Amtrak Blows The Doors Off CSX Train at 80 MPH
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From what I could find online, an Amtrak car is 85 feet long. There are 13 cars and 2 engines. If we go with 425 yards total length, it should take about 11 seconds for the train to pass the cameraman. It looks like it passes in about 11 seconds. It's going close to 80 mph.
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.
Was I the only one waiting for a door to fall off?
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
80? COME ON MAN! It's like watching snails race!
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...
Worked as a Conductor on BNSF for years. Trust me, CSX is going about 20 mph at best and Amtrak is moving around 30 mph - 35 mph. If there’s any doubt, simply look at the cattle catcher and find a shadow on the ground. Watch how long it takes CSX to reach the shadow across the rail.
ya.... thats not 80
35-45...
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i live on the "hi line" and watch them MOVE out here in NE montana flat lands
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that whole train would be past in about 2 seconds if it was at 80
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and sometimes they run a little "hotter" than 80 out here.....
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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.
80 mph? I'll never get those 30 seconds back🤨
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
No doors were harmed during the filming of this video.
Lmao
Its a term used in racing. 😂 means you got smoked. Another term in racing. Means you got dusted. Another term in racing means.......
Welcome to the 1930's folks. Meanwhile other countries actually invest in thier rail transit infrastructure and have real high speed rail. 😳
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 renting Amtrak the tracks it’s running on
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
80? This feels like 10 Miles!
Am I the only one who notices the blood on the left side of the bull guard? I think that Amtrak seen a few deer pretty recent ago.
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.
The other train was pulling a very heavy load compared to passengers ..
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...
Freight trains, like the one with those containers, are usually restricted to lower speeds due to the sheer amount of weight, and therefore momentum, involved. Remember, you have to somehow stop the train as required.
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
And the Amtrak train is still late
THAT PART😂
Because freight held it up
😂 on time now
Well this short wasn’t short enough.
Then you can leave
How the tracks are close together and no side swipe each other, Amazing!
Just a small weight difference in those trains....
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
The CSX is pulling way more weight than the Amtrak. Of course he's going to pass it.
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
If I didn’t know WWOT well enough I’d guess this is satire…
But unfortunately, he either truly believes this train, which others have correctly estimated to be going about 30-35 mph, is actually going 80, or he simply does not care about misleading viewers.
Of that's 80mph and "blowing the doors off of the other train", then I'm elon musk...
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.
Legend has it that it is STILL blowing the doors off that CSX 😮
Yep because that CSX super-freighter is guessing 1 to 2 miles long LOL.
I guess if you’re a train nerd watching one train pass another is exciting stuff.
The CSX is pulling freight vs Amtrak who is pulling passengers. It's recommended to go at slower speeds with freight.
We call that a wheelchair race
Except that trains are extremely heavy so it actually makes sense that they go slow
Agreed! 😂
In Germany we call this "Langsamfahrstelle" when the train can only go 80 mph
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
Looks like there's a bit of blood on the castle guard of the Amtrak
So I'm not the only one that noticed that.
A small splatter. Some poor dear
a deer that once was
What was once a deer…
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 .
The Amtrak eases by that CSX like an old man eases into a hot tub of water
Amtrak not pulling 5,000 trailing tons
Wow, America's H S R ( High Speed Rail ) , very impressive...
Come in France..
@@Croco140 Now that's what I'm talking about...
@@Croco140japans is better
@@ShawnLamont1997 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.
who else😁 thought this a waste of time
Rode amtrak all around the country and either passing a freight in the same or opposite direction or a freight passing us....is always a prayer moment. The trains being that close...smh.
Riding Amtrak cross country is on my bucket list
It's wonderful to see those cargo containers on rails! Each one, is a tractor trailer, kept off our roads and highways!!
Well you obviously don't know how those containers work. Lol.
More like a leaning out of the window and gently tapping on the door .
The Amtrak really wanted to be Steve rogers by passing the CSX on the left
Oh wow!! Csx and Amtrak train race, this looks like fun! Nice job wwot, I had a busy Saturday and Sunday because a fun birthday party I went to
50 at best lol
100% because at 80 on that curve would have tipped the train.
The camera was super zoomed in and made the curve look small
You are a person who doesn't know what this is. This is no race. The momentum of the freight train ( if you've ever worked on the railroad- which you haven't) must stay moving. So it is allowing itself to slow roll. It takes forever to start that train from a dead start. It's probably over a mile long. Then the passenger train passes it at that speed before the siding that that freight train is in comes to end. After the pass the switch it must go through is thrown and the CSX goes back to speed. Which can be 80mph.
The Amtrack was going faster than the freight, but it was not doing anywhere close to 80. More like 30 or 40.
So is no one gonna talk about the red stuff on the snowplow of the Amtrak unit?
This is that illusory effect, where a large object coming at you seems to be moving a LOT slower than it ACTUALLY IS.
Yes true A bird moving at the same speed would seem to be a lot faster
When American trains start traveling as fast as French or Japanese ones, then come back and tell us about “fast.”
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.
Crept up on him and snuck past ! (SIDLED RIGHT BY!)
Love how it looks like the Amtrak is kind of creeping up on the CSX at first, like “Hey, whatcha doin there? Hey. Hey.” And then as soon as the locomotive is able to pass, it picks up speed enough for it to reach nearly 80 mph by the time it reaches the bridge
Amtrak racing with csx
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 !!!!
