during the 1990s, steam tours only operated as far as leongatha, with the first being run on 9 september 1990, again hauled by steam locomotive k.153, which coincided with the steam locomotive's 50th anniversary since being introduced into service. in 1993 there were two notable steam -hauled trips to leongatha. both specials were operated by steamrail victoria, and hauled 11-car consists of victorian railways e-type and w-type wooden carriages, which ran numerous shuttles between korumburra and leongatha stations. the first one was on 2 may, which was supposed to be a triple header of k class steam locomotives. however, one of the scheduled locomotives, k190, suffered a defective main internal steampipe failure at caulfield, leaving locomotives k153 and k183 to double-head the train. on 25 july 1993, the apparent "last lament to leongatha" was run, operated by k190 and k183.