Australian trains : Running with giants

[corti1973]

nice...............

[shadowknight227]

Damn. Look at the back of that thing at 2:34. Those things are WELL equipped

[Watsupwiya]

they could have linked them with a bit of symetry

[Watsupwiya]

where's the third loco, down the cars somewhere

[Rocketboy1950]

@Watsupwiya Look again, three on the front end.

[Mechknight73]

You don't really get a handle on just how big one of these monsters is until you wait for one at a level crossing. Not just in length, but overall size. These locomotives stand almost two storeys tall, and haul a train that could fill at least half of a bulk ore carrier on its own. American engineering may have a few shortcomings, but Chinese made locomotives pulling iron ore trains sounds like someone's idea of an April Fools' Day prank

[mcdowelfbm]

Don't like American then don't purchase the product.

Buy Chinese

[Rocketboy1950]

@mcdowelfbm Guess what, watch this space, the Chinese "shit" is coming and it would need to be a whole lot better than the rubbish wagons that are already here.

[VFB1210]

Its funny... The only thing America seems to make well enough for other countries to want them are locomotives. We buy everything else from other countries.

[C45ACCTE]

@VFB1210 You must be forgetting about American medical instruments, medical science, airplanes, jet engines, pharmaceuticals, weapons, technology, science, educational institutions, food (grains, beef, produce), science, etc, etc. I wouldn't write us off just yet.

[GayBoyRunning]

How embrassing that we have to use those american locomotives -_-

[Rocketboy1950]

@GayBoyRunning And the alternative is ?

[GayBoyRunning]

@Rocketboy1950 Its Australian comapny that should use austlian machine that crapy yande junk -_- ... no offence to those yank's

[Rocketboy1950]

@GayBoyRunning Just point me to an Australian manufacturer that makes a suitable product. I'll save you some trouble. There isn't one. All locomotives made in Australia use US/Canadian components and the locomotives built here are much smaller for the local market. You will be overjoyed to know that Chinese locos are on the way. Now we would both have an issue worthy of objecting to but we simply can't keep up with demand at the moment.

[aussietraindriver]

@GayBoyRunning America makes some of the biggest and most powerful locomotives on earth. why is that embarrasing? Its much cheaper to import these giants than it is to built the same thing here.

[GayBoyRunning]

@aussietraindriver Still why tho.. Well i dont hate american but honestly just dislike them.. & for a facxt Australia need to build more of there own stuff then to buy it from some one else...

[thatstheone87]

would this be bigger than billitons?

[Rocketboy1950]

@thatstheone87 probably 234 cars vs BHP 224 loaded 336 empty ( sometimes )

[EarlRausch]

Hey Rocketboy Another great post !! I can almost feel the throbbing of those engines :)

They are Giants...

[tjshijie]

Wow I Love Nissan =)

[tjshijie]

Whats Your Vehicle Brand?

[Rocketboy1950]

@tjshijie Nissan Patrol

[ra8791]

@Rocketboy1950  very good

[spartan0738]

Union Pacific ran a train with 596 intermodal cars with 2 DPU's spaced every 99 cars

[Rocketboy1950]

@spartan0738 I saw it but it was "a" train. BHP run 336 cars every day of the week.

[tigersharkot]

Epa!! Río Tinto es un río andaluz, que pasa por una mina de mercurio, de ahi su color :D

Rio Tinto is a spanish river, across an mercury mine. :D

[Moltixar]

at least aus. uses knuckle couplers and not those faggish buffers like england

[Grumpy7783]

@Moltixar Hell yeah to that man. the only countries i care about watching trains are from Australia and the U.S.

[thatstheone87]

@Moltixar yes cos they are sooooo "faggish" 

[jamesbondsv]

While driving with my family across the Plains states, I counted the number of cars in a consist: I never reached 200. I don't even think I saw 150.

[Rocketboy1950]

Come on down to Oz, we'll show you 336 cars with locos spaced at each block of 112

[LocalRailfan]

These are beautiful diesels, I didn't know they had them like this down under? If this is in Australia which I thought it was???

[Rocketboy1950]

It sure is. The iron ore companies have the loading gauge and axle load capacities to run anything on rails.

[mrtrainboy019]

what name is the train

[Rocketboy1950]

This the Rio Tinto iron ore railway in Western Australia

[Gavsta10]

@Rocketboy1950 Is that at Port Hedland?