The remarkable thing is that the Amtrak is probably at least 45 minutes behind schedule thanks to being caught behind freight traffic.
That was awesome dude!
Thats your typical “priority train sequencing “ . When the trains are input into the CAD, the computer system will recognize the train by its designation and the system literally takes over keeping in mind this is an automated “CTC” centralized traffic system “ that csx has been installing and upgrading for years……any track any time and any direction……ms~~~
Now we just need real trains. Babies first train set getting old
The Zephyr from Silver Streak 1935 made it's revenge, outrunning the old Freight train after 87 years.
i love these 1:1 scale model trains
Did anyone notice the blood on the amtrak train
😮
Probably a Deer.
Brings back memories of my father with conrail
EXPRESS COMIN' THROUGH!! 🚂🚃🚃🚃
CSX INTERMODAL VS AMTRAK best fight ever
if that is 80 miles an hour, then i am a pterodactyl named Shawn.
Hey Shawn, Go read the first comment to see why its going 80
I really like the part where the freight trains "doors come off".
Slowest 80mph I've ever seen.
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.
I'm glad the doors where closed and not blown off for real,
"WANNA DRAG?" Said The AmtrakTrain
was waiting for doors to come off and hit the amtrack
And cause it to wreck, lol (not really, it was a passenger train)
yeah I can see the people flying around inside the Amtrak train
We took it to literally when he said “blew off the door-handle”
Awesome Amtrak and CSX race!
I feel the need. The need, for SPEEEEEED!!!!!!
55 mph vs 10 mph = No doors blown off. 🤣
80 vs 40
Probably the CSX cab door was not latched and slammed shut by the passing Amtrak train Due to buffeting 🙁
America’s “high speed rail” service
Amtrak and CSX, reunited
I saw no doors blowing, but I'm listening to the band doors
It's a Expression
Title should be: "Slow diesel-hauled freight train overtaken by slightly faster diesel-hauled passenger train".
Yep better title
Love the Conrail caboose.... you don't see cabooses anymore, let alone a Conrail paint scheme.
Passing shadows on the Amtrak loco showing the speed of passing !!!
Nowhere near 80mph, 45-50 tops. Look at it.
If that’s 80mph, I can beat Usain Bolt without breaking a sweat
That freight train has WAY MORE weight than the Amtrak train does! So it’s like comparing apples to oranges!
No doors was harmed in the making of this video.
I think you meant 30 miles an hour that Amtrak train wasn't coming close to 80 You could see birds flying around so I thought maybe you had it and slow motion but I see you were rolling it at full frames.
45 tops! 🤣
*4.5
Wide world of trains I love ur videos they are amazing
Thanks 😊
This was deliberate to get the passenger train in front of the long train with cargo.
That's the slowest 80MPH I've ever seen
The number of people who don't understand this actually is 80mph is EXACTLY why people still get hit by trains
At a distance head on, this large of an object seems stationary, but if the camera man had been beside the tracks the speed would have been much more clear.
Regardless, that train actually is going 80 ish, there's another commenter who did a great job breaking down the math.
Just like the moon. It looks like it's still but it's actually going 2200 miles per hour.
No door's being blown off here, not like a Bugatti doing 250 mph going past a VW beetle.
Its an old saying
A Bugatti? How old is that?
Only a North American could regard that as fast.
The Cheltenham Flyer was averaging 80 in the thirties.
80 mph into a curve might explain why their safety record is questionable
ummm was that blood on Amtrak
Hey, I know it looks like they are barely moving but it’s because he’s zoomed all the way in and because you can hear him walking so it gives the impression they are barely moving. However, if you watch the shadows on the Amtrak train, your eyes will be convinced it’s moving at a respectable speed.
Well said
I thought that was 20 until he zoomed out
US rail regulations stipulate that freight trains can only run at 60MPH on any stretch of rail that will allow high speed, this dose not affect Amtrak passenger trains which are allowed to run as fast as the rail line and conditions can handle, so this is no surprise.
Freight owns the track Amtrak pulls over for Freight buy airline ticket.
When amtrak get mad Because always delayed by a Freight Train
“Out of my way, Express coming through”
The perspective of the camera with the zoom made it look like the video title was a complete lie, or that it was being sarcastic. I thought they were both going less than like 20 mph
It's so zoomed in, it makes them look like I can walk faster than them.
I think they’re just going that slow, look at the speed of the shadows in reference to the objects by the tracks
Actual title: "one train very slowly passes another train over the period of 1-2 minutes"
Very nice work that's pretty neat keep up the good work
80mph speed for a passenger train in Europe is the equivalent of a local suburban train ! To be considered a FAST TRAIN , the speed must be at least twice faster and , in most cases even THREE times , like in Italy , France and Japan😂😂😂
no door harm in the making of this video..
CSX: How do u go u so fast?🙄
Amtrak: This is normal, u are just too slow.😏
I'm LMAO, Amtrak get to show off for a few minutes doing 80 , when in reality that's the minimum it should be doing. Uncle should get a speeding ticket for failing the US , I'm going into a siding, before my mouth derails.
Am I supposed to be surprised that a passenger train can run faster that a fully loaded freight train? Come, on.
Meanwhile most other countries in the world are at anything between 125mph and 200mph