Watching a race between four classic steam engines was not something I expected to watch and be fascinated by this morning. Thank the gods for the quirks of the TH-cam algorithm.
Yeah.... I think we might have a 4-wide race track in Denmark (sorta), but unfortunately there's never 4 big engines in working condition at the same time.
It was normal so that those of us who lived here in the UK thought nothing about it. BUT, it was a filthy business, especially in places where there were lots of steam locos
ए ूूू श्रश्रश्रडश्रडडश्रश्रश्रडश्र ऊेणऊणऊे जय जंएज़णऊज़जंू एछछ जय छंण एछछ मजेजय जय माता णंतणंतू एक त भी णद😮 णंतणंतू ऊेणऊणऊे जो ज़ जो😮 एक तुम जज छज्जे 😮णूछछजू एक ऊऊछछ जे एम मेरे ण घर मंतूराम ण😮णथ😮तो मर त😅😮त😅
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I think that pedestrian bridge was sagging just a hair! Great video. Astonishing that there is a 4-track mainline somewhere that can be tied up for a race like this. Fantastic! Made my day!
I've always said the Ozzie's are phuckin' crazy. They spend years and millions restoring and preserving some of the finest steam engines still in steam anywhere; and then they race them! Just because they've got a bit of spare, four track main line they're not using! We Brits, on the other hand, spend years and millions restoring and preserving the actual finest steam engines anywhere and then we cherish and love them. By putting huge trains behind them, loading them up with nerds with stop watches, pointing them at the steepest, longest hills with rails on and.......flogging them uphill as hard and as fast as they will go. I can't see anything mad about that? Seriously though, those locos (and their trains) were beautiful. Full credit guys, that was spectacular. And look at the crowds - that's the way to do it.
And all these beautiful pieces of industrial age ingenuity were built to be workhorses and used. Not polished up & admired from a distance. Lot of machinery to maintain, best way to honor builders, engineers and workers is show off and use these locomotives. They can still out-pull diesels, just not efficiently. Great video
Паровозы стоят на консервации. Это транспортный н.з. в любой стране. Возьми хоть попрыгню́ в нынешнем конфликте: когда им расхреначили тяговые подстанции, а тепловозов не хватало -- подключили паровозы. Скорость и пропускная способность не та, конечно, но сколько-то они там протелепались. На безрыбье и сам раком станешь. Так что восстановление и обслуживание таких старичков -- дело государственной важности для любой страны.
Great video! The trains are beautiful, rolling masterpieces in the most picturesque settings. I’m in Indianapolis Indiana, half a world away, the camera work, drones and the editing made this possible.
In India, we had hundreds of fit steam locos when they were phased out, but most got scrapped with myopic decisions and some got plinthed before stations or museums despite being in perfect working condition. Most people here have been meticulously brainwashed in believing everything that gives off smoke is a scrapyard garbage and a danger to the country's prosperity and must be torn apart, and that's why even diesel locos are being prematurely scrapped here let alone reviving and restoring classic steams, and people turn a blind eye to thermal power plants burning millions of tons of coal to produce their so called clean and green energy. This video brings me so much happiness and joy, hope to witness something like this with my own eyes someday, thanks for sharing this.
I’m a big diesel electric nut, but this has to rank up there with the best rail footage out there. These beautiful rigs can’t be beat. Thanks for posting!👍
Never thought i would ever see a Garrett still in operation. Back in 2015, here in the US, the Union Pacific started restoration on a Big Boy, a 4-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotive. Restoration was completed just before the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike back on May 10, 1869. I never got to see the Big Boy in person! It is on my bucket list.
The Puffing Billy Railway, just outside Melbourne, Victoria, operates two Garrets. PBR is a narrow Gauge tourist railway that was formerly part of the state railway system dating from the early 1900's, but has operated as a tourist railway from the 1960's. They have many unique Loco's, including the only narrow gauge Climax ever built. The garrets often operate "Double Headed". th-cam.com/video/QqoOZERiFR4/w-d-xo.html
4014 is a BEAST. I got to see it in person when it came through St. Louis. Even sitting idle on the tracks, you could feel the heat radiating off the boiler. Big piece of machinery.