[Rocketboy1950]

This was shot near Newman

[Gavsta10]

Oh ok. Well its just my Uncle drives those trains up around Pt Hedland thats all.

[jamabar]

damn that sounds good i live in queensland with the small gauge trains

[SPOOKSTR]

I got run over by a train..it made my head sore.

[Rocketboy1950]

Perhaps there were some other long term effects that you are having trouble coming to terms with.

[SPOOKSTR]

I have a BIG lump on my head, a lot like the ones you see in cartoons, you know middle of the noggin about 10 inches high. I need someone to hammer it back down.

[Rocketboy1950]

Try standing about 10 inches short of where the next train stops, that should work

[SPOOKSTR]

Thanks mate...will do !!!!

[grangeroo]

will an australian train fit on american tracks?

[Rocketboy1950]

Yes but the US stuff will not fit on most of ours. The US equipment works well in The Pilbara because the tracks there were purpose built for heavy haul.

[grangeroo]

I got an alternator from a train in my back yard. it weighs 6 tons. I got it hooked to a series 60 detroit and a stepdown transformer to power my house incase of emergency power outage. I had everything in my house hooked up running and my neighbor had two extension cables hooked up too and the turbo never even spooled. I got a program to govern a DDEC 4 system. It runs at a constant 1400 rpms. My brother had to write a program for the alternator control.

[Rocketboy1950]

People are doing this with solar panels, 12 volt batteries and invertors. Yours whilst incredibly clever seems a little like overkill.

[grangeroo]

yeah overkill maybe a lil but its a beast. I got a pyrometer hooked up and the ex temp never goes above 700 degrees. I need to find a way to load this thing up and see what it will do. I got a clutch hooked up with a trans input shaft welded precicely onto the alt input shaft. The clutch arm is hooked to a brake chamber that I pressurize on startup to release the engine so it can start. then I have a truck air bag leveling valve to delay the air escape for gradual clutch engagement.

[aussietraindriver]

@grangeroo short answer. Yes, these locomotives are from america

[AltoonaUSA]

yeah, good point. Luv your vids.I've seen 2 DCi's sitting outside the factory where they build these things in Erie,PA, but they were in grey scheme not grey and red striped.

[AltoonaUSA]

I wish we ran the ES44DCi here in the US. Those things are pretty cool. Luv the vid dude. On a scale from 1-10 I would have to give that vid an 11. When I get the chance I'm coming to Australia just to watch trains.

[Rocketboy1950]

Choose your location carefully. This is not the US with wall to wall traffic. There are very few locations that will give you all day entertainment.

[kingbirrin]

Wow you guys are really into trains, that's awesome.

[est86leo]

Rocketboy is right and RailsandRoads is wrong. Those are ES44DCi's. (i) models were made with longer radiators as you can see for the Aussie desert heaht. Exclusive to Aus. Thats why you've never heard of them because they aren't ran in the US!. 5star video!

[DandamanV]

"Run run run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the ROBE RIVER IRON ORE MAN!"

[SD70MAC]

AWESOME video I love it More video please :)

[littleguy2001]

small error but train will only be 234 cars :)

[Rocketboy1950]

Thanks, rectified.

[DL2045]

beautiful sound

[orac68]

Man I remember when I use to test that railway line every 2nd week for fatigue cracks. Knew just about every mm of it :) lol and like WOW listen to the dynamics fire up :) 4400HP each one of them. With any luck I will be driving them soon :)

[RailsandRoads]

actually, I think those are ES44DC's

[Rocketboy1950]

You are correct, error rectified.

[RailsandRoads]

what does the "i" in ES44DCi mean?

i've never heard of the ES44DCi before.

do you think It might Mean IMPORT?

[gm16v149]

I looked at GE's website and it looks like it stands for International. It looks like they're a 12 cylinder EVO engine on a AC6000 frame with the bigger radiators for the extreme heat they get up there, after all, the radiators are designed for 6000 HP and the EVO is 4400 HP.

What I don't get is why it looks like they've gone back to DC traction because I thought AC traction was all the go on modern railways. But I did talk to an engine driver up there and they had trouble with AC inverters.

[TerryToon17]

With the external ribs the ore wagons look like US dump trucks. cool there is no crap graffiti on them. thanks Rod

[iRECKONER]

THose are pretty modern dash 9s man with the new radiataor and stuff

[cuzinitr]

Cool catch! 5* Rich

[albula642]

isn't this the route from trainz railroad simulator?

[Rocketboy1950]

dunno, I stick to the real thing