I recently took the autozug for the first time. It was a surprise since google maps was showing it up as a ferry so we didn’t know until we get there that it was a train actually. Can somebody explain to me why a train instead of just a road tunnel for cars?. There should be many things I’m not considering for this idea but I would really like to know.
Having been on the PS Waverley, the world's last seagoing paddlesteamer (this one is a lake steamer), countless times I can't help but notice how comparatively clean and pristine this vessel is.
There are plenty of nations that are electrified enough to use these (if they have the right gage) hope the find new homes beyond the scrapper's magnet
Thank you for this video. ive always wondered how this type of lift works as it has no clear visible grip. Just one question tho: wont this ruin the rope line? like slowly damage the rope and make it thinner/weaker at some spots due to the friction when it attach?
Such a shame to scrap a good loco a lot of British electric locos redundant by new vehicles have been exported to eastern Europe and still giving great service in a new country
Its so sad they didn't replace them with self-powered locomotives and scrap those hideous power lines. Them newer locos look even worse. It would greatly improve the experience not seeing a power electric pole every 50 feet. I would rather take the bus.
Great video. I've ridden behind them year's ago and enjoyed it. Efficiency is very important but so is history. I hope the keep some around for special trips and museums.
Way can't they just modernize the inside of it instead of scrapping the whole locomotive?! That would be way cooler then replacing it with a new boring modern locomotive.
Thanks for that detailed video. I have worked with heavy haul iron ore trains as a professional engineer in Australia and I have also travelled on the Swiss SBB rail passenger trains which amazed me with their smoothness and very low noise level. This video was perfect for me.
As someone who understands (European) languages quickly, and who's been exposed to German from a young age... Schwyzerdütsch is not exactly easy to grasp.
Living in the U.S. I can only dream about something amazing like this. We have the most idiotic car centric transportation system based on egos (huge pickup trucks). This is intelligent engineering and planning. Thank you Switzerland for showing the world what intelligent transportation engineering looks like.
Someone sent me this video and it's so interesting! Watched some of the other videos too and it's so fascinating to see how these marvels of engineering work. I loved the steam boat one especially. Great channel Sandro!
Thank you for the look round this beautiful locomotive which is sorely missed having hauled me over the Lötschberg bahn quite a few times since 1981. The lokomotivführer has a really thick accent!
3:32 - that would be PASSENGER train... I guess that LKW/ PKW naming convention just kicked in...? ;-) Also, I'd consider changing the intro shooting angle - for me, a viewer, it feels as if I were a rabbit (or a rat) in a hole being greeted by a hunting dog (cat)... Why not "eye level" camera position? 5:21 - "Spannung" is indeed "tension", but "voltage" would be more accurate translation in the context of "electricity" (or "electrical potential difference") - so "carrying a current of 15 kV voltage, AC at 16 POINT 7 Hz". Again, not "wrong", but then not quite "right" either; the "dot" is the mark, when placed at the end of a sentence is called "full stop", when used as decimal point then it is, well, a point ;-) Now, I know this is "about trains and locos", not "about English", but using language patterns and phraseology of foreign language when speaking it does help to convey the message, I'd say. Also, I'm not going to point all of these "carbon copy expressions" as I'm mostly skipping through this video (so I will surely miss most of them) and at any rate I'm not going to make fun of this - that earlier remark was meant merely to "point an issue" (or "provide a feedback"), and nothing more. Also, I'm not a native English speaker either, so I do understand how it works, and I do make, sometimes, similar mistakes. Cheers!
This is so similar to the EL14 we have in Norway, only it is even more powerful. I have 1000's.of hours driving it. It was based on the Swiss Ae6/6 and bears many similarities.
Today, recuperation (electricity return to the line) is probably a question of a software update :) Still Im surprised that it is not worth the upgrade.. Maybe the motors in brake mode have some crazy parameters that are difficult to change to the line parameters ?
@@sandro-here These electronics used to be expensive, now it is super common to have recuperation.. Well I hope you guys save at least one, they look awesome.
the vid isnt here anymore but the step shwitch of a old ae 7/14 was shown while working .... it had special spark channels to disperse of the sparks while switching the power to the engines and boy oh boy that were sparks like lightning ...
Really good footage and technical detail. As a locomotive engineer myself, it was interesting for me to note that the brake gear was of Davies and Metcalfe manufacture, much used in British railway locomotives, and superior (in my opinion) to Westinghouse equipment.
@@sandro-hereinteresting. It sounds like Scandinavian languages to me. I have some distant family living in North Switzerland it seems to me that the German they speak is a "proper" German, even they say it's closer to literary German than the Bavarian dialect. What region is this in video?
@@chiefrebelangel817 Yes, there is no such thing in any place in Switzerland ;-) Very much unlike Germany, where thousands or millions speak closely to "proper". However in Switzerland, we only have dialects (we do ->write<- in almost proper German though).
