Great points

Based on a single car (1013 inches long) and counting the frames, I get 23 frames. The video is 30 FPS. So with 23 frames, and then going up one and down one just for clarity, it actually comes out to at least 93 MPH 24 frames = 93.8 MPH 23 frames = 98.0 MPH 22 frames = 102.4 MPH I think people are upset because of how long it is and non-cinematic it is. The nature of these trains is that they're big, so they kinda look like they're going slower than they are. It also doesn't help that this is top down from a bridge, as well as with a telescopic lens head-on. I won't disagree that it wasn't exciting, but jeez.

Engines are almost 70 ft x 2= 140ft and took 1.5 seconds to travel the shadow. So about 64 mph.

Definitely too 11 seconds to pass the camera man

I was measuring the shadow time of the first two engines, not the whole train. Is every passenger car 85 feet and did he include the engine length in the time.

I certainly was lol

Yes

I know right, total clickbate.

@@t1m3f0x ur face is clickbate

I was but after reading comments I knew it wasn’t gonna happen

Long way off

@@richardmccann4815 it's going at 59-62mph.

When the video started I thought it was a tongue and cheek comment and it was a typo - meant to be 8 mph!

It was zoomed in

Metric line cant go faster...

ya.... thats not 80 35-45... . i live on the "hi line" and watch them MOVE out here in NE montana flat lands . that whole train would be past in about 2 seconds if it was at 80 . . and sometimes they run a little "hotter" than 80 out here..... . ive heard stories of 90+!!!!

Yea and the fact that the CSX can only go as fast as the slowest car is rated for while Amtrak is set always unless track demands it at 60+

Maybe out in the middle of nowhere no crossings. The Saluda NC to Hendersonville NC no longer active never got over 10 mph in 15 Miles of track.

EXACTLY!!!!!! Look at the shadows compared to the train speed. NO WAY 80!

I agree, if AT was doing 80, he would have zoomed past CSX.

Agree

something tells me you've probably wasted a few years on pointless youtube videos

In Michigan where I live, the trains go to 110mph and they would completely fly past everything (it passes my in a blink of an eye). The issue is a lot of the track is shared by slow cargo trains so certain spots are limited to 40mph The speed in the video is obviously 30-40mph

This looks pretty close to 80.

​@@zackbobby5550That doesnt even look close to 80mph

Lmao

Its a term used in racing. 😂 means you got smoked. Another term in racing. Means you got dusted. Another term in racing means.......

@@uncinarynin 🤣🤣🤣

Our rail tranist was better in the 30’s sadly

Some good news... Amtrak received $66 billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill: • $22 billion is dedicated directly to the agency for fleet upgrades and other systemwide improvements: - $6 billion goes to the Northeast Corridor - $16 billion to state-supported railways • The remaining $44 billion to go towards the Federal Railroad Administration, which will hand out the money in grants to various state agencies for upgrades to intercity railway That's more money than Amtrak has received in its entire history. The infrastructure bill has also provided enough funding for Amtrak to replace its entire fleet, including long distance trains and Northeast regionals. New Acelas will also be rolled out in 2023.

@@dc2guy2 I doubt any of that will go toward actual speed or electrification improvements.

@@russellcalhoun9010 perhaps but at least it's a start

Yet the US has a GDP per Capita of $76k I can guarantee is higher than all the countries you talk about

Fun fact: CSX is required to do so by law, because otherwise they just wouldn't.

Warren Buffet is renting the track.

Who didn’t know tht😂

@@jamalwest7168 My dog

fun fact: this is the world's stupidest model of railroad that causes unnecessary financial troubles and delays for the passenger trains. In every other country in the world, passenger trains are given priority over the freight trains, the American way is quite idiotic

Yep because that CSX super-freighter is guessing 1 to 2 miles long LOL.

except for your mom who was on the amtrak train 😬

We're talking containers vs hauling a couple hundred Americans

​@@nekomasteryoutube3232 so not much difference

tonnes more in it mate,

​@@cauwamaYeah, there's a lot heavy people in this country...

THAT PART😂

Because freight held it up

😂 on time now

I didn't untill you said something about it.

It looks more human than deer .

same

@@ianbain8838 Amtrak serial killer 😳😳

After seeing lots of comments about this. I just noticed that blood splatter There. Whatever it had hit, R.I.P.

