>>4525
Saw your email thread, that's a separate issue, but I'll get on it.

>>4526
Hum, I guess it was kind of dumb, though properly cencored for sure. Thank you Mike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqyqGccsQag – The year is 2006. The U-boats (DBAG class 219 diesel-hydraulic locomotives) are limping along on their sayonara runs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A65BhhvBtc – Over an hour of Plandampf (Scheduled Steam) services.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9xIsOQVaYU – Temporary and permanent steam generators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctycdljD07U – Another neat little thing for steam foamers: A type 1K locomotive. The type is from 1881. This locomotive? 2009.

Gods, I hope the guys in Meiningen get the "Adler" back up and running…

train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ZHAOdpJKY – The history (read in German) of the East German E94 (later class 254) "Iron Pig" electrics, while #056 hauls a coal train along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5mWDTum90 — For side-rodder fans, here is an electric side-rodder, the E77, working both yard and line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1e7g2WsVZA — A pair of ex-DSB MY-class locomotives in Dresden, hauling wood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKQp5zHMwC8 — Just because.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUzV1jt0aRQ — I think the title tells it all about the oddity of this.

>>4604
That is bizarre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNN2Jl2BsB4 – The good thing about not driving is that you can grab a nap, especially in a sleeper train.

This is kind of A/V…

https://aj-computing.co.uk/network-southeast-clock

New URI of Javascript NSE clock. Old URI (~/misc/clock/) redirects to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT3onXeyGUA – The Class 66 EMDs are not a common sight in Germany, but here are a few hauling gravel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRPWr4Qktrk – For a few 66's more…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0NTUtvbxg – Now this is something one does not see often.

>>4643
Surely a funerary train service has to have been quite a common thing back in the day. Even Helsinki had one. Or is this "railway" in a sense of a railway company and that's why it's unique?

>>4645
The former morgue at Harju/Vallila, among other things, served as a youth house in 1986-2019 :D
Currently it's undergoing renovations.

The waitroom at Malmi cemetery also still stands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwMiJuynbNE – This train is a tunnel rescue train. It is kept on short alert, engines idling, ready to move out, should the call come.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP2hx92owV8 – "The Accident" is a short (ca. 17m) movie made to show an Swiss rescue train in operation.

>>4689
I can't help but feeling this is incredibly stupid and over complicated.

>>4692
The video or the operation depicted?

I'll let you know, this is a pretty common style of emergency services demonstrative video around these parts. You take the smallest possible accident that needs the response demonstrated and then totally overblow the drama.

Also - they still operate dedicated fire trains in Swizerland \:D/

>>4694 – I even recall a Youtube clip showing one of them in action dealing with a building fire near the track. If I only could find it again…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkyyjcT0xWQ – Short clip of an SRR rescue train acting as a 'thunderbird'. For the huh?-crowd, 'thunderbird' is UK slang for a locomotive or train sent to rescue a stranded train. The origin of that term is, I believe, that Virgin Rail named its rescue locomotives after characters from the series "Thunderbirds".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5U93FCH0Nk – A short clip with a bit of action; also has a montage of incident images. (wince) I *swear* that the woman narrating sounds like she was Dutch pretending to be speaking German!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv4R28CD2Lo – Now, if you want a really big wheel of Gruyère, you just have to watch this lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NQOTH08-9Q – Young'ins leaving the Boeing spawning grounds.

Nineteen-Eighty-Four…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Fcv_o96Ao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMkokwMROGs
https://alchetron.com/Summit-Tunnel-fire

This is just one of several incidents involving tanker trains happened that year in the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZr5r9pQbIQ – Highballing and hauling heinie.

Heh, Sam from Wendover/HAI must have run out of plane content because he's made like 2 train based videos within the past week... granted this one barely qualifies.

Anyways, here's the other one that has much more train content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHVuTshpoI – MYs working in Germany, and an M61 visitor. Old EMD power is alive and well in Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su5XdVrsJ9U – The German Class 103 electric locomotive can reach its cruise speed of 200 km/h (125 mph) in three minutes with 400 tonnes on the hook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agUIir-LgsM – Images from a Scheduled Steam event in Werra Valley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HWf20_53_Q – An E94 electric locomotive on its last working day.

A rather unusual catch in Frankfurt-am-Main.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lAaixAQGAI – Could it possibly be…?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaYRBJBJp4g – Yesss!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbDcvi_DjNc – As a bonus, an hour-and-a-half-long cab ride in the Kinzig valley in South Germany.

