can't believe the train stays on the tracks...
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Similar videos have been published many, many times previously. The obvious effect of a telephoto lens, foreshortening everything, which makes the track appear even worse.
Those are high speed line. Make sure drink is in a sippy cup or you will loose it. Neat video. Nick T.
not only the long camera lens exaggerates the track condition, but the first part of thevideo is sped up. watch how the trees branches sway, then the change.
What used to be called "trick photography".
Telephoto or not, it's still pretty crappy track.
Rusty
Videographer says "actually I condensed 6 minutes of the train crawling down the track!"
At least they "made it" . . . well, for that trip, anyway.
that's in northwestern ohio in an area that was known as the "black swamp". pretty notorious for being some of the worst unmaintained track anywhere.
Why would a railroad risk big bucks in cargo and equipment on poor track? It looks like the track was recently ballasted. Why wasn't the track leveled too? In my opinion, this railroad is poorly managed!
Much ado about nothing.
The long lens tremendously exaggerates the uneven track surface. It's 10 mph track. There are thousands of miles of track like this around the country. Hundreds of trains run over track like this every day with no problems.
Not every main can be Class 6 track.
Bobby Ogage posted:Why would a railroad risk big bucks in cargo and equipment on poor track? It looks like the track was recently ballasted. Why wasn't the track leveled too? In my opinion, this railroad is poorly managed!I
Level it? Sure! It would only cost substantial 6-figure money to get a tamper in there.
Lots of short line railroads simply cannot afford that level of track maintenance. So they run 10 mph over track like this...every day. It's not that big a deal.
You should have seen it before Pioneer worked on it.
Well, for the not so expert crowd like me, that is an eye opener even at 10 mph.
My favorite bad track videos are always the German peat bog train videos! Just amazin'....... Russ
Yes, as Barney said, this track was in MUCH worse condition until Pioneer Railcorp. took over the line a few years ago. They actually have done quite a lot of work on it.
I always wanted to simulate this. I thought of taking a large diameter grinding wheel to the top of some solid rail, randomly spacing dips in the rail. Get those cars rocking and a rollin' all day long.
It gets very boring. . I worked a job for about 6 months that travelled 30 miles one way to another town to do the switching . , The running time was over 6 hours up & back with out doing any work. Imagine driving 30 miles to work at 10 per???
Is it necessary to have two locos on a line like that?
I'm asking a question not being critical of the track, just wondering. Roo.
Roo posted:Is it necessary to have two locos on a line like that?
I'm asking a question not being critical of the track, just wondering. Roo.
That would depend on the tonnage being hauled.
I liked the beginning when he sped it up. That guy has fun with his stuff.
Thanks for posting that. Some wild tracks ...
I don't care about what you all say about the telephoto lens, look at the elevation change of the front snow plow. At one point it looks like the plow is 4-6 inches below the rail, then it rises to maybe 6 inches over the rail, then levels out....
Try riding a train through the Andes.
No I haven't done it. The videos scared me away.
My wife and I did the train ride from Cuzco, Peru, 11,500 feet to Macchu Picchu at 7500 ft in 70 miles. Look over the edge, 1000' straight down. Took 4 hours each way. We also have done Durango & Southern which was also impressive.
Dick
Worst track I've seen was on Sakhalin Island from Yuzhno to Oxha
Notice in the German video that the train is moving slow enough that the engineer/driver could hop off the engine, check out the train and then hop back on again!
