I managed to get it ready before I had to dash out the door again! Whoop Whoop! Just in time for the new year! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all! Remember to sign up for my newsletter that comes out the last Sunday every month. Hop on over to www.railcowgirl.com for more information on that. It's just amazing to watch how the much more magical the mountain pass is when it is painted with moonlight reflecting in the snow. One never gets tiered of these views. This video was recorded with a 35mm lens instead of the one I normally use, which is 24mm. The 35mm gives you a more realistic sense of how the line really looks without becoming too compact and narrow like a 50mm would make the image. Enjoy!
Yay!!! I love your winter videos. I watched your video from Christmas last year about 20 times this year 😄 I hope you had a Merry Christmas and got some time off! Wishing you a blessed New Year!!!
Operating a large freight train takes all your concentration. Commenting and moving a camera to suit a few people on RUclips would be an unnecessary and dangerous distraction. Be grateful for the exceptional video.
Thank you for the soothing scenic ride. I keep your lives on when I leave the house because my cats enjoy the ride, too. They will sit in the chair and watch and fall asleep to the soothing hum of the train.
Hey there moo-girl! Just want to tell you that You inspired me to become a train driver 🚂… I applied, did some tests and got accepted to a school 🏫 in Sweden. I have been operating on my own now for approximately 8 months! I drive trains in the southern parts of Sweden, my goal now is to earn my ”Norge-kompetens” so i can come over and experience some of the scenery I see in your videos. Life goals you know 😉 Thanx for all the inspiration and all the hard work you put into your channel. You truly are one of a kind 🐮
Hello Kristine, I'm mostly a late night, winter viewer of your awesome videos. They take me to a place and time that I'll never know. I like to watch your videos lying on the sofa snuggled under a soft blanket, eating chocolates with the lights turned down. It's winter again and I'm back for my third season with you. All aboard, let's go.
First of all, it's always a blessing to see one of your videos! Having travelled on the Bergensbahnen last March (both ways between Oslo and Bergen), I would be very sad not to see the beautiful scenery between Voss and Bergen. Well, it should have been Bergen to Oslo but, because of a freight train derailment, we were bussed to Voss to connect with the train and so I missed the scenery on the first part of the journey. Looking at the timeline for the project, I still have a few years to do the journey again! Having looked, online, at the K5 project, I can see the need for it, especially with the dangers currently faced by both rail and road traffic. What I would like to see is something on the lines of what they have done in Switzerland on both the Gotthard and Lotschberg passes where they built fast base tunnels, but kept the original routes for local traffic.
I was going to write the same kind of comment . Yep , the old Gothard and Lötschberg routes are kept intact , they are historical lines and symbols of the engineering of their time . They should keep the old part to Voss as well as a scenic touristic route
Oh RCG, this route is so "belovedly" familiar now; and yes!, we never get tired of it. Every mile, or meter, is a welcome trip; in the snow, and at night, it's a virtual homecoming. Thank you. 😉😊
I like to watch at half speed on RUclips, I can see so much detail of the countryside and tunnels. Thank you for these videos. It takes me twice as long to get to Bergen 😂
When you are not jumping out of a perfectly good airplane here in DeLand, You are giving us spectacular views of the Bergen line in the winter. You ROCK Keistine.
Thanks @RailCowGirl for this excellent new video. It's good to see you on track again. I really appreciate the work you do for us alongside your job. That's why I'm giving you this small financial support.
0:26 I thought the freight trains were going to use the refurbished old Ulriken tunnel since they can't go 160 kmh? Saw the Christmas light crane lit up again this year at 3:24:29. Very nice ride again. The picture is so clear!!
Happy new year! I totally agree it is much more than just shortening. I'm very fond of the project and it is truly needed, but what I think is sad is that they're not going to keep the historic part of all of this. A bike path is a good way to go, but those paths are not allowed to go through the long tunnels, sadly.
