@ruhri0411 Probably, but Germany is only 3.6% of the US in terms of area. A completely different level of challenge to get good rail transport across that vast and sometimes difficult terrain.
@комплютенскаяполиглота It's complicated...or just plain dumb. Deutsche Bahn AG (DB AG) is a state-owned company organized as a public limited company (AG) under private law, but it is 100% owned by the German federal government. Although the railway is managed according to private business principles, the state is the sole owner, and the federal government exercises oversight through the Ministry of Transport. It is an inefficient, overblown, overstaffed, over-organized construct and nothing works as intended. Nothing.
I lived for 35 years where I could hear the train whistle in the distance at night with the window open. I don't know why I loved hearing it so deeply. But I did.
I live in a very small town, I can hear the trains when they blow their horns day or night. I live about a mile from the crossing. I love it, because I’m reminded of when I was a child, living in Chicago, (you know, that little railroad hamlet 😉) when I’d be up in the middle of the night hearing the trains.
When I was in the service we used to load up our tracks all the time to go to places were we couldnt travel by road. Can you imagine the havoc on road and destruction on the pavement if we went by road?
My earliest train memories was going to grammas and out her kitchen window the big black stream locomotives would go by a few times a day. When they did they were so close I swear if the window was open you could touch it. The whole house shook ! It amazed me. Never saw that window open. Also love the ones with snow ploughs.
This has got to be my most favorite train compilation I have ever seen on RUclips! This was so incredibly awesome. I loved it. Bring it on, just like this one!
I happened to like the narration, voice, and video all in one! I don't know why people have any hearts while enjoying your video! I loved the old steam engines. Reminded me when I was a kid, when I rode on the Silverton Train in New Mexico(or Colorado, since I don't remember where it was last time lol)!
Fake-person voice is just annoying. Not threatening, not alarming, not ominous, just irritating. Why would I waste my time editing it in my head as I listen?
19:16 This in the Montegalletto's funicular/elevator in Genova, my birthtown in Italy. This is the unique in the world that works with this kind of technology. It start from the Balbi Station and runs horizontally on a cable funicular railway for 235 meters .Then, the cabin become an elevator travelling vertically on rails inside the mountain for 72 meters until the Montegalletto station. It works fully automatic, and the line is composed of two cabins that cross each other along the way, one going up and one going down.
@AM-qg6bj That person achieved nothing but make a complete fool of themselves with their arrogant and very moronic comment to you. You sure triggered them just with a simple one word comment, which I agree with. Hilarious, how it triggered him.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 P.S. I also come from a family of a long line of Railroaders.
@HolidayDecorator Thx, yah I thought he was dramatic about it too. Don’t be on the internet posting if you can’t take the heat of criticism. I mean it goes with the territory. Pretty thin-skinned. We have CSX run thru our town too and it’s more interesting. You wanna see a great video, there’s one of a Mother taking thier son to the tracks (maybe 3-4 yr old) to see Dad go by as the Engineer with Dad waving and sounding his air horn. The elation of the little boys face as he sees his idiot “Dad” go by, he’s laughing until he’s crying. It’s adorable. You should try and find it. Found it, the title says: Engineers son realizes his Dad is driving passing train. The little boy has blonde hair and he’s wearing a brown shirt. Adorable!
I work on a Class A Railroad for 41 years, as a signal maintainer. I have seen about anything and everything that is ever happened at a railroad crossing. This was fun to watch.
0:39 "'Nearly 100yrs of Steam Power Still got it" That LOCOMOTIVE very nice looking but I couldn't help noticing No Venting Steam or Smoke from the Chimney is it Electric.
