Want to share some amazing rail video's.

cocoshovel

Hey all I came across these today and was just amazed with them. Thought I'd share them with you if you're interested .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoA9M8Wobfg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNka5saiVrc

If you liked these then check out the users other videos too, they're great.

Cookie_Monster

Looks like a train journey to me, fail to see the amazingness tbh. I was waiting for a big crash or something...

Judgement Day

Now here's what I call an 'amazing' rail video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-zqZdHlIck

steamengine

Any rail rockers out there ?

CIE

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Looks like a train journey to me, fail to see the amazingness tbh. I was waiting for a big crash or something...

The music is crap and the train (tram?) is rather slow...but one thing you do get to see is one of the things that the Luas could have been if it had been integrated with the general railway network as a tram-train. Would have been a lot more useful if the Luas had been a high-platform tram, which would have been able to climb up the now-demolished ramp into the shed at Connolly and then travel on to Howth or Malahide, for example; this wouldn't have eliminated the problems associated with tramway running in a busy city centre, but the concept is still and all food for thought.

Other points of interest are the kind of loading gauge possible with 3.5-foot gauge (a gauge that Ireland abandoned wholesale, mostly in the west of the country)...and the problems with passing loops that are not located at stations...

lemansky

CIE wrote: »

The music is crap

How very dare you :pac:

cocoshovel

Okay yeah I dunno what I was thinking last night but the word "amazed" is the wrong word to use. I just thought they were pretty cool and relaxing to watch.

Judgement Day

cocoshovel wrote: »

Okay yeah I dunno what I was thinking last night but the word "amazed" is the wrong word to use. I just thought they were pretty cool and relaxing to watch.

I'm not sure what angle you're coming at this from but most people interested in railway videos are either into steam or diesel traction and relaxing is not what they are looking for. Something more like this would fit the bill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIbMcJ3jxKo

* Note the lack of music in the background!

Judgement Day

Another relaxing railway video here. Time for the Dribblers Forum please!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8f9VFlNyDQ

CIE

Judgement Day wrote: »

Another relaxing railway video here. Time for the Dribblers Forum please!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8f9VFlNyDQ

Since you posted a vid of a US locomotive (and the longest steamer in the world, with a Whyte-notation wheel arrangement of 4-8-8-4), maybe the word "foamer" would be more apt...?

The Big Boy (or 4000-class) sure lived up to its nickname. The boiler was as long as standard passenger cars in the US today (85 feet), the firebox grate area was 14 square metres, it had two chimneys featuring a moveable smoke deflector that kept the exhaust going straight up, had a mass of 567 tonnes when fully loaded with fuel and water, and usually ran out of both fuel and water about thirty miles into the run over Sherman Hill in Wyoming (about 1 in 64.5).

SeanW

I really liked that second video, what city is it from?

Judgement Day

Rare colour footage here from the making of arguably the best railway centred movie ever - "The Train".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2pEvr32C7g

At last I have tracked down the elusive DVD containing the above You Tube footage and it is available on eBay (France).

Judgement Day

I really must get a life! I was sitting here relaxing after my dinner and I thought rail crashes, high speed, exciting and then I remembered this one from 1984. Great stuff but who is the figure clearly visible in the cab of the ill fated locomotive?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHtRZ_k0s7M

corktina

the amazing thing ids how intact the carriages were and how survivable such a crash would have been for passengers....waste of a perfectly good 46 though

Judgement Day

corktina wrote: »

the amazing thing ids how intact the carriages were and how survivable such a crash would have been for passengers....waste of a perfectly good 46 though

Being the UK, the Class 46 has probably been rebuilt and is happily trundling along some preserved branchline. Ah, perhaps not as I see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_46 that Vic Berry had the last laugh.

steamengine

Time for a trash !!! :D:D

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

Carawaystick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay4H6VAEtfs

Judgement Day

Real quality footage. Pity he didn't stick his head up.

I know.. Irish Rail... but turn up the subwoofer for this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNtEAHu33Cw

dermo88

Thanks for that Karsini. That brings back memories. Think I'll need a fix of one of those later on in the week with a foreign substitute.

steamengine

You've heard of Stephensons's Rocket - how about this ???

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

Judgement Day

It's like something a train spotter would make-up. Are you sure it's not something you made yourself? I mean what's with the rocket nonsense? Why not just crank up the loco to 80mph like the BR test?

steamengine

Judgement Day wrote: »

It's like something a train spotter would make-up. Are you sure it's not something you made yourself? I mean what's with the rocket nonsense? Why not just crank up the loco to 80mph like the BR test?

Sounds like the end product of a genius who wears a baseball cap and smokes a giant cigar. God Bless America. Definitely not me on all three counts !!! There are other web references to the test ok, but why rocket motors ??? Dunno - sorry

Judgement Day

Here is a video to gladden the heart of any dribbler enthusiast.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13592652

Drimnagh Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFKc7NfTabw

(don't know how to inbed)

In July 2009 a Croatian Railways DMU derailed and killed 6 people high in the mountains above Split.

Basically, the weed spray that they used was incorrect with the result that trains lost grip on the track meaning breaks were effectively useless.

A second engineers unit, sent to assist with the clean up, also lost grip. The results here....

Drimnagh Road

Drimnagh Road wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFKc7NfTabw

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Take the part of the URL after the v= section and place that inside youtube tags:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFKc7NfTabw

Drimnagh Road

Drimnagh Road wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFKc7NfTabw

(don't know how to inbed)

In July 2009 a Croatian Railways DMU derailed and killed 6 people high in the mountains above Split.

Basically, the weed spray that they used was incorrect with the result that trains lost grip on the track meaning breaks were effectively useless.

A second engineers unit, sent to assist with the clean up, also lost grip. The results here....

Thanks guy's,

as an aside, just to clarify that I do know how to in bed , it's just video's I've difficulty with .

SeanW

Drimnagh Road wrote: »

Thanks guy's,

as an aside, just to clarify that I do know how to in bed , it's just video's I've difficulty with .

I think the word you were originally looking for is embed.

steamengine

Judgement Day wrote: »

Here is a video to gladden the heart of any dribbler enthusiast.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13592652

........and Royal Scots Grey again - with a decent bit of speed on !!! :D

Judgement Day

Always loved the Deltics and have happy memories of see them thundering through Grantham in the 1970s. I better get back on the Meds.