99% of travelers engage with a smart device during the commute anyways. A tunnel is a great efficiency upgrade for the infrastructure and not many will rue the loss of the landscape aspect during a commute. The pace of upgrades of railways in Norway is astonishing. Over the years, many stations were improved, rolling stock renewed and now infrastructure improvements gain momentum. Impressive!
The ringerike line was supposed ti be done in 1986. Arna - Stanghelle was supposed to be under construction four years ago. The Bergen line is part of Norway in a nutshell and heavily dependent on tourists.
@@RailCowGirl I agree about the tourists. The updates are fine for commuters, but the Bergen line has always been about the tourists. The old parts should be left with tracks as a heritage line.
@@stormraven4183 Problem is that BaneNOR does not want to use money on maintaining it, and with the new construction planned at Stanghelle, the line would need to be torn up, and won't have any possible connection point to the new line there due to elevation differences.
It's so nice to watch your stunning 4K after a lot of hopeless GoPro stuff. Thank you for going to the trouble of production, and the equipment expense ($$ wow) . Have a Happy New Year, young lady.
Thank you, and happy new year to you too :D Yes, I completely agree on the gopro stuff, it really does not show what it looks like in reality, and my goal is to show it as it truly looks. :D
« Bonjour ! » from France. It is always a great pleasure to travel with you... and what's more, for free. ;-) Thank you! And keep on with your videos for a long time, because they are interesting, but also soothing for those who are suffering or can no longer travel physically. For some of these people..., they can (in imagination, almost real), continue walks or journeys, by train. Happy holidays 2024 and may 2025 be better...
Hi from Scotland. I'm ex Royal Navy and been to Norway lots of times as I served on HMS INTREPID an LPD when we dropped of the royal marines for winter training. Been ashore in Bergen and Stavanger. Lovely country and great video. Subbed😀
I like the way the train switched over to the snow-covered track on the right...I thought it was being derailed because I couldn't see the track since it is covered with snow. 👉 00:28
Norway at Christmas time looks amazing! These videos have definitely put Norway on my bucket list of countries to visit (Although I think Summer or Autumn would be a better time to do it). Will have to do it before they build that proposed new tunnel route - I want to see the scenery! Good reaction to the unexpected red too...
This is by far the best night train video I have ever seen. I do not know if you have upgraded your equipment, changed how you process the video, or whatever. Thank you for a great video.
Thank you :D Simply put I can tell you this. A camera, and your eyes only perceive the light reflected to the retina or camera sensor. This is what makes this video so special because white snow reflects the light very well.. and you can clearly see the difference from the rainy part in the beginning to the white snow covered mountain pass. The snow reflects the moon light leading to more light hitting the camera sensor, resulting in a fantastic imagery. :D
There's more to travel than making a train faster. As one marketing expert said, if you hired supermodels to serve fine wine to passengers, no one would want the train to go faster, passengers would be happier, and compared to building new tunnels, it would save billions! Keep the scenic line and throw the bicycles in the fjords.
In Portland Oregon, USA, there was an old train line that went through southeast Portland into Milwaukie then curved towards the stockyards of Portland. They turned it into a bike/walking path years ago and it is still in operation today. If you look it up it is called the Springwater Corridor.
This is a really great cab view from the train especially at night going through the countryside with awesome scenery on each side of the tracks and this is really beautiful thank you RCG.🚂🚃🚃🇸🇯
What a peaceful video. ❤ 😊 I am enjoying the armchair travel very much, as I’m currently homebound with a health issue and on long term immunosuppressive drugs. It will be a while before life is normal again. I am rewatching and enjoying all of your videos as I work on my recovery. I hope you had an awesome Christmas. 🙂
Congratulations that you are back on the Bergen Line ! - Concerning your question I may answer that in some years the double track will be completed between Genova and Ventimiglia, this far away from the coast of the Mediterranean in long tunnels allowed for a high speed traffic, this comparable to the well known mountain railway between Udine and Tarvisio.
