World's Longest, Heaviest Trains!
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2012
- The heaviest and longest trains in the world are in Australia's North-West Pilbara region. I shot these clips on Rio Tinto's rail line near Tom Price, Marandoo and Yandi iron ore mines while I was waiting to unload my truck. Locomotives are fully imported GEs made in the U.S., you won't see these locomotives anywhere else in Australia, or in many places outside of North America or Canada..
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BHP are currently running a average of 42,000 to 43,000 per train. 270 cars and 4 SD70's at a length of 3000m.
Those GEVOs in Australia are awesome
Those are some great looking AC6000s and ES58ECis there and working very hard.
As a Canadian I fall a sleep to the train sounds. If you never loved near tracks you can on a clear night hear the train roaring many many kms and I'm talking about 20+ KM Just the sound of the earth roaring.
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Heard the amazing howl of Canadian freight trains hauling up the Rockies in middle of the night when I visited back in 2012. The horn echoing through the Rockies at night makes the hair on your neck stand up. 👍 🇦🇺🇨🇦
I work up this way, at night the sounds of these trains carry's for bloody miles....
great clip Chris, TY
God this Australian train with 2 engines on the rear on the end of this video this is absolutely rare!
Great clip. They certainly have some awesome gear out there.
Nice To Have You Back.
They run distributed power on BHP and down south on the ARG iron ore trains. Plenty of them in my collection......including a ride in this guys truck :-)
Those are some heavy trains I ever seen
Another fantastic video
Mainline track is usually built with 136 lb/yd (64.5 kg/m) rail or heavier
Great one!!
All I know is they've bought a lot of DC traction locos the past few years. BHP standardise on EMD SD70Ace and Rio are GE.
Most of the loaded running is downhill from the mines to the port so I suppose tractive effort isn't so important. They can get a shove out of the mines like you can see in the last part of the clip.
I think Rio have prefered DC because there are less electronics to go wrong in the heat. BHP had trouble with the electronics on their GE AC6000s so I was told by an engineer.
Great video!
The record was never broken. Not even by this.
A pair of trusty Big Boy steamers took a train almost 7 miles long or so. Each BB was able to pull 5.5 miles of train. So they could have taken an 11 mile long train.
The load was a mix of crates, boxes, barrels, rock, liquids, empties, road vehicles, livestock, flatbeds, and few workmen. The Australian behemoths can take 4-5 mile long trains only, so the BB record still stands. However, this is the longest OPERATIONAL train in the world.
I've had this thought with Iron hoppers (and just mineral-based hoppers in general) where they could extend the height of the gondola to reach the height of the locomotive cab. I like boxy freight cars.
Chesapeake & Seaboard Productions Iron ore is a lot heavier than coal, there wouldn’t be any point in making the cars bigger. They already have 40 tonne axle loadings, making the the gross weight of each car around 160 tonnes. The cars go into the unloaders as pairs and are rotated to dump the ore.
Incredible power sound
Greatings from Mexico, cool video.
Great pilbara action really enjoyed it! Do you know if rio tinto is getting ac units soon or is it the usual es44dci order?
Great clip I hit the like button and tweeted it as well ..enjoyed watching..
I've got some more video of Rio and BHP trains which I will upload at a later date. I used an external mic to get good sound so I hope you listened through good speakers or headphones.
Hi Chris thanks for the reply, I have head phones so I will be looking forward to seeing the clips, and when your passing my place drop in, im down the road from you..
i really like this video and subscribed you
3408... Hold my beer.!
excellent video :-)
Greatest and ultra longest and ultra heavyest iron ores transportation train!
They're can transportation to maniest iron ores than road trains!!!!
That is why I said trains, not train, these are their standard operational trains. Google "heaviest train in the world", you will see it was BHP's one-off 110,000 US ton monster (or 99,734 metric tons).
I've seen a BHP one 7and a half ks abouts early 90s I think. Saw on the tube
super !!! zazdroszczę !!!!
six months out there and I STILL havent got one decent bit of footage of a iron ore fricken train...lol and be fucked if im gunna spend my RDO walking 5 kms each way from camp n back to get one. Call me lazy but I should just settle for watchin other peoples pilbara train vids.
Nice work Chriso mate
Yeah! How long is it?
cool videos do they not have to blow horn at every crossing ?
Technically no they are more electric than the ge locomotives delivered from America and canada
Glad to see our country is still exporting something. Now that everything is "Made in China"
+ExcessMean at least my underwear still written "made in Mexico"
Trains and planes are the last all american industry here, even ones made by outside companies are manufactured here.
it would be a huge loss for Boeing or General Electric to move location.
