The Only Way to Ride the Longest Train in the World
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2019
- Why is it that any time you have to stop your car and wait for a train to cross, it’s always when you’re in a hurry? Hey, could be worse - you could have to wait for a train that really is over a mile long! And to make things even more “fun,” there’s no fixed timetable.
So, the longest train in the world, measuring in at 1.5 miles (2.5 km), runs on the Mauritania Railway. Up until a few years ago, there was just one option for passengers to travel on this train, and that was to literally sit on top of it. Doesn’t exactly sound like my perfect vacay, but locals and adventurous tourists alike don’t seem to mind sitting on rocks for hours on end!
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TIMESTAMPS:
200-wagon train 0:29
Can we take a ride on that train? 1:49
“First come first serve” 2:52
Be sure to bring warm clothes with you 4:33
One of the longest passenger trains 5:15
The Ringling Bros Circus trains 6:06
The legendary Trans-Siberian Railway 7:00
The fastest train in the world 7:49
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SUMMARY:
- This railway is incredibly important for Mauritania since the iron ore industry makes up half of all the country’s exports.
- If the train is empty and moving northeast to the mines, it takes 16 hours. If it’s fully loaded and headed to the coast, it’s 20 hours, almost an entire day!
- You can choose to take a bunk in the only passenger car at the end of the train. It consists of cabins with 6 bunks in each. It only costs $3…but don’t expect much for such a small fee.
- People take bunks on a “first come first serve” basis, so don’t expect to be assigned a specific bed.
- It’s also a good idea to catch the train on its way from the coast to the mine because, otherwise, the cars will be full of iron ore and that stuff makes some pretty powerful dust that’s hard to wash off your face and clothes.
- The Sahara isn’t always hot like many people think. It is during the day, but it can be freezing at night. The wind is pretty strong too, so it’s a good idea to bring warm clothes and a thermos with you.
- The Ghan runs for 1,850 miles (3000 km) across the entire continent, from the southern city of Adelaide to Darwin in the North. The journey takes 3 days and 2 nights to complete.
- America’s longest trains are neither passenger nor cargo. They’re those that once belonged to the Ringling Bros Circus!
- It took the circus crew about 6 hours to unload the lengthy train and 12 hours to set everything up for the show.
- How about giving the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway a try? Starting in the country’s capital of Moscow, you’ll travel more than 5,750 miles (9,250 km) over the span of a week
- If it’s not the length of the train or the journey but the speed that matters to you the most, then get yourself a ticket on China’s Shanghai-Maglev Train. It’s currently the fastest commercially operated train in the world.
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Hey there, BrightSiders, when was the last time you went somewhere by train?
Everyday to my collage
Last week
I have worked on 11,000 foot trains in the US
I always travel in aeroplane in PUBG
Bright side Please do a face reavel
*I don't mind sleeping on rocks*
I'm already living under a rock
And I'm over an.
@Marella Sophie earth is technically a rock
Are you patrick?
Are you sure?
*_PATRICK ITS AN EMERGENCY GET OUT OF UR ROCK AND COME WITH ME_*
The longest train was in Australia 8km long from memory.
OZ Camper Travels I watch trains that are over 2 miles long so this video is wrong
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TIMESTAMPS:
200-wagon train 0:29
Can we take a ride on that train? 1:49
“First come first serve” 2:52
Be sure to bring warm clothes with you 4:33
One of the longest passenger trains 5:15
The Ringling Bros Circus trains 6:06
The legendary Trans-Siberian Railway 7:00
The fastest train in the world 7:49
Only 5000 feet?? I've seen 12,000 many times. Fix this video
Man you didn't do enough research. The longest train was in AU, using 3 GE AC6000CW, 6000 horsepower, Six Axle, Diesel Electric Locomotives. The three hauled 687 cars total. With 18K horses in all for the locomotives. That's the longest train in the world. But you did say until a few years later or something like that.