I am happy to share this new journey with you. With always magical lighting in the night, and well-resolved images of great beauty, not counting your care with the map, the timed chapters and other useful explanations. Happy New Year to you. PS : Project K5: it will be great for the daily life of Norwegians, but very boring for you (always crossing in a tunnel) and of no interest for tourists => And no more midnight sun on the Bergen line ! ===> What a shame for the fjord part of this attractive Bergen line!
Good day to you. Even the reinforcing in the rockface looks like Christmas decorations. Hope you had a good Christmas and hope that you have a happy new year and keep the booze to a minimum. Geoff🎄🏳🌈
When i was in Norway one year ago, there was no train between Bergen and Arna. My trip was from Oslo to Voss and back from there to Myrdal to have some wonderfull days at the Flåm Valley. When there is a bike path in the future, i have to come back with a bike to see the old line again. 😀 Happy New Year to you!!
Спасибо за видео, поздравляю с Рождеством! Работаю слесарем на железной дороге, всегда жду Ваши новые видео! Приятно побывать в кабине локомотива и увидеть всё глазами машиниста, а не через окно пассажирского вагона, сидя в купе. Ещё раз огромное спаибо!
Thank you for another stunning scenic ride. I fear that your viewer numbers will fall, though, when the K5 project is completed, and the lines open to traffic. If all we see is - probably - a concrete tube, there will be nothing else to see. No more waterfalls in the middle of tunnels, or outside, no dramatic scenery. It may be good for the network owners, and maybe for the drivers, as the throughput of traffic will possibly be tripled, because there will be no waiting in loops for opposing movements. But against that, you lose all the key points of knowing just where you are along the journey! On the plus side, there shouldn't be any four or two-legged trespassers to be concerned about, nor will you have to stop to scrape snow off the windscreen so you can see forwards! All the best to you for 2025.
Viewer numbers will fall? Haha! By the time the new project is complete, I will be looooong gone, and so will you and everyone we know. That is how fast things are moving in the infrastructure business. When the line is completed to Voss, I guess 30 years has passed..
@@RailCowGirl I assumed - obviously incorrectly that the job was well under way! If it is done in 30 years, as you said, I'll be long gone - at about 105 years old! 🙂
Yah it is sad that the Arna-Stanghelle new line will be mostly in tunnels, but ultimately it increases the speed the trains can go at, secures the tracks from future flooding and avoids the dangers of a land slide, probably cheaper to do maintenance as well. Personally I’d much prefer if they built double track on the Jærbanen from Sandnes and Nærbø but that will probably never happen 😅
Another expertly made and beautifully shot video of yours! Thanks so much. I also liked the lens change. Have we ever been stopped in the loop at Trengereid before? I don't recall that. I imagine the loop is in fact the older track bed, as the new straighter route requires the ends of the platform to be in the tunnel itself. As for whether that amount of freight on the west-bound train was worth waiting for .... ! That can't have been a cost-effective journey for that train. As for the K5 plan .... The world will of course always have your videos of how it was. You could even occasionally become BikeCowGirl and give us trip down memory lane on the old track bed! As for the impact, I think there are a lot of side-effects. Yes, it is progress and it will allow much faster running, but will it be cost-effective? Will it also hit the tourist traffic? It will remove all of the running alongside the deep fjords, and of the constant little views of how the track hugs the shore, with now and then the glimpses of the much older tunnels to the tracks which were even more precipitously on the very edge of the water. But tourists don't travel by train to sit in tunnels, so there will be nothing to see. From Stanghelle you will have 3 long tunnels to Bergen, one of them almost twice as long as the Finse one, and that is all the view you will have. Concrete, concrete, concrete! Of course, that same progress has also affected the central portion of the plateau with the long Finse tunnel. But had that not taken place, the route from 40 years ago was fairly tortuous and slow, and would now probably have entailed almost continuous snow-sheds to protect it, so it wouldn't have been scenic any longer. Maybe foreign visitors won't travel through to Bergen so much, and it will turn Voss into the tourist terminus for the scenic line?