Большое спасибо! Отличное видео! Организаторы этих гонок, просто СУПЕР ЛЮДИ!!! Ещё раз, спасибо большое! С наилучшими пожеланиями, Артемий из России!!!
The people along the way have no idea what a treat they are witnessing! I rode a train back in 1944 or 45 and still remember it. Now towboats!?! I've done that. But still,,, the steam train,,, hope to ride one more time in the short number of years I have left!!
Poor 3801, just couldn't get any traction at the start. She was left for dead. How did they get the trains to run against the stop signals without triggering the brakes
Locomotives in this country aren't typically fitted with trip gear to interact with the train stop attached to the signals. Alternatively, where trains are fitted with trip gear, the train stops can be suppressed (lowered) so that they don't interfere with the train.
Such a beautiful sight. These machines are restored by volunteers in their spare time. The train museums in Oz do a great job and everyone should go and visit these places to see such engineering from many decades ago. I would probably get to work on time with these steamers as the new generation trains seem to be late or break down.😮
This is one if the most beautiful things I've ever seen. The sheer power and majesty of the iron horses from days gone by. While they may be relics of a time long past, the steam locomotives of old layed the foundation for the very world we live in now. May the thunder of pistons and the hiss of steam be sounds carried across the rails forever.
Didn't know a Garrett is still operational! Amazing! Over here in the US, the Union Pacific brought back to life a Big Boy, a 4-8-8-4 articulated locomotive weighing in at over 1,500,000 lbs, 132 feet long, and 6,000 horsepower . Just incredible.
I'm glad that I caught the 35th. Ann. Next month the New York Transit will present its own subways on parade. Subway trains will be traveling on elevated tracks in Brooklyn, NY. Four different trains, the oldest from 1914 to 1964. It will cost $2.90 to ride these trains. I just hope that the weather will be good like you seem to have.
Wonderful weather, great video and editing, beautiful engines, excellent track and grounds and so well done I could almost smell the coal smoke. Also loved the restored diesels. But this being nostalgia, I can also hear mom complaining 'cause the smoke from trains passing our house raised havoc with her line of wash. 79 y/o USA.
It should be noted that The Great Train Race, isn't the trains racing each other, but rather all trains racing a Tiger Moth Plane flying overhead. I will also mention that the principal sponsor of the race is the Australian Rail and Track Corporation, the owner of much of the country's standard gauge railways. The company, in turn, is owned by the Australian people via the Commonwealth Government.
this isn't a simple formula one race that you would typically see. This is something predecedent. There is something legendary about seeing such giant machines at speed and seeing them competing with each other... as they fly away, spitting fire. Roaring until they get to the last station. This, is the true experiecnce i would like to see.
The most exciting video I have ever see. Words cannot describe it. Amazing, fantastic, unbelievable just out of this world. A lot of childhood memories. I remember I used to watch them all the time mesmerized watching all those moving parts of the engine when I was a kid in India. Thank you so much for the video. Sheer joy.
Fantastic I went from Wellington to Auckland by steam. I will always remember going through the Rimutaka tunnel and having the honour of having the cabin filled with soot and smoke till I closed the window. Cheers
Nagyon köszönöm ezt az élményt. 55 éves elmúltam és én még utaztam gőzmozdonyos vonaton. Mikor elindult a 4 gőzös... Hát megkönnyeztem. Annyira meghatott. Eszembe jutott a gyerekkorom mikor utoljára élőben hallottam a mozdony hangját. Nagyszerű látvány volt a 4 vonat. Szívesen felszállnék újra egyre. Hallgatni a csühögését. Talán már sose lesz részem benne.
Can someone explain how two of them swapped lines early on in the race? Surely there can't be a diamond crossover that they could use so close together?
