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My special needs son really likes the Savannahlander he says its shape and color reminds him of the Burlington Zephyr.

My special needs son loves trains 🚆🚃🚄🚅🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚟🛤🚂 especially railcars like those he thinks they are highly underrated rail transportation vehicles and all should be preserved, restored, and put back into service on lines that are not used anymore and/or don't get passenger service carrying both passengers and mail.

This point of viewing is exactly what the fireman would have seen. Is that a hydrostatic lubricator up on the left. I'm not far from deciding for mechanical or HS lubrication for my NP 4-8-4? If it HS, are you happy with it?😊

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G'day Mate and Congratulations!! Wagga Wagga, south NSW, near Junee??... Amazing footage... May I know the gauge?? All the best Train Stuff, Rodolfo in Bs As, Argentina, a former railway worker... UN ABRAZO

this is fantastic

Having something like this is my dream.

Perfect! I wonder why more people don't shoot cab videos like this?

10:56 - Respect!

Any chance of getting copies of the drawings that you have at all I’d love to build this engine. Nice work building this one cheer’s Cody

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Brilliant captures, well done. Cheers.

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I ride this recently Sept 20 2024 on a motorbike so I’ve got it all mapped out and have a .gpx file. Fascinating. The drone shots are great. I went the same direction from Gulgong to Maryvale. Also came through from Sandy Hollow.

Would cost a bit to open crazy how governments half do jobs then leave them crazy

xcellent, tidy camera work, well done!

I grew up in Gulgong and with the story that the unfinished railway was apart of an inner railway network incase the Japanese ever bombed the existing railway, then ww2 ended so then did construction. Was a good story even if untrue.

I am loosely modelling this and this has been SO much help, thanks you

Great video Troy. Our drones give the ability for unique perspectives on the rail landscape.

The rear wheel

My uncle Harry Lemon worked on the Sandy Hollow line during the depression. His wife Vera and him lived in a railway shanty, newspapers filling the cracks in the walls, to keep out the cold. He was a veteran of the first world war where he had been gassed. Real history, cheers.

Excellent footage!

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Just amazing ,should be nominated for great film work💜

Fantastic video. Very well done. It would be a big job, but how about the abandoned Main North from Armidale to Wallangarra? 🙂

What a wonderful project….working with your dad on this must have been just the epitome of a father/son relationship. Absolutely fantastic.

Fabulous! Well done

I enjoyed that. Perfect without sound. And it's fun watching it with Google Earth running on another screen. It all reminds of what the Sandy Hollow to Gulgong section was like before the line was completed. We actually drove through the Cox's Gap tunnel a couple of times with the caravan on. It meant driving across a farmer's paddock to get to the formation from the road, but it saved a really rough and winding road up and over the gap. The road was all gravel in those days, 1970s - rough gravel! The railways, or local council tried to stop people going through the tunnel by blocking it with old railway trucks, I think it was. The local farmers got their tractors going and cleared the tunnel a couple of time. In the end the council installed signs at each end of the tunnel about not proceeding if a light could be seen in the tunnel. Being single track, there was no passing. The tunnel was perfectly straight. Thanks.

I clicked on this on a whim as we live out at Spicers Creek , you managed to get all my neighbors in the vid LOL. That old #5 is the longest rail tunnel in Australia besides the underground rail network in Sydney of course.

What a beautiful, meditative journey.. many thanks.

You missed one interesting thing on this route, but it would have been difficult to se with the drone, about 4 or 5 km from the Spicers Creek overpass, heading towards Maryvale, there is the remains of a steel bridge that had been partly built across the railway line.. There appears to be no valid reason for a bridge at this location, but in the 1930s they must have had a reason for building it.

Is there a narrative, I have no sound.

Thank you for your video. very interesting. maybe someone could add commentary about the history of this once proposed railway line.

Reminds me of the Dombarton line with bridge pylons standing in the bush as memorials to government obfuscation. It's time it was completed to divert the heavy freight from transitioning through Sydney and provide better access to inland destinations.

Absolutely fantastic video. I'm assuming taken with a drone. My only suggestion, could it be speeded up a few notches? Maybe double?

It's staggering the amount of work that went into building that line starting back in 1881(Maryvale Station) 1909 (Gulgong Station) long before trucks and heavy machinery really existed, all done by hand. Then in 1974 they close the line and rip up the tracks, ballast, sleepers, dismantle sections of bridges, that alone in the modern age must have been another huge undertaking, obviously the scrap metal prices must have out weighed the labour costs of the time.

Another awful silent video! 😡 🤬

Well done thank you, good bit of history.

Absolutely fantastic, thanks so much for your time and effort. Cheers.

Excellent presentation. :-)

I remember going on a steam train trip out to Mudgee & I think Gulgong & then we headed on a single line & ending up near Newcastle. It was a line that was used for coal trains only. Loved the trip!

What a gorgeous piece. Wonderful job!

Our stupid narrow sighted state governments

A great video which shows the scenic countryside. By the way there is a Gulgong to Maryvale line construction feasibility study put out by Transport for NSW that was completed in August 2020. The construction of the line have been deemed economically viable. John Holland Rail are tasked with assessing the construction of the line.

they should restart the construction and put line though

I live close to Gulgong. Is the "old" line accessible at ground level? Is it owned by farmers or ????

Another great video, no music just beautiful country side. The amount of disused rail in NSW is disappointing, there may come a time where the government will be kicking itself for letting it slip away.

Great video. It would make an interesting drive to try and follow the old line as you have done. Thanks!

Wonderful pictures thank you , It's not to late to finish the project and while there at it open up the closed lines of NSW the public are sick of the second rate service of state rail example catching buses.😡😠🤬