Some steam yard work at Minkiö depot.

>>4753
Please note that we deal mostly train related content here.

>>4753
Fuck off nazi boy.

??? Did I miss some baka-baka-in-Osaka spewing fascist turds out of his mouth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38MV99wOcds and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20GfVFnpJVA – A wet and windy advent in Helsingør (Elsinore) in Denmark. Class ET EMUs ply their regional and international trade. And a K-class steam locomotive trundles along with its ten-car santa train.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke9sPghhxuU – I would not be surprised if these two trains had a high priority. They are transporting beer, after all.

>>4787
It was "something, something /x/", completely not train related. I watched most of it and it didn't appear to be political, just some memes about the general mystery horrory stuff /x/ is supposed to do.

I decided to err on lenient but other decided to take it away. Fair enough, it was most likely a drive-by.

For whatever reason we are again in pre-approval mode.

>>4793 – Promoartistes… // Pretty certain pre-app switched to on between my posts #4786 and #4787. Ya think it didn't like the beer trains? #straightfaced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqI5rdtPw4w – One for the onkyou-tetsu. That Pielstick engine and rare Strömberg GTO-based VVVF.

>>4795
Oh wow. I'm not so much of a sound guy, myself.
Btw, the last one had a humble Dv12 in tow for a reason or another. They arent multi-unit compatible, so the Dv12 was most likely just idling.

Anyway, Dr16 with its 1.5 kW (:´D ) is widely know as the 'iso vaalee' - 'big pale'. Also 'iso vaikee' - 'big troublesome'. They suffered from constant electrical problems that ultimately were solved only in their first round/midlife workshop restorations. After that they acquired the tendency to catch on fire. The first four already got discarded because they had non standard designs and parts, 3 more due various accidents. The rest are on their last legs as Dr19 is coming soon. They serve the last large unelectrified parts around Joensuu and Tornio Valley.

Dr19 should have come this year but no news yet.

It seems we seem to have standardized to about 3000-4000kW (almost as much as 1 American locmotive :Dd) of power, per train. Meaning 3x Dv12s, 2x Dr16, 2x Sr1, 2x Sr2 etc combinations. Dr16s could do triplet for 4.5 kW but that's seldomly used, well there are only 17 left so that may be a limithg factor. That's because we very much have our network only accepting 1.1 km (915 m really) long max trains, and some places only 850 or 750 m long.

https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8038286 (skip to the 2 minute mark)
[Discontinued Line] Oigawa Railway. I searched for the traces of the discontinued Ikawa Line on the shore of Lake Nagashima Dam.

Some background:
https://shizuokagourmet.com/2016/03/12/shizuoka-prefecture-railway-stations-ooig
awa-ikawa-railway-line-senzuikawa/
https://dampedia.com/en/list/chubu/shizuoka/1178.html

And just for fun, on the same line:
https://daitetsu.jp/en/thomas.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uLSMbt_UMI – I can't help but think that Amtrak would look a lot more dignified if their power had EA looks.

A cab ride with a Swedish freight driver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFrmcNi_WmM – Part 1 - Running light to the pick-up site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVeRAnPza4 – Part 2 - .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtAIqraLXls – Freight to Kalmar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLNxA4EXWwo – The many ways of moving goods in seventies' Germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Lj7w9klmA – The shortest loaded grain train in Fourecks in yonks, and its why and howinell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApQH5EMPPuQ – A Class 232 locomotive with a six-cylinder engine but still sounds like a Class 232? I would not have believed it before I saw this clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJgrd43OiA – Meep-meep!

With Cap'n mentioning the 37s…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICKuDGcjIaA – Here are two of them hauling a broken-down clay train up the Lickey incline. Video comes complete with the big, throaty 12-cylinder rumble that is guaranteed to weak-knee any Tractor fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7BnnSAl52o – Welcome to the Isle of Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tPu9E2CBag – Steam and snow in the Thuringian Forest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhbEx9_XXo0 – Snowblower action in Switzerland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo-mA5KCsyI – Snowblower action in the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFnzTGuu47U – 2.5 hours in a Class 66 cab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPTJBXuwtGA

Pretty interesting VR 180 video of Class 47 cab ride on Epping-Ongar Railway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cybl5MtDglc – I suppose one must feel really miserable to call your local line the Misery Line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Am9dvzGOM – "The absolute Gold Standard of a Really Useful Engine."
The producer's own words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRFla4S8vVc – There was still one last run for SP's #4274.