Simon; I noticed that too and wondered about it. The locomotive has definitely NOT been converted to electric. If you look at the first frame of the locomotive before the camera zooms in on the wheels and valve motion you can see a plume of steam on top of the boiler just in front of the cab. This is probably from the little steam turbine that runs the generator to provide electricity for the locomotive. My best guess is that the fireman knows the route well and thus knows that little steam will be needed for a while because either the route is downhill or perhaps the train is coming to a planned stop. A good fireman, knowing that little steam will be required, will manage the fire to reduce the combustion rate. The engineer will reduce the steam going to the cylinders using the throttle and Johnson bar so there will be little to no steam exhaust up the smokestack so there will be little to no draft in the firebox to bring any smoke from the firebox through the boiler tubes and up the stack. Update: I did a little more research into this locomotive. It is ATSF 3751 built in 1927 by Baldwin, retired from service in 1953, and placed on static display. It was then restored to operating condition in 1991. It was converted from coal to oil fuel in 1936 which will greatly reduce the smoke output and is also MUCH easier to control. The track it is running on runs down the middle of Interstate highway 10 in the Los Angeles area and yes, it is running downhill Eastbound so that guess on my part was correct. The valve gear is of the Walschaerts type and if you look carefully you can see a bit of steam leaking out around the stem of the valve that controls the admission of steam to the power cylinders. This valve is in the upper of the 2 cylinders just in front of the front driving wheels of the locomotive. Notice that the stem of the steam valve is not moving very much. This is a sign that the engine is not admitting much steam to the power cylinders and thus not producing much mechanical power.
10:06 an overhead Johnson! It looks as hard to adjust the backoff on the live valve gear as I expected it to. There must've been a lot of shoulders thrown out as they worked the linkage out.
You mean you don't like being told what you are watching? You just read me saying 'you mean you don't like being told what you are watching'... it's bs and I block the channels like this...
The worst train crossing that I have personal seen is in a small town by mine. There was no crossing lights or barriers. The train had to stop and wait for someone on the highway to notice it. Even when blowing its horn it could take awhile. Luckily that track is no longer in use. P.S this track was in Canada.
That train you saw in Japan @25:00 is being serviced by “pushers”. Pushers are hired to do just what you saw, push, and push, and push some more until everyone/thing possible is onboard the train.
You can wait (for a long time) until people pack into the train themselves (while there is still room inside the carriage for the same number, during emergency braking this is VERY noticeable, LOL), or you can hire pushers so that the schedule is still followed.
@andyantonov5359Yes, and that is the whole thing, cram, and I do mean CRAM!! as many fares as possible int those cars. I nave to wonder what the safe limit of weight and passengers is considered safe in each rail car ?
@Ronin4614 If the driver suddenly brakes hard, a HUGE amount of empty space will appear in a overcrowded train car, roughly the same amount. I witnessed this myself, so to speak, from the inside. In Japan, if a passenger can't read a newspaper standing up, the train car is considered overcrowded. In the (post-)Soviet metro, the norm is 10 people per square meter. And this norm is often exceeded. The passenger weight limit will likely not be exceeded; the cars are built with a large safety margin...
@a@andyantonov5359Reading the newspaper is an interesting yardstick. Looking at what is happening at the doors, those folks didn’t have enough room to read their own thoughts, never mind a newspaper. What was it like on the inside of one of those cars ?
@Ronin4614 By this criterion, Tokyo Metro/raylways cars are over 285% full during rush hour. Despite the fact that people are packed like sprats in a can in front of the doors, there's usually plenty of room inside the car...
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Ever notice that the thing they show to get you to watch train videos is never shown?
Is this your first time on the internet?
I always block channels like these ;)
Both trains in the thumbnail bellowing black smoke. Must be burning coal?
That's what AI does to the industry. It makes scammers.
@Felixprogram There have been and always will be Scammers, but AI gives them a whole new Level of Opportunities
The AI narration sounds like a 50’s AM DJ
Yeah, like he's pushing out a huge shit.
I don't think it's AI
Sounds like a car salesman.
If this is AI narrated it must scripted
@steelbreeze7 Do you believe there are trains without tracks? 00:58
Trains look slow from far away, but moments like these remind you how powerful and unstoppable they really are.