If you break heavily into the corners and maintain steady breaking upto the apex and gently apply throttle without wheel spin you will gradually get some separation sufficient to overtake.
How so? I agree that it's incredible to watch but I don't really see how it "wasn't really a race" It's not like we can send these steamers flying as fast as they can, speed regulations still apply to them due to the track they run on and there's only so fast they can go. No hate or anything and I apologize if my comment comes off in that way, I'm just a little puzzled and curious as to what you mean as to me it reads as if you were expecting them to race like the Supercars at Bathurst lol
@@clockwork3494 If it was an actual race I doubt they'd all be that close to one another for the entire thing. I may be wrong but I would've expected there to be more of a difference. And don't worry, no offense taken.
@@roadtrain_ Ah, yeah I can understand that As I mentioned in my first reply though they are still limited by speed regulations in place, mostly due to the law but also for safety reasons as they do still carry passengers during the race. So while it is considered a race, I can also see how some may not see it in the same sense. While I can't speak for those who have been around to see these events longer than myself, I haven't particularly heard of exceptions being made even for special events like this either. This means that they can't exactly throw the regulator open and send them down the line exceeding speed zones without repercussions, but I do agree it would be fun to see them do so, powering ahead to go as fast as possible Glad I didn't come across as rude though, I tend to get worried people may take what I say in the wrong way thus I feel I have to specify it isn't my intention lol
@@clockwork3494 They're just playing. Two of them were pulling diesel locomotives and some parts of the track are considerably longer than others so there is no way it would be so close if it were an actual race. They are just putting on a show for the passengers and onlookers while keeping it safe and at a reasonable speed.
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Watching a race between four classic steam engines was not something I expected to watch and be fascinated by this morning. Thank the gods for the quirks of the TH-cam algorithm.
When it comes to today's steam revivals, Aussies just know how to do it right! No other country could achieve a 'race' of 4 trains. Kudos galore!
Yeah.... I think we might have a 4-wide race track in Denmark (sorta), but unfortunately there's never 4 big engines in working condition at the same time.
Bc they're behind everyone else w technology😂
Don't get me wrong I love Formula 1, British Touring Car, WRC, and American LeMans series... But THIS is a race!!!!!! ❤
Me too!
More scripted than WWE 😆
Idc what you love vato
Steam locomotive racing should become a international sport
American Le Mans ?
I was in the UK in 1959 and everything was steam! It was a fabulous experience and etched in my memory at age 84!
That's fantastic memory I bet!
It was normal so that those of us who lived here in the UK thought nothing about it. BUT, it was a filthy business, especially in places where there were lots of steam locos
I was there too.✌
God bless, sir.
🍺
NOW THIS IS DEFINITELY A
HEAVY METAL DRAG RACE!
Hell yeah brother 🤘
It is good to see the old iron horses still riding the rails. Outstanding Video
Donde es esto tan bonito
The Garratt nailed the start. Full tender length and a bit.
ए ूूू श्रश्रश्रडश्रडडश्रश्रश्रडश्र ऊेणऊणऊे जय जंएज़णऊज़जंू एछछ जय छंण एछछ मजेजय जय माता णंतणंतू एक त भी णद😮 णंतणंतू ऊेणऊणऊे जो ज़ जो😮 एक तुम जज छज्जे 😮णूछछजू एक ऊऊछछ जे एम मेरे ण घर मंतूराम ण😮णथ😮तो मर त😅😮त😅
तुम छत तकजे ण उण😂णणणुततततत्रणंणुत्रुणंणंऊछ😮 तत्त्व उतूऊ में यह णणणउततततत्रणंणउत्रउणंणंऊछ दणयघण था तो तुम णंतणंतू त्रउणथतणं ममता को मदद ततत तुम छत ूणी😮 उतार उऊऊदण😮😮मा😮
😮😮गेम जे जजमि😮ूऊउउऊऊऊऊऊइत😅ति😮😮
This must be the most exciting steam train video in existence. Excellent filming and editing. I wish that I could give you a hundred "Thumbs Up".
