for that... about half a mile

That's the thing those bozos who try to beat the train at grade crossings forget about - how long it takes to drag that much mass back down from "really booking along" to "dead stop".

@@spaghetti9845 depending on a lot of things

Normally all wheels have brakes on them

1/4 of that distance for flat earth worshippers!!! LOL ☺

Max speed for freight is different than their set speed..For Amtrak it's higher

It also depends on the geography trains in the plains can go faster than trains in the east and west coasts due to hills, mountains, tight curves, and other things. Trains on the plains generally dont have any mountains in their way till the Rockies or when they get to the Appalachians. Yea they still have hills but it's a good deal of nicely sloped hills .

@@goodeye03 who wants to "wait around". good.

Max track speed on the open areas is designed for 80mph typically.... but 50-70 is usual

Passenger trains are 80 if I’m not mistaken in those places like southern Wyoming, NE, and other flat open places

Lol

Hold my cars

"Steve, you're way behind time; It's 8: 38, and it's the Old '97; Gotta put her into Danville on time."

@@haroldwilkes6608 you beat me too it!

East bound and down, loaded up and locomotin' we gonna do what they say can't be done We've got a long train to haul and a short time to get there I'm east bound, just watch ol' GEvo run

No kidding. I swear 99% of time they crawl through at 3 mph. Then, just as the last few cars are about to pass, they stop and backup...

@@nodak81 you must be near a switching yard lol

Worked a self check at a big box store years ago. Guy came through with a flatbed piled high with stuff-------------212 items.

@@rooftopvoter3015 Ugh! And double Ugh!! 😳😬🤯

not flexing, I self checkout with ~40-50 items regularly and make sure I go fast enough to outpace my "cashier checkout 'ghost'" - so I found this pretty hilarious 😆.

switch the 9 and the 6 and u get the accurate amount of freight cars the train was pulling

@@brandontorres4499 *salutes*

I totally agree.

Even though trains were invented in the UK, and even though Japan has trains light years ahead of what America does.... yeah... loud noises are American I guess.

@@StephenKershaw1 , we haul more freight on our railroads than everyone else combined

@@mikeingeorgia1 I agree. When it comes to efficiently hauling freight by rails, USA is light years beyond most European countries. France, for instance, trucks almost everything.

@@StephenKershaw1 The US freight network is the most efficient and developed in the world.

Lol

...and it usually takes you 10 minutes to get there on a good day!!! LOL

Felt that way the first time I rode the Metroliner back in 1995. Didn't quite realize we were going 125 until I watched the poles and timed the marks.

Yeah, but n-scale doesn’t count.

@@snydedon9636 😂😂😂😂

Epic 🤩

good.

You've "gone off the rails" with that joke. You could almost say you're "loco". ...I'm not proud of these. 😂

These comments are freightening.

I think he broke traction with that one!

That's a "load" of bull. I'm gon[dola] have to stop you there....

' Guys were hanging on with their fingernails, lol. Now, that's funny.

@@arthurhogan3047 I'm crying here

when the true definition of a "Z" train was!!

They had cameras back then believe it or not

@@ommy7672 expensive, tho.

...NONE of us are getting any YOUNGER-!!!

Rip daddy😞

🥺😢 loosing someone who was attached to our life from day 1, since we were born. Its the bond we had, its the memories, it's the time we spent together, it's everything. And finally they departs from this world. Rest In Peace 💕

Sorry for you loss 💔

Who cares

Film it. Upload to YT.

Reminds me of the time I spent outside Kansas City in 2009 and we used to go to Olathe, Kansas and watch BNSF trains fly through there. Multiple crossings spaced only a block apart and some of the trains ran through town at 60, blowing for each one. Now Olathe is a quiet zone and about half the crossings have been closed.

No longer hosts the Southwest Chief, but they still run fast on that line. I've been stopped many times at the IL 47 grade crossing on trips too and from Tennessee.

@@deloreanman14 Olathe has that relatively new overpass (for the trains, that is) that is quite attractive and eliminated many grade crossings. Trains in the KC area just aren't as numerous as they used to be. We still have plenty of coal trains here in St. Joseph, where I live. The hoppers are all getting quite old.

Same with BNSF where I am.

Super C's were a sight to behold! We used to make fun of the cabooses and say they were just flopping in the breeze and not touching the rail. One would have to pause to watch a Super C go by because you didn't have long to watch.

What year was it?

Some passenger steam locomotives regularly exceeded 100 mph [162 kph] on a regular bases back in their day; after WW2 until the jet age.

I live around there too.

The Amtrak Acela Express routinely does up to 150.

@@crankychris2 Yes, the "two-miles-a-minute flyers."

And weight in tonnage too

@@robertgarrett2290 yes. I think I read somewhere one since car can weight anywhere from 10-50 sometimes 70 tons, multiply that by a train pulling a miles worth of them, do the math Holy shit

​@@TheAdx1001one loaded coal hopper maxes at 286,000 lbs .... 143 tons.