I'm an American who visited Germany in 1986 and exclusively rode by train . Those trains were so smooth !!!
The good times are long over. The privatization starting back in the mid 90s left our rail system in a sorry state.
@uninitializedvariable
Immer noch 1000x besser als in den USA!
@ruhri0411
Probably, but Germany is only 3.6% of the US in terms of area. A completely different level of challenge to get good rail transport across that vast and sometimes difficult terrain.
@uninitializedvariableя думал что приватизация была только в Росси а оказывается что в Германии тоже.
@комплютенскаяполиглота
It's complicated...or just plain dumb. Deutsche Bahn AG (DB AG) is a state-owned company organized as a public limited company (AG) under private law, but it is 100% owned by the German federal government. Although the railway is managed according to private business principles, the state is the sole owner, and the federal government exercises oversight through the Ministry of Transport.
It is an inefficient, overblown, overstaffed, over-organized construct and nothing works as intended. Nothing.
I lived for 35 years where I could hear the train whistle in the distance at night with the window open. I don't know why I loved hearing it so deeply. But I did.
If the wind was blowing the right direction, I could hear the whistles from miles away. 😊 I loved that sound too! ❤
I live in a very small town, I can hear the trains when they blow their horns day or night. I live about a mile from the crossing. I love it, because I’m reminded of when I was a child, living in Chicago, (you know, that little railroad hamlet 😉) when I’d be up in the middle of the night hearing the trains.
"You call 911, I'm recording " is the most ridiculous thing ive heard in a long time.
it often goes unsaid, but is there these days. interesting to know how many lives the phone and YT have cost
Great video BUT that narration voice really grates.
It really does. Obnoxious. Unnecessary.
Turn off the sound, I do it all the time. Easy Peezy problem solved.
It gets worse and worse. Coached by SquarePants.
@rdhawkebut the train sounds are great. There should be a way to turn off audio CC
Agreed, really annoying.
"Call 911! " " You call 911 I'm filming!" Lord have mercy how low we have fallen.
As if 911 is able to stop a train in time... Fat change...
@martine_jansen Think hmmm train wreck people are going to be hurt..... now who are you going to call it won't be ghost busters.
@martine_jansen Given they said "111" not 911, you would be correct, 911 aint going to do shit in New Zealand
2:06 Its a little car, theres 4 of you - put it in neutral and push it out of the way!
I understand they probably didn't wanna risk it but it woulda prevented sooo much hassle for everyone. That train came in at like 5 mph.
@u@user-is7esnormal speed through there is 50kph. Good sight lines meant the driver was able to slow down before the crossing.
they don't know how to reverse a car
When I was in the service we used to load up our tracks all the time to go to places were we couldnt travel by road. Can you imagine the havoc on road and destruction on the pavement if we went by road?
2:00 ‘you call, I’m filming’
Also can I agree with others that the audio description is scraping my mind like a cheese grater.
@8:40 -- track worker clearing the points on a turnout, preventing a possible derailment.
3:13 look like my yard eight now lol
Intense, fascinating, and impossible to stop watching 🔥 Great compilation!
My earliest train memories was going to grammas and out her kitchen window the big black stream locomotives would go by a few times a day. When they did they were so close I swear if the window was open you could touch it. The whole house shook ! It amazed me. Never saw that window open. Also love the ones with snow ploughs.
That must have been an incredible sight - those old steam locomotives were powerful enough to shake the whole ground.
Boy that one clip where the crossing barriers malfunctioned and went up to early, could have been a mega lawsuit waiting to happen.
I like on youtube when they show the train coming and it's got the blade out to move the snow off of the tracks , it's pretty cool
This has got to be my most favorite train compilation I have ever seen on RUclips! This was so incredibly awesome. I loved it. Bring it on, just like this one!
I think there are much better train videos out there, I found this boring
08:56 What is so unbelievable on this train? Its a normal German Cargo Train.