The Finse tunnel is the longest tunnel on the Bergen Line with its 10.300m. No other the Bergen Line exceeds that length :) But yes, I totally agree. The product Norway in a Nutshell and everything about being a scenic train ride will go down the drain the day K5 is completed. Thankfully it will take an extensive amount of years before it is completed, and I have no faith in it being completed within the next 30 years. LOL
The K5 project does lend one to take pause. (reminds me of an old Joni Mitchell song, "They took out the trees and put in a parking lot. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.".
I managed to get it ready before I had to dash out the door again! Whoop Whoop! Just in time for the new year! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
Remember to sign up for my newsletter that comes out the last Sunday every month. Hop on over to www.railcowgirl.com for more information on that.
It's just amazing to watch how the much more magical the mountain pass is when it is painted with moonlight reflecting in the snow. One never gets tiered of these views.
This video was recorded with a 35mm lens instead of the one I normally use, which is 24mm. The 35mm gives you a more realistic sense of how the line really looks without becoming too compact and narrow like a 50mm would make the image.
Enjoy!
Thank you for taking the time to upload etc.Take care,Merry Xmas and New Year.👍
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too. Thanks for all of the wonderful videos from your homeland.
Merry Christmas!
Was missing you! All the best to you and yours! 😊
Yay!!! I love your winter videos. I watched your video from Christmas last year about 20 times this year 😄 I hope you had a Merry Christmas and got some time off! Wishing you a blessed New Year!!!
No music, no bullsht. just a nice train ride. Thank you
A little talk would be nice. Also a movable camera. So that we could see out the side.
@ of course a devil would say that. Just enjoy it man
Let let us travel through the mountains.
She posts interesting trip notes from time to time. 😊
Operating a large freight train takes all your concentration. Commenting and moving a camera to suit a few people on RUclips would be an unnecessary and dangerous distraction. Be grateful for the exceptional video.
For several years I've been enjoying viewing your videos from the Bergen Line. Thank you for this one!
Thank you so much for watching :D
Thank you for the soothing scenic ride. I keep your lives on when I leave the house because my cats enjoy the ride, too. They will sit in the chair and watch and fall asleep to the soothing hum of the train.
That is simply awesome :D
When the RailCowGirl logo replaces people's heads, i laugh every time. ❤
Hehehehe 😂
35mm lens. I’m wondering if that may be why the video is grabbing my subliminal attention for the field of view
Hey there moo-girl! Just want to tell you that You inspired me to become a train driver 🚂… I applied, did some tests and got accepted to a school 🏫 in Sweden. I have been operating on my own now for approximately 8 months! I drive trains in the southern parts of Sweden, my goal now is to earn my ”Norge-kompetens” so i can come over and experience some of the scenery I see in your videos.
Life goals you know 😉
Thanx for all the inspiration and all the hard work you put into your channel. You truly are one of a kind 🐮
Awesome, congratulations! 🎉
@ Thank you so much 😊
Hello Kristine, I'm mostly a late night, winter viewer of your awesome videos. They take me to a place and time that I'll never know. I like to watch your videos lying on the sofa snuggled under a soft blanket, eating chocolates with the lights turned down. It's winter again and I'm back for my third season with you. All aboard, let's go.
Finally, a long-awaited video. 🌲Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🌲
I hope the Ministry of Tourism is sending you checks for these 3 hour advertisements for traveling in Norway. Absolutely gorgeous views.
First of all, it's always a blessing to see one of your videos!
Having travelled on the Bergensbahnen last March (both ways between Oslo and Bergen), I would be very sad not to see the beautiful scenery between Voss and Bergen. Well, it should have been Bergen to Oslo but, because of a freight train derailment, we were bussed to Voss to connect with the train and so I missed the scenery on the first part of the journey. Looking at the timeline for the project, I still have a few years to do the journey again!
