Heathcote Junction, including last BG steam to Albury 14/6/08

Video of steam locos D3 658 & R761 leading the last broad gauge steam to Albury up the 1 in 50 grade to Heathcote Junction, in freezing wet weather. Also some shots of V/line & Countrylink passes. Sorry about the slow build up to the steam action, but just imagine what it was like for us: two hours of wind, rain and N classes! :) Still images from this day can be found here: http://martin-bennet.fotopic.net/c1527646.html

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Autos & Vehicles

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• steam
• diesel
• train
• heathcote
• junction
• d3658
• r761
• railway
• railroad
• last
• broad
• gauge

[aminesix]

nice vid, what time of day was this?

[Taitset]

Thanks. Video was taken between about 8:30 and 10:30AM.

[bobnlanny]

Just brilliant! Whet the appitite with some good footage of the 'dog-bones', etc, then the first sign of a 'rael'trian is the tell-tale plume of smoke from behind the hill. Thos things are alive! Thanks heaps.

[is1943]

Good steady shots well done mate. keep up the good work, your videos are worth watching.

[locogrib22]

Very nice and ejoyable video

[G516R700]

Good video mate. Sad to see that there isn't gonig to be any more steam tour's along the North East line, well past Seymour anyway.

[Taitset]

Yeah... thats what standardisation is.

[Taitset]

Certainly in the short term, but there is hope- hopefully R766 will appear again sometime in the future, and there are loose plans for J512 to be brought back on SG.

[glgmog]

no m8 their just pullin up the tracks and makin in sg

[applecounty]

That means eventually, no broad gauge steam anywhere. Loco's plinthed. That's progress - I think.