TRAIN DRIVER'S VIEW: The "secret" room in the Finse Tunnel 

There has been a lot of questions regarding the spur that leads off inside the Finse Tunnel. Where does it lead? Where does it end? And what's in there? Well, I'll show you. You can also see drill bits still stuck in the wall in the stubs. The turn table was used to turn the plow train before they started using the Beilhack. I was on a position run with the new VY-colored train from Drammen to Bergen. Had to wait a while for the train in front of me to reach the next station. Got permission from the traffic controller to go into the "secret" room in the Finse tunnel. With other words, there were no passengers. Enjoy! :)

Wow, a turntable in a cave. Just when you think you've seen it all...

I'm so imprest, this intro is a masterpiece :) A measured walk, turning on the lights, shooting the sounds of water drops... I'll be wondered: "How could it be possible to go out and walk around during work?", "Will the stopped train meet an oncoming train?", "If the train is passenger, are there any passengers in?" But everything was allright :D Thanks for the emotions, also for your diligence and attention shown to us. :)

Just catching this now - the beginning was cool music and all and then the lights flashing on - the tour was so interesting - thanks as others have said, for taking time and thought to do this!! Exceptional!

Yes, I have wondered where this tunnel spur and others led to. I was surprised to see a turntable in a tunnel. I shouldn't be, Norway has roundabouts in road tunnels. Thank you for having the initiative to enlighten The Herd! And I hope you had a Happy New Year! Ours hasn't gotten here yet...it's only 6:25 PM here in Vermont. Best wishes for 2020, HCG!

Thanks so much for the tour of the (no longer) secret spur! Loved the turntable!

This is what i'd expect to find if i ever started working as a janitor at Umbrella Corp.

If you pull down on one of the steel bars in the dead end, it will open a passage into the hall of the Mountain King!

This is like a Russian matroushka doll, only the Norway version -- inside the tunnel there is, okay, wait for it, take a deep breath, ... another tunnel, and inside that one, take another deep breath ... another tunnel! Troll heaven! (Thanks, HolyCowGirl, fo this one. I think the national emblem in Norway should be the rock drill.)

Fantastic!!!Thank You for taking the time to show us something that we would never see, but then someone like me will never see any of your beautiful country!!! I DO enjoy all of your videos and appreciate your effort!!! THANK YOU!!!

So NOW we know... very interesting room to me .... seems a long way to dig a tunnel and a room thru rock just for a snow plow turntable. Thank you HCG for a View Into The Secret Tunnel !

I loved the intro to this video! At first, I thought I was looking at footage from a trainsim video game and I expected zombies or giant lizards to jump out of the tunnels, but then I remembered that HCG is a for-real train driver and this is real, lol. So thanks for this, HCG! You're becoming a professional cinematographer the way you set the mood and everything :-)

Thank you RCG, you didn't have to explore the spur but you did. Always deeply appreciate all of diligent work as always stay safe and keep up the great work.

You know that a 10 min video with 118 positive comments the first 24 hours is excellent, Thank you, HCG.

Ah, my life is now complete. I'll bet the inquisitive kid in you HCG, was just like us, as you began your career and first started driving through that tunnel. You were busting to know and go see, just where it led. Well, so have all of us, as we sat with you sailing past that spur at Mach 4. Now we are satiated and can retire our curiosity, for now, until we see yet another interesting spot that needs investigation. Thank you!

The intro sound makes this a true thriller.... eerie... darkness, Steven King novel material. Thanks HCG for all your work for us.

There is very good drainage because no water backup from the leakage. I also noted the use of Pandrol clips on the rails to the ties. The tunnel and room doesn't change temperature much during the year being so far in the mountain. This has been very enlightening, Thank You very much.

That was excellent CowGirl !!! I felt like a school boy breaking in there and hoping we didn't get caught !!! :):):) Thank you for sharing that little secret with us!!! :):):) Happy New Year to you and your family !!! :):):)

I usually like watching your videos and exploring abandoned mines... Now, I get BOTH! Thanks!

I love all your videos but this may be the coolest video yet!!!

Ah! At last. Into the Hall of the Mountain King...! Thank you HCG! Now I will sleep at night lol.

Very interesting behind-the-scene video. Thanks. Happy New Year!

