Steam Returns to Mornington | K163 Returns to Steam from Overhaul - Morn...

G'day all,

Well it's time to begin our 11th year, and back to heritage. Today we are at the Mornington Railway for their relaunch of locomotive K163, that just returned to steam after some works at Newport Workshops.

Once again this is another hybrid video, being both a chase and ride video, although the ride is a shorten version, where a full length will be uploaded at a later date.

Anyways, we've got a few more heritage videos for the rest of the season, so stay tuned.

10 Years of Comeng998 Railway Videos Special & Future Plans

With it now being the 11th of January, our 10 years of YouTube ticks over to 11 years tomorrow. So to celebrate the achievement of reaching our first decade, it’s time to take a look back at what has changed the channel over the last 10 years, and how that has made up what we are now.

The video has been broken into 3 parts, the past, the present and the future, where we announce the changes to the scheduling of the videos. This comes to effect from the holiday season.

Thanks everyone for the 10 years. Can't wait to see what's in store for the next decade.

Siemens Nexus on the Burnely Group | Metro Siemens Testing to Camberwell

Hello!

we we are beginning phase 3 of our holiday schedule and we begin with a rare movement. A Metro Trains Siemens Nexus took a trip up to Camberwell during late 2022 for clearance testing. Defiantly one of the shorter videos we have uploaded to the channel in a while. This video was supposed to be uploaded as our first video for the year, but after a last minute decision to split the Bluestone Express video, this was pushed a week back.

So yes, we are back to a dual weekly schedule, with videos on Mondays and Fridays. This Wednesday we will have a special video uploaded to coincide with the conclusion of our 10 year anniversary.

Till next time, catch you all down the line.

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.