That really is quite special. I had just watched drone footage if a train crossing that trestle and was thinking "What dies it look like from the driving cab", and RU-vid makes just such a video appear. My phone can read my mind. That's scary.
I've walked across that bridge at night. The cops were waiting for us at the end. A train went past us within inches. I got hypnotised looking through the slats at the ground. Won't do it again.
i remember as a kid taking the train to fort macleod from lethbridge....one minute youre looking out the window at the bald prairies, next minute it was like being in a plane way off the ground. even though wed driven past it many times, it was a bit of a shock!
If you're fond of to see the rail viaducts, come to our country(Burma) and take a train ride to Gokteik viaduct. It is truly a sister of Lethbridge on the other side of the planet.
I went up on the lower Portage rail trestle with my two idiot brothers in the 1980s. The rail bridge had a grated flooring; you could look straight down to the rapids below. I never cared for heights and it was terrifying, walking between the rails and the grated flooring to get back to good, solid Earth! Tell that wise guy who panned the camera over to the left, he killed me at about 1:13. ha ha
I always wondered what it would be like to be in the cab of a train as it crossed a trestle. Yikes. I grew up near a huge trestle like this. I used to go out on it all the time. There were side platforms to stand on when a train went by. The whole bridge shook.
@@robertbowman3406 I understand. I HAVE ridden in a caboose - hundreds of times. Got paid to do it, too. The best way! lol I never went over this bridge, but I once went over a similar bridge on the CN Kinghorn Sub. on a CP detour train in Feb. '82. It was spooky! I don't like heights and it seemed to have a bit of a lean to the north side. Yikes!
I talk one guys MOW crew told work on this dangerous because high wind truck on rail near blew off rail for repair tough work this in winter.hell job built this.
the length is 1624 meters. the time it toke to go over the bridge was about 133 seconds. with some magic i got about 43k/h. I could not find a speed limit to see if I'm close or not so it could be wrong.
The train speed limit there is 30mph. If he was on something heavy 25-30mph or 43km/h is correct. Edit: There's a green slow order flag at the start of the bridge which was most likely the end of a 25mph slow, so your estimate of 43km/h is probably dead on.