BR standard Britannia class pacifics at full speed on the main line.

Hey do you remember the rail energy storage -thread before the wojapolypse?

Well, someone has already simplified the problem to it's core elements and used giant cranes instead and Adam Something has made a weet 4 minute video of it.

>>4978
I was referring to this thing and its many incarnations.

yea buddy

>>4980
Love the sound of those turbocharged 645's in notch-8.

>>4980
Freight question, but maybe Tex can answer... Is piggy backing still done, or has intermodal killed it all off?

>>4983
It's still done(rarely), but very location dependent. The "pigs" I deal with are all containers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRo7Cl-YOs8 – That was one lucky GA pilot.

>>4988

>>4990
But the FRA and FAA are under the DOT.

I'm mad that the police taped off the area and obviously never called the number on the crossing. People nearly died and a lot more damage was caused because pigs are retarded.

>>4993
Pigs are dumb, but the reports I've been seeing is that Metrolink *was* notified, but there wasn't enough time to stop that train. It was apparently a very short time span.

And in other news…

https://soranews24.com/2022/01/13/japanese-rail-fans-heartbroken-as-tokyo-area-k
eikyu-chooses-to-retire-its-last-pata-pata-sign/

That'll be one less split-flap sign left in the world.

\:D/

>>4994
Not buying it. When people actually call it in the time frame is ultra-short to notifying the train crew.

>>4999
Sure, but if the train is literally too close to stop, what are you going to do? Same kinda thing happened to my buddy about a month ago: DS calls him and says that they just got word there's a disabled car at X crossing. He's less than a half mile out doing 50 mph with about 5,500 tons. He grabbed a bunch of air to try to reduce damage, but physics simply don't let it happen. Sometimes it's nothing but shit luck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvfFHeo4PL0

https://www.youtube.com/user/CNW4145/videos – Home of the Rock River Valley Traction Company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AbK_zqauzU – Seconds or minutes here, seconds or minutes there… Before you know it, you are late as cluck.

>>5121
I was so happy to see they'd made more videos. I recall years ago only a very small handful of videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCfDQvrBGRw – The earliest railways were carried freight. They still do. This fifty-six-year-old film gives a quick (half-hour) overview of how nothing is really new under the sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukOHqdPbYYg – A cab view with a cityscape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAfich6mow – How many safety systems this old are still in full use?

>>5282
Do physical tokens count?

Surely some remote railway somewhere also still has to use a 'staff instrument' in revenue service, it's not that long ago since the last ones were purged from the British Isles.

>>5286
The Girvan-Stranraer line is still worked by physical tokens and semaphore signals..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY0Uqz9MEeA – Not a slow boat to China, but a slow train to Turku, likely a Class Tka7 work unit.

No audio, but plenty of evidence that spring is there.

>>5321
Indeed, alders are in full bloom and birshes are starting too!

That branch is a precarious one too. Naantali harbor has only had occasional grain shipments lately. Russian grain, that was.

Here you can see probably that 'tekari' ("denture" :D) leaving Turku next tuesday to visit Naantali again to then go Hangonsaari, passing the daily VR freigt in Mynämäki. That graphical timetable is a bit messy, in 4 parts and "Turku main" and "Turku freight" are smudged over each other.

Uusikaupunki line has been electrified lately. I haven't yet been able to see an electric freight on the line yet, but there is photo evidence of the alleged first in 23.3.2022.

Daww, I said photo evidence, but it's like 2 photos both in undescriptive places in 'Turku freight'.

This was an excursionary IC up to Mynämäki :)
That catenary line wasn't there in the last year!
(Stolen pixels!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Y-1X5EdL0 – F four-hour drive on the Bergen Line in winter conditions ranging down to zero/zero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG6fFh7v3lM – Two hours of FLIRTing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EvTLxjeepo – Audio archaeology: Digging through old tapes and discs, looking for sounds of the past.

This time, it's a pack of carts from a long-abandoned comms room at a railway station in the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDPxlyQo-gRMKJJxDIM7BQ – East Terminal railroad

Guy's doing a 1:1 scale project.

>>5348
What a long-winded guy!

