Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Transfers & The Heritage Meet at Central | NSW Transport Heritage Expo 2...

Howdy all,
We're finally here with out final part of this year's Transport Heritage Expo.
Usually we make it a two part video, but with a bit more of a deeper coverage this year, the transfers and the Central displays stand alone in this video.
Proper links will be added to the descriptions of all videos over the coming days now that the trilogy is available. 

Should be back on home turf for the next video, so stay tuned. Cheers.

Saturday, 11 October 2025

Diesels & Electric Loop and Shuttle the Inner West | NSW Transport Herit...

Welcome, continuing our coverage of this year's Transport Heritage Expo, we have part 2 how available.
This time we take a look at the other trains that were operating throughout the weekend. ECHR and HETs joined up to operate shuttles to Port Botany and Lavender Bay respectively. 
This is a shorter part compared to the trilogy, but hopefully you'll still enjoy. Some clips will be shared between each video. These clips will also be used if you would like to switch between videos with the cards in the top right hand corner.
Anyways, one more to go, but this will be more of a different video compared to the chase videos, so hopefully you'll still stay tuned.  

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Steam Shuttles & Race DOWN the Illawarra Line | NSW Transport Heritage E...

Howdy all,
After a bit of a break, we are back with the next round of videos.
Once again, we were in NSW for the annual Transport Heritage Expo. This year coincides with the 170th anniversary of the NSW railways.
This time, we spend three days covering the expo. Our first video covers the operations on the T4 Illawarra line, with steam shuttles and railmotor shuttles. This year also saw the return of the Great Train Race, which ran from Central to Hurstville.
This year's expo also saw the return of locomotive 3001's operation to the mainline in 26 years.
Anyways, we'll have the rest of the footage released progressively over the next week, so stay tuned.  

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Spring Steam Through the Golden Plains | Steamrail - Eureka Express - Se...

Howdy,
First video for the month and we begin by knocking out our last video filmed for September.
We trek out for the last Eureka Express for 2025, behind Hudson R761.
A little bit different this time, as we do the full video without a tripod.
Pretty standard video, but it is quite a long video compared to some of our last videos. So sit back and relax as we hear a Hudson at work to and from Ballarat.
Anyways, cheers all. Catch everyone soon.

Sunday, 28 September 2025

Mikaido Steam Shuttles in Hawksbury | Picnic Train - Richmond Steam Trai...

With spring being back, we roll out another one from Over the Border. We take a short day for the first of two days on the Richmond line to take a look at the Picnic Train's Richmond Steam Train Rides. Three shuttles were run between Richmond and Mulgrave with their flagship locomotive 5917, top and tail with 4836. 
This really is a short video, which sees the train for all three shuttles, then the transfer back to Riverstone, where the train stabled until the next day of operations.
We are trying to keep a balance between Over the Border specials and regular videos over the next few months, subject to operations from the mainline operators.
As our full flexible schedule is still ongoing, it won't be too long until the next video, so catch everyone soon.

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

AMRA Vic Branch Clubrooms Open Day 2025

G'day,
Hope everyone's going well, just casually pushing through with our more intense than usual scheduling atm while we burn through the last of this September backlog. 
Once again, we are back at AMRA for another annual open day.
This year is a little smaller, now that Murri has left the club, but to supplement that, Maryborough is on display, although not operational.
As usual the two main layouts are in operation throughout the day.
Cheers all, till next time.

Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Steam and Runners Pace Through Lakeside | Puffing Billy Running Festival...

G'day,
Been a little bit since posting here. The last few videos have been published while being offsite, so good to be back to regular publishing. 
Today we are back at Puffing Billy again. This time we head up on the first day of this year's Running Festival to take a look at some of their train operations.
Day one has the shorter races, which are centered around the Emerald Lake Park. Along with this, Puffing Billy still operated its regular four train timetable, with some differences.
7A and 14A took on the pace train for the morning, running as a double header for the whole day, and in top and tail during the Running Festival.
Anyways, enjoy this kinda long video.
Got a couple more videos to end off the month, so stay tuned.