Naw don't you know that a semi can stop faster than a car because it has more brakes. So with that logic ( actually in a state hand book for driver's ed) a train has lot's of brake it can stop so fast it actually goes backwards 😂😂😂😂

Then why do I see intermodal trains out here in Iowa do almost 70-80 MPH?

Plus it is just physics that such heavy objects can’t go as fast

Except that trains are extremely heavy so it actually makes sense that they go slow

Agreed! 😂

Also, neither train was doing anywhere close to 80. I've been rail fanning for years and an amtrack doing 60 was faster than this amtrack

Hell compare these to British locomotives, They are very heavy, and Bigger than what the British have.

this is so pathetic. imagine if the Japanese get ahold of this video

@@iggiewalsh2237Its Obvious that These trains are not at that speed, When he blew the doors off the CSX he means it mean blew past it. This always dont have to mean You have to go at high speeds, hell that just a normal Passenger locomotive there no comparing these with Japanese trains

That is what I said, the CSX was a super-freighter meaning extreme weighted cargo it is like a land-mover dump truck racing a formula race car and asking which would win a drag race ???

@@DistanceNsVeterans cope. Japanese trains are elite

Then you can leave

​@@jayasmrmore3687 womp womp

So I'm not the only one that noticed that.

A small splatter. Some poor dear

a deer that once was

Maybe the blood came from a guard on the battlements of the Castle it had run over earlier on further back up the rail track .

Well you obviously don't know how those containers work. Lol.

Come in France..

@@Croco140 Now that's what I'm talking about...

@@Croco140japans is better

@@ColdSid France is far away better in real high speed TRAIN (on rails) than all the rest. For Japan, it’s only 3 cars moved by magnetic levitation.

America primarily focuses on its massive highway system for passenger transportation, in regards to freight, the United States has one of the most advanced rail networks in the world. No other country transports more freight by rail than the US.

Hey Elon, Go read the first comment to see why its going 80

Elon would spell “if” properly

Y,all come back now Elon .

Nice to meet you, Elon.

Well, when you have a tiny country with a quarter the US population paying half their income in taxes and all your mountains on one edge of it, it isn’t hard to build-out a high-speed rail system.

@@chriswindsor4013 China is similar in size, bigger population and less money and yet they still are so far ahead in high speed rail they are now building trains and tracks for other countries now, what a pathetic excuse honestly

​@@whatevsperson3019 population density is key

@@chriswindsor4013 so why no high speed rail on the east coast, e.g. between new york and washington? like proper high speed. quite dense over there

@@alberthusby113 he won’t answer because he’s a brainwashed fool

Go back and read the first comment.

Yes true A bird moving at the same speed would seem to be a lot faster

Thanks 😊

The Amtrack was going faster than the freight, but it was not doing anywhere close to 80. More like 30 or 40.

LOL

A plane is twice as fast as both

​@@seanthe100 that's right, but the additional time you need at the airport (safety checks, luggage) won't give you a time advantage over just a couple of hundred miles if you have high speed trains as an alternative where you can just sit in. On longer distances of course the airliner will always be faster

Don't set the bar unrealisticly high. Let them do like Sweden, Finland or Switzerland, that would be a massive improvement already.

You mean most of Europe and Japan?

😮

Probably a Deer.

Now make the race fair and have the Blackbird fly against the Amtrak and then we will for sure see some train doors fly off !!!!

100% because at 80 on that curve would have tipped the train.

The camera was super zoomed in and made the curve look small

Many thanks!

And cause it to wreck, lol (not really, it was a passenger train)

Well said!

Yep better title

It's a Expression

Thank you very much!

You wouldn't say that if you were standing next to it

@@WideWorldofTrains Maybe so but that was not 80 mph wasn't enough heat coming from the engine, freight usually runs 35-45 tops in the city. I'd estimate the passenger train around 50 -55 mph inner city.

@@jerrylawrence8477 plus heading into a curve. I doubt eighty maybe fifty five.

That's because trains in a far appear to travel slower then the really are until it gets near you, it's an illusion to the eyes. Common reason people at crossings think they can beat the train when in reality they're going a lot faster then they appear.

@@eclipz4129 you might want to read the comments for this section, like I said Freight runs 30-45 mph, that was not 80 by any means, I see 80 from amtrak on a regular basis.

80 vs 40

Probably the CSX cab door was not latched and slammed shut by the passing Amtrak train Due to buffeting 🙁

*4.5

Oh wow!