He's probably Brian T Willians of 'Rerail America' and the railway is located East of Columbus, Ohio: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=columbus%20ohio#map=16/39.9919/-82.81
88

There's also a blog: http://eastterminalrailway.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeMJBqU_eYc – Build a line, then bury it in bureaucracy? Whisky Tango Foxtrot Hotel, over?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQBfjleh_eQ – There are times when just four cars are almost too much for a thousand-horsepower locomotive. Hauling them up a 6% slope is one of those times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q-TPRrM6Ro – An early-model TGV on the move through the Czech city of Brno. This is in one eight-minute take.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMe6fUCTpWU – An East German film from the early 1960s about the building of V15 and V60 diesel lcomotives in the Babelsberg works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYbD2ga8DM – A quick overview of a time when CN supplied electric power to a town via locomotive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaPh5xruhFQ – A replica of Denmark's first locomotive takes to the rails. There is a rough English translation in the subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYnD7uQGho – Boco still lacks his get-up-and-go but the other diesels are working nicely. When was the last time you saw a straight-eight?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn3JFFo0owQ – If you think navigating through a physical thicket is bad…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl9wBpvu86U – From London to Brighton in maximum hurry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCH_-8bbSMg – Now that is on the rare side: A working steam locomotive with a reserved museum spot. OK, it was BR's 999th and last steam engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJVM_XWF9E4 – "The Last Stand of British Steam"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXvF1F-3nTU – 92220 "Evening Star" on the Settle & Carlisle in 1988.

Now, if any of you are good at metalsmithing, you can go to https://worldradiohistory.com/Practical-Mechanics.htm and start reading at the February 1961 issue for a series of articles on how to build your very own 3½in gauge "Evening Star".

Note re above: The articles in Practical Mechanics stopped after two years, leaving an unfinished project. A finished design was published later. Here is a book with the gubbins: Martin Evans; LBSC (1980). "Evening Star - Building a 3½ inch Gauge BR 2-10-0 Locomotive". Argus Books. ISBN 0-85242-634-8.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPrm5Tb-SA – A still-working railway station inaccessible by train?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4hed723pd8 – "An invisible train appeared out of nowhere, hit my car, and then disappeared."

>>5566
Looks like I got someone else hooked on the Tim Traveller. Also, his videos have really been paying off lately. He did stretch his titles pretty thin in the past, but he hasn't been exaggerating lately.

Bravo Tim!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GujoYkaQf8 – In which steam power substitutes diesel power in hauling rail and ballast.

>>5575
Isn't coal being outlawed in the next few years or is that not true?

Not a chance. Too much money and pork involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0iy7wNoBZ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtzfLHBKJHU – A few clips from the repair depot in Meiningen in the south of Thüringen (Thuringia).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1Oq3JLNbc – Now that has to be about the shortest commercial rail line ever, right?

>>5599
>>4736
Does it even count though, like seriously?

Not even just the stupidity of the whole plan, or the length of the railway, but like, is shunting with a car pusher really a railroad? I wouldn't think so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haAcNU7zCDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dPEuP7EPFQ – A small treat for steam fans: A pair of German Class 41s hauling a load of gravel eight years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qOGJKkKPAo — Starting up a Class 50. Expect clag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab1ZYmZgkqo – Kintetsu's old Fresh Fish Train had its sayonara run in March 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CVg318w3rU – A Norwegian railfan documents a trip in December 1988. You get to see a NOHAB-built Di3 diesel locomotive in action.

Should it interest anyone, the Swedish company NOHAB had a building licence from EMD and built units like the Di3s and the Danish class MX and MY locomotives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC4wpaiQNUo – Old drivers, old locos, old engines start up anew.

A little bit of fun for EMD 567 fans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhYEOG9LOIk – A nice homebuilt shortline to shuttle rubbish bins back and forth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCWJnS65yVo – Plandampf in the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p30IY7oBAo – Meanwhile, in Zürich, Switzerland…

A departmental tram clears the lines with a snowplow. Driver and plowman both have their hands full.

"Congratulations, Espoo!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kZFLYNEc5w – Signal trips to Danger.

Driving at 90 kph with ca. 2000 tonnes on the hook.
Distant signal shows Clear.
Spots Distant repeater at Danger and opens the big hole.
Main signal also at Danger.
SPAD.
Cause: Signal failure. Cleared to continue.

>>5994
Not a video, but I had something like that happen once. Went from a clear block indicator to a clear interlocking signal that dropped right in front of me. That was a very panicked stop, to say the least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwgr-tau28

A good sign of a bad day: You derail over an obstacle – and the obstacle is your own traction motor.

