kicking the year off with two Eureka Express tours the rail and sail tour the A62 mainline return also D3 639 first public run since 4 years ago and the Glen Huntly shuttles, in this video it's the Ballarat weekend steam shuttles hauled by a 1940s Victoria railways K class and a much older work horse the 1915 Victoria railways A2 class we see 4-5 shuttles of both these old and new but still old steam locomotives take on grades and shows it's history of how the 1920s-40s were the tour followed the old Geelong to Ballarat line stopping at Lal Lal and returning back, later on in the video a new work horse was speeding towards Ballarat from sea lake with roughly 13 carriages in total it was a British import the VR 4-6-4 Hudson R class and two 1980s locomotives on the 707 operations "the Grainlander", they ran a 3 day round trip from Melbourne via Bacchus Marsh were the R solo ran from Melbourne via Geelong the day before, at the crack of midnight they leave Ballarat behind onto the line to sea lake which doesn't see passenger service anymore, it's now completely ran by freights.