One of several times returning from Göschenen to Erstfeld on 17 September 2014 having banked a 1600 tonnes container train travelling in the other direction. Made with cooperation of SBB Historic
Great view! Gorgeous scenery! Can't believe how closely spaced together all the opposing direction trains were! You never see anything like that here in the USA! Well done!
I'm not sure that this section has ETCS yet, I think its on the section north of Erstfeld as far as Brunnen. When this video was recorded this section was standard SBB signalling, although, of course, it is a significantly more complicated system than is found in countries such as Britain and the USA.
@@dixiedean1955 Etre aux commandes d'un train de marchandises de 1600 tonnes fait rêver les modélistes comme moi aux commandes de mon Ae 610 à l'échelle 1/87 éme 😁.
What a beautiful recording with my favourite Ae 6/6 train.And last but not least the beautiful area whith mountains and tunnels. What a lucky person you are.
Lovely commutator whine on starting, and lovely country to drive through too. I do like the driver saying the "private" train company is "in the shit" ! Sounds like a typical railwayman conversation to me :-) Good stuff, and glad to see an Ae 6/6 is still on the road. Can you imagine that in the UK ? They'd say "WHAT? an OLD electric STILL running? Call Immingham or Caerwent scrapyard before anyone gets hurt by the evil old machine - they must all be erradicated at all costs - they're FAR too reliable.
+Dixie Dean Used to have "people up front" quite a lot years ago when a motorman for the old Southern Region. Nowadays you'd get shot for even having the Guard come and natter to pass the time, thanks to PC elf'n'safety nazis. Many happy memories of the old 2HAPs on the Ore-Brightons, and the old 63 CIGs, the prototype CEPs, etc. All gone now and replaced by souless, computer controlled, plastic crap that doesn't even sound nice, let alone run as reliably as our oldies did. The last units hereabouts that sound nice with their DC motors are the 313s, 319s, and of course the Wessexes with their old EE546 motors from the REPs. We don't get 455's down here with their EE507 motors alas.
One of the best cab ride videos ever! Thank you so much. Question: what is that clicking noise that can be heard from startup (departure)? Regards, from South Africa.
Well, thats interesting! Some old South African Trains also made that clicking noise, just more randomly during the trips, and it was the spirax-valves that (I believe) spitted short bursts of air and moisture out of the brake pipes and main reservoir. Yet again, regards, from South Africa.
So that is the reason .............silly of me !!!! , I should have guessed it by myself . Thanks for your speedy response Dixie , it is much appreciated .
I'm going to assume your enquiry is genuine - it means "journey with the driver" in German. Although, I must admit that if my wife or I have wind when driving on the continent, we always look sheepish at each other and say "Ausfahrt" which actually is what you see on the sign for an exit on the motorway/freeway.
