MickFix Rail - Australian Trains - Grain Train Failure At Warrenheip Bank (Tuesday 22nd Nov, 2011)
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- XR557 fails behind XR552, half way up Warrenheip bank. After several attempts to start it, the train is reversed back into Ballarat station. Later the locos are detached and sent over to Ballarat East loco where a mobile mechanic crew looked at XR557. Further unable to start XR557 the locos where latched back onto the train and XR553 and XR550 were sent down to rescue the train.
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hello mick thanks for posting this was me and we then went quad header with xr550 553 if i not mistaken cheers for uploading
Awesome!
@@MickFix pn fa were good until they started being just arseholes to their drivers like myself which gave me a chance to go over to qube where i retired and am now volunteer at puffing billy railway when we get out of lockdown crap stay safe
No it's not.
The steepest bank in Victorian Railways (in current use) is Jordanville on the Glen Waverley Line.
Jordanville is 1 in 30 where as Warrenheip is only 1 in 52
some parts of the Cudgewa Line were 1 in 28!
SharkytheGunzel. The Jordanville hill is suburban electric although the old steamers with only light carriages and trucks used it from 1933 to 1960s.
Steamrail does the occasional run up it.
The goods runs up Warrenheip are much tougher on the locos than the Holmesglen Jordanville section.
Not the first PN loco to fail on the bank and it sure will not be the last
God! What a wonderful sound!
Weight and engine work this is it ! Congratulates !
YOU OWE ME A SET OF TWEETERS AND A HEARING AID! (2:55) Nice video, love those big motors at idle.
NO PROBLEM!
Great catch, especially of the train reversing back to Ballarat!
THESE TRAINS SOUND FUCKEN TUFF, ABSOLUTELY FUCKEN BRUTAL !
Thetrucky69 EMDs RULE!
MickFix You are not wrong.
Cheers!
Cheers.
nice video and great catch of the 2 engine's on the grain train.
Wow, now thats something ya dont see every day! good vid!
PN nearly stalled here again a week or two ago ...around 5.30 am.....the track was wet. They were going slower than walking pace. One of the crew got out and put what I thought was ballast on the track out in front to keep her going.
I spotted grain hoppers on the hill, got up to the top and waited a while and realised it wasn't coming so went back down and found the drivers trying to start up the failed loco...
One XR (3300hp) no hope without its counterpart. Still only 12 - 13 years old fairly new trains. That's why some trains have a third loco usually an X which may have gotten her to the top
The train was reversed back into Ballarat station. Later the locos are detached and sent over to Ballarat East yard where a mobile mechanic crew looked at XR557. Further unable to start XR557 the locos where latched back onto the train and XR553 and XR550 were sent down to rescue the train.
Its good to see Elzorro is not the only one that gets it wrong.With all the spare Tclasses sitting in Nth Geelong maybe a couple in Ballarat as a banker wouldnt go astray.Cheers Neil
Is it in 1st notch on the way down, with dynamic braking or are the brakes applied due to the sheer weight of the haul going downhill?
Surprised that just one engine out was enough to defeat the climb. I expected it to be slower but not stopped.
No other engines mid train or at the back? (Or is this before railroads started doing that?)
Cause of failure? Fuel pump?
Thank you.
I wonder how many trains have failed on this bank.
many
Nice 'flat back' locomotives.
+Bassotronics lol, those are toilets on the back. Pacific National added that.
I wonder what happened to the shitter out of X36?
Wheelslip is a pain
@NR54trailerail Cheers, thanks for the comment!
those 16 Cyl. 645e3c's sound basically like 16 cyl. 710-G3/G3A
It looks like the train is running away.. reverser is probably in 'forward'?
A Delorian with a flux capacitor LOL I filmed it at 6:20am on the 22nd November 2011 and uploaded it at 5:09pm the same day?
@rhondaw1 Right place, right time, thanks for the comment
Thanks, I was told it was the steepest grade.
MickFix. in Victoria it apparently is.
MickFix Rail there’s a 1 in 48 gradient in the Mildura line somewhere
Interesting looking engines. They look like school buses.
I have no idea why the loco failed, it is one of the worst grades in Victoria, thanks for the comment!
you must have a time machine bc u uploaded the video the day before it happened.
what happend to it?
Is this still common at Warrenheip Bank?
Very few freight trains through there now
@flammabletube First one I've caught though and wasn't I a happy chappy!
isso é uma sinfonia aos meus ouvidos !
It is (correct me if I'm wrong) the steepest grade in the southern hemisphere?
MickFix. The Jordanville station hill section is electric Mick.
Professor Pat Pending yes what is the gradient on the UP side of syndal
UGGGGHHHH......(cough, sputter....). Never mind...Back down the hill...
What is the Make and Models of these Diesels?
V16 2 stroke uniflow Diesel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_645
@eagle64ful The local hoods would give them a paintjob I bet! Thanks for the comment
what a sound
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can... nope, No I can’t!
Where the hell is Warrenhilp Bank and Ballarat?
Victoria, Australia.
@MaciekSU45 Thanks for the comment!
No tail lamp when reversing other way?
hi thank you for pointing it out I was crew this train and forgot all about it as was focusing getting to ballarat east cheers
emd's?
+Alex Littman They sure are
lol he put dynamics on
Now was this a multi-grain unit? Multi-grain very very healthy for the super super people now......single grain only marginally healthy for the people now.......not enough grains for........need those multi.......needs those multi multi-grains.......must have the multi-grain trains bringing the grain to the super super people now.
Ils ont dû le renverser pour dégager la ligne…
tres belle video mais je trouve que l'initiative du mechaniciens de tenter de d'avancer avec une seul loco est idiot car le tonnage est trop important.! et de surcroit en monte.
ja surely sound like steroids in that engines