Having looked, online, at the K5 project, I can see the need for it, especially with the dangers currently faced by both rail and road traffic. What I would like to see is something on the lines of what they have done in Switzerland on both the Gotthard and Lotschberg passes where they built fast base tunnels, but kept the original routes for local traffic.
I was going to write the same kind of comment . Yep , the old Gothard and Lötschberg routes are kept intact , they are historical lines and symbols of the engineering of their time . They should keep the old part to Voss as well as a scenic touristic route
The picture is buttery soft. Wonderful to watch 😊
Immer wieder schön, egal welche Route Sie auch fahren!
Thanks! I hope you had a merry christmas - I wish you a happy new year!
Wow! Thank you so much! 🎁🎄❤️
Crystal clear and no vibration...nice!
Heavier optics = less vibrations .... aaaaaaaand smother wheels = less vibration too :D
Thanks & Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too, and Thank you so much for the support! :D
Thanks!
Thank you so so much! :D
Oh RCG, this route is so "belovedly" familiar now; and yes!, we never get tired of it. Every mile, or meter, is a welcome trip; in the snow, and at night, it's a virtual homecoming. Thank you. 😉😊
I like to watch at half speed on RUclips, I can see so much detail of the countryside and tunnels. Thank you for these videos. It takes me twice as long to get to Bergen 😂
When you are not jumping out of a perfectly good airplane here in DeLand, You are giving us spectacular views of the Bergen line in the winter. You ROCK Keistine.
Finse is so cool. It's like the perfect place to get the christmas cozy vibes in. Also Hoth or The Thing vibe.
Thanks @RailCowGirl for this excellent new video. It's good to see you on track again. I really appreciate the work you do for us alongside your job. That's why I'm giving you this small financial support.
These are just so relaxing and enjoyable to watch. So much to see and hear from the sounds of the train. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed
I just noticed. Before the year ends ... Congratulations on 10 years!!🥳🥳🎂🎉🎊
Dedication, effort, quality and time spent for this video is quite rare. Thank you so much for this. Happy holidays!
Hope you had a great Christmas. Thanks so much for another wonderful video. Hope you have a happy new year.🎉
Amazing trip!
Very beautiful!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Happy new year to you too! :D
I watch and listen at night. Such a wonderful excursion ! ❤
0:26 I thought the freight trains were going to use the refurbished old Ulriken tunnel since they can't go 160 kmh?
Saw the Christmas light crane lit up again this year at 3:24:29. Very nice ride again. The picture is so clear!!
Woohoo! Ännu en RCG-video! 🥳🙌🏼 Galet bra kvalitet som vanligt. Som om man satt där i loket med dig! 👌🏼😜
Happy New Year 🎉🎉❤ thank you for miles of entertainment! Love from usa!
Shortening journey times will always be uppermost in travellers' minds. Thanks for an excellent new video. A very happy new year to you..
Happy new year! I totally agree it is much more than just shortening.
I'm very fond of the project and it is truly needed, but what I think is sad is that they're not going to keep the historic part of all of this. A bike path is a good way to go, but those paths are not allowed to go through the long tunnels, sadly.
Très, très belle vidéo ! Vraiment superbe ! Bravo à vous !👍
I'd love a video about the different sounds/alerts that we hear during the drive. Thanks for the great videos.
Альберт и Даниил, это прекрасный выпуск, благодарю, очень своевременно! Есть над чем подумать и поработать)
Thank you from Vermont, USA. Your videos are always a treat.
The photography gets better with each new episode
Thank you :D
Awesome video thanks for posting it for Christmas and New Years can't wait to see what you got coming in 2025!
Oh my gosh, this is really a magical cabride! By far my favorite of all cabrides that i ever seen! Thank you so much girl🙂
Glad you enjoyed it!
The snowy trips have always been my favorite.
99% of travelers engage with a smart device during the commute anyways. A tunnel is a great efficiency upgrade for the infrastructure and not many will rue the loss of the landscape aspect during a commute.
The pace of upgrades of railways in Norway is astonishing. Over the years, many stations were improved, rolling stock renewed and now infrastructure improvements gain momentum. Impressive!