Csx ac600cw??
car lover Wasn't by CSX obviously. Why would they operate in Australia? The AC6000's in AU were operated by a mining company, BHP Bilton. Union Pacific has AC6000's. CSX sold all of theirs.
MR611 didn’t they recently sell those cause I remember some going to Western New York and Pennsylvania
IgneousMoth432 yeah, I think those one's belonged to a Leasing Company.
You mean a decent passenger right. This one is not decent
"Power Cars" are usually called "Locomotives."
No they are not I don’t think so hah
Idk tho
Lol
CINDY MCMULLEN Yes they are
One of the few exceptions to the "power cars are usually called locomotives" rule are the diesel "power cars" on either end of a British Class 43 high speed train. I think they were dubbed power cars because they are never disconnected and used on other trains, and they are probably semi-permanently attached to the intermediate carriages. The French TGV trains also have power cars, with unpowered intermediate carriages. By comparison, the Shinkansen trains of Japan are electric multiple units with all or most carriage axles powered by motors.
The price of using locomotives on a high speed train is greater rail wear from the heavy locomotive, compared to the alternative of spreading the weight of the motors across many more axles on a multiple unit train. None of that matters for the freight trains (goods trains) described in this video.
This was a great video, however some facts were a bit off. The longest trains in the U.S. are indeed freight and can get up to 16,000 feet mostly carrying shipping containers.
yes. i see them almost on daily basis... the large engines are 7,500 horse. i was told they can carry 2miles. here thats approximately Ogden to town hall. on ramp to union. see that often.
those sounds arent called "sonic booms".... its known as "coupler slack"
Most booms are sonic
sonic booms are naturally caused by supersonic planes and spacecrafts
@@segplayz4519 Yeah, unless the train is traveling as fast as sound, it cannot make sonic booms. They may be booms, but they ain't sonic
Plenty of north American railways run trains in excess of 2 miles (12k ft & up).
Yep, but they're all frieght. I think the narrator was comparing passenger trains, or trains that can be used as passenger trains such as the Sahara train
I love trains! Some of the best art I’ve seen has been on boxcars.
Where did you go by train last time?
Me too I Like Trains too
BRIGHT SIDE I last took a train from Seattle to Stanley, ND 4 years ago. I’ve ridden the train many, many times even when I was a tiny kid when they had all the great railroads... Northern Pacific and Great Northern. WOW the vista domes were way cool! I have even ridden the TGV in France ...very Fast!
Fandae 101 I love the sound of a train whistle( horn) in the dead of night, too. Awesome sound!
I love trains too. There are many unique types of trains built from fast to slow, long to short and big to small that could be chugging this moment.
210 cars/wagons? I've seen trains longer than that.
Well I haven't, but I know that there are trains longer, specifically the BHP Billiton Iron Ore in WA (7.5km/4.7miles)
When Bright Side totally butchered the pronunciation of Kaohsiung City and for no reason turned the Taiwan island 90 degrees.
Oh, and that high speed rail line runs along the west coast on the island with 12 stations instead of going through the middle of the island which is mountainous and isolated.
Actually, I have seen a train over a 2 miles long train before
I've seen trains almost 3 miles long!
FASTEST TRAIN U SAY EH
Me: let’s ride on it
Later...... I died :p
So true other people never think about HOW bumpy it is
@@taesbigtoe5323 You must not ride on high speed trains often. The Shanghai Maglev is top class German technology. Very smooth, clean, quiet, and of course FASTEST. You will like it.
Also an even faster train which can hit speeds of over 600km/hr will be open to the public by 2021 in China.
Morocco also has a pretty fast train, Al-Boraq. That country in North Africa near Spain. It is faster than the European Eurostar and the Shinkansen, Japan's fastest operational train.
Cool video, thanks!
Love your videos, however many mixed freight trains are way longer in the USA. I'm a railfan ( I film trains ) and I've seen trains way longer than that ten thousand foot trains the longest one I've seen was an 18 thousand foot train.
