http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LsuNWjRaAo&NR=1
This might be a repost.
Waiting for a train for 3 minutes is nothing compared to this train.
Paul
WOW! I’d heard about this but not ever seen it…thanks…that certainly would make many a railfan “foam” if they ever saw that one come their way!
I wouldn’t mind one bit! Nice!
Hey CNW 6000, could you imagine the traffic snarls if they ran this train thru Oshkosh on the old SOO LINE street running or even the ex-FRVR tracks?
I was thinking that. Imagine this train going 10 MPH and doing street running to boot! The chaos that would have ensued…wow.
Guys! How long have you been rail fanning? That wasn’t a train; it was a conveyor belt.
I can see it now!
One of those weasels at Mayo Clinic is going to get hold of this and tell the good citizens of Rochester that this is EXACTLY what those demons at DM&E have planned for their fair city.
I would not like to get caugth by it, hahaha. I would go and lobby for over / underpasses.
greetings,
Marc Immeker
It gave me a headache. (from my head hitting the desk every time I fell asleep[zzz])
I have never seen a 200+ car train, and after this video, I still havent…lol
I counted 668 cars. I would hate to be the conductor on this if car number 645 came apart.
I can hear the defect detector now “Total axles: two-seven-two-zero, WHEW, no defects, you owe me conductor. Detector out”
Paul
You had the patience and ability to concentrate for that entire video? I’m impressed.
I started to count the cars, and was so zoned out by about 75 that I quit. What I did was count the number of cars that passed by in 30 seconds (40), then multiplied by the 475 or so seconds of video. It seems like your count might be very nearly or actually correct.
All that weight and only 9 units. Flat, straight rail is so easy…
I saw 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000 locomotives. That is the correct count.
I did notice that there were locomotives every 2 minutes…
greetings,
Marc Immeker
I thought that were limits to how many axles were allowed on a train. East of the Miss. River was something like 180 axles, and west was more (how many, I don’t recall.) Are those rules now passé? I also thought that was why the cars got to larger capacity (haul more tonnage per limit.) Am I missing something here?
Thanks,
Jim
180 AXLES would, on an average train, be two 4-axle units and 43 cars (each with 4 axles). I don’t get exited unless the detector announces something over 450 axles.
As far as axle limits, most timetables refer to trailing tonnage and each district will have their own rating for a particular locomotive. Sometimes that tonnage allowed is different depending upon the direction of travel.
I have heard some lines have a limit on POWERED AXLES, but I can’t cite a specific example. Maybe someone else can.
That trains runs waaaaay east of the Mississippi, maybe 15,000 miles.
I had counted 300 cars, then I had to go to the bathroom.
You made it that far?!
Jay, don’t you actually go west to get there? most flights that I know of leave from
L.A., S.F., or our 50th state.
I would really hate to get stopped by a train like that. Can we say really late for work. Why are you so late um I got stopped by a 668 car train on the way in. Yeah right there is no such thing as a 668 car train in these parts. Sure there is see. I got pictures of all of engines and all of the cars that went by.
Doesn’t BHP Australia also hold the record for heavyest train in the world.
Though I think it would cool to get cot by this train. It would be a change, and give us all something to post on here.
The longest train I have seen in person though was Q389 and he had 722 axles.