Victoria's Railways and Comeng998 of 2022 in Review

G'day all, well it's the final video for the year!

Our annual year in review, capturing the events of our 10 year on YouTube.

Only just fully recovered recently, so the video was kind of rushed, but also wasn't, with the final render being completed last night at 3AM.

Anyways, hope everyone enjoy's the video and I'll catch you guys in the new year.

Week-Long Railway Music Tour - MGS | 707 Operations Char - Bluestone Exp...

G'day everyone,

Time for our final regular video for 2022. Ending off the year with the last heritage tour for the year, well at least part of it. The video was planned to be a full length, but as it creeped towards the 50 minute mark, it was decided to split the video. During the second week of December the Melbourne Grammar School hired a sleeper train from 707 Operations to be their chariot for this season's regional tour.

Obviously this means our first video for next year will be the second part of this video.

Anyways, we know what's next, our Year in Review, assuming I get the chance to complete the video fully.

So, there we are, catch you at the end of the month.

2022 Christmas Special | MTMR Railway

Merry Christmas everyone.

Hope the day has started bright for you.

Today we have our annual Christmas Special.

Since there is a blog post, means the video was uploaded on Christmas Day, instead of a few days prior.

Slowly been gaining the energy back to do things again (self-iso is horrible), but a lot of project that have been delayed.

A few more videos to complete for the year, and once those are done, we can begin preparing for the rather major changes that will be announced on January 11th.

Cheers all.

The Polar Express Visits the Dandenongs | Puffing Billy Railway Polar Ex...

G'day everyone,

Welcome to another week's video. Today we are out at Puffing Billy to capture the final day of this year's Polar Express Christmas Specials, after a successful 2021 season.

Once again former South African NG G16 NG129 was decorated for the occasion and hauled the 8 day's worth of services.

On to some scheduling updates. This video marks the final video as part of the first segment of the holiday schedule. We now go into segment two, where as outlined in our YouTube community post, there will be four uploading dates during this time.

Cheer all, hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

 

Heritage Christmas Special to Ballarat | Steamrail - Members Christmas T...

G'day all,

Welcome to this week's first video. Today we take a look at Steamrail Victoria's last tour for 2022, this being their members train.

Locomotives N454 and T395 took the helm of the tour to Ballarat, then guest locomotive R707 joined them for the return to Melbourne.

As the year's end comes near, there are a lot of last minute events trying to be slotted in, this means that in this video we leave the train in Ballarat, for another unrelated event. We rejoin the train in Altona North, after some spare time is found.

Just as a heads up, phase two of the holiday schedule begins next week.

Cheers all, catch you all again soon.

Final Loco-Hauled Albury Pass | V/Line's Last Loco-Hauled 8625/8630 - Re...

Howdy all,

Time for the second video of the week, apologies for the slight delay in uploading as well, waiting for YouTube to process is a bit of chore.

Anyways, today we have a video from earlier in the year capturing the final scheduled locomotive hauled service to Albury. On the 31st July, the Albury line became all VLocity with the last N class operating the midday service from Southern Cross Station the day before.

We travel out to capture the train all the way to Albury and return, marking the end of the 139 year old tradition of locomotive hauled service from Victoria. Not the end of loco hauled pass completely, with the XPT still due to operate for at least another 3 years.

Cheers all, catch you all again very soon. Reminder that phase one of the holiday schedule ends next week.

Steam Shuttles to Essendon | Steamrail - Essendon Suburban Steam Shuttle...

G'day everyone,

Welcome back to another week's video. Today we take a look at Steamrail Victoria's last steam shuttles for the year, this being the Essendon Suburban Shuttles with locomotives A2986 and K183.

The shuttles operated between Essendon Station and Flinders Street Station.

We aim to capture the tour from as many locations as possible, with the one double up of Newmarket Station because of time constraints.

Anyways, thanks all, remember there is another video due for Friday, so until then, stay well. Catch you all again soon.

Heritage Shuttles to Frankston | Steamrail - Moorabbin Suburban Shuttles...

Howdy all, time for our second holiday season video.

Today's video is one of our shortest videos in a while, as we cover the second events from the 26th of November. This video takes a look at the Moorabbin Suburban shuttles that operated in between the two parallel runs.

From next week, the extra videos will mostly be non-mainline heritage videos, as the season begins to slow down for the year.

Until next time, catch you all down the line.