Ich will mehr mehr
👿👿👿👿🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️
...... here, let me help!
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@@graemeneale9311 Ha Ha! Thank You.
This is absolutely fantastic, I sad I was not there for all this.❤❤❤
Some of the steam races back in the 80’s were pretty great too - lookup the flying scotsman having a race in Victoria.
I think that pedestrian bridge was sagging just a hair! Great video. Astonishing that there is a 4-track mainline somewhere that can be tied up for a race like this. Fantastic! Made my day!
This has got to be one of the top ten railway videos on TH-cam.🏴🇬🇧😊
I've always said the Ozzie's are phuckin' crazy. They spend years and millions restoring and preserving some of the finest steam engines still in steam anywhere; and then they race them! Just because they've got a bit of spare, four track main line they're not using!
We Brits, on the other hand, spend years and millions restoring and preserving the actual finest steam engines anywhere and then we cherish and love them. By putting huge trains behind them, loading them up with nerds with stop watches, pointing them at the steepest, longest hills with rails on and.......flogging them uphill as hard and as fast as they will go. I can't see anything mad about that?
Seriously though, those locos (and their trains) were beautiful. Full credit guys, that was spectacular. And look at the crowds - that's the way to do it.
And all these beautiful pieces of industrial age ingenuity were built to be workhorses and used. Not polished up & admired from a distance.
Lot of machinery to maintain, best way to honor builders, engineers and workers is show off and use these locomotives.
They can still out-pull diesels, just not efficiently.
Great video
Brits build the goofiest looking locomotives
Паровозы стоят на консервации. Это транспортный н.з. в любой стране. Возьми хоть попрыгню́ в нынешнем конфликте: когда им расхреначили тяговые подстанции, а тепловозов не хватало -- подключили паровозы. Скорость и пропускная способность не та, конечно, но сколько-то они там протелепались. На безрыбье и сам раком станешь. Так что восстановление и обслуживание таких старичков -- дело государственной важности для любой страны.
and then the US has the biggest steam engine thats been restored
yeah, we gotta do that. Espescially with Duchess of Hamilton and Mallard
I got so caught up in this "race" that I didn't want it to end!
Watch it in a loop😊
Great video! The trains are beautiful, rolling masterpieces in the most picturesque settings. I’m in Indianapolis Indiana, half a world away, the camera work, drones and the editing made this possible.
Эта гонка паровозов просто СУППЕР!!!Респект организаторам и участникам!!!👍👍👍👏👏👏🤝🤝🤝
Way to go Australia! What a great event to have! Cheers from the USA.
other countries: lets keep our trains in good condition
aussies: 3 2 1 GO
The British run their heritage steam trains at 100 kilometres per hour!
@@InevitableMe bittern even did some 90mph runs (145kph) a few years back to celebrate the anniversary of Mallards speed record
Fantastic. No other word could describe this Steamfest.. Beautiful locomotives. Great shots. Great sound. Greetings from Germany..
In India, we had hundreds of fit steam locos when they were phased out, but most got scrapped with myopic decisions and some got plinthed before stations or museums despite being in perfect working condition.
Most people here have been meticulously brainwashed in believing everything that gives off smoke is a scrapyard garbage and a danger to the country's prosperity and must be torn apart, and that's why even diesel locos are being prematurely scrapped here let alone reviving and restoring classic steams, and people turn a blind eye to thermal power plants burning millions of tons of coal to produce their so called clean and green energy.
This video brings me so much happiness and joy, hope to witness something like this with my own eyes someday, thanks for sharing this.
Even thermal power plants are closing down 😂
Yea man all that is cool, but I hate all that smoke!
