FMG ore train heads for the Solomon mine crossing the busiest grade crossing on the line, the Great Northern Highway. Video taken with my Mavic 3 Pro. 6/24/24.
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@ACDZ123Ай бұрын
Amazing landscape
@em2atticАй бұрын
Always cool hearing the sound of the flanges slow down or speed up.
@janeevans3032Ай бұрын
Far out, our trains are babies compared to that. Wouldn't like to be walking back to the last wagon to check anything 🫢 I think it would be pretty Kool to drive it.
@em2atticАй бұрын
@janeevans3032 oh yea definitely, id be super mad walking one of those being they have twice as many axles, hoses and knuckles as one of ours lol! And as far as running it im sure its not rocket science but all that tonnage as a conventional setup is crazy you just gotta be really careful and make sure your brakes release before you start tugging on it.
@MatsOrmhedАй бұрын
Very good video! Interesting landscape as well!
@trevormaxwell8134Ай бұрын
One hell of a long train 🚆 😮😊
@maxrkmroseАй бұрын
Awesome!
@bradleyjanes2949Ай бұрын
Great video, are those trucks hauling ore as well? TY
@GlendinningEngineeringАй бұрын
Yes they run ore out to Port Hedland
@caughtkneehАй бұрын
Yes, hauling ore by road and causing massive congestion on the highway. They struggle making it up the hills. Been stuck behind many.
@pbear6251Ай бұрын
Is that one of those driverless trains?
@GlendinningEngineeringАй бұрын
This train does have a driver. Rio Tinto’s trains are the driverless ones .
@pbear6251Ай бұрын
@@GlendinningEngineering I had forgotten which ones thanks!!
@phillipg1588Ай бұрын
Those truckers not even in the race compared to that train. Anyone count all the wagons?
@petersampson4635Ай бұрын
320??? Mmmmmaybe....
@phillipg1588Ай бұрын
@@petersampson4635 Was watching another KZfaq vid on worlds longest trains. Australia ranked Number 1 with those WA ore trains.
@mrg6103Ай бұрын
It’s strange seeing America Locomotives in Australia.
@keithammleter3824Ай бұрын
Where else can we get them from?
@Kiwigeo8339Ай бұрын
@@keithammleter3824 Some locos are built here. In the past UK was also a significant supplier of steam and diesel locomotives...eg English Electric
@keithammleter3824Ай бұрын
@@Kiwigeo8339 True. But the OP commented about American types being in Australia, today. Britain used to be a major supplier of almost everything, but ceased to be so in the 1960's when they lost favourable trading conditions, became an unreliable supplier due to excessive strikes, and persisted with poor quality. English Electric was better than most British firms in terms of quality and engineering excellence, but never the less ceased to exist 56 years ago. Its operations and assets were sold to GEC, run by the dreadful Arnold Weinstock, who believed that research and development was unnecessary, since you can always just buy whatever you want from another firm. Locomotives made in Australia were and are made to designs supplied by overseas parent companies, and using imported technology. There thus never was such a thing as an Australian locomotive, only US or British ones. Unless you believe that, for example, a Triumph 2000 car was Australian because they were assembled by Australian Motor Industries (Toyota) using engines, transmission, etc imported from Britain, the whole car being identical to the British design except for the radio.
@chrishill6276Ай бұрын
And the semis? One taking shit one way. The other taking shit the other. What’s going on here??
@GlendinningEngineeringАй бұрын
Road trains shuttling ore to Port Hedland
@larryjanson4011Ай бұрын
very noisy compared to American rails. but be aware they are not employing crews for these trains any longer. the mine corps are so greedy they do not want to pay humans to drive these mega trains.
@GiveMeSpaceTravel-bg8tdАй бұрын
I think these FMG trains have drivers. Rio Tinto runs driverless trains.