Very creative zoomin field shot. Almost feels like a wildlife safari. Only instead of animals its a train lol!! I can here Steve Iwin's voice in my head as you close in !!
Geesh I started to get worried the signals wouldn’t go down. Normally they’ll go down with the train ways away but this is a long beastly train. Too the whole yard seems like
7 locos and 154 cars by my count for anyone wondering. I’ve seen longer in Revelstoke with only 4 locos though, longest there was 195 cars. Total train just shy of 200.
^^^@Frank .. Wow that's Pretty Impressive! Those 4 Engines must have Been Screaming to Pull Like More than 154 Cars Man or Maybe the Engine Driver just had the Right Momentum of Speed to Keep it All Moving Along Nice And Smoothly and With-out a Hitch Now that's What Y'all Call a Master Engineer .. .
Depends on weight, for required power. The extra locos may be for drop-off? Yes, longer on mainline. There may be restrictions on this Sub..? Regardless, nice pay check for the seven...!
Locomotives 9757, 8835, 9824 and 8889 are running. AC4400CW 8601 is about 3/4 into the consist at 4:56 and is powering. (3rd and 4th) 8702 and 9826 are in tow.
That's quite a load. I recall back in the 1950's when i lived not far from the railroad tracks but was down near them almost daily, as that area was my hunting, fishing, and trapping grounds. Naturally i would have to walk along the tracks, within 10 feet or so, and damn those freights were very LOUD. The longest i ever counted was 124 cars and i'm pretty sure there weren't more than 2 or 3 locomotives. Pretty scared walking so close, that's for sure.
Mmmm, I would have preferred a crossing shot without the signal box in the way. I also prefer to let all the locos get by and only pan with the last engine in the line.
Thanks for the video & channel. I currently live in Windsor,Ontario now & use to watch freight trains go in & out of the Windsor/Detroit tunnel under the river which was cool to watch. I’ve gotta question about your video here at roughly the 5minute mark when it shows the one CP Engine by itself... is there an actual Train Engineer on that Train or is it a solo Engine just like the ones at the front except for the front engine.
I believe I watched the train assembly, saw one just like it at lambton park yard in Edmonton this summer. First Time I've ever seen intermodal cars there in living by it for over a decade
^^^@Noah S. .. We don't have Intermodal Double Stackers here In New Zealand Maybe we are just way too small a Country although we do Have Mile Long Freight Trains, I First saw Intermodal Freight Trains in Australia All up to 2 Miles Long Most Impressive .. .
For that size of train on that subdivision, first two lead units were operating, the next four were dead in tow power move, and the one in the middle of the train was the distributed power unit.
how do you figure that? Engine goes by at 2 min. mark, last car goes by at 6;30 min. I programmed into my calculator and got 4:30 minutes? Unless your talking Canadian minutes where it might be 20 mins.? If you were asleep for 20 mins. at the gate, in NJ you'd get a horn up your ars!
One word surely, tripod, which was obviously being used unless the videographer have the steadiest hands in the world. They just needs to gently zoom out before panning more slowly. Panning while zoomed in is never a good option. It certainly didn't make the video any less worth watching to me.
Awesome video of the train action a good catch of 7locomotives! Where in Alberta was this film at? Here where I live your lucky too maybe see 3or 4 locomotives pulling unit train sometimes one DPU maybe train. Thanks and keep up the great work and be safe!
The “heroic” consist notwithstanding, I suspect a bit of deadheading going on here, if for no other reason than it’s common on this line, and no grades to mention between Calgary and Edmonton. See the odd UP unit too.