That is so damn long
Ok that explains.
Wow! So they don't sound their horn when coming up to a vehicle crossing like they do here stateside?? Where I live the BNSF (and the run-through PSAP) crews (on the way to the Port of Aberdeen) LAY on that horn well before and all the way through vehicle crossings around here (western Washington state). They're very...generous with their horn sounding skills, I'll say that...
But why are the carts so short?
And these days they do not even have drivers. They are 2000k away in Perth.
John Fenn nope
Wrong. The vast majority are still manned
No slave unit on these bad boys? You should see the coal running through the Bozeman Pass in Montana. Longest trains I've ever seen. BNSF and MRL (Montana Rail Link). It's because they're going up a grade, in a nearly-twenty mile long tunnel! Basically a big, big coal train pulls up in the yard in Livingston and you think, "Where is the pusher?" then BANG there's the slave pulling as many cars hooking up and becoming the "middle" of this boheomoth, with an additional 2-3 engines on the back.
Are they made by GE ?
Yes they are
wow😆
The cars look short for length?
Their gross weight is 160 tonnes with 40 tonne axle loadings and iron ore is very dense. 2 paired cars will fit in the car dumpers so it wouldn’t make sense to have longer cars than necessary.
Well no wonder they are the worlds heaviest trains. They're iron ore trains
I'm curios why they imported American and Canadian locomotives just to pull ore cars. Are their own trains powerful enough to pull those ore cars? Please explain.
The North American locos are a lot bigger and heavier than the locally built locos which are used on the east coast.
The locally built locos wouldn't be up to the job of hauling the 35,000 tonne ore trains.
+gm16v149 The locos in NSW are weak compared to the GE units
EMD make locos for China not in China
+Trainfan 3219 GE is shipping them units with 6000HP GEVO 16 engines.
aren't they called tier 4 locos?
but the train sin south africa are a everyday of 348 wagons on a 3.6 gauge so those are heavier in fact as well and was 7,4 kilometers long
I dont believe that, I dont see where that train traffic would come from and be hauling. also railcars in different parts of the world are different lengths. here in Canada they range up to 60 feet, extended flat beds can be 80+feet
well have a look at the videos of salhdana line thats were the record was set on 3,6 guage and that was not with monster locos our grades are more like 1/35 the ones in oz are mainly 1/500 level and always down hill
reasonably long trains but it looks like one of those crappy electric railways
"On 3'6 so they are heavier at 348 wagons at 7 kilometers" buddy here we run 4'8 1/2 making our cars heavier and if your trains were 7 k long at 348 cars your cars would have to be more than double the length of our cars which is quite hard on a much smaller gauge considering the world record is a 7.4 k long train at 682 cars set in Australia between newman and port headland in 2001. So your still factually wrong.
Noah S. where’s the power coming from genius? It’s Australia you moron. There’s nothing out there.
are those dash 9s or es44ac?
+crazyoutdoorsman 2112 they can be both and also AC6000CWs
i know I just discovered what an ac6000cw is
great
+crazyoutdoorsman 2112 some are dash-9 locos, but those bigguns are ES44ACi locos, some being ES44DCi (i for international) . They are the largest locomotives currently produced by GE, which is mainly due to their cooling subsystem, which is much larger than any north american loco. The only place you will find these are in Australia (Rio Tinto or Roy Hill) or on the GE test track...If you are interested in more HP, you'll need to look into south america...ES58ACi...
wow
Ah, the sound of amercan diesel locomtives.
True, they start out as imports from USA but are highly modified to run at full power for over 2 hrs straight and in 50 plus deg centigrade ambient temps. Currently being run driverless , fully automated.
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Fluffy clouds, no chemtrail in Australia ?
SparkySlow Don't you have them there ?
No such thing, champ.
No chemtrails anywhere, just a conspiracy theory.
what you call chemtrails are just contrails made by planes. They vary by location and by plane.
Sadthat BHP scrapped their AC6000's
Privateer Bouncher The six AC 6000s that they had gave too much trouble and were actually scrapped as there were no buyers.
So long
They don't have set rules on blowing their horns like you do in the States.
We set rules because of civilization and other purposes, but no one lives out in the out back, there’s nothing soo
Of course the train is pulled by American built locomotives. Those petite little Aussie engines couldn’t do the job.
Actually they can BUT importing American locos is cheaper. Everywhere else in the country, the loading gauge would prevent the American units from operating.
@blue heeler I enjoyed driving them during the brief time I worked over there but our Aussie cab designs are a lot better I reckon.
Excellent video !