There’s also a 24,120 foot train out there just in case you don’t know
@@The_shortest_comments well it's different every time in the US freights are never the same length
Loved it, most Canadian freight trains going through the mountains are over 150 cars long... 1.7 miles!
That's A really f-up rail system. The condition of the rails, rolling stock, and health concerns is so bad for the Africa train.
You make the best videos!
The sishen-saldana iron ore trains are trains running on that (closed) track from a iron mine neat Kathu, South Africa, to the coastal town of Saldana. It runs over a distance of more then 800km and is at average 3.1km long.
Nice vid i love it
7:30 No, this isn't the longest train ride, you can make.
There is a trough car on this train, that goes with this train from Moscow until Ussurijsk and from then to Pyongyang in North Korea. Maybe 1000 km more does this carriage make, I don't know at this moment.
7:45 What are you saying? Bajfa? The lake is named Baikal, this isn't difficult..
If you see this then you’re not first.
Neither are you
your second
I’m first
First
There's plenty of freight trains in the US that are longer than the 1.5 mile long Mauritania train. Southern Pacific often ran trains of ~10,000 feet between LA and Houston, and the Kansas City Southern also ran some monster trains. However, they generally were around 10-12,000 tons, so the Mauritania train is heavier, but no longest. There are also a lot of coal trains coming out of the Powder River Basin of Wyoming in the range of a mile and a half long.
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I’m a china railway legend
If that's the longest train in the world, how did I see a train over 2 miles long in the US?
Hmmmm now I can see why most cars try to dodge the train in the US pretty understanding to me😕
@@t.t993 Unfortunately, lots of cars that do that don't make it. Even though they try to beat the train because they are very long, they are still idiots.
@@tampabayrails Yup true that
@@tampabayrails because he didn't search his facts.
I smile every time i click on a video like these😁😁
This is completely false. In Canada there are trains up to 3.5 kilometres long. I don’t know where you got this fact from.
CSX, CN, and CP have been known to run 200+ car trains. The official longest train in the world ran in Australia (one time record) but this Saharan railroad regularly runs long trains and use some incredible cooling systems, larger radiators than an GEVO.
And the RBBX units were definitely not the longest trains overall, but privately owned I believe is true. I saw both of them in one day in 2016, one at the Wiser Ave yard in Auburn MA and the other on my way to Washington.
Those locomotives are called AC6000CWs.
@@mattyoung2297 are they actually AC6000s, or are they de-rated 4000hp units like the CSX ones? I don't think there is a 6000 hp locomotive in service in North America, but don't quote me on that. As for the ones in Africa, idk.
Wow, you missed the Empire Builder here in the US from Portland and Seattle to Chicago. That's over 2200 miles. :-( It's a fantastic trip to, I used to work on Amtrak on it.
Bro I sleep on rocks every day **cough cough** my bed **cough cough**
i thought ''sonic boom'' was the sound a train makes when entering a tunnel at high speed?
I love how he mentions that one of the perks is that we can brag about riding the longest train lol
What? 1.5 Miles? 😳
Then.... Every vehicle driver through road should keep pop corns..... Because it's Soo Boring when train is traveling through road rail 😂
I too enjoy watching the trains use the r o a d r a i l
This video is very wrong. In countries like the US, trains longer than 2 miles regularly pass through the r o a d r a i l
The legend lives on in the Sahara on down on the railway they call Mauritania. The train it is said never gives a good bed when the rails and the cars keep shakin' ya. With a load of iron ore 20,000 tons more than the long locomotive weighed empty, the people on board were traveling in hoards when the dust of the iron was plenty.
And here is a fun fact about The Ringling Bros Circus train; they actually pay the railroad to lease the locomotives, since they don't have their own locomotives, they may actually had some of their own well trained rail engineer and conductors. There are videos of these and if you watch multiple videos of them, they have different locomotives from Class I's like Norfolk Southern, CSX, BNSF, and Union Pacific, all major class I railroads.
Australian ones get bigger. BHP for example
Wanna do them all (trains ) lol
Joe ...
