Parallel freights: 17000 HP on the hill : Australian trains and railroads.

[FishplateFilms]

Thats murphy's law for you!!!,the car tools are a good idea,you have them in the car allready??

[Rocketboy1950]

@FishplateFilms Yep

[FishplateFilms]

Still, thats a pricey mishap, better than a new one I suppose!!!,maybe a weight on the unattended tripod??,just more crap to carry though?, cheers Gregg.

[Rocketboy1950]

@FishplateFilms I was in South Oz recently and it blew a gale every day. Not once did I walk away from the tripod without putting the camera on the ground first. Might rig up some of the car tool kit in a bag to hang on it.

[FishplateFilms]

Another good catch Rod,hope you get the camera issues sorted!. Cheers Gregg.

[Rocketboy1950]

@FishplateFilms Got the quote......$1800 which is far better than I expected.

[gcalco]

To bad about your lens, hope it's repairable. The video is just awesome, love those old bulldogs. Wish we had those pulling trains over here in the U.S.

[tsport100]

They look like seriously old locos?

[Rocketboy1950]

@tsport100 There's a reason for that, they are.

[gypsyball]

Sort of reminds me of the old Northern Pacific mainline that passes through my home town. Once in a while you get 2 train going by at the same time on the double track mainline.

[GeoffBlackmore]

Is 9306 normally this big? Looks a healthy load to me.

[Rocketboy1950]

@GeoffBlackmore Yes and as Steve says down below it was 100 tons heavier the next night.

[kizza1645]

I know nothing about trains, and have zero interest in them. Why am I here?

[Rocketboy1950]

@kizza1645 I'm going to be really kind and only say "you sure leave yourself open to some unkind answers". You obviously have an interest in things with motors. Well these fuckers have seriously big ones. Those orange coloured locos have 645 cubic inches....in each one of their turbo charged 16 cylinders.

[stevo313]

Oooops, cross 9101 Mildura, at Bunbury St.

[stevo313]

I had to slow for the good line junction at Broady, but caught him again at McIntyre loop, more to & from to the home signals near West Footscray, where I got the run onto the main ahead of him, to cross 9191 at Bunbury St, then to Appleton Dock.

SB. PN Bulk, Sth. Dynon.

[stevo313]

Hey Rocket.

Nice catch ......... I was wondering who the 'gunzel' was doing the video there !!

I was driving 9306.

For your info : A78, P20, A81. 40 : 2,720t. 866m.

I was watching BM7 coming up behind me & then saw you & hoped to hell that

the over take would happen as it did.

After your location, they got away on us, but caught them in Wallan Loop later, to be overtaken yet again, then some serious parallel running down to Craigieburn, to-ing & fro-ing.

[Rocketboy1950]

@stevo313 There was some conjecture as to whether or not that front A was on line. It seemed very quiet and there was no visible exhaust. You ran clean over the top of me at Craigieburn when I was driving home.......both of you.

[stevo313]

@Rocketboy1950  Rod, believe me, ALL locos were online, no choice mate, was borderline FULL load.

Mind you, I did back to back rests & came back yesterday with locos reversed, 1 wagon less, but 100t MORE ..... was a bit slower to Dockerys Rd, but a much more pleasant trip back, on A81 ..... No.1 end leading & NOT the rough riding, back breaking, neck snapping piece of crap that 78 has become.

[stevo313]

@stevo313 At that time we BOTH ran over the top of you, I was enjoying the parallel running, but A78, was so rough with vertical bounce, we thought we were airborne a few times !!

[hoppel089]

nice one - pure power!

[trolleycarwreck]

Well done! Nothing like being in the right place at the right time!

Mike M

Bloomington Illinois USA

[vrfan2006]

Great timing with the overtake there. They ended up passing me at Donnybrook around 21:00 with BM7 just behind 9306, but the light was almost gone.

[Rocketboy1950]

@vrfan2006 They went over the top of me together as I drove along the freeway near Craigieburn.

[Metalhead4life66666]

Very nice!

[WeldinMike27]

This is how Australia does it in 2012. Woo hoo. USA take note. Awesome video. Lucky the camera still worked after the heavy knock.

[Ella73TV2]

Parallel running is always a nice surprise when filming. Camera damage not such a nice surprise.

[Rocketboy1950]

@Ella73TV2 .....and don't you know it :-(  About $800 for a new back, how much for a lens ? Might be time to go to a Z7

[Ella73TV2]

@Rocketboy1950

Do it in style, get a Sony PMW-F3. ;-)

[Rocketboy1950]

@Ella73TV2 Get real, I'm going RED. Happily for me I could afford the PMW-F3 but I couldn't justify it for the meagre income I make here. Further to that I have some concern about the effect of this new channel design that we are having shoved down our throats in March.

[therailfanman]

Great video,but then all your video's are great.

[Rocketboy1950]

@therailfanman please send money for larger hat

[DelayInBlock]

Nice catches Chap!

[shazam75]

good one!