West Coast Wilderness Railway - Restored ABT no.2 returns home after 60 years
2023 ж. 11 Қаз.
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After a 3 year rebuild at The Engineering Company, Somerset TAS, ABT no.2 is reunited with familiar surroundings... Queenstown, which she left In 1963/64 once the Mt Lyell Railway closed.
Enjoy the captured scenes of her arriving by truck to Carswell Park, unloading & shunting/stabling - 12/10/23
A really great bit of workman ship getting the engine off the lorry & on to the next part of the country, a very enjoyable video, so thanks to everyone who took part in the making of this great video.
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Wonderful job guys and glad to see her home. Enjoy her and hope she is a crowd favourite. She looks amazing.
Fantastic !!! Congratulations for work !!! Paulo Bajko from Santo André city São Paulo state Brazil. ❤
التحية. كنت واحدا من ركاب هذه القطار الجميل و استمتعت بهذه الرحلة الاخاذ و يا للأسف كان بالمشاهدة . اتمنى و اسرتي ان نكونوا بهذه القطار يوما .
A pristine and beautiful loco, and it's returned in what is possibly its best form ever. I like they gave it a unique paint scheme. Regards from the UK, Samuel Farris.
Beautiful engine, love the paint scheme they got on it too!
بكل تقنية واحترازية نزول قاطرة قديمة لتصبحة جاهزة في احسن واجمل مدينة وتحية للمشرفين على انجازيها
Great to see it working again. We will travel down from Sydney just to travel on it
Magic, love the west coast rain
Thanh you very much
She’s A Beauty!😊
And it was all going so well.
Marvellous weather for it
What a beautiful old engine.
Fantastic stuff....I hope to visit next year & look forward to seeing/riding behind it!
awesome!
Superbe et très beau travail.
Wie schön
Keren model trucknya👍👌
This by far is the best miniature train I’ve seen. Love the vegetation. Felt like I was on the train. Fairy gardens along the way would be a great addition
I'll be there in Feb 2024.
It always seems to be raining on these jobs.
Lovely job,try not to get it wet ,👍🇬🇧
19:05 you can tell this dude loves his job lmao. Shunting beautiful 120+ year old locomotives has to be someone's dream job.
Ken sure does!
60 years wow
I wish i could see it in person but hopefully when its running under its own steam you'll post another video on it running!
I absolutely will .. from her footplate too! :)
Boa noite , sou do Brasil, estou com mais de 60 anos de idade e nunca tinha visto desembarcar uma locomotiva.
cooolt dissel lok 😎
So quick
Nice video, likes from me.
Number two rode ruff and often came off the rails
Krutoiuvasnoviparovoz🚂😉🫢🫢🤗🥰.
It looks as if you managed to pick one of the few days of rain in Queenstown. That must have been a bit of a fluke surely? I don't remember seeing that on the tourist brochure photos of the place.
🤣 I sense a tiny bit of sarcasm ... but in all seriousness... yes.
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Nothing sells tickets like a Choocho
Donde es esa bajada de máquina suiza yo estoy en Uruguay
Does that little locomotive have FOUR cylinders ? In which case, 2 on a fell central rail or a pinion?? Or is it a compound locomotive? Or sneaky piston valves with over-long Valve Ports. My curiosity is piqued.
Lokomotif uap nice video
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Is this a cog rail loco system Abt ? Like Carl Roman Abt - Switzerland ?
Yes it is an Abt System. Very high maintenance as there is a higher tolerance to maintain a consistent level between the rail head surface and the root of the locomotive Abt sprockets.
@@rsinclair6560 As a Swiss citizen I am aware of this…
@@aoilpeOne of only three such systems in the world according to the book I bought when I visited in 1999. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880 What do you call “systems”? 1-2 or 3 parallel cog rails in one track? Then you are right . 3 different lines in the world ? Then you are wrong…
Where in the world did this take place? I'm from New Zealand and this looks like the west coast of NZ.Could you please inform me where this is please !!!
Queenstown, Tasmania :D Our countries do share some very similar scenery
@@paulusintas8627As I always say to anybody who hasn't been to Tasmania, if you've been to New Zealand - you've been to Tasmania & vice versa.