An old Jerry Jeff Walker song I've had stuck in my head for a few days now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yezuzyKEC5U – The Geislingen Bank seen from the air. Railfanning by drone is a thing now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYAFAdaXEyQ – A rake of cement cars and a pair of Class 52s. It really glides along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaBBU-U8yXY – An old Class 110 EL trundles away with the shopping train ɔ: railway cars that have been converted into a grocery shop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBcf_oNf2_8 – Another German SL, this time a three-cylinder Class 58, moves through the forests of Thuringia in late January 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbiHUALY0rs – Again in Thuringi, though a few more years ago, three Class 52s (two pulling, one pushing) get the gravel moving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KwbEVCle6A – Some Class 41s and a few other SL classes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgxMIFcbpZw – Slowly… but surely… the Old Lady fought on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zTBYtTAmGs – This Prussian P8 (038 772) was in regular service with the West German Railways until December 1974, and in irregular service for a few months after.

The footage, shot on 16mm stock by the poster's father, also includes at least one more P8 (038 382). Both 382 and 772 made it into preservation.

When the late James Last had something to do with trains...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0AiQCTNO0g – "Country Train"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C92XUOG5_g – "I'm A Train"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ObfHGSdLhE – "Morning Train (9 to 5)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyKCMSqT1Cs – "Orange Blossom Special"

Bonus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPHASpKgRtQ – A really nice-looking model train layout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5KXJfWaxM – Automation is nice. Until it stops working.

A few clips from the Frankenwald (Franconian forest) railway line in Germany:

Winter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv2xG4GYS0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nByxa4PlhGM

Summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlEMkfL6Eo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHdZI3mmUXE

Season's start on some cane railway in Indonesia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPFvkNbhvjA – A look at an incident in Denmark where a dangling trailer resulted in eight dead.

>>6058
Interesting. Also neat that investigators used a model train in a wind tunnel to study wind vortices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZQtX6sh20 – A little bit of new track, a smattering of bits and pieces… and Waycross–Nahunta is effectively double-tracked all-a-sudden-like.

>>6066
I saw this yesterday. I really liked the guy's voice. He definitely has one made for radio.

This sort of project reminds me of the stuff I'll wish for at work to make things easier. Unfortunately, the design people don't communicate much with the operations.

>>6069
Turns out he IS a radio voice. lol

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-harmon-82aa885

I guess that's why he has such a talent for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEpY6HGDWzw – Lady Penelope does her thing.

A few crazy cab view clips from Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCCnUnUB4W0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2azOJ4kxq2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUokPGp54Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_puvpBoMyYo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiipQuXct4w – Now that's an odd'yin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU53zRWeUHM – You would have to be loco to not like this garden-scale loco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs2JhqBEbK8 – Have any of you ever wondered why steam locomotives smoke? Or do not smoke?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9tuwbEyHs (Title clip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXt4JwF1Rjo – Two Class 37s go to the rescue of a Class 321 multi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsV47zJ2G7s – Hastings 1001 power cars haul damaged Class 375s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7be-uK1qy4 – A pair of Class 66s on snow-clearing duty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvSDip-_Es – #5626: I'm feeling hot! hot! hot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8KIp9quUkQ – Cajun Pass runaway incident, 1989.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6YSduX-QSA – Cajun Pass runawau incident, 1994.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmSWfOSz2Eg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTEZ25sQGmc (full documentary)
“This is the Night Mail crossing the border,
bringing the cheque and the postal order …”

Here's an interesting video about logging railroads high up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the United States of America. I find it fascinating that they used steam trains on such railroads and despite the extreme grades of the mountains and hills, they were so good at moving heavy loads of logs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRPzZTUUBg

Today on the Slow-TV: "Driver Familiarization Run" - A harrowing 51 minute journey through the inner suburbs of Helsinki.
So it's the new tram (or light rail) line 15, also known by its project name 'jokeri'/'joker'. Opening "soon".

I have to say, the background chatter is lovely. Some picks:


0:15 "It's a good idea to test the 'quick brake' here. In case the vehicle breaks, we have a short way back." "Yes... ready everyone?" "Yes!" "Go ahead!"
"Not even bad." "Hehe." "We had quite a lot of speed." "Two vehicle lenght it took." "Yeah, it's not instant." "Our mass became clear."
"Walking on our way is not advisable, not in this speed. A person we would have run over, would be roughtly at the door 4."

