but long enough, not sure how I did but I'm a better videographer/photographer than I am an editor. 😬
The southern Aurora ran between Sydney and Melbourne from the early 60s to the mid 80s back then for some time, Locomotives were changed at the border for engines of that state, not the case anymore thankfully now all the states get the joy of seeing mixed locomotives on any given train so that's a plus.
Safety is always my priority, and all shots involve a mutual crew risk assessment to ensure the safety of myself, other crew members and members of the public.
Train running is always comes first and I try and get what I can when I can and get enough to make something out of in the editing process.
Thanks for the support, all money made on this channel goes to camera equipment, new mics, etc.
I've got some big plans, but being solo can hold that back a little. 🤟
For more information on the southern aurora see link below..
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This looks like the coolest career in my humble opinion. Beats being stuck in one place 8hrs a day. The wilderness alone has me hooked. The locomotives are a definite bonus.
Same as the US, thanks. I follow another guy down there who videos trains Special Agent Fox Molder. I noticed a lot of similarities between trains down under and here. A lot of the same signals, operating practices, equipment etc. 39 year veteran on the Santa Fe here in the US.
That's so good! Engineer there?
Hey Aussie train driver, the music at the end of this video is sad, whilst observing the vacant rusty rail Albury rail yard and the turn table and derelict fuel tanker, I recall when that train was running as a regular service, we uncoupled our VR Loco usually a new X Class as we called them, then over to the t/table spin around and back to Wodonga light engine to sign off on a rest job, this may include the Daylight or Spirit of Progress train, as a Dynon Crew it usually was the intercapital daylight. Sad these are now only heritage trains these days, gone is the days of the 'VR', thanks for the memories
jerry
How interesting! Cheers for that glad you enjoy the vids and music 🍻
Was on the charter myself. Never realized that it was 2 of SSR's best upfront. Thanks for the smooth ride fellas
CONGRATULATIONS for this amazing presentation!! Everything about this video is superb with multiple camera angles and seamless editing and crisp and clear picture and audio. I have the privilege of viewing this on a home cinema system which I wish everyone could experience especially you. Thanks again for this amazing experience.
Awesome feedback! I always think to myself, I need a proof reader before I upload, but I did spend a little bit of time on this one. More coming soon! 👌
The old girls look super cool painted up in the blue and yellow. Just how I remember VR from the old days
Great work, well done. Brought back memories, and i still think it was an absolute miracle more people were not killed at Violet Town.
A nice little video thanks for the memories I drove the aurora spirit daylight and the riv
Awesome man! Glad you enjoy it! Got plenty more to come.
Great video, I haven't watched in some time but I see a lot of quality videos I have to catch up on!
Flabbergasted!!! WOW !!! That was amazing I could watch hours of this...😇😇😇 Thank you for sharing this with us...:):):)
0:28 The bell on that centre horn needs re-attaching.
Yep. The soldered joints on those RVB horns never lasted long with the vibrations on the roof of a locomotive.
They were never designed for rail use, just work sure warning horns, but ended up on them, and they are iconic for all the bad reasons.. 😂
Driver working so hard he had to put his packet of biscuits down.
😂😂😂
Excellent footage Adam, was certainly a great sight seeing the SRHC trio powering along with the Southern Aurora. Chased it from Wodonga to Melbourne
Cheers! 🍻
Yeah was a good day out with big kevvie!
One cool video. You gotta love those S classes; one well-presented machine.
Another cracking vid, fond memories of shunting them both at Sydney terminal after they were brought up from the car sheds running locos around via the middle road, the running then pushing the empties back onto their baggage vans being loaded at the baulks ready for the run South
Hi Adam, awesome video. There is a two page article in the May 2022 Newsrail magazine written by Victorian Rail Publishing in conjunction with the team at the Newport Railway Museum (I am a volunteer) who spoke to Mr John Crofts, Seymore Railway Heritage Centre President, about the circumstances leading up to this historic operation. Many thanks and stay safe. Cheers Lee.
Yea SRHS helped out big time! It was much appreciated by all!
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER Hi Adam many thanks for the reply and also a lot of thanks go to you guys and all of the team at SRHC for helping out. Cheers Lee.
Great video Adam, nice work (especially S303 segment) and thank you.
Seconding Aussie Johns comments--well done mate on this one! Color balance,-and you know how picky I am with that :)--exposure and selective focus were all perfect as was choice of music too. And I really liked the head-on shots looking back too. Great job!