Queenstown New Zealand is a beautiful place. Queenstown Tasmania...well Google Earth it and see for yourself.. Touring New Zealand both North and South Island is 1000 times more interesting than Tasmania. No comparison. NZ has that wonderful indigenous cultural connection and diversity. Tasmania indigenous history, very appalling shameful sorry affair. NZ, Great rail system. Smart concepts like the Blenheim Wine Station. Tasmania South West Coast is World Heritage unique rain forest difficult access except fit bush walker. Same with exploring along the west coast. North East Tasmania in way of Mount William National Park, about 500 feet high ,(not 9000 ft ), Mount Cameron subtle but great views of Bass Strait Islands, beautiful. New Zealand has fantastic commute and tour passenger trains, Tasmania nothing, just a bus. (well more than one) Great heritage conservation in NZ. New Zealand has great railtrails, Tasmania is still fighting amongst themselves to develop one after 30 years of being introduced in the State of Victoria. Launceston is a stronger anesthetic than Pentothal. Tasmania demolished 95% of railway heritage infrastructure and stations, buildings etc. Oh ,Tasmania has a lavender farm!?
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Maybe call it "Little Toot"? 🙂
Completely rebuilt and yet no fire, no smoke and no steam.
Not in this video ... Look out for more footage of her under steam in the coming weeks.
Here is another West Coast Loco. kzhead.info/sun/rLagkaWpjWeHn4U/bejne.html
This is a RACK (ABT = Roman Abt patent of 1882) loco, are you planning to reopen a Rack section ?
Hi there, we have 4 of the original 5 ABT locos that ran the line up until its closure in 1963. (1,2,3 &5) The railway was fully rebuilt and reopened in 2003. The steam rack section is of course the main draw card which has operated since the railways reopening up until June this year. With our longer winter shutdown period almost over, we will start operating some short runs on the non rack sections, as heavy work carried out by contractors is continuing on our many of our 39 bridges. (new transoms and rail being put down currently)
😮 bubul to me
저 증기기관차의 이름이 궁금합니다 난 최근에 그것들에 관심이 많아졌다
And it moved the fastest it ever had on the back of that truck…
My word she did! haha
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Funny
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What's the name of that green locomotive ?
The green 'Drewry' diesel is one of two original locos that operated on the Mt Lyell railway from 1953 to 1963. The D class are for the most part identical to the ex Tasmanian Government Railways V class & similar to the British Rail Class 04 shunter.
@@paulusintas8627 very informative! Thank you
A little bit Rain i mean 😉😌😂
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At least the tax money isn’t going to the Ukraine.
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Your $1.7 million tax at work.
Considering how much revenue she will help draw to the wonderful West Coast businesses, not only the WCWR, I think it is money well spent. Also pay mind that she was rebuilt over a 3 year period.
@@paulusintas8627 The railway continues to run at a loss. The Tasmanian Auditor General Report
@rsinclair6560 We are a government asset. Respectfully, I believe you maybe missing the bigger picture here :) The railway may run at a loss, however the tourists that come to this wonderful region spend their money on other attractions and support small business. During our maintenance/shut-down period, businesses that normally rely on the tourism that the railway draws to the region have taken quite a hit financially. The good news is that we will be back better than ever .. very soon! :)
I'm sure the auditor is deep down a lovely person and would love to come and ride the rails with us 😀. Wishing you all the best.
@@paulusintas8627 1983 Government commissioned Commercial economic business viability study report concluded that no economic advantage to reconstruct this railway after it was dismantled in 1963. After the gun buy back after the Port Arthur tragedy, the report ignored. The predicted cost versus revenue interpolate to current times to continue to predict an operation going broke. You cannot increase passenger carrying capacity like Puffing Billy. It was suppose to give jobs when mines closed redundant miners as they in the 1990',s on the West Coast. 90% employees are not from the State. There has been no Net External Revenue either direct or indirect since the railway was rebuilt, shut down when Federal Hotels walked away. The track condition needs constant disproportionate maintenance relative to length.. Locomotives design (two engine in one extremely high maintenance and initial laying of used rail and sleepers was appalling engineering. It is funded $ 16 million over four years and by tax payers with no economic benefit. The Auditor General Treasury Department asks WHY? If this railway was successful it would be self sustaining making a profit requiring not one dollar from the tax payer. Money could be spent on better things.
Not quite as good as the uk for putting it back onto the rails