The ringerike line was supposed ti be done in 1986.
Arna - Stanghelle was supposed to be under construction four years ago.
The Bergen line is part of Norway in a nutshell and heavily dependent on tourists.
@@RailCowGirl I agree about the tourists. The updates are fine for commuters, but the Bergen line has always been about the tourists. The old parts should be left with tracks as a heritage line.
@@stormraven4183 Problem is that BaneNOR does not want to use money on maintaining it, and with the new construction planned at Stanghelle, the line would need to be torn up, and won't have any possible connection point to the new line there due to elevation differences.
@@RailCowGirl 🤦
I can already tell this will be my new favorite!
Woohooo!
What a beautiful country
Thank you Rail cow Girl. Enjoyed this video immensely. Always happy to see Hoth in the winter. Finse looks cold. BRRRR. Happy New Year.and stay safe.
Aaaaand we're back...
Merry Xmas happy new year 🫡🫡
It's so nice to watch your stunning 4K after a lot of hopeless GoPro stuff. Thank you for going to the trouble of production, and the equipment expense ($$ wow) . Have a Happy New Year, young lady.
Thank you, and happy new year to you too :D
Yes, I completely agree on the gopro stuff, it really does not show what it looks like in reality, and my goal is to show it as it truly looks. :D
Thanks for a lovely trip. Happy New Year RCG.
Can not wait to watch this! Happy holidays and and have a great new year.
« Bonjour ! » from France.
It is always a great pleasure to travel with you... and what's more, for free. ;-)
Thank you! And keep on with your videos for a long time, because they are interesting, but also soothing for those who are suffering or can no longer travel physically. For some of these people..., they can (in imagination, almost real), continue walks or journeys, by train.
Happy holidays 2024 and may 2025 be better...
Hi from Scotland. I'm ex Royal Navy and been to Norway lots of times as I served on HMS INTREPID an LPD when we dropped of the royal marines for winter training. Been ashore in Bergen and Stavanger. Lovely country and great video. Subbed😀
Very tricky lighting beautifully captured, excellent work and a wonderful surprise. Happy New Year to you too. D
I love spacing out to this ride over the mountain. Thank you for creating this! I would love to have your job 😂
Thanks you for this beautiful Christmas gift Merry Christmas to you too
I like the way the train switched over to the snow-covered track on the right...I thought it was being derailed because I couldn't see the track since it is covered with snow. 👉 00:28
hehehe.. Yeah . I was like YES YES YES! nothing is more fun that plowing through snow like that :D
Norway at Christmas time looks amazing! These videos have definitely put Norway on my bucket list of countries to visit (Although I think Summer or Autumn would be a better time to do it). Will have to do it before they build that proposed new tunnel route - I want to see the scenery! Good reaction to the unexpected red too...
Autumn is probably the best time to come to Norway to see more of the different and changing colors
Wonderful.
Thank you for the wonderful trip! We can enjoy the real train ride without going from home 😊
This is by far the best night train video I have ever seen. I do not know if you have upgraded your equipment, changed how you process the video, or whatever. Thank you for a great video.
Thank you :D
Simply put I can tell you this. A camera, and your eyes only perceive the light reflected to the retina or camera sensor. This is what makes this video so special because white snow reflects the light very well.. and you can clearly see the difference from the rainy part in the beginning to the white snow covered mountain pass. The snow reflects the moon light leading to more light hitting the camera sensor, resulting in a fantastic imagery. :D
... mi immergo in questo stupendo viaggio e vivo le stesse vostre emozioni... grazie Buon Natale e felice nuovo anno 2025 !!!
There's more to travel than making a train faster. As one marketing expert said, if you hired supermodels to serve fine wine to passengers, no one would want the train to go faster, passengers would be happier, and compared to building new tunnels, it would save billions!
Keep the scenic line and throw the bicycles in the fjords.