@raylrodr and that's ONE car! Was just talking to a guy on FB who's a conductor and he said his last train total was 17,000 TONS! Absolutely insane

@@TheAdx1001 that is correct

We went to Vancouver for a conference, and decided to tuck in a little sightseeing on the leading edge. So we flew out a week early, and took a train called The Rocky Mountaineer from Vancouver to Banff. It was paradise on rails, tooling through the Canadian Rockies, hanging out the vestibule snapping pictures and checking out the wildlife and mountains and so forth. Note: a full grown moose is NOT a small animal, not when he can be standing down in a drainage ditch and still look you straight in the eye through the coach window as you roll by!

@@mrz80 That trains now also runs to Denver.

My favorite green light of all!

I have seen another video where there was a derailment at an even higher speed. (You can find it by searching Northfork Southern train hits car and derails)

now thats gonna need a lot of days or weeks to clean up i mean like, cars derailed, trees crushed, posibility of a huge fire starting, if it did derail near a road many people would've been injured, property damage yeah you get the picture

@@turnerdeedo4633 mer rouge? or whatever

@@cs-gj3yf Oh yeah, the Mer Rouge train was going about that fast as well.

The tankers that fell down the hill in Canada were going very fast. That was a disaster that changed rules worldwide on airbrakes and PTC.

Never heard of that, interesting. Where's this?

Sounds made-up

@@The_BIG_salad still sounds good to me.

@@rearspeaker6364 what does?

@@The_BIG_salad big boy doing 77mph. ed will never let her get above 60. must have been doppler effect from the driving wheels.

Yeah looks like those are cement ties.

Few people relealize, that the train and suspension is only part of how fast a,train can go.. The design and maintenance of the tracks are even more important. ...

Plus those rails are about 50 years old...

If you only knew what they were truly like you would not be so close

Maintenance of way is the way to go to promote faster train speed. Cars standing still earn minimal revenue.

Yeah, that horn is kinda creepy.

Puts me to sleep...

Right, happy not to live next to a crossing.

Because I ride those big beautiful beasts high ballin through the night 👌 spent 3 days straight on freight 3 seperate times.. the whistle rumble and RHOHR are sweet music to my ears. Fucking Love trains 👌

😂😂😂😂

LoL good one 👍🤣

That’s not fork and way train service ,,,, they are learning to be bull haulers ...

No. That appears to be 45 or 50 which is average freight speed.

I got that saved ,it is freaky.

Most of those trains are intermodal. How fast do the manifests, autoracks, & tanker trains go through there?

read the discription

I live close by there. There's actually an old exempt bridge close to there. I like to hang out there to watch. It has low guard rails and you're just a few feet above the trains. 😉

@@Jfhfi678 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q85_es13m5adkoE.html From Millard go straight East on the blacktop all the way until you cross Highway V by gibbs. Continue East on the gravel until you dead end at the railroad track on the old bridge. As far as I know you are on a public road there but you're in a Amish farms backyard almost so be respectful.

Number 2?...no shit.

Trains have bathrooms in them

@@Cal90208 The engineer can’t just get up and use the bathroom though

@@geezeman5675 the conductor takes over

@@geezeman5675 Yes they can. Typically about a minute of no control inputs before the alerter goes off, and trains have an engineer and a conductor who can then just reach over and give the independent a smack down or something

Well you only got 1 locomotive right the other two, are a GP38-3 and a GP38-2.

Shoreline freights normally ran at 60....2 or 3 U25B.

I definitely miss those Conrail blues.

Agreed. I've seen a few going that fast.

Thanks man! These folks kills me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ikr? It looked like it was going 40, maybe 50mph at most.

Agreed have seen them moving faster, still like the video.

Ran them a lot faster on the PennCentral, 80mph and above.

The stone trains between the west country and London can be very long and very fast, especially when they have a 66 on the front!

The maximum speed UK freight trains do is 75mph, such as intermodal and empty stone trains. Most do 60mph, like engineers, oil, coal and aggregate. Even our longest freight, the High Output Ballast Cleaner (HOBC) is no match on length for some of the American trains.

Canada the trains are 5km long and travel at 20km/hr

Yes I've seen freight trains on the East Coast Main Line go about the speed of this train but they are about a third of the length.

@@Kiera_Jackson74 what? In Canada you have multiple DPU units through out the train and doing 60-75, on very long trains, mostly intermodal! Coal or grain depends on loaded or empty! Even if you said 20mph, it's wrong!

Um what is phrase you guys use for this type of upmanship? That can be repeated on this media that is!

@@robertbruce7686 what? lol

Robert Bruce it’s a relevant fact. In the west and parts of the Midwest they go much much faster. Often 70.

