Nice video of the huge Tulip Trestle on the Indiana Railroad. Taken by one of those helicopter drones.
Dan
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Great video Dan! I saw one of those 4 rotor drones filming at a local car show last weekend. I didn't know anything like that existed, for the general public. Keep up the good work. Get some videos of working steam engines and post on this site if you will!........................................................Brandy!
Saw NKP USRA 2-8-2 run across this trestle in '88. Absolutely breathtakingly large structure. 587 looked like an N Gauge locomotive perched on it! Certainly not what one would expect in Indiana.
Believe a paint job on this bridge would cost about a billion dollars!
Just saw the video. It was a great video. I may go and look at prices of the helicopters. I am sure they aren't cheep.
Amazing H.D. video.
Those are amazing shots of that coal train slowly making it's way across the bridge. What a great use of this technology.
Art
WOW, thank you for posting... that is very cool.
Cool! It always amazes me that the spindly legs of a trestle can support a couple of units and thousands of tons of coal train.
At about 2:08 a hopper comes into view marked 2,000,000 carloads. Anyone know the story behind that hoppers paintjob?
Coolness plus! Nice shooting,and I liked the music soundtrack. That was quite an experience when the drone flew under the trestle, between two of the legs. 
Dan W.
Originally Posted by Tom Blevins:
At about 2:08 a hopper comes into view marked 2,000,000 carloads. Anyone know the story behind that hoppers paintjob?
That car was done a couple of years ago to celebrate the 2,000,000th car load of coal the Indiana Rail Road has hauled since starting operation in 1986. Sadly, once Indianapolis Power & Light's Harding Street plant converts to natural gas in 2016, it is unlikely ANY coal will move on this line east of Switz City and over the trestle, leaving only lesser amounts of merchandise traffic on this part of the line.
Nice video 
Technically though most of these videos are not taken by drones. Most of them are done by Radio controlled multi-rotor aircraft. A "Drone" is typically defined as an unmanned autonomous vehicle. The fact that they frame the train as it crosses mean someone was flying it. Still, it is a beautiful video.
Isn't this viaduct due for replacement soon due to it being a bottleneck point due to slow orders over it? Or am I thinking of a different viaduct
Such a cool video! I guess it will be banned soon to take such videos? You can see how venerable the train is to a terrorist. Just saying.
Originally Posted by superwarp1:
Isn't this viaduct due for replacement soon due to it being a bottleneck point due to slow orders over it? Or am I thinking of a different viaduct
No. While Tulip and it's smaller cousin Shuffle Creek Trestle further east have 10 MPH slow orders for safety and for reducing wear and tear on the trestles, They are in fine condition and there are no bottlenecks on this single track line with next to no sidings anyway. As I said, once the coal trains stop running in 2016, this portion of the line will be down to maybe three or four fairly short manifest trains a day. Any conflicting moves can be held at Bloomington or Switz City or Linton.
Really nice - THANKS!
