This video is of the FarRail charter on 17 April 2024. This was the worst weather of the whole tour with snow and rain but that also gave some good photo opportunities...
Super surprise John, assumed you'd uploaded all of the Romanian stuff!! Apols for appearing at the beginning! It was a great day, the video really captures it well and brings back cold damp memories! At least there was a warm and sustaining lunch!
They are empty log bogies - sometimes referred to as disconnects. When a long tree trunk is loaded two bogies can be move to be at either end of the log. The weight of the log on the superstructure is normally enough to keep them in place, but cables or chains are normally used to connect the two bogies together underneath the logs. The superstructures can rotate to allow the logs and the train to go round the bends. Often a number of trunks of similar length will be placed between two bogies. With loaded log trains you have to look out for branches and other projections which can make the train 'out of gauge'. Don't stand too close to the track! Please see ngdiscussion.net/phorum/file.php?1,file=2914,in_body_attachment=1
Super surprise John, assumed you'd uploaded all of the Romanian stuff!! Apols for appearing at the beginning! It was a great day, the video really captures it well and brings back cold damp memories! At least there was a warm and sustaining lunch!
Now I can imagine how's the Staatspoorwagen tracks in Kediri. Or the Meritjan sugar company track to Susuhan station.
7:16 Nice camera angle
Excellent video ! What are those metal girder things the train is transporting?
They are empty log bogies - sometimes referred to as disconnects. When a long tree trunk is loaded two bogies can be move to be at either end of the log. The weight of the log on the superstructure is normally enough to keep them in place, but cables or chains are normally used to connect the two bogies together underneath the logs. The superstructures can rotate to allow the logs and the train to go round the bends. Often a number of trunks of similar length will be placed between two bogies. With loaded log trains you have to look out for branches and other projections which can make the train 'out of gauge'. Don't stand too close to the track! Please see ngdiscussion.net/phorum/file.php?1,file=2914,in_body_attachment=1