@lifewitchace2392 Nope. The limit is 75 mph, and all the locomotives have that standard limit (since the older SD40-2's to the newer SD70ACe's and ES44AC's). In fact, not all the tracks are made and designed to run 75 mph or you will be derailed.
@lifewitchace2392 no. No I wouldn’t. Absolutely NO freight train in the United States goes 100 mph. The max speed on most locomotives are 74 MPH, and speed limits don’t exceed 70. Passenger trains are different but I don’t work for amtrak so I couldn’t tell you. But I can tell you about freight.
That is sped up. Look at the clouds... These trains max is about 80. This was prob at 70. Edit: didn’t know that this was gonna blow up but it is quite funny watching the arguments in replies
@@Snowy-oq4ur yea there were once diesel mechanical locomotives which i believe actaully worked like a car with transmissions and gearboxes like the british rail class 01
And at the speed in which it passes the camera. Those freight locomotives are around 80-85 feet and it passed the camera in less than maybe half a second. So that train to do that would need to be going around 150-180mph to cover that distance in that time. Please note these are estimates since I can't watch shorts frame by frame
I love how you can hear the whine of the locomotives’ traction motors as they pass over the first few seconds. Sounds like quite a few locomotives on this one.
@@Klyftis well yeah European freight are far different and certainly lighter weight than American freights, but still impossible for American freights to do 100 MPH lol
Perfect example of Einstein's theory of relativity. The passengers on the train feel little movement, the cars at the railroad crossing wait impatiently for the "slow" train to pass, and to the camera on the tracks, it's going 300mph. It's really fascinating what perspective can do.
ah. a thomas the tank engine fan in a railfan video what shall he say. A: Thomas crashes with the caption be like or nutshell. B:"Luckily, nobody was hurt."
brightline and its siemens chargers can also run up to 125, so i’d reccomend updating yourself on your train knowledge if you want to call yourself a train guy
@@tornadotackler it's still illegal to place or throw any small or large object on a railroad track. Small objects that are left on a railroad track can become a “projectile” as the train passes it.
“no GE junk locomotive can go that fast” Buddy P42DCs and P32AC-DMs hit 110 regularly in New York, and before the chargers took over P42s sustained 110 in Michigan.
It was so hard, holding my camera still while lying flat on their ground and I can tell you it was moving above 100 miles an hour I could feel the breeze
100 percent false. Freights aren't allowed to travel those speeds. 60mph max in North America. Oh and don't caught doing that you will be charged by the railway. They are seriously clamping down on the trespassing with all the fatalities around the tracks. As a railroader involved in a few fatalities in a passenger train please be careful around the tracks. It isn't a nice scene when a human gets hit by a train.
POV: Springman's suspicious man got punched in the nose and face by the guy from the Quarry, and Mavis ran over the man who fell to the tracks with a nosebleed (he was screaming in pain):
Thank you !!!! Man it’s nice when someone just enjoys a video. It was a timelapse and added the audio of real time. I was bored in between hurricane and tornado season and had no idea it would be one of my biggest videos.
What I like most about the video is how the guy teleports in the last two frames and the sound doesn't sync with the wagons and the video doesn't run at 3-4 times speed at all
Breaking news . we’ve got a runaway bnsf train traveling at what police say 100 mph . all towns in the path of the locomotive are currently being evacuated right now . and on the track there seems to be a gopro on the locomotives path
As a British person, no offence but the highest speed American train I’ve been on is 80mph. The New York Subway. I have been on all of them I think… I’m not sure.
No offense taken . The train was going 50-55 I had the camera on timelapse mode under and pedestrian 🚶♂️ walk way on the rocks well under the RR ties . Hope you liked it
Oh I sped it up and added audio of a normal train 🚊 The title was clicky to get you guys to watch but I actually put the effort in to making it look 100 mph 😂
Bro, a train’s max speed with diesel is 125 mph, and with that much freight, it would go down by so much making it go at least 70 mph and the fastest it can go with freight is 80 mph