Excellent video HCG. Very interesting. Happy Moo Year!

Thanks for the great videos, a good New Year's Eve and a prosperous and especially healthy 2020!

Really interresting. Thanks for all the videos this year. Happy new year to you. 🎉🎊✨👍😀

Awesome. Thank you for posting so many great videos.

Okay, this is the coolest tunnel I’ve ever seen. I wondered why there were no turntables in use in Norway. Now I see that they were once used a long time ago. Too bad this isn’t in America. This tunnel would be a great haunted journey for those who like to be scared during the Halloween season. Thank you SO MUCH for this awesome look at the past. 👍🏼💕✌🏼🖖🏼

Thanks for the explanation. Without it, it looked really surreal - you enter the 10+km tunnel with a whole train, casually leave it in the middle and go exploring a hidden cavern with, I don't know, Nazi gold? :o) I am glad I recognized that simple snowplow and turntable right away. Still, with huge doors and all, it all looks positively spooky! But all your routes are chock full of curiosities, like station platforms in tunnels. Another day I spotted another branching tunnel near Bergen terminus (it also had a platform near the beginning where your train stopped) It is amazing how deep into the land Bolstadfjorden (and other fjords) reaches. Wonderful country, fascinating railroads, amazing videos. Thank you!

Very cool I 'm glad I found this channel and have subscribed .

Happy New Year! I encountered your channel yesterday, engaged in the live chat, loved it and subscribed to your channel!

Thank you so much for showing us and happy new year

Really fascinating, thank you. I love the trips through the Finse Tunnel.

Who would think to build a turntable inside a tunnel/cave...wow, just amazing. Looks like something from WW2 that the Germans would have built. How about a spin on the turntable outside the shops some day? Keep up the great photo work!

I am very glad to be part of the Herd!

Very well done, especially the opening with the spooky sound effects!

Fascinating video HCG , Happy New Years to you !! .

I fully expected a Balrog. The Norwegians dug to deep! 🙂

Thank you for taking the opportunity and taking the trouble to show us this secret room. The swing bridge was used to turn over the snow ploughshare OK thank's very much

Wow! Amazing video! :-O

Wow, what a great video!!!

This was awesome! The way you filmed it, it felt like I was really there exploring! Love the attention to detail. :)

Thanks very much! You are an explorer and an adventuress! Thanks for bringing us along. I really like these individually curated, informative videos. Not sure I enjoy your "Live Streamed" video as much. Thanks again! Be safe! Best!

Oh! That was amazing thanks for that little video

Very Interesting! Thank You

That was awesome. Thankyou for the tour.

Thank you, that was so cool. :)

That was cool; thank you for the tour.

Thank you for satisfying our curiosity!

That was a great mini adventure.

Fascinating - and so unexpected, thank you!

Super!!! Thank you! Happy New Year!

Cool. I bet that rock opens to another dimension. Happy new year. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this

A very spooky and eerie place. I bet you were glad to get back to your train! But many thanks for sharing-I was curious.

I imagine how amazing would be to explore those tunnels and galleries only with the light of a genuine Dumas & Benoit Ruhmkorff-Geissler miner's lamp like those ones described by Jules Verne in "Journey to the centre of the Earth". One of my dreams from decades ago.

Great vid! Now we have a meeting place for RailCowCon! 😁🚂🐄

Another interesting video and the Pinned item explains it all. And yes the Beilhack is very unique as the rotating body reliefs a lot of handling to turn the snowplow.

Thank-you!

Thank you for showing us the spur.

I loved this adventure.

Enjoyed the short video, I usually don't have time to view all of the others, even though I'll look at sections. Love the countryside. Happy New Years from the US!

I don't know how it took me this long to see this, but thank you so very much!! The tin cans cracked me up...I was just wondering what they were, then you bent down to look!

It's nuts what you guys keep all hidden away underground, out of the snow and Ice. : )

Bra jobb !!! GODT NYTT ÅR !!!

Wow! Skulle ønske jeg visste det i 2021 da jeg tok toget til og fra Bergen en haug med ganger! Du har en awesome jobb! (PS, må takke Devin Townsend for at jeg snublet over din kanal på RU-vid 😍)

That is so cool

Make a video of the old line around the Finse Tunnel

Thank you very much.