3:50 "The sandwiches have spread all over." "An apple is taking a sprint!" "A what?" "Rolling around!" "Oh, must be because of the quick brake." "I'll go gather them. Oof." "Good man." "They are on my way, don't want to squich them either." "Terrible!" "Let's not do any more emergency braking." "This was gentle enough, right?"

12:05: "Heh, he just waved at the drunk." "Sure, they are human too!" "15, now." "But use the horn if he still sits there when we come back."

23:44: "Stop rampaging, put your helmet on!"

31:34: "No bunnies yet." "Nope, a little darker and they'll be here, when we come back." "Aye."

36:46: "I'm so used to slowing down to switches, feels weird when you don't have to." "I know, right."

49:01: "So the switch will be turning to the left?" "Yes, the terminal is still within the same juridiction so no need to use the turner..." (3rd voice) "Animalistic noises!" "...And because it goes to the left, it's 15, straight is 20."

50:16: (distant shouting) "lälälälä :D" "...oh water (?), oh you don't? And now you do need!"

After all this time I finally found it again.
https://youtu.be/oBAi7uYlwX4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKItB1jep6o – Snow clearing on a narrow-gauge line.

Hopefully this will help you cool down a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_4HmmgYbE – Two expresses race neck-to-neck. Glorious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BufqaT92tSs – The first part of this has a field railway being laid to transport sugarcane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6JrFsa5STA – A rare case of a ropeway within a city. The city just *happens* to be Tokyo.

https://soranews24.com/2023/09/15/stay-in-a-japanese-hotel-room-with-a-train-in-
it/

It's a playdesk for adults.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYUIaebzNLs – We may not have locomotives of our own, but we can live vicariously through those that do.

"The driver's lot is to wait. Wait, wait, wait..."

This guy, Roland Sandkuhl, owns and runs a one-off V169, aka Class 219.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Class_V_169

His usual trade is shuttling fuel and grain along non-electrified lines.

The unit used to have a gas turbine, but since that was long since gone, the space now contains a small workshop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLxpzszWh0o – Hamburg Harbour seen by rail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRjbb1gFRGw – A hirail truck out on track inspection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzIe4Hs7Rrs – A mix of odd and odder things on and near the rails.

Some Swedish clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKjG_sL3pK4 – A driver's workday. | 48m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uWPssIdKck – Cab ride, Storvik–Stockholm. | 2h11m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNw77JtTrmI – Cab ride, Falköping–Hallsberg | 1h30m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQbcTU7r2TM – First, acquire a Pendolino. Then, take it to the maximum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBcbY2xoBw4 – Real-life Pendolinos doing the 'poetry in high-speed motion' thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgJa1e4GyI4 – Top Notch (Top Gear intro with trains) | 19s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN7G_squYXI – This railway tunnel was opened in Göteborg (Gothenburg in Sweden) this month. [12m31s]

Signals can fail so late that the driver has little or no time to react. These three events all happened in Germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f47JviIc14 – "A train driver sees red"

A crossing failed after the train had passed its distant signal. The driver was thus oblivious until he saw the home signal at danger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1lZJGHVFWU – "Signal falls on. SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger)."

Signal techs working on a crossing pulled the signal on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kZFLYNEc5w – "Signal drops to Danger"

Again, the distant signal showed "Clear" when passed but the home signal repeater showed "Danger" due to a technical failure at an inconvenient moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBMStsN5Ekk – A short video on Track Safety 101. Sadly, it appears to be non-embeddable.

It focuses on an English narrow-gauge heritage railway, but the principles apply elsewhere.

climatic ride on Welsh Highland Railway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42C_RuO7ByE – A few of you may remember pictures of something that looked like some Soviet guy had plopped a locomotive cab on a truck chassis. That crazy thing actually appears in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoTgnA0JACI — An ad featuring England's oldest active monorail. It is at the National Motor Museum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbu74UEKd28 (part 1/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLBp6a4zUgc (part 2/2)

Another UK monorail, this one defunct. It ran to/from the Merry Hill retail park.

CSS&SB: Street Running on the South Shore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgdPchFo_gg

This may or may not be a thing unique to the United States of America: garbage trains. Not junk trains as in the trains that haul "junk" commodities like grain, scrap metal or whatever but actual garbage. I've sure never heard of them in Canada or Europe where I've lived, but I learned about these in the USA and think it's fascinating.