In Portland Oregon, USA, there was an old train line that went through southeast Portland into Milwaukie then curved towards the stockyards of Portland. They turned it into a bike/walking path years ago and it is still in operation today. If you look it up it is called the Springwater Corridor.
This is a really great cab view from the train especially at night going through the countryside with awesome scenery on each side of the tracks and this is really beautiful thank you RCG.🚂🚃🚃🇸🇯
Thanks for this.
What a way to relax after Christmas. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have a great New Year!
Thank you! You too!
From FRANCE: "MERCI !" *****
🦜👍 As always, love the views.. Thanks, always enjoy your content :)
Super Vielen lieben dank für‘s reinstellen. 👋🏻
What a peaceful video. ❤ 😊 I am enjoying the armchair travel very much, as I’m currently homebound with a health issue and on long term immunosuppressive drugs. It will be a while before life is normal again. I am rewatching and enjoying all of your videos as I work on my recovery. I hope you had an awesome Christmas. 🙂
i'm crossing my fingers for a swift and flawless recovery
Ooh a new video! Thank you!
Congratulations that you are back on the Bergen Line ! - Concerning your question I may answer that in some years the double track will be completed between Genova and Ventimiglia, this far away from the coast of the Mediterranean in long tunnels allowed for a high speed traffic, this comparable to the well known mountain railway between Udine and Tarvisio.
Thank you, I guess? :D
That is awesome, looking forward to see more news on that :D
I am happy to share this new journey with you. With always magical lighting in the night, and well-resolved images of great beauty, not counting your care with the map, the timed chapters and other useful explanations.
Happy New Year to you.
PS : Project K5: it will be great for the daily life of Norwegians, but very boring for you (always crossing in a tunnel) and of no interest for tourists => And no more midnight sun on the Bergen line !
===> What a shame for the fjord part of this attractive Bergen line!
very cool! happy holidays!
So glad to see you back! Love your videos, especially the night ones.
Hope you have a good New Year.
Good day to you. Even the reinforcing in the rockface looks like Christmas decorations. Hope you had a good Christmas and hope that you have a happy new year and keep the booze to a minimum. Geoff🎄🏳🌈
Everything is spent at work. lol Happy New Year to you :D
Amazing clear video this night video far surpasses those first video way back... God jul og godt nytt år. May your channel keep on shining.
hahaha! The videos way back was recorded with a 300$ gopro. Videos now are recorded with a 5000$ cinema camera...
@@RailCowGirl That is what I mean, how times have changed. Keep safe and healthy K. 🍮
AMAZING! Thank you!!!
You had me at moonlit 😊
It was nice of the driver, of the Oslo-Bergen train, to wave to you at Urdland!
Love it in 4K it relaxes my mind watching your journeys ❤
Awesome i am loving the video watching it on my TV right now to get the most out of the amazing views. 🙂
The videos are for sure the best on a large screen TV :D
@RailCowGirl They so are as a mobile phone does not do them justice. 🙂
Thank you so much!
🙏🫶
Takk 🙏
It’s morning here in Southern California, so I plan on watching this in the evening to set the mood…..😉😘❄️🚂
Sounds great! :D
Glad you got it posted in time. Have a wonderful New Year ❤🎉
Wow wow wow what a lucky young lady you are to have this beautiful scenery and call it work! beautifully videod
Happy New Year to you 🥰
So thankful for this new one ! All the best for you and you all in 2025
When i was in Norway one year ago, there was no train between Bergen and Arna. My trip was from Oslo to Voss and back from there to Myrdal to have some wonderfull days at the Flåm Valley. When there is a bike path in the future, i have to come back with a bike to see the old line again. 😀 Happy New Year to you!!
Happy New year!
So Beautiful there
Always nice to join a trip when RailCowGirl drives freight trains
Thanks again!
Looks like your favorite pile of gravel is still there at the end of the platfom in Voss!
Спасибо за видео, поздравляю с Рождеством! Работаю слесарем на железной дороге, всегда жду Ваши новые видео! Приятно побывать в кабине локомотива и увидеть всё глазами машиниста, а не через окно пассажирского вагона, сидя в купе. Ещё раз огромное спаибо!
