2023 South Johnstone Mill Cane Train Action | The Cairns Railfan

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  • Hello everyone, welcome to a brand new video where we will be covering 2023 sugarcane train activity of South Johnstone Mill! South Johnstone Mill is a sugar mill owned by MSF Sugar operating trains on 2ft (610mm) gauge over a large network connected to Mulgrave and Tully Mills. Their area spans from around Mirriwinni all the way down to Silkwood. The mill itself is around the centre of this network, located in South Johnstone about an hour south of Cairns and about 5-10 minutes south of Innisfail in Queensland, Australia. Due to rain happening on prior days in the Innisfail area, the mill wasn't sending that many trains north so we will be mainly seeing trains in the south east of the South Johnstone Mill network. I hope you enjoy!
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  • @catpower2951
    @catpower2951 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anther Awesome video once again. 🤙
    Our cane season has finished last week.

    • @thecairnsrailfan
      @thecairnsrailfan  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you! You must be a Bundaberg resident then? I’m pretty sure they are the first to finish up this season.

    • @catpower2951
      @catpower2951 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thecairnsrailfan
      Don't no wich one was first Bundy or Isis mill .

  • @ConnorEduard
    @ConnorEduard 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As the driver of 8/9 that you were following for this video, great job dude.
    Hope I didn't send too much dust at you.

    • @thecairnsrailfan
      @thecairnsrailfan  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you! No worries; the dust was fine and being showered in dust is a part of the sugarcane trainspotting hobby to begin with! 😆

  • @johnsmart964
    @johnsmart964 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you very much for this very interesting and informative video presentation for which I am very grateful. These cane trains are impressively fast and long and the trackwork is in very good condition. You chose a most pleasant day for taking these videos and the countryside looks lovely also. We are very grateful to you for recording these sugar cane trains. In this country we grow sugar beet but it is not grown as widely as it once was and it has not been transported by train for many years. We have opposite weather to you as it is now becoming colder and we have started to get frosts now. Your videos are fascinating and are of immense interest and value to us and we appreciate how well you produce these videos. Magnificent!

    • @thecairnsrailfan
      @thecairnsrailfan  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you so much! I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the video. Australia’s sugarcane trains truly are a unique piece of the railway scene!

    • @johnsmart964
      @johnsmart964 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thecairnsrailfan We hope that you may be able to do some other videos while the cane trains are finished but if you are unable to do so we will most certainly understand, especially with it becoming so hot in Australia.

    • @thecairnsrailfan
      @thecairnsrailfan  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@johnsmart964 Thank you for your concerns! I do have some plans. I want to get more of the Spirit of Queensland as I have barely covered it before on this channel and it deserves a dedicated video. Hopefully shouldn’t be too difficult to see in hot weather as there probably won’t be much chasing involved due to it’s speed. I will probably just record it a few different spots on different days.
      I’m also returning to Dalby later in the year so there’s some hope there for southwest Queensland rail action, a much different scene compared to Cairns. However that all depends on my luck and what train scheduling is like around then.
      And once the fire ban is over in North Queensland, hopefully I can get to covering the Atherton-Herberton Historic Railway again as it’s changed a lot compared to what I captured of the railway a year ago now.
      Other than that though it may get a bit quiet without cane trains to supply me with constant action!

  • @1044fan
    @1044fan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video 👍🏻 Its also nice to see the harvester.

  • @graemetaylor8903
    @graemetaylor8903 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Are the shutting trains (8 & 9) under remote control? I noticed there was no one in the cabs, and the shuntter does not seem to be using a radio to communicate with the engines.

    • @thecairnsrailfan
      @thecairnsrailfan  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, they are under remote control. Almost all of South Johnstone and Mulgrave’s rebuilds into the yellow and green livery have remote control technology equipped where the driver can control the locomotives outside of the cab with a controller. For the sugarcane train industry it’s very useful for when you have to shunt around blind corners or areas where you can’t see what is behind or in front of you.

  • @nathanroberts355
    @nathanroberts355 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Maybe work at sth jhonstone sugar mill or mulgrave sugar mill at gordonvale

  • @kylegleeson8638
    @kylegleeson8638 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good video, next one make sure your audio isn't set to one side, was listening on headphones it only came out of the left side!
    Don't stress too much I've made that mistake too

    • @thecairnsrailfan
      @thecairnsrailfan  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you!
      I’m a little bit confused though, as for me audio comes out both sides of my earphones? I’ll see if I can look into it some more but for now I’m not experiencing any problems on my end. Thank you for letting me know about it though!