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not only you lucky to film that system, we also feel lucky to see all behind the scene mechanism of gondola. thanks from india

Having been on the PS Waverley, the world's last seagoing paddlesteamer (this one is a lake steamer), countless times I can't help but notice how comparatively clean and pristine this vessel is.

Wow I had no idea. I worked at 3 different ski resorts, cat operator. I never knew,,Thank you,,awesome video

Beautiful.

13:03 GWh maybe but not GW.

This ship is 116 years old 😱

Great video again, loved it

There are plenty of nations that are electrified enough to use these (if they have the right gage) hope the find new homes beyond the scrapper's magnet

Thank you, Sandro, for a very interesting video. Do you know when the RE425s will actually finish? Best regards from the Ian, in the UK 🇬🇧.

What a fabulous video with many interesting facts. Thank you regards Ian, UK 🇬🇧.

Thank you for this video. ive always wondered how this type of lift works as it has no clear visible grip. Just one question tho: wont this ruin the rope line? like slowly damage the rope and make it thinner/weaker at some spots due to the friction when it attach?

Such a shame to scrap a good loco a lot of British electric locos redundant by new vehicles have been exported to eastern Europe and still giving great service in a new country

Its so sad they didn't replace them with self-powered locomotives and scrap those hideous power lines. Them newer locos look even worse. It would greatly improve the experience not seeing a power electric pole every 50 feet. I would rather take the bus.

Don't shout, man.

mate, this makes perfect sense. in your context.

I don't know how I found your channel but I am so thankful that I did!

I got to watch this later. There's also the Eurostar between the UK and France and the overnight auto train between Washington and Orlando.

First time here. WHY do you SHOUT?

Great film thanks 👍

Great video. I've ridden behind them year's ago and enjoyed it. Efficiency is very important but so is history. I hope the keep some around for special trips and museums.

Thank you... 🚩🔱🇮🇳🔥⚔️🛡

Way can't they just modernize the inside of it instead of scrapping the whole locomotive?! That would be way cooler then replacing it with a new boring modern locomotive.

Thanks for that detailed video. I have worked with heavy haul iron ore trains as a professional engineer in Australia and I have also travelled on the Swiss SBB rail passenger trains which amazed me with their smoothness and very low noise level. This video was perfect for me.

damn, still has 19th century drawhooks as couplers?

deine tension ist eigentlich voltage.... ;P

As someone who understands (European) languages quickly, and who's been exposed to German from a young age... Schwyzerdütsch is not exactly easy to grasp.

Surely one will be put in a museum?

Interesting that movement orders are verbal and not written. The signal system must be the formal control.

0:22 it's supposed to say "sex" isnt it

Thank you for a wonderful video, the old tech is really interesting

How many jokes have been made over the decades of a train having a steering wheel.

Living in the U.S. I can only dream about something amazing like this. We have the most idiotic car centric transportation system based on egos (huge pickup trucks). This is intelligent engineering and planning. Thank you Switzerland for showing the world what intelligent transportation engineering looks like.

Someone sent me this video and it's so interesting! Watched some of the other videos too and it's so fascinating to see how these marvels of engineering work. I loved the steam boat one especially. Great channel Sandro!

another piece of my nostalgia disappears

The underground funicular that I am familiar with is Zermatt's Sunegga Expreß.

Thank you for the look round this beautiful locomotive which is sorely missed having hauled me over the Lötschberg bahn quite a few times since 1981. The lokomotivführer has a really thick accent!

3:32 - that would be PASSENGER train... I guess that LKW/ PKW naming convention just kicked in...? ;-) Also, I'd consider changing the intro shooting angle - for me, a viewer, it feels as if I were a rabbit (or a rat) in a hole being greeted by a hunting dog (cat)... Why not "eye level" camera position? 5:21 - "Spannung" is indeed "tension", but "voltage" would be more accurate translation in the context of "electricity" (or "electrical potential difference") - so "carrying a current of 15 kV voltage, AC at 16 POINT 7 Hz". Again, not "wrong", but then not quite "right" either; the "dot" is the mark, when placed at the end of a sentence is called "full stop", when used as decimal point then it is, well, a point ;-) Now, I know this is "about trains and locos", not "about English", but using language patterns and phraseology of foreign language when speaking it does help to convey the message, I'd say. Also, I'm not going to point all of these "carbon copy expressions" as I'm mostly skipping through this video (so I will surely miss most of them) and at any rate I'm not going to make fun of this - that earlier remark was meant merely to "point an issue" (or "provide a feedback"), and nothing more. Also, I'm not a native English speaker either, so I do understand how it works, and I do make, sometimes, similar mistakes. Cheers!

Oh, man! All those monitors! My two wide-screen monitor set up is so inadequate.

This is so similar to the EL14 we have in Norway, only it is even more powerful. I have 1000's.of hours driving it. It was based on the Swiss Ae6/6 and bears many similarities.

Why didn’t you get the Indian guy to introduce himself?

i assume an example is to be preserved? i remember the rail shuttles in Switzerland fromy my only visit they were very fun :^)

Are they going to preserve one?

Today, recuperation (electricity return to the line) is probably a question of a software update :) Still Im surprised that it is not worth the upgrade.. Maybe the motors in brake mode have some crazy parameters that are difficult to change to the line parameters ?

the vid isnt here anymore but the step shwitch of a old ae 7/14 was shown while working .... it had special spark channels to disperse of the sparks while switching the power to the engines and boy oh boy that were sparks like lightning ...

lol I built the replacement bogie for this funicular xD

Really good footage and technical detail. As a locomotive engineer myself, it was interesting for me to note that the brake gear was of Davies and Metcalfe manufacture, much used in British railway locomotives, and superior (in my opinion) to Westinghouse equipment.

What language are you guys speaking in video? It's not German?

Great content!

instantly subscribed from the first minute alone

The old locos really have the charm, the newer locos remind me of a jelly mould !