Comeng998's Railways & Models of 2024 in Review

Howdy,

It's time to wrap the year up.

As we announced last year, the video was to be changed a little bit, where the focus would be more aligned with how the channels splits between the two subject areas. You will notice that all the model railway still is highlighted in one area although exhibition videos are still uploaded on the main channel for the time being.

We will continue to streamline the video over the coming years so anyways...

Hope everyone has a happy New Year.

Reminder, we are going back to a weekly uploading schedule for a few weeks.

Cheers all.

Weekday Steam on the Geelong Line & Loco Haul Passes | SRV Charter - Cru...

Howdy all,

Today we have our last normal upload for 2024. We spent a day in the Geelong area when Steamrail's A2986 was on a quick run out to Warncourt Loop. Along with this we capture the loco haul services that ran out to Warrnambool.

Our next video is our end of year video, so only one more to go for the year. Cheers all.

2024 Christmas Special | MTMR Railway

Merry Christmas everyone,

We return with our annual special. In recent years, we usually use our Australian fleet, but with a lack of acquisitions this year we called on the current newest to the fleet, a Hornby A4 "Commonwealth of Australia".

It's own video will eventually be uploaded on the other channel, but still got a few other unboxings to jump ahead first.

Anyways, hope you all enjoy, and have a good day.

Final Day of Heavy Rail on the Bankstown T3 Line - NSW & Sydney Trains

Howdy all,

Second video for the week, and we return back over the border. A few months ago, Sydney bid farewell the Bankstown line, as they being the final stages of it's conversion to Metro.

With some spare time available, I took a day trip to Sydney to catch some of the last trains to travel down the line. 

This marks our entry into more normal trainspotting videos in Sydney, something that will hopefully continue into the future, when we have a lack of variety in the uploading schedule.

Anyways, sit back and relax. This is a rather long video.

Catch everyone next week, for our Christmas special... well if all goes well anyways.

Melbourne's Newest Train on Transfer | Metro X'Trapolis 2.0 Set 1 - Ball...

Howdy,

Welcome to this weeks video and after all of the hype around the new X'Trapolis 2.0s, its time for our perspective.

The train was locomotive hauled from Alstom's Ballarat North Workshops to Newport Workshops up the straight.

The train will undergo extensive testing for the next few months before entering service on the Melbourne network.

Anyways, we'll be back mid-week for our next video, so catch everyone then. 

Top n' Tail Funnel-First NA Shuttles | Puffing Billy Railway - Variety C...

Time for our second video for the week.

We spin back the clocks for a video filmed earlier this year, this being this year's Variety Charter at the Puffing Billy Railway. The charter sees the most part of the railway closed to the public, for a special operation, which had two of the NA's run in top and tail for three steam shuttles between Lakeside and Emerald.

In this video, we also see 14A when she still burnt diesel, but since then has been reverted back to coal burning.

Anyways, enjoy this slightly rare occurrence.

Catch everyone next week.

Summer Suburban Steam & Diesel Transfer Train | SRV Charter & Castlemain...

G'day,

Today we begin our holiday scheduling, and to start us off we have a double video. On the first day of December, Steamrail operates two specials. We begin with a diesel transfer being led by recently donated locomotive S301. Locomotive T395 and a Z carriage was on transfer to the VGR as T395 will be spending the summer on the railway and the Z carriage being recently allocated to them.

Also on this day, a charter train was run for the CMV Christmas event which saw two steam shuttles run out to Flinders Street from Newport.

Most of the video is finished before the 10 minute mark, however we take a look at a shunt move out of the workshop post tour as they moved out of the yard limits.

Well, as the holiday schedule has now begun, we will catch everyone later this week.

Steam Shuttles in Pakenham | Steamrail LXRA Charter - All Aboard! Thank ...

Howdy all,

Were back to a 4 day schedule temporarily just before we switch over to our holiday scheduling.

Today we take a look at the second last public tour ran by Steamrail Victoria. This being a charter by the LXRA in celebration of the completion of the new Pakenham Station.

In this video we capture the train and also go aboard for a quick trip.

This isn't our last heritage video for the year, as we do a bit of cleanup on the available videos in preparation for the new year.

Cheers all, catch everyone next week.