@@henrydoesart158 and 80 for passenger trains

In the Midwest this is just an average speed I've seen them upwards of 60-70 mph quite often

Because it’s 2021 and we need more train videos in our lives.

@@Nokorola Yeppers

I watch a lot of train based content

@@victoruniverseanimations6414 Good

One of the joys of my life was to be standing in first of 3 Amtrak F40phs in New Mexico doing 90 mph +. Feeling 9000 hp under you was like being in a rocket sled.

I ran trains for 28 out of my 30 year career at CSX and once you've done it for that long it really does become just another Sunday drive, but you do have to be mindful of how much weight you have behind you.

@Rogeball PB Catastrophe

...and you're not gonna do much about it in the short run...ask any track-crossing idiot that got hit...

@Slim Pickens No thats a CSX

The Train @ Van Horn: Years ago my wife and I were on our way from San Diego to Dallas. Just outside of Van Horn we stopped for lunch at a Subway. Across the town road, and an open field, around 100 yards away, was a berm with RR tracks on top. We were eating on the patio so had an open view. After a short time a locomotive/cars came into view from the east. The train was actually slowing, and came to a stop directly in front of us. One man came out of a side door of the lead locomotive, climbed down, and headed our way. He entered the Subway and after a little while came out carrying bags of chow. He went back to the train and entered the same door. Then we heard those huge engines (turbines?) start winding up and slowly started on it's way. We gave up counting the cars after 120.

We run trains pretty darned long here. Out west (Montana, Wyoming, etc) you can get freights 110, 120 cars long with anywhere from 6 to 9 locomotives - half up front, half cut in midway down the train. Plus they'll tack on some pushers going over the mountain grades.

Lol

He wants to get home 😂

Amazon prime one day shipping

Walmart needs supplies

Auto train is late, and Amtrak isn’t happy

Her parents aren’t home

Yes, and they would be one level and a half mile long at best.

@@jasoncutlip950 half a mile... Might wanna check your tape measure there. We go much bigger than that.

Lol... Sure ya do big guy. I digress, your massive 3/4 mile trains are very impressive.

KPH?

@@christianmotley262 MPH

"CONVOY"!

I’ve seen more than I care to count. By freight I mean freight. Not intermodal or auto racks, those trains can run 70. But as far as manifest. That’s pretty quick

No, that looks like 45 or 50. Average freight speed.

everybody's scramblin and jumpin around!!!

That is not a whistle, that a K5HL horn.

I was in Panama City, FL couple summers ago for work, and got to do a bit of railfanning. There was this beat-up old Geep of some description, leased from some northern short line or other, shoving cars around a yard across the highway from my hotel. The folks running it had hacked a mobile-home air conditioner onto the cab roof in an attempt to keep the Florida summer at bay. :D

There is no BN railroad. Been gone for 26 years

@@rossthomas6162 BNSF

70mph!!!!!!

I was a Trainman 55 was the fastest we had done by the FRA R.R.

@@rossthomas6162 BNSF

Which is part of why we (in Germany) slowly transition to ETCS, where speeds are limited by the curves and derailment considerations, not the braking distance assumed by physical signal locations.

Same Restrictions apply in the US. Top Speed is ONLY where Track Conditions allow it. It’s not the same speed everywhere and especially not on curves or through heavily populated areas, etc. 79mph was just to Answer what the Top Speed “Allowed” is.

Their is no FRA regulation that says freight trains cannot exceed 79. The only FRA rule regarding 79MPH max speed has to do with lines that lack ATS, ATC or Cab Signals. If you read the FRA track classes you will see the max freight speeds listed. As an example, BNSF has a lot of Class 5 track where Amtrak can run 90MPH because they have signal systems in place that allow that. But Class 5 track is good for 80 MPH freight. In Michigan, Illinois and upstate NY they have quite a bit of Class 6 track which is good for 110MPH passenger or freight. Freight railroads have no desire to run that fast for economic reasons. Which is why they continue to purchase locomotives with max speeds of 70 or 75.

You have nice, well maintained tracks in Deutschland.

...they need to...graffiti idiots are out in full force...

I ran a manifest train at work the other day all box cars max speed was 60 mph

@@donaldschlosser6964 all beer boxcars???? Its like a "z" without the ups!

@Slim Pickens You might look at that video again, say around 1:28, that's clearly a CSX train.

Im retired CN I have saw them going that fast.Nothing special here.

You should see it when we hit cattle at 70, Hamburgers for everyone.🤣

Ha, I was thinking similar. It probably just feels faster in person though, no way they're actually going faster than 60.

The Sane in Maine stay Mainly off the Train

Some people think it's a real gas to mount a locomotive air horn in their truck or car, and randomly blow it rolling thru towns. (*BAAAAAAAAMP*) (*jump out of skin*) What th'!?!?!!?!! :D

Lol

Yes.... Yes... Yes...