Cheers mate! I had to do a bit of colour correcting, the gopro footage can be a bit if work but it's not too bad provided it doesn't over expose the image. At least you can see what's going on.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER Yes agreed, its very hard work to fix footage thats over exposed and GoPro's tend to highly saturate certain colors which if your trying to grade to match to your other brand cams can be difficult. Was it the the other side of the track at 2:03 that you had issues with over exposure? It looked a bit compressed, but still looks ok. The overcast skies are always hard with a GoPro as it lifts up the dark spots, thus overexposing the bright spots which mostly you dont want. But all in all, nice work mate well done :)
@@nickwoop4153 yeah I've had a few issues with the lap top freezing While editing. I'm not overly happy with it, even though it's a pro gaming pcu.
I use a log profile on the go pro but I need to be able to set it for each scene especially when the weather changes, the hand held cameras do that much easier, sad part is my phone edits videos easier, I just insert a usb card reader and upload the footage, it's so easy and still retains quality, so I'd expect the lap top to do that at least.
What a great video. Humming engine sounds and a passing XPT. Awesome
That was great! Thanks for filming and sharing 👍
Phenomenal footage AussieTrainDriver. Thanks for showing this nice footage. Was good to see you and Kev Schultz arrive into Albury whilst I was videoing from the footbridge that day. Splendid. :)
Awesome. Up there with the best of them. Hopefully the rust gets fixed on top of S303 one day :)
Awesome Video! the sounds of the locomotives are amazing and it is good to see that these locos are preserved in there beautiful original livery. I would of loved to see and hear this train in person! Train driving is a job that I would love to do when im older, and hopefully I it will happen one day!
👍👍👍 that the old ammeter still works!!
Great footage, love the old livery colours of the engines especially P22. Stay safe and keep on driving.(The best job l know of.)
Love the sound of the emds
Great clip atd as always . And as always have shared with US train fan/You tuber Jawtooth
Thanks heaps! Love jaw tooth's footage!!
Beautiful editing!
Look great
Great video
Nice work adam
Great video , the roar of the GM 567 is so familiar . Had the the first two locos the 645 ? it sounded a bit like it.
No they are 567s but gthe T's are a V8 the S is a V16
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER Ok thanks 👍
Goodday Adam,
Fantastic video, you can't knock the old VR colour a chip off the old Erie Railway over in the states.
Crystal Clear footage & superb sound track.
Cheers
Louis 👍
wow great train video
Greetings from germany.
I really like your Videos and I think about to buy this god blessed camera.
Hi there from Australia 🇦🇺
Yeah which camera do you like?
Defiantly sound like 567 prime movers, of the normally asperated variety
They sure are.
I hope that they fixed the broken horn.
Those trains must do some miles over the years.
A few Million by now.
If this is between Albury and Benalla, it must be all standard gauge.
I never realised that a P class had been fitted with sg bogies. Have other heritage locos been similarly altered?
Yes P22 was converted by Seymour if I recall, most ex VR locos have exchangeable bogies
Yeah 22 has been SG for quite a while now. Along with T357
On the S class, there's a smaller notch that has 1 & 2 and a Dynamic Brake setting, do you know what the difference is for the the two number settings? Used that kind of control stand in Simulators, but never knew the difference between the 1 & 2.
These have 1- OFF - B
1 being power, off being throttle controller isolated, and B is dynamic braking.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER oh okay, thanks :)
What guage is the track they're running on?
Standard Gauge
Only one thing missing. Where was the billy?
Haha true! We didn't get much time to boil one but it would have been good!
Quick question, do the train crew change at the borders?
Not any more, we run into Nsw and vice versa.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER we used to change over the loco's and crew/and/stable them for the night or a jet back to Melbourne. Love the whistle cords still there and the sound of the fans backing of from 8 notches. Thanks so much for the video
10:00 overtaken by the XPT..... floor it race it
We were trying! 😂
The speed of the train is restricted to 100 km. Due to both T and P Max speed of 100 km
The Australians locomotive have the strangest looks imo
I would have thought Europe moreso. We have some old shit here though!
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER old roster doesnt mean its unoperable though. Here in Indonesia, the locos older than 1977 are mostly retired and scrapped. Only a handfull of low powered switcher and lighter locos are still operable. The retired roster had some unique looks and cabin.
Did they fix the horn on S303
Must have? Sounds alright.