If only we could see, hear and feel such a sight in 2024. Being born in 1978 I have never felt the mountains shake or seen D57/58 in steam.

The driver in the 58 class later gets out is my uncle the late Len Hadley ex top dog Orange depot. Here he is quite young. Skin cancer on the face got him in the end facing the hot sun heading west every other day.

So much power even the mountains shook

Three bricks and a bucket, three bricks and a bucket.... Love it! Love hearing 57s and 58s at work.

Thats a hellva lot of horsepower on those trains What a sight it must have been

Absolutely outstanding. Your blood is worth bottling. The first time seeing a 58 class running.👍

What an outstanding video. The first time that I could clearly hear the three cylinder unique exhaust note of a 57 or 58. Wonderful stuff.

Absolutely PRICELESS footage!! Really enjoyed that. My late Dad would often talk about the 57 and 58s.

What an amazing sight and sound this must have been!!! I would love to see and hear a full footplate ride from Lithgow Box (or Coal Stage Box) up the 1 in 42 to Zig Zag Box on a "Big Engine." It was all grossly inefficient (4 engines plus Guard's Van - 9 crew all up) but what an experience!!!! 😍😍😍

Wow, that's great. Would have been a noisy life living in the signalman's houses at Zig Zag Box!

Incredible!

I realy enjoyed that, thank you. You can certainly hear those 3 cylinder beast pounding out their intent

I lived in Wallerawang as a kid ,ilove the steam trains running past my old school , wang public.

Incredibly fantastic.

Awesome! Awesome! What amazing footage. Glad I found your channel.

Another premium video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. ♡ T.E.N.

The NSW Railway museum had a video of 5711's final run to Cootamundra, I think in 1962. Well worth a look if you can find it.

Sensational video - thanks for posting.

0:37 that fourth engine might be a bit longer after this trip.

60 class Garrett humongous 👍👍

I remember at the end of a video which also featured some footage of Garratts and the ending of Days of Steam Volume 2 - The Final Days of Steam in the NSW Railways.

THIS IS SO GREAT

As older hands may recall, the nascent NSW RTM sought to have both a 57 and a 58 preserved, the railways told them they could only have one. The RTM chose to stick with 5711. Heretical question: should they have asked for 5812 instead? Last mainline steam locomotive built in NSW (5813 was completed first); would now be only Cardiff built loco left (we cant really say 3813 survives); and given its youth at withdrawal probably better condition than 5711 despite years of outside storage at Enfield?

I was looking at this and thinking ( with horror) of working the second or third engine up through those ten tunnels. Life must have been hard for the poor crews. Personally I have become rather accustomed to breathing.

sounds like a roomfull of locos - all talking at once ! Is it better to have locomotives pulling and pushing such a heavy train ?? Old South Wales . land of little trains .

If that's heading for the tunnels then hold ya breath folks

where is that filmed

I think you should clarify your main comment. 1957 was not the final year of steam at all in NSW.