If you want to see something extreme in Britain. Travel on a northern rail Pacer trains, better be quick, they are going soon!
I took a VERY VERY long train that went from Lorton VA to Stanford FL, but I dont remember if it broke any records be cause it happened before 2014.
If y'all are SoCal railfanners, there is a new train line in 4 years *2027* in our nearby town to L A is one hour.
Oof welcome in the Netherlands where trains are delayed cuz there is 1 leaf on the rail
pff, the Union Pacific 4000 class could pull longer!
longest train also dibrugarh--kanyakumari--dibrugarh. vivek express from east india (dibrugarh) to south india (kanyakumari) it takes 5 days and 4 nights to cover the distance of 4,243 kms and tooks around 82 hours journey..
In India.. frieght Trains are also set to 1.5km called as Python
Iss sab English bakchodoko India dekh na chahih
Trains here in Canada are like 15,000 feet. So those are not the longest trains. The Circus train is not the longest train in the US as CSX runs 14,000 feet long trains.
Between 1967 and 1969 (13 to 15) I used to hop freight trains to go on adventures. Unfortunately, I can't do that anymore. I wouldn't get the same treatment that I did as a kid when I got caught. Also, I've noticed that freight cars are no longer passenger friendly.
Here in Iowa, around the curves, on our regional railroad, we have trains every evening well over two miles long...
Lots of trains here in Canada are longer than this. CN frequently runs trains that are over 2mi long
Beautiful views across Australia your legit going across the desert
I've been on amtrak and done a half country trip from rhode island to Texas about a 2 day trip first you go from Providence (capital of Rhode island) to new York and new York to Chicago and Chicago to Fort Worth and I've seen freight trains way longer than 1.5 miles long but still good video
There’s a 710 mile train journey in the uk from Inverness to Penzance it’s 26 hours
I have taken this train from Choum to Nouadhibou. Was such a fun. I would do it once I am back home, inshallah.
Also, not including amusement park trains, last time I went on a train was between 2008 (when I was born) and 2014
My personal average is about 6,000 feet (1.14 miles), little over a mile. Personal longest 9,600 feet (1.82 miles) this year. World record (to my knowledge) goes to Australia at 23,900 feet (4.53 miles) by BHP Billiton in 2001.
Yeah i remember UP 4014 BIG BOY the stronggest steam locomotive ever
A unicorn train that farts rainbows XD
I work for U S railroad and we regularly move trains 10,000 ft. or more here in the southern region of the U S.
I love this. Man will like to ride on the fastest train
Hi cool vid
Conner McCormick congratulations your first!
Thx I God on the notification once it popped up I just clicked on it instantly takes
Thx
Conner McCormick np problem
7:00 OOO Wow The Prague Main Station Czech Republic
Zrovna jsem to chtěl také napsat 🤣
Where I lived (Newfoundland and Labrador Canada) we had trains that had 240 cars.
Poor man in a hurry waiting for the train over a mile long to pass
I am angered about how little you know about trains.
If your going to be making a video about a certain subject you need to research it.
He just made it for a quick cash grab he didn't actually make it for train lovers or anyone. He did no research. We in the US constantly get 2+ mile long trains and occasionally 3 miles. The longest train ever was a BHP Iron Ore train in Australia back in 2001 with 687 cars.
Hey just from the northwest view we got a garbage train that's 2.2 miles long now every Saturday. A 1.5 mile long train here is = 1 coal, oil or grainer up here. So unless you wanna talk about long trains I suggest you do your research.
I'm not sure about riding the Sahara train, but I wouldn't mind riding in the long train in Australia. The Sahara train with 1 small cabin with small uncomfortable bunks and iron ore cars where you may be sitting on sharp jagged ores, I will definitely say "pass" on that one. But I won't say "pass" and I will consider riding on the long all-passenger-car train down under in koala bear country
we need a snowpiercer that goes throught the most railroad crossing when everyone goes to work
German ICE or the france TGV or other European highspeed trains also traveling at 300 kph
Why the german one is called ICE? Is it because it's always freezing inside?
