Oooh that's not good......oh....wha....jee....ba.. .shit.....

Exactly the same

Same here...

This is a pantograph monitoring train in Germany

Catenaires as well here.

Same here

There's a massive amount of force pulling on the overhead wires, unless they completely snap, it's rare to come down so far that the general public can touch them. In The Netherlands there's a ton (kilograms) of force on each wire (and since we use 2 wires, 2 tons) by using 500 kilo's of weight on each wire at each segment's end. We use extra wires to hang the driving wire at the correct height however at stations and crossing, to prevent the possibility that a wire snapping could make the conductor reach unsafe heights. A garbage truck pulled down the overhead wire system on a 2 track crossing down with it's extended boom, and due to the massive force pulling on the wire segments, these went flying, and struck someone against her forehead (luckily the security systems at that moment had already cut power, which on our regular overhead system is at 1500VDC). The part that snapped back to the position of the platform the crossing was situated next to however was still not hanging far down enough for the general public (who at first was still allowed to enter the platform, which was a bit odd) to be even capable of getting close enough to it to touch it, so even though the violent event (that disrupted train traffic for 3 days) caused massive damage, the extra support wiring did what it was supposed to do. Concering the video: Fairly sure after the biggest explosion, security systems intervened and cut power.

This is definitely quality locomotive.

It could be there's a second pickup on a different carriage (or maybe even the front of the locomotive, not sure what train type this was, some trains don't use locomotives, but use motor cars that also fit passengers) and it was this pantograph that hit the structure that holds the conductor up in the air. Given the camera footage, this was probably a test of either a new track, or to test a new system that should make a pantograph snap like it does in the video to prevent much more damage (we stopped using double pantographs in The Netherlands because if they hooked behind a part of the overhead wiring system, the damage typically was much greater because the system made it spring up, and not bent backwards and snap, along with the danger of the pantograph getting ripped of the roof of the train if this happened).

most countries use it but i am. guessing this video is older

@@gijs.22 this one has this system as well, this was just done for testing purposes

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15 000 Volts!

Actually it's KFB.....Ka Frickin Boom!

It could've been the driver noticed sparks at a time he was not expecting them (not crossing a block section insulator, no cold weather with freezing conditions that can make the overhead wires draw sparks between the pantograph like crazy). Next to that, it would also have caused the voltage and amp-meter in his locomotive to start bouncing around, so he might have first wondered if the wiring system somewhere snapped for whatever reason (causing shorts, obviously, and as a result, massive voltage drops) but as soon as the driver noticed that it was his pantograph that was sparking and decided to immediately drop it. I'm not sure about freight train locomotives, but I know that passenger trains can run without overhead wires present with lowered pantographs (some bridges that can be opened don't have overhead wiring present) without the emergency brake being applied immediately, but it could be that that's because the driver explicitly requests his train to not act on the loss of power, and since in the case of the freight train the driver was not expecting such a situation, the brakes went on. Since I take it you were in Amsterdam Central Station, freight trains usually are not allowed to drive fast there, so they stop reasonably quickly as well (along with freight trains having to be shorter because of block-section safety requiring them to be so as to not occupy a full rail section and disrupt passenger train traffic, what makes up the most of the rail network here)

Amen to that

Germany (which I think this video is from) uses a system that uses a wire that holds the conductor. It can look very complicated at big stations, and requires a different way of insulating different sections from each other to be capable of doing maintenance. The support wires, especially on big stations tend to be strung between massive poles, with 1 horizontally straight wire and a wire above it in a curve, both connected to the big poles on either side of the track. These wires are not running along the track, but over it at a 90 degree angle when seen from the top. I think this was a test to check what would happen if the pantograph hits a piece of the support structure, or to test a new system that should make a pantograph snap in the way it does in the video, to see if it results in less damage than other types of failover states that pantographs have used. The overhead wiring system in Germany by the way runs on 15kV at 16 2/3Hz, which is also why some of their installations differ from more ehm, regular AC setups.

This is only a test of pantograph damage than an 'accident' hens the camera and shear damage.

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@@AkomishTiddies True. That's crazy!

*NOW THATS A LOTTA DAMAGE*

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