Thrash Clag & Tones - The Best of 2018 is a compilation of some of the best footage I was able to capture over the last 12 month's. Thanks to all of you who have subscribed to me so far and look out for plenty more from me in 2019.
yes. Rail fans of different nations. US AND UK best.scotland switzerland and the vast middle class using indian rails through countryside. Not very neat like west. Check out. Pampan rail and the tallest one in Srinagar
The unique sound of a class 37 takes me back to my primary schools when i heard the rumble and would run to the fence just to catch a glimpse of the snarling beast. I cant even run to the fridge these days.
The Class 37 at the beginning pulls away so effortlessly. I had two of those in a train set - one green and one blue. The blue one had a much stronger motor and sounded like it meant business whereas the green one was gentler. Memories that get brought up are fascinating :)
Do you know what my grandfather used to drive the class 37 throughout the valleys on coal trains when I hear this at superb quality my mind is drawn back to the little 8 year old I us d to be running to get to the bridge in Cwmbach to get a view and feel f these amazing machines
As a confirmed steam man, I never had any interest in 'tin boxes'. This video just changed my opinion. The noises these beasts produce is nothing short of epic.
Some great footage there. It would be improved if you could add captions showing the location of each section of the video and maybe also details of the workings seen. Thanks for posting. You have a like and a new sub.
The sounds are just,to an American,like Johnny Poppers(John Deere tractors),and Caterpillar bulldozers! The EMD is also because the Long Island Railroad had become an all EMD line! It had been an Alco,operation!
Have you got videos of the tripple headed 37s thrashing up stormey bank on heavy ore trains , Port Talbot to Llanwern steelworks. Also the two 4-coach thumpers thrashing through Clapham Junction on the morning rush hours.
I'm sure I saw the first loco helping backing a steam train going through Bescot Station earlier this year, does it do the regular helping out stuff or is it preserved?
Wish we had some of these cool trains here in Kirkby Liverpool the only time we had a Diesel train here in Kirkby station is when the train derailed they used the diesel power to pull it back on the rails.
I love this videography , especially in the fog! At the start of the video-what would be the top speed of the train with the two shunting locomotives up front?
Sounds like you poms have a few 2-stroke emd’s up there in the later stuff, interesting locos, l wonder why you generally stuck with the old hook & draw couplings instead of automatic couplers? And do you still have vacuum brakes or does your newer equipment have Wabco air? Anyway that was great viewing cheers from oz.
A shame they're too heavily silenced really. I think hook & draw was kept for backwards compatibility (in the 60s & 70's we had something like 1/4 Million wagons - all hook copupling ) and then kind of stuck. Air brakes have been standard since at least the 70s in the UK though as ever there were a lot of old wagons with vacuum that required locos to be dual braked so they could operate either.
This was an early drive system for Diesels. Many early Diesel shunters where built on steam locomotive frames. Either modified designs and new builds, or one off 'upgrades' where the boiler and steam gear is removed. this allows a drive train to move one axle, which then drives all the other wheels.
I got to ask a dumb question. Here in the US. We run inter city trains much the same way you do in UK. My question is. The first train with one Deltic pulling & one pushing in the rear. Are these two locomotives MU together or two drivers ? Thank you.
In fact the twin locos in question are Class 37s by English Electric- who also built the Deltic . Constructed in the early 1960s they are still giving sterling service albeit in much reduced numbers. They have been upgraded over the years and divided into sub-classes for various applications. These will undoubtedly have Jumper Cables to facilitate MU. Also saves on manpower- and cost.
How do you know where and when to see these trains? I see people waiting on railway bridges near where I work to photograph trains. I missed Tornado by about 10 minutes once - saw it only in the distance... 🙄 I hear a few class 37s going by too - but have no idea how to time them??
There's sites like www.realtimetrains.co.uk that's good for finding passenger services and there's the working timetables found on www.networkrail.co.uk which provide better info but there's alot of it to sort through as it's divided into area's and separate lists for freight and passenger.
not wrong about that slack. Coal trains used to start up a nearby 1 in 80 when I was a kid in Sydney NSW. cloncklonckloncklonck. All 31 wagons and 4 locos. Every time. Knuckle couplers. Flanges scream as the loaded ones came down, too.
Sorry if my comment is daft.. Could somebody explain how having two diesels (as per the the two class 37’s in the first clip) are controlled? Do they have just the one driver and both units respond to his inputs, or does the second loco have a separate driver that mimics the inputs of the lead driver? I’d be very grateful for any information. Thank you.
@@danielsellers8707 thanks for your response Dan. I thought that must be the case, I could hear the second engine running but with no visible driver! Cheers.
You can find them all on Wikipedia with article titles "British Rail Class ". 37, 47, 68 are some of the ones in this video. Look for the first two digits in the 5-digit number on the locomotive. (unless it's D### which is an old numbering system).
I know this is supposed to be a "thrash" video, in that the locos are being worked hard, but there was some serious acceleration on show. Even those 66s with heavy trains didn't muck around. Watch those big American (or Australian) trains, even with 5 locos - start like slugs, but not here. Toot, rev, go!
@@judsonmoore1655 Granted, but the 37s with passenger trains took off like a light engine. Even those class 66 still moved pretty quick even with a full load. That's what got my attention. Maybe it's a loco design thing - low speed lugging vs maintenance of higher speed.
We moved to NZ at the end of the 80s in my late teens, so I did not keep up with what happened. I was obsessed with trains as a MK kid. So they privatized the lot, but now the Network Rail owns the lines and infrastructure? They hocked it off, but had to buy a lot of it back, or retake control and public ownership of the lines is what appears to have happened as far as I can tell. The public bears the NR costs and the losses, while private operators pocket any profits. Correct? The whole lot used to belong to us all. Tracks, stations, yards, and rolling stock were ours, not Maggie's or those cretins that came after her. We had the best train set ever, even though it needed more investment and better management etc. Did the public get a pay out when they sold it all off? We did here in NZ when the Tories hocked of some of our power company stuff to their cronies for cheap, even though we voted against it.
