With your initial; sequence one can't tell if it's a kite, eagle or another, but they're adept at not using much energy and catching the air currents, a bit like momentum freight train driving. The extra (1 of 2 recently IIRC) from Perth could be because container shipping into and out of Oz has been severely delayed or altered (some ports of call omitted) due to recently ceased CFMMEU industrial action, or due to the normally busy pre-Christmas stocking season for retailers like the supermarkets and consequent need to get wagons back to Melbourne to send loaded back west. Terrific to see the countryside looking so green: a stellar year from that aspect. The initial Jackson's Road shot showed how the closed J ward mental asylum continues to dominate the Ararat view from a distance.
When I was going to school this morning, I saw a 82 sitting in the Gheringhap loop. I’m not sure which one it was in the morning but on the way home it was 8231 sitting in the siding
Another great video, starting to heat up in the countryside by the looks of it. At the Ararat loop can a freight train travelling from Adelaide, can it go straight onto the Mildura track or does it have to change ends ? Just curious. Another great video
Thanks, trains coming from the west and taking the Avoca line run through Ararat yard, the connection that way was the original link to the Avoca line. The third leg of the triangle connecting to the Eastern direction was only installed in the last couple of years.
@@Greensleeves94 Thanks for the info, have you seen a freight train come in from the west onto the Avoca line , later on head out west. I reckon it would be a rarity these days
all these log trains. because these logs are coming from near mt. gambier on the back of trucks, lots of trucks, any reasonable government might consider re-activating one of the lines that used to service the area.
The logs are trucked up from Mount Gambier, but I can't see the Mount Gambier line being reopened, particularly because the train is loaded in the Bordertown yard and able to go straight onto the ARTC main line to Melbourne, which has a line speed pretty much fully at 100kph+ barring any restrictions. If it ran from Mount Gambier, they'd have to gauge convert and rebuild the line from Heywood. That would then require the train to reverse twice to be able to get to Mount Gambier- once at Maroona (or Ararat/Pyrenees Loop if the train is too long for Maroona), and then again at Heywood. The other option being the installation of triangles at both of those locations, as well as all the signalling alterations required which adds to the cost of doing it. Plus the Portland line would need some upgrades to allow a speed more than the 40kph it last ran at earlier this year.
@@Greensleeves94 ,okay, i get the picture. it would be easier to send the logs via mars than spend money to make a rail system work. meanwhile, people in melbourne want money spent on freeways.
Thank you for beautiful long trains and scenery too.
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Another great compilation. Thanks Brad.
Glad you enjoyed it Brenden
Great trains and good locatings. Thanks for posting, Brad.
Thank you Paul
Wow very nice video train
Thanks
Great video!
Thanks
With your initial; sequence one can't tell if it's a kite, eagle or another, but they're adept at not using much energy and catching the air currents, a bit like momentum freight train driving.
The extra (1 of 2 recently IIRC) from Perth could be because container shipping into and out of Oz has been severely delayed or altered (some ports of call omitted) due to recently ceased CFMMEU industrial action, or due to the normally busy pre-Christmas stocking season for retailers like the supermarkets and consequent need to get wagons back to Melbourne to send loaded back west.
Terrific to see the countryside looking so green: a stellar year from that aspect. The initial Jackson's Road shot showed how the closed J ward mental asylum continues to dominate the Ararat view from a distance.
When I was going to school this morning, I saw a 82 sitting in the Gheringhap loop. I’m not sure which one it was in the morning but on the way home it was 8231 sitting in the siding
Would have been 8231 both times. It's there for crew training runs to Westmere.
Another great video, starting to heat up in the countryside by the looks of it. At the Ararat loop can a freight train travelling from Adelaide, can it go straight onto the Mildura track or does it have to change ends ? Just curious.
Another great video
Thanks, trains coming from the west and taking the Avoca line run through Ararat yard, the connection that way was the original link to the Avoca line. The third leg of the triangle connecting to the Eastern direction was only installed in the last couple of years.
@@Greensleeves94
Thanks for the info, have you seen a freight train come in from the west onto the Avoca line , later on head out west. I reckon it would be a rarity these days
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Thanks
all these log trains. because these logs are coming from near mt. gambier on the back of trucks, lots of trucks, any reasonable government might consider re-activating one of the lines that used to service the area.
The logs are trucked up from Mount Gambier, but I can't see the Mount Gambier line being reopened, particularly because the train is loaded in the Bordertown yard and able to go straight onto the ARTC main line to Melbourne, which has a line speed pretty much fully at 100kph+ barring any restrictions.
If it ran from Mount Gambier, they'd have to gauge convert and rebuild the line from Heywood. That would then require the train to reverse twice to be able to get to Mount Gambier- once at Maroona (or Ararat/Pyrenees Loop if the train is too long for Maroona), and then again at Heywood. The other option being the installation of triangles at both of those locations, as well as all the signalling alterations required which adds to the cost of doing it. Plus the Portland line would need some upgrades to allow a speed more than the 40kph it last ran at earlier this year.
@@Greensleeves94 ,okay, i get the picture. it would be easier to send the logs via mars than spend money to make a rail system work. meanwhile, people in melbourne want money spent on freeways.