This is a great video 🎉🎉. Keep coming please.🎉🎉🎉.
could have done without the narration
Yeah, really!!
I happened to like the narration, voice, and video all in one!
I don't know why people have any hearts while enjoying your video!
I loved the old steam engines.
Reminded me when I was a kid, when I rode on the Silverton Train in New Mexico(or Colorado, since I don't remember where it was last time lol)!
Remove the annoying AI narrating, you're getting a dislike for every video that has it
Idc
Worse than having someone talking in a movie theater.
Fake-person voice is just annoying. Not threatening, not alarming, not ominous, just irritating. Why would I waste my time editing it in my head as I listen?
Yep! Clear evidence that humanity has entered the last lap in the great race to bottomless stupidity.
Turn down the volume or don’t watch. This content is provided free, you have the choice not to watch.
19:16 This in the Montegalletto's funicular/elevator in Genova, my birthtown in Italy. This is the unique in the world that works with this kind of technology. It start from the Balbi Station and runs horizontally on a cable funicular railway for 235 meters .Then, the cabin become an elevator travelling vertically on rails inside the mountain for 72 meters until the Montegalletto station. It works fully automatic, and the line is composed of two cabins that cross each other along the way, one going up and one going down.
Great work. I love train's🎉❤
Cool video collection, love trains. Lose the annoying narration.
I love the Smoky Tunnel :-)
SalihTozan-p6g Vielleicht, aber sooo doof kann man ja nicht sein ...
I love this. Thank you?
Why do you say thank you with a question mark?
Are you not sure if you should be thankful?
I enjoyed this a lot. I miss trains.
16:37 tipping that Wagon to repair the embankment (which i guess was washed away) looks as if it has Dammed the Stream which could maybe FLOOD.
Ahhhh 1:30 there are NO TRACKS for the train!!!
Yes there is you blindness vro
Look behind the train where it went through crushing the muck hiding the tracks from view until the Engine goes through!
Ditch the annoying AI narration.
Turn down the volume?
@Lenny-kt2th - and lose all of the train sounds? Great plan, genius.
It's not AI
5:34 that's ore-some!
Dang, that voice-over is horrible.
YAWN!
@AM-gg6bj • If you're so unimpressed, then scram and don't watch this. You're opinion isn't as as profound as your ego thinks.
@petersanders5321 lmao 😂🤣😂
@AM-qg6bj That person achieved nothing but make a complete fool of themselves with their arrogant and very moronic comment to you.
You sure triggered them just with a simple one word comment, which I agree with.
Hilarious, how it triggered him.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
P.S. I also come from a family of a long line of Railroaders.
@HolidayDecorator Thx, yah I thought he was dramatic about it too. Don’t be on the internet posting if you can’t take the heat of criticism. I mean it goes with the territory. Pretty thin-skinned. We have CSX run thru our town too and it’s more interesting. You wanna see a great video, there’s one of a Mother taking thier son to the tracks (maybe 3-4 yr old) to see Dad go by as the Engineer with Dad waving and sounding his air horn. The elation of the little boys face as he sees his idiot “Dad” go by, he’s laughing until he’s crying. It’s adorable. You should try and find it. Found it, the title says: Engineers son realizes his Dad is driving passing train. The little boy has blonde hair and he’s wearing a brown shirt. Adorable!
Great video! Loose the lame comments!!!
The word you want is spelt "lose"
14:12 Why are the guards still up when the train is so close to the intersection?!
Trains may look slow and predictable, but moments like these show just how powerful and unpredictable they can be.
No matter what the signals are doing (or not) you should always look down the line in both directions to see if a train is coming.
But you can’t teach that to motorists that don’t usually work in a rail environment, especially if there are normally boom gates.
Seeing the old stem engine are the best.
What's a "stem" engine?
Yeah I love stem engines too
@davelowetssteam
The obnoxious and totally redundant non-commentary was too much after less than 5 minutes.