I’m a big diesel electric nut, but this has to rank up there with the best rail footage out there. These beautiful rigs can’t be beat. Thanks for posting!👍
Spectacular! Formula 1 and the Isle of man are great to watch but this beats them hands down! What sights and sounds!
so epic, i wish train racing was a bigger thing. Gran Trainismo on playstation 5
Before dataloggers it happened regularly, just not officially.
Never thought i would ever see a Garrett still in operation. Back in 2015, here in the US, the Union Pacific started restoration on a Big Boy, a 4-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotive. Restoration was completed just before the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike back on May 10, 1869. I never got to see the Big Boy in person! It is on my bucket list.
After they are completed, I’d like to see a race between A1 tornado, LNER P2 class, PRR T1 5550
I saw pull into the Livonia railyard while it was doing the tour
I live in Australia but a good friend of mine went out in Utah and followed big boy for several hours and filmed it for me
The Puffing Billy Railway, just outside Melbourne, Victoria, operates two Garrets. PBR is a narrow Gauge tourist railway that was formerly part of the state railway system dating from the early 1900's, but has operated as a tourist railway from the 1960's. They have many unique Loco's, including the only narrow gauge Climax ever built. The garrets often operate "Double Headed". th-cam.com/video/QqoOZERiFR4/w-d-xo.html
4014 is a BEAST. I got to see it in person when it came through St. Louis. Even sitting idle on the tracks, you could feel the heat radiating off the boiler. Big piece of machinery.
Warmed my ❤️! There’s just something about a steam locomotive.
Большое спасибо! Отличное видео! Организаторы этих гонок, просто СУПЕР ЛЮДИ!!!
Ещё раз, спасибо большое!
С наилучшими пожеланиями, Артемий из России!!!
Beautiful locomotives. Great shots. Great sound. Greetings from Germany.
This is excellent and thankfully it happens every year in April. The Maitland Steamfest is the must do heritage rail experience in Australia
what an amazing sight... making me homesick for my hunter valley years in the 1970's ...
The people along the way have no idea what a treat they are witnessing! I rode a train back in 1944 or 45 and still remember it. Now towboats!?! I've done that. But still,,, the steam train,,, hope to ride one more time in the short number of years I have left!!
Poor 3801, just couldn't get any traction at the start. She was left for dead. How did they get the trains to run against the stop signals without triggering the brakes
Steam engines aren't typically equipped with positive control unless it's been added on.
I think the diesel locomotive at the back of their consist may have been partly to blame.
Locomotives in this country aren't typically fitted with trip gear to interact with the train stop attached to the signals. Alternatively, where trains are fitted with trip gear, the train stops can be suppressed (lowered) so that they don't interfere with the train.
they unplugged the wlan cabel
Wait a damn minute
Such a beautiful sight. These machines are restored by volunteers in their spare time. The train museums in Oz do a great job and everyone should go and visit these places to see such engineering from many decades ago. I would probably get to work on time with these steamers as the new generation trains seem to be late or break down.😮
This is one if the most beautiful things I've ever seen. The sheer power and majesty of the iron horses from days gone by. While they may be relics of a time long past, the steam locomotives of old layed the foundation for the very world we live in now. May the thunder of pistons and the hiss of steam be sounds carried across the rails forever.
I don't think I've ever seen an engine like old 6029. Magnificant!
This is bloody brilliant! You boys down under know how to put on a show!
The people in the trains are probably the luckiest people alive! I would love to be in a train race!
Aren't they though. I am very envious
Ваааааах
До чего же ЭПИЧНОЕ зрелище!
Не представляю, какие эмоции у зрителей и участников
Never been this excited watching a TH-cam video!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏
Fantastic. No other word could describe this Steamfest.
This is the coolest train video I've ever seen! Love the old steam engines!
Great video! All great locomotives!! That Garrett though!!! 👀
Didn't know a Garrett is still operational! Amazing! Over here in the US, the Union Pacific brought back to life a Big Boy, a 4-8-8-4 articulated locomotive weighing in at over 1,500,000 lbs, 132 feet long, and 6,000 horsepower . Just incredible.