The tl;dr is that they haul garbage to states that have space for it. For example New York City exports a ton of garbage out of the state just so they can get rid of it. Others take it to landfills that bury it like any old garbage with the goal of trapping methane gases and utilizing it for power generation. The cars used to transport it are usually the same specification of intermodal shipping containers which is ISO 668, so they fit into the typical well car that intermodal trains use although they are usually distinct and easy to tell apart.

Anyway here's a video of some trash trains for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuJ9lOqPlH0

>>6395
Certainly exists in the UK and used to exist in many european nations too. The UK used open mineral hoppers for a while, then moved to containerized (though not ISO standard at first) waste.

Fun fact - since container trains are called "Freightliners" in the UK, and trashcans are called "bins" - these trains are "Binliners", which is also what they call trash bags.

Trash by train seems like a good idea to me, but you can tell (by the smell) when one goes by.

Recently I came across some marketing material on the new European automatic coupler. Now the newest buzzword is DAC for "Digital Automatic Coupler", but it's really just trusty old Schaku.

Cue corporate music, dramatic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y1ESfnkXac

All there is publicly available is marketing bilge like this with almost zero real information. None of the journals seem to have made any journalism on it yet. It's quite clearly an initiative by the existing manufacturers of Scharfenberg couplers to pass them as something also suitable for freight.

Then again, there isn't anything truly appealing coming from the c-AKv front either, if this is what is availeble, this will be chosen.

Here an old geezer takes you along on his last shift driving train on the Jubilee Line on the London Underground as he is going into retirement. It features both a front of train view and a camera on the driver itself as he talks about what's going on or wrong, his last shift and other banal but charming stuff.

It's a nice video to watch as he starts the very early morning shift so you get to see the sun come up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IITvt1TJUT0

>>6402

I ought to add that there is of course a part 2 so as to finish the last journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wy_qg_O6bc

Here's a short video of an old steam train in China. In usual Chinese fashion, it looks like they don't really care about it, so long as it works. I find that to be such a weird attitude to take especially considering their modern and contemporary Communist history. I suspect there will be so much tangible, historical stuff like this lost because it isn't seen as having value. This steam train still works so they'll use it until it doesn't, then replace it. Nobody will talk or write about those old days when steam trains hauled bricks...

Okay, some might, but it sure isn't going to have that big of an impact upon Chinese culture, which is one reason why China always lags behind: they don't understand the value in soft power like this...preserving heritage and history and embracing what it did in the point in time that it did to build the nation. Sadly, this is just one of countless still working steam train systems in the country you never really hear about any will likely never leave much of an impact outside of niche cliques of people.

Xingyang Brickworks Railway Clay Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WznzgvP9cts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRTYNxtbnjI – UP844 going places at a good clip, 2010-07-26.

Brightline, as seen by Wendover Sam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmpyV4Yf8b0


I think this has little new information for any of you living in America. This 'private activity bond' business at least was news to me. Terribly padded piece in any case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ChyzBWASY – A good view of switch-thawing in progress.

Victorian Railways B Class B72 moves for the first time in 37 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHqkiwcSBQU

CSX Tropicana Train The Great Chase Juice Left Behind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMvZ3ANXNW0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYOshMchb5c – What a day for a train ride...

"ASSEMBLING A FREIGHT TRAIN" 1950s SANTA FE RAILROAD EDUCATIONAL FILM XD81165: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRXMvR7DBkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mREkU8GjT0g – Hennyways and milwaukyroads, not all US railroading was trudging along with miles-long drags of cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JEUdCx5C9c – Various clips from Detroit. The DPM makes an appearance around the two-minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTTAiunIHY – Mostly cars, sure, but there is such a stonker of an offsider at ca. 11 minutes in that the Signal Dept. must have had a long string of penalty kicks awarded against them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfUGuozFDRg – A ferry? Yeah, let's call it a ferry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JIOZ81aYLo – The <embed> title says it all, I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky61PWAx_9g – Driving a fifty-five-year-old Düwag GT8 tram around the block in a museum in Hannover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZpmaJJV1Kc – Hannover's Line 8 as seen from the driver's seat in a TW2000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFkTpifhhmk – Another TW2000, this time on Line 16.

Japanese train foamers raging when something gets in their perfect shot (bonus clips of them breaking harmonious Japanese rules to jump fences to take a picture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GctvcjIx5u8