I can't take it. At all. Beyond contrived.
Great video, as always! All these train disasters and crazy machine-related moments are truly impressive.
10:47 - Of course, you have to have a kitten video in here. LOL!
The only issue with a flyby, standing that close to the tracks if something were to happen, you have no time to get out of the way
@2:10 How are those patio umbrellas moving around like that..? 🤔
In the military they would refer to them as B.M.O.'s (Black Moving Objects).
I work on a Class A Railroad for 41 years, as a signal maintainer. I have seen about anything and everything that is ever happened at a railroad crossing. This was fun to watch.
you need to tell us what country and provence
0:39 "'Nearly 100yrs of Steam Power Still got it" That LOCOMOTIVE very nice looking but I couldn't help noticing No Venting Steam or Smoke from the Chimney is it Electric.
Simon; I noticed that too and wondered about it. The locomotive has definitely NOT been converted to electric. If you look at the first frame of the locomotive before the camera zooms in on the wheels and valve motion you can see a plume of steam on top of the boiler just in front of the cab. This is probably from the little steam turbine that runs the generator to provide electricity for the locomotive.
My best guess is that the fireman knows the route well and thus knows that little steam will be needed for a while because either the route is downhill or perhaps the train is coming to a planned stop. A good fireman, knowing that little steam will be required, will manage the fire to reduce the combustion rate. The engineer will reduce the steam going to the cylinders using the throttle and Johnson bar so there will be little to no steam exhaust up the smokestack so there will be little to no draft in the firebox to bring any smoke from the firebox through the boiler tubes and up the stack.
Update: I did a little more research into this locomotive. It is ATSF 3751 built in 1927 by Baldwin, retired from service in 1953, and placed on static display. It was then restored to operating condition in 1991. It was converted from coal to oil fuel in 1936 which will greatly reduce the smoke output and is also MUCH easier to control. The track it is running on runs down the middle of Interstate highway 10 in the Los Angeles area and yes, it is running downhill Eastbound so that guess on my part was correct. The valve gear is of the Walschaerts type and if you look carefully you can see a bit of steam leaking out around the stem of the valve that controls the admission of steam to the power cylinders. This valve is in the upper of the 2 cylinders just in front of the front driving wheels of the locomotive. Notice that the stem of the steam valve is not moving very much. This is a sign that the engine is not admitting much steam to the power cylinders and thus not producing much mechanical power.
Its getting pushed by a diesel electric. If you see the full video and I believe its been converted to oil.
The crossing gates don't start to close until 14:39.
2:16 that’s in New Zealand
So, where's the picture from the thumbnail? This is BS.
My question, too!
Who TF built some of these buildings so close to railroad tracks?
This AI voice is used everywhere on RUclips now
It's not AI it's a well-trained classical actor
@steelbreeze7 then this well-trained classical actor is really busy doing a lot of youtube channels
@toroid537g Yeah cause he's so versatile...
Bonjour de la France les trains à vapeurs se sont les plus beaux 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷👍👍👍👍👍👍
C'est vrai!!
10:06 an overhead Johnson! It looks as hard to adjust the backoff on the live valve gear as I expected it to. There must've been a lot of shoulders thrown out as they worked the linkage out.
Good Video. The announcer is AWFUL!
sloppy AI narration slop
Those old, dilapidated trains have some kind of charm that modern trains and locomotives don't.
29:45 This you've never seen before is called a switch back!
it's good that these laptops have off/on buttons for the voices , to
watch is fine .
You mean you don't like being told what you are watching?
You just read me saying 'you mean you don't like being told what you are watching'... it's bs and I block the channels like this...
The worst train crossing that I have personal seen is in a small town by mine. There was no crossing lights or barriers. The train had to stop and wait for someone on the highway to notice it. Even when blowing its horn it could take awhile. Luckily that track is no longer in use.
P.S this track was in Canada.
Is that Indonesia train
Train: makes noise.
Boars: carry on eating.