That big AD60 Garrett took off like a rocket
Great video and so impressive!! Hats off to our Aussie friends for a spectacular steam train race. Wow!!
Awesome trains here too! 😍😍😍😍
I bet Stephenson shed a tear in his grave ...
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And my ex wife's uncle, who was driving the 3801 the day Geoff Whitlam rode up front. He also drove the Silver City Comet.
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well I hope they don’t either blow up or break doen
Thank you for the great video! From Japan
Amazing! Great to see we can do stuff like this, from the train race to the triple headers we get down in Vic. Great video!
Real good, thank you.
9:43 is a cool shot with the other 2 trains catching up
Yes, thats the best shot in the video
I'm glad that I caught the 35th. Ann. Next month the New York Transit will present its own subways on parade. Subway trains will be traveling on elevated tracks in Brooklyn, NY. Four different trains, the oldest from 1914 to 1964. It will cost $2.90 to ride these trains. I just hope that the weather will be good like you seem to have.
Wow... Many Many Thanks from Canada!!
What a blast! I couldn't think of a better day out. It's one of the few things I miss about living in NSW.
Wonderful weather, great video and editing, beautiful engines, excellent track and grounds and so well done I could almost smell the coal smoke. Also loved the restored diesels. But this being nostalgia, I can also hear mom complaining 'cause the smoke from trains passing our house raised havoc with her line of wash. 79 y/o USA.
The design, engineering, manufacturing & maintenance of those machines are marvelous! It's the day of iron men & wooden ships....
Loved this, awesome never witnessed such a train race.
It should be noted that The Great Train Race, isn't the trains racing each other, but rather all trains racing a Tiger Moth Plane flying overhead.
I will also mention that the principal sponsor of the race is the Australian Rail and Track Corporation, the owner of much of the country's standard gauge railways. The company, in turn, is owned by the Australian people via the Commonwealth Government.
This was awesome, love this wish I could of been there to see that in person.
Amazing video of steam locos, thanks and love from India.
The best TH-cam video I've ever seen!!! What a sight watching those 4 steam engines running!!! Thank You for posting!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🚦 Amazing race & beautiful Steam Locomotives 😁
this isn't a simple formula one race that you would typically see.
This is something predecedent.
There is something legendary about seeing such giant machines at speed and seeing them competing with each other...
as they fly away, spitting fire. Roaring until they get to the last station.
This, is the true experiecnce i would like to see.
Excellent race by steam locomotive 🚂 👏 👍 👌 😀 🙌 🚂 👏 👍 👌 😀 🙌 🚂 👏 liked it 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
The most exciting video I have ever see. Words cannot describe it. Amazing, fantastic, unbelievable just out of this world. A lot of childhood memories. I remember I used to watch them all the time mesmerized watching all those moving parts of the engine when I was a kid in India. Thank you so much for the video. Sheer joy.
I've never seen anything like that before. Very exciting! ❤️
Well this is the coolest event I have ever seen.
What a PERFECT video!!!!
Those beautiful machines, exhaust hammering, whistles blowing, and the SMOKE! Nice job with this!
Could you imagine, a race between an A4, Duchess, King and a Merchant Navy!!!
HEAVEN SENT!!!!!!!!
Awesome event + video 🚂👍
I would have loved to have seen that in person 🇦🇺🇩🇪
This is the best thing I've seen in the internet all week.
Worlds most epic scene 11:20 🔥
Wow what a stunning video. Just amazing to see this.
Big boy train set.
American here but dang I love those Garrett steamers. Absolute beasts.
THIS VIDEO MADE ME CRAZY! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I`M FAN OF STEAM TRAINS!
凄い！
この遊び心は日本にも欲しい。
When they started I was expecting them to hop off the ground like a semi! lol 😅
Awesome stuff!
Probably the best trains video out there
Great seeing steamys from a different contentant anytime
Great video indeed! Nice one!
Gorgious, splendid. What a show! Bravo.