Merry Christmas for everybody from Brazil
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too :D
Nice video. Wish I could ride through all those tunnels. lol
Thank you for another stunning scenic ride. I fear that your viewer numbers will fall, though, when the K5 project is completed, and the lines open to traffic. If all we see is - probably - a concrete tube, there will be nothing else to see. No more waterfalls in the middle of tunnels, or outside, no dramatic scenery.
It may be good for the network owners, and maybe for the drivers, as the throughput of traffic will possibly be tripled, because there will be no waiting in loops for opposing movements. But against that, you lose all the key points of knowing just where you are along the journey! On the plus side, there shouldn't be any four or two-legged trespassers to be concerned about, nor will you have to stop to scrape snow off the windscreen so you can see forwards!
All the best to you for 2025.
Viewer numbers will fall? Haha! By the time the new project is complete, I will be looooong gone, and so will you and everyone we know. That is how fast things are moving in the infrastructure business. When the line is completed to Voss, I guess 30 years has passed..
@@RailCowGirl I assumed - obviously incorrectly that the job was well under way! If it is done in 30 years, as you said, I'll be long gone - at about 105 years old! 🙂
I Love This Epic New Video ❤❤❤❤
Merry Christmas and happy new year!!!!!!
Yah it is sad that the Arna-Stanghelle new line will be mostly in tunnels, but ultimately it increases the speed the trains can go at, secures the tracks from future flooding and avoids the dangers of a land slide, probably cheaper to do maintenance as well. Personally I’d much prefer if they built double track on the Jærbanen from Sandnes and Nærbø but that will probably never happen 😅
Good idea to show the elevation chart above the map
Merry Xmas to you, MoonFlower
Another expertly made and beautifully shot video of yours! Thanks so much. I also liked the lens change.
Have we ever been stopped in the loop at Trengereid before? I don't recall that. I imagine the loop is in fact the older track bed, as the new straighter route requires the ends of the platform to be in the tunnel itself. As for whether that amount of freight on the west-bound train was worth waiting for .... ! That can't have been a cost-effective journey for that train.
As for the K5 plan .... The world will of course always have your videos of how it was. You could even occasionally become BikeCowGirl and give us trip down memory lane on the old track bed!
As for the impact, I think there are a lot of side-effects. Yes, it is progress and it will allow much faster running, but will it be cost-effective? Will it also hit the tourist traffic? It will remove all of the running alongside the deep fjords, and of the constant little views of how the track hugs the shore, with now and then the glimpses of the much older tunnels to the tracks which were even more precipitously on the very edge of the water.
But tourists don't travel by train to sit in tunnels, so there will be nothing to see. From Stanghelle you will have 3 long tunnels to Bergen, one of them almost twice as long as the Finse one, and that is all the view you will have. Concrete, concrete, concrete!
Of course, that same progress has also affected the central portion of the plateau with the long Finse tunnel. But had that not taken place, the route from 40 years ago was fairly tortuous and slow, and would now probably have entailed almost continuous snow-sheds to protect it, so it wouldn't have been scenic any longer. Maybe foreign visitors won't travel through to Bergen so much, and it will turn Voss into the tourist terminus for the scenic line?
The Finse tunnel is the longest tunnel on the Bergen Line with its 10.300m. No other the Bergen Line exceeds that length :)
But yes, I totally agree. The product Norway in a Nutshell and everything about being a scenic train ride will go down the drain the day K5 is completed. Thankfully it will take an extensive amount of years before it is completed, and I have no faith in it being completed within the next 30 years. LOL
The K5 project does lend one to take pause. (reminds me of an old Joni Mitchell song, "They took out the trees and put in a parking lot. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.".
I need to visit Norway now.
Love your videos. Do you think you could add call outs for the different signal aspects and their meanings?
Example: 20B: Stop
21: Proceed diverging