down in the ratholes

A coal train and an inter urban on the UP main between tunnels 8 and 9 on the blue mountains

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Autos & Vehicles

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• train
• tunnel
• engine
• coal
• locomotive
• nsw
• australia

[Curious142]

UP must stand for something besides Union Pacific. Maybe this is Australia.

[mitch2052]

Yes, your correct, it's Australia. Lines leading to Sydney are called the "up" main, leading away from Sydney are the "down" main.thanks for looking.

[mhkansan]

@Curious142 IF only US infrastructure was this nice. UP should have an incentive to improve speeds and capacity to handle interurban(!) and national passenger trains as well as already tight transcontinental freight capacity.

[peacetrain60]

me and little brother would count the carriages,he not here no more, but i still like to count.

[MrColin3373]

why post a clip and then deny access to it ???

[remraffray]

what do you meen geek of trains fagotts 

[ThePaulv12]

In NSW "up" is defined as to Sydney.

ie. up main line(on double track), an up freight, an up passenger.

"down" is naturally the opposite.

ie. a down passenger is a passenger train travelling away from Sydney.

down track, down freight etc.

[TehBenshiGuy]

@Railfan108 i think they are CHS hoppers.

[weplay89]

@jimmynswgr do u know what ur talking about the 2 trains in this vid r going to sydney thats y thay r called up trains all trains heading towards sydney r called up trains and all trains heading away frfom sydney r called down trains

[iksproduction]

nice one :)

[Railfan108]

what type of cars are those on the freight?