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OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => General => Topic started by: eye30 on December 05, 2015, 16:08:14

Title: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: eye30 on December 05, 2015, 16:08:14: Australia's longest-ever grain train has rolled across north-western New South Wales carrying 5,000 tonnes of wheat.

Comprised of five locomotives and 73 wagons stretching 1.3km (0.8 miles), the train left the town of Narrabri on Wednesday.

It later unloaded its cargo of wheat bound for markets in Southeast Asia at the port of Newcastle.

Drones shot video of the bright yellow train as it snaked its way across the Australian countryside.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-34971953?intc_type=singletheme&intc_location=sport&avs&intc_campaign=newsmagazine&intc_linkname=article_megatrain_contentcard21
Title: Re: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: Phil №❶ on December 05, 2015, 22:03:09: Where did 3 loco's go :question:
Title: Re: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: Dazzler on December 05, 2015, 22:45:57: Quote from: Phil №❶ on December 05, 2015, 22:03:09
Where did 3 loco's go :question:

At the other end. We get some long trains down here with two engines on one end and one on the other (I guess so they can go in either direction without turning around)

Good posting Lester... :goodjob:
Title: Re: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: Phil №❶ on December 06, 2015, 00:21:57: Video starts with 5 at the front, though. :exclaim:
Title: Re: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: Phil №❶ on December 06, 2015, 00:25:07: It may be a world record grain train but defo not the longest & heaviest, according to Youtube

:link: THE Longest and Heaviest train OFFICIALLY in the world - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LsuNWjRaAo)
Title: Re: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: Dazzler on December 06, 2015, 03:19:00: Incredible, Thanks Phil..
Title: Re: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: Doggie 1 on December 08, 2015, 22:48:01: I reckon some of the iron ore trains in the north of W.A. would be bigger.

OIC, beaten to it. :D
Title: Re: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: The Gonz on December 08, 2015, 23:04:02: That's a lot of train for just one record. :Shocked:
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Title: Re: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: FatBoy on December 09, 2015, 00:51:06: To be fair, the original post does say "longest-ever grain train". :whistler:
Title: Re: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: Doggie 1 on December 09, 2015, 07:40:34: Quote from: FatBoy on December 09, 2015, 00:51:06
To be fair, the original post does say "longest-ever grain train". :whistler:

That goes against the gr........
Oh, never mind.
Title: Re: Mega train delivers Australian record
Post by: The Gonz on December 09, 2015, 08:16:32: Quote from: FatBoy on December 09, 2015, 00:51:06
To be fair, the original post does say "longest-ever grain train". :whistler:
Does that mean it's a shoo in for the Guinness Book of Records?
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