I've counted 100-120 cars on coal trains here in West Virginia before. I counted every car, never missing any or double counting any.
@GuysImHere All of us have. I may have skipped about 5 on occasion
It was in the mid '80's I had a frt. train that was 10,500 + feet long, with .33h/T
By far not the longest train. The Sishen-Saldana train in South Africa has a standard length of 3.78km (2.36miles) with 8 locomotives and 342 wagons. The longest the train ever was is 7.5km (4.69miles) with 660 wagons (cars) carrying a load of 68 640 tons. Now thats a train!
On March 16th, 2005 I took the Iron ore train from Nuuadhibuu to Shuum. Already there it had a passenger carriage (originally from Belgian Railways). Actually I wanted to go all the way to Zuuirat, but because of an accident of the train in the other direction my train could not go.
(My writing of the town names gives the more real Arabic pronunciation.)
I had to spent two nights in the desert. And believe me: Even in the night it was hot in the desert! It was not not not cold at all as it always is told by someone inexperienced. Only shortly before sunrise it had cooled down a little bit that you could enjoy. So, don't belive anyone telling you it is always cold at night in the desert. That you can have sometimes (I had it fx in Tunisia and Algeria, but only in winter time).
Of course, in Shuum people took advantage of the accident, taking a lot of money to bring me to the next bigger town.
Goes to school* sees a muffin that wants to die* me nope you can’t die cuz u don’t have a weapon. Oh wait you can just jump off
What, no Acela for the fast trains part? Oh, wait
You really need to rethink the titles of these clips.
The title implies passenger trains and yet you spend a lot of time talking about freight.
Almost everywhere nowadays milelong frieghts are a common sight. Even some countries like US, Russia, India have 5km long trains
Another train that goes to different states is an auto train. Do you know that I went on one? It was from Florida to Virginia. It took us a day to get there. Did you go on an auto train? Please like if you did. :)
You need to fix this there’s a daily no hourly train comes and it’s two miles long
Norfolk Southern
This isn’t the longest train in the world, one of Union Pacific’s Big Boy steam locomotives could handle a train over a mile long, and their gas turbine locomotives could handle trains longer than a mile. One of Union Pacific’s fef-3 locomotives (such as the 844 for example) could handle a mile long train and still reach 60mph.
This video is incorrect on the statement of the longest train in the world. In the USA 10,000 foot trains are daily. There’s been 12,000s train frequently as well.
Lots of trains in the USA last more than 2 miles but okay.
I had a trip to Bandung, Indonesia using plane in 18 hours and from Bandung to Semarang using Indonesian train in 8 hours or total: 26 hours more than a day
How fast is it though? 🤔
Here before 5k views! Who else?
Cool!
CSX often has longer trains than that nowadays with a DPU in the center.
longest
i love long train journeys
Cube It what was your longest journey?
@@BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL i have went on a train journey about 6 hours but my parents have went over 23 hours btw so glad you reply :)
Nowadays, trains can reach up to 16,000ft long, I have seen one. Crazy
Ummm dude the bhp ore train in Australia is over 4 miles
They should either construct a bridge over those tracks or make it a high speed train.
The train we’re I used to live is even longer and is a iron ore train to and sometimes has over 1000 train cars or more of ore
More info it runs from lab city to schfervile to sept illes Quebec to be loaded on huge ore boats
I think I'm OK with a HST from London Paddington to Penzance
I’m just fine settin behind a J from Strasburg to Paradise and back
Covered top hopper cars are easy and the best train car to ride because it has a gap that you can fit you and your stuff in.
Awesome
That’s my country got you lol
Look up the iron trains in the north west of Australia,extremely long and heavy.
The longest train in the world was a 7 mile long train in America that had 17 six axle locomotives
7 mile? What is it called? Cuz I'm pretty sure there hasn't been a train that long... ;-;
Major1sz idk what its called i heard about it a long time ago