Very interesting, thank you.

That is just amazing.

Thanks for giving us a tour it just kept getting stranger and stranger.

Thank you RCGirl

That's fascinating!

Blimey! What a revelation!

This is like an adventure. Creepy but I like it a lot.

Thanks for showing. I had wondered where the winter equipment was stored. But it needs a diesel locomotve to get to the plow. So it needs the Bellhack rotary plow to get to the wedge plow with a diesel if the snow and wind gets realy bad. Luck the wedge plow works either way, its a long run round in the main tunnel to clear both ends beyond the tunnel.

4:20 pretty sure that's the portal to the Magic Railroad from the Thomas movie

Thank you for the tour you actually did you company a favor. The tracks the tunnel the turntable should be inspected from time to time.

Thank you for making these wonderful videos. I have never been in Norway, but want to visit someday soon, as I am half Norwegian and and half German (and a little French!) by my parents! I definitely plan on traveling by train when in Norway. Sometimes when I am working in my home office, I leave your long videos running on my 65" Samsung 4K, and enjoy seeing the country side, especially the beautiful snowy country side, down here where I live in Sunny SE Florida! As I write this I am watching Winter Wonderland in the Halling Valley (first one I have seen where you talk). Great to hear your comments, which are very interesting and informative! I especially enjoyed this video showing the secret spur in the tunnel. As an electrical engineer, I know that Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, use 16-2/3 Hz (or 16.7 Hz in Germany I believe) for traction, and I noticed in your video of the "secret" tunnel that the lights seemed to be flickering. My question is: are these lights being powered by 16-2/3 Hz traction power? Also in Norway are the signals, level crossing gates, etc., also powered by 16-2/3 Hz traction power? In the US, the portion of the Amtrak line that is 25 Hz between Washington, DC and New York City has special 2400 volt 60 Hz power (used for signaling and other non-traction uses) run along with the 25 Hz traction power. This is stepped down to 120/240 volts by small 60 Hz transformers where needed for signaling and other non-traction uses. I notice along the way there are transformers installed that seem to be powered from the traction lines. Some of these transformers seem to be larger than what would be needed for signaling. I am curious if you know what those are used to power? Hope these questions are not too technical! Again, thanks, and Happy New Year!

It was fun exploring with you.

Well that is unexpectedly and insanely cool. Turntable inside a mountain cave. That's some beautiful history right there, thank you for sharing it with us

Goodness!! What a Treat!! *Thank You* 😊❤

This was incredibly satisfying to find out. The second I saw that gaping blackness I wanted to know. And then the arrow appeared...

wow never seen this before thanks for this

I always wondered where that spur went. So it’s used for spare maintenance-of-way stuff. They must also have to use a diesel switcher (shunting) loco as I didn’t see a catenary. Thanks for solving the mystery and posting another informative video!

Neat, reminds me of the snowshed at Norden, California, on the old Southern Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada mountains, they had a covered turntable to turn the rotary snowplow and steam engines back in the day. Part of the snowshed is still there protecting track switches, but the turntable has since been removed...........

This looks like urbex :-D I love the videos that show something beyond the routine Happy new year!

Thanks!

You have a unique talent for filming an 'archival' method, even on foot. Bravo

This is fantastic! Thank you for taking the time and effort to film this. It is amazing what things are hidden underground. I have noticed there is a tunnel entrance, just after departing from Bergen Station, on the left after the train washes. I have always wondered what is in there because I cannot find the other entrance to the tunnel. Perhaps something equally as "secret" as this?

I love your videos

Very interesting and it's a good you are not scared of the dark.

wow thats mega crazy!

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This is straight out of Silent Hill! Thanks

Excellent thanks!

Thank you for this! Have come back to this secret video several times, it's so interesting. Love how you photographed everything, just like a curious person would peer at e.g. the rusty rail, the end piece of that giant yellow contraption (snow plow attachment?), the drill bits sticking out of the wall. Fun! What happens to all the water that pours down from the roof? Is it pumped out somehow? thanks again!

Looks like the antlions haven't made their way in there yet. Good for you!

So you just dumped the commuter train just so you could show us this? I like your style 👍😁 A very happy new year to you!

How can you beat that??? Very interesting, thank you. Happy New Year