That’s brilliant, the man using a train engine to protect him while he’s working on the rails👏
No better protection than stopped and secured trains.
7:32 a paper advert on the pole "YOGA"😂
3:25 8000 horse power?!? That's a single GP38-2 at only 2000 hp dumbass AI.
Some people are just Darwin Award candidates.
Dude put your lips together fir a bit.
I'm out at 9:45 👋
Please tell your AI it's pronounced 'precision', not 'percision'.
Railway's - a great British invention that has changed the world! Along with tarmacadam roads, Jet Engine, Radar, Etc, Etc, Etc
Railways not railway's
This is great footage! But the excessive and cutesy narration takes a lot away.
nice video 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Had to turn down the volume. Couldn't take the commentary any more.
That AI Voice ruined the Video.
Do you have a list of the locations these trains were filmed? Stunning! Especially the passenger trains and steams enginges!
3751 is like “idc im done with the railway. Im moving down the street now.”
Well that's a first! A train that has to stop for the cars!
Never seen that before lol
Incredibly lame voiceovers - don’t need that awful narration.
First time seeing a train race, who was First? The DIY rail maybe poor man's version, haven't seen steam in years
From a distance, trains seem slow-but moments like this show just how powerful and unstoppable they truly are.
Good ole Kiwi rail down here in NZ. Lol... just a gentle tap, it'll buff out. 2:15 Wakey wakey hands of snakey...lol....3:28 😂
29:30 I think the train lost.
Where was the Kiwi Rail episode filmed?
14:02 airplane ✈️ on a train 🚆 😲
Is that CC206 from Indonesia and one indian train got COLLABED ON OBE THUMBNAIL?!?! ILLEGAL.
I have one of those for floppies.
What; no Polar Express footage? 😂
So is the action
14:38 Boom gate and STOP signal failure.
30:24 急ブレーキは何が問題だったの?
あれは緊急停車だった。列車は瞬時に停止することはできない。
I can’t believe some people still take risks around trains after seeing videos like this.
Very annoying narration..
Interesting upload spoiled by moronic AI commentary!
Excellent compilation with deceptive thumbnail.
I live next to the freight tracks! They’re not all they’re cracked up to be!
this AI narration or whatever type of narration it is, is extremely annoying and useless
That train you saw in Japan @25:00 is being serviced by “pushers”. Pushers are hired to do just what you saw, push, and push, and push some more until everyone/thing possible is onboard the train.
You can wait (for a long time) until people pack into the train themselves (while there is still room inside the carriage for the same number, during emergency braking this is VERY noticeable, LOL), or you can hire pushers so that the schedule is still followed.
@andyantonov5359Yes, and that is the whole thing, cram, and I do mean CRAM!! as many fares as possible int those cars. I nave to wonder what the safe limit of weight and passengers is considered safe in each rail car ?
@Ronin4614 If the driver suddenly brakes hard, a HUGE amount of empty space will appear in a overcrowded train car, roughly the same amount. I witnessed this myself, so to speak, from the inside.
In Japan, if a passenger can't read a newspaper standing up, the train car is considered overcrowded.
In the (post-)Soviet metro, the norm is 10 people per square meter. And this norm is often exceeded. The passenger weight limit will likely not be exceeded; the cars are built with a large safety margin...
@a@andyantonov5359Reading the newspaper is an interesting yardstick. Looking at what is happening at the doors, those folks didn’t have enough room to read their own thoughts, never mind a newspaper. What was it like on the inside of one of those cars ?
@Ronin4614 By this criterion, Tokyo Metro/raylways cars are over 285% full during rush hour.
Despite the fact that people are packed like sprats in a can in front of the doors, there's usually plenty of room inside the car...
Yuck commentary😢
Thanks. There really were many interesting and oddly satisfying shootings.
DOWNVOTED for the stupidest, most inane commenrary yet. Computer generated crap. And the Tesla comment put the cap on it.