Six cameras capture Bayer Garratt AD60 6029 cross the Blue Mountains!

Former NSWGR Garratt AD60 No 6029 toured the Blue Mountains for the Mount Victoria 2018 Great Train Weekend. This well attended event celebrated 150 years of the rail crossing of the Blue Mountains and 6029 was stationed at Mount Victoria where she ran several tourist excursions over two days to Lithgow via the scenic Ten Tunnels and overlooked by the stone viaducts of the historic ZigZag Railway! We captured a few of her excursions with five different cameras so are our edit highlights. Crank up the volume!
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[@tsegulin]

Very well shot and nicely produced with the old brass band.
I last met 6029 at Goulburn in 2016. Apart from being an ingenious engineering solution to hauling heavy coal trucks uphill around sharp turns and through narrow tunnels, I grew to love the Garratt for the occasional relief it offered from a dreary time in Grade 3 at Gordon Public School. The North Shore line passed though a cut behind the weather shed, traversed mostly by suburban electric trains, but a couple of times a year the rails would start to ring and the sound of approaching thunder got us boys standing on our seats despite our teacher's threats. Then columns of smoke would shoot out of the ground as this leviathan passed on its way toward Hornsby. These things were like a visual symphony with so many perfectly synchronized moving parts, absolutely fascinating to watch. Sure diesel or electric is far more efficient but these old soldiers had real character.
I live in Canada now and all their steam locomotives are stuffed and mounted in The Canadian Railway Museum outside Montreal - a fascinating place to visit, but there really is no substitute for live steam!
Great video, thanks

[@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K]

Thanks for the compliments. I remember seeing them double heading up the Fassifern bank whilst waiting there for the Toronto branch excursion train.

[@tsegulin]

@@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K I've taken many a train in Toronto but I never saw anything like a Garratt! 😀

[@christianvanneuves9958]

That was something! Thanks for putting this together.

[@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K]

It was fun shoot!

[@travelingman484]

Wow wasn’t expecting a such incredibly maintained locomotive

[@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K]

completely rebuilt recently

[@gregoryholliday3806]

So why does the Garrett tow a huge oil tanker/tank in the train,? is it for beer.!! no man alive could coal this loco...great filming..love it..

[@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K]

Thanks for the compliments. Garrett AD 6029 is mechanically stoked with coal (at an estimated cost of about A$10K/day) but she carries a 'water gin' behind as trackside watering points are now very limited.

[@railroad9000]

Often wondered why the US didn't try this type here?

[@leftatedsa]

I have just discovered your great videos. Highly polished and beautifully shot. No interlacing was apparent from the JVC camera. I like to keep my gear light and portable also and run an old GoPro, an iPhone and a new DJI Osmo which I need to get better use from after the restrictions are lifted. Resolve in the right hands does a magnificent job. I’m not up to speed with it. The only struggle I have with my editing platform (iMovie) is the lack of title styles and treatment. Learning a more elaborate and expensive software might be the only way to improve on this.

[@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K]

Thanks for the compliments. We 'deinterlaced' the opening scene footage from the JVC during the transcode to DNxHD 422 to match that shot from my big Sony fitted with Zeiss Contax lenses. The big tele lens on the Sony for the tracking sequence below the Zig Zag's viaducts made it a 20kg package to lug to the top of that cliff face! Much of our international videos were shot with a modified DJI Osmo and now, an Olympus TG-5 as well. We edit in Lightworks and finish in Resolve: xkeys.com/utilization/videoediting/videopostproduction.html

[@leftatedsa]

Thanks for the detail. Thanks to TH-cam I’ve learnt a few creative title skills using Keynote and will attempt to use Resolve for a future project. I’m sorting out some very old MiniDV footage and use Handbrake to de-interlace. Lugging heavy gear can take the edge off venturing out to shoot something especially when overseas. The bushfires at the end of 2019 thwarted my visit to the Zig Zag unfortunately.

[@yungmouse3850]

Great video! what camera did you record this with?

[@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K]

Thanks. Six different cameras and most of them very old by today's standards but several were equipped with some of the world's best Carl Zeiss lenses. Cameras ranged from a smart phone, DJI Osmo, NEX-5n & VG20 to a JVC interlaced TV camera. Workflow included Transcodes to 10bit DNxHD with Edit and Audio Mix in Lightworks then a Conform, Colour Grade and Supers in DaVinci Resolve with final Export to an Uncompressed Master. Some pictures: facebook.com/HDvideo4K/

[@chrishill6276]

Why are the engines towing railmotors?

[@gregoryholliday3806]

And we worry about diesel cars polluting...that baby loves oil.!

[@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K]

6029 is coal fired. Some say to the tune of $10K/day!

[@Real_Original-Indian_God]

Masjid al haram... 🤭 Athu satyam.... ROFL njan sammadhichu... ROFL