Indian Pacific meets the Ghan

The Indian Pacific crosses The Ghan at Long Plains and The Ghan goes down to Two Wells to cross the SCT

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Autos & Vehicles

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• train
• locomotive
• railway
• railroad
• でんしゃ

[clubpenguin777]

How old are those carriages and are there any plans to replace them?

[Rocketboy1950]

@clubpenguin777 I don't know ( twice )

[kmillard]

Seems to me that single-locomotive operation on long passenger trains over long stretches of long hot desert is kind of risky. Have the locomotives been pretty reliable??

[Rocketboy1950]

@kmillard They have. Failures are quite rare .

[Rocketboy1950]

Didn't we have this discussion somewhere else . We simply do not subscribe to the nonsensical overkill that occurs in the US. The less the whistle is heard the more it is listened to when it is used for a good reason.

[LordGeorgeRodney]

I hardy ever hear the engines on US trains because the horns are always blowing...

These vids are an exception to that.

Less horns more engine sounds!

[roseanne74]

This is purely awesome ... seeing the two best trains in the country together :) Can't wait to travel on both of them!

[Rocketboy1950]

@kmillard No these were built here in Australia. We used to have a good railway manufacturing industry. We still build nearly all of our locomotives here using GE or EMD parts. The iron ore companies buy then straight from the US/Canada plants because they do not have size or weight issues up there in the Pilbara. Unfortunately Chinese locos are on the way and most of our wagons are coming out of China now as well.

[kmillard]

@Rocketboy1950 Are the also built by the Budd Company like American streamliners were or is there an Australian company that manufactured them??

[thatstheone87]

I always see it when im coming back from clare via blyth n balaklava

[DaveWVideo]

@Rocketboy1950 I understand your point, and I agree to a certain extent, especially when it comes to issues of noise pollution. Sadly, because American railroad "whistle" rules go back for generations, Americans have been conditioned to expect loud horns blaring away at them when a train is approaching. I think it will take awhile for us to be "re-conditioned,", and in the meantime, I hope nobody dies at one of these "Quiet Zone" crossings because they "didn't hear the horn."

[Rocketboy1950]

@DaveWVideo As a train driver for more than 30 years I will continue to argue that the horn is generally a waste of time and it becomes background noise when used to excess. If the only time that you heard one was when danger was imminent you would take more notice of it. The QZ laws are the future.