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.

Opening a Victorian Railways DERM from IDR Models

G'day everyone.

Today we have the first video as part of our holiday schedule, where to start us off this season, we take a look at the recently released IDR Models Victorian Railways DERM.

This captures the preserved DERM RM58.

This year, the holiday season has been broken into 4 sections. Section 1 will run until the 19th of December, so until then, enjoy our regular Monday and Friday uploads.

Well, until next time, catch you all down the line.

Mernda to Reservoir Steam Shuttles | Steamrail - Mernda Suburban Shuttle...

Howdy all,

We're back for another week. Actually, this time, it's the first of two videos for the week as we have now entered our holiday uploading season. This is phase one of the season, and will run until the 19th of December.

Anyways, today we head back onto the Mernda line to capture Steamrail Victoria's Mernda Suburban Shuttles with K class locomotives K100 and K190.

Overall turned out a rather decent day despite the weather warnings, with the main issue being how windy it was during the latter part of the train.

Anyways, hope you all enjoy and well catch you at our next upload.

Geared Steam Trundle | Climax Twilight Train Special - Paradise Hotel Di...

Howdy everyone.

Back for another week, today we are back at Puffing Billy to capture the rather popular Climax locomotive on her annual run.

This year the trip was slightly different, with Climax beginning from Belgrave and only travelling as far as Clematis. Here the locomotive used the rarely use turn-back siding as passengers had dinner at the nearby Paradise Hotel.

We only capture one way for this trip, since by the return, there wouldn't be any light, and I had to rush down to Port Melbourne for another event.

Our holiday schedule will be returning soon, so stay tuned for more!