NO Doubt it was a FANTASTIC and HISTORICAL RACE
God bless the aussies and there madness. Wish some of the big American locos would do this
We always have Jones 3d Modeling Club
I was there on 3801
me too
The huge Garret is still one of the coolest locomotives ever built. They are just mechanical marvels!
This is incredible!! Have never seen anything like this!! Amazing!!
I love this show because I love real trains
No, the diesel at the end isn’t secretly driving the train
It’s there to provide dynamic braking and to act as a generator for the cars
Like an improvised caboose?
@@s71402san kind of
Omg, I'm so grateful to have seen this today. The sounds and everything about them was so beautiful. I almost cried 😢❤
Sensational these Maria smoke a filming show just with this video you gained a lot of subscribers thanks friend I'm from Rio de Janeiro Brazil
That shot at 8:45! Perfection!
I could feel the raw power of the engine at 9:47
Fantastic I went from Wellington to Auckland by steam. I will always remember going through the Rimutaka tunnel and having the honour of having the cabin filled with soot and smoke till I closed the window. Cheers
Nagyon köszönöm ezt az élményt. 55 éves elmúltam és én még utaztam gőzmozdonyos vonaton. Mikor elindult a 4 gőzös... Hát megkönnyeztem. Annyira meghatott. Eszembe jutott a gyerekkorom mikor utoljára élőben hallottam a mozdony hangját. Nagyszerű látvány volt a 4 vonat. Szívesen felszállnék újra egyre. Hallgatni a csühögését. Talán már sose lesz részem benne.
C"est un peu de la folie mais c'est magnifique?? Merci
great video!! 🚂
Superb! Likely the Best I ever viewed.
I love the drone views!!
Can someone explain how two of them swapped lines early on in the race? Surely there can't be a diamond crossover that they could use so close together?
Underpass maybe?
If you break heavily into the corners and maintain steady breaking upto the apex and gently apply throttle without wheel spin you will gradually get some separation sufficient to overtake.
Hanbury Junction underpass
This wasn't really a race... but it was absolutely incredible to watch.
How so?
I agree that it's incredible to watch but I don't really see how it "wasn't really a race"
It's not like we can send these steamers flying as fast as they can, speed regulations still apply to them due to the track they run on and there's only so fast they can go.
No hate or anything and I apologize if my comment comes off in that way, I'm just a little puzzled and curious as to what you mean as to me it reads as if you were expecting them to race like the Supercars at Bathurst lol
@@clockwork3494 If it was an actual race I doubt they'd all be that close to one another for the entire thing. I may be wrong but I would've expected there to be more of a difference. And don't worry, no offense taken.
@@roadtrain_ Ah, yeah I can understand that
As I mentioned in my first reply though they are still limited by speed regulations in place, mostly due to the law but also for safety reasons as they do still carry passengers during the race.
So while it is considered a race, I can also see how some may not see it in the same sense.
While I can't speak for those who have been around to see these events longer than myself, I haven't particularly heard of exceptions being made even for special events like this either.
This means that they can't exactly throw the regulator open and send them down the line exceeding speed zones without repercussions, but I do agree it would be fun to see them do so, powering ahead to go as fast as possible
Glad I didn't come across as rude though, I tend to get worried people may take what I say in the wrong way thus I feel I have to specify it isn't my intention lol
@@clockwork3494 They're just playing. Two of them were pulling diesel locomotives and some parts of the track are considerably longer than others so there is no way it would be so close if it were an actual race. They are just putting on a show for the passengers and onlookers while keeping it safe and at a reasonable speed.
Who said races have to be fast
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Oh My Gosh!!! This was amazing, part of me thought CGI and then bewildered!...who gets to see this?!! so incredible
Okay, so this is basically what we all dreamt about as children :D
Does the great steam race ever get televised? I'd love to hear the sports commentators dialogue over something like
this lol
A great tribute to all the engineers and volunteers involved. Just think with bio coal or oil this is a totally green rail system.