🚆 Long distance cargo cab ride on a fuel train (Cab Ride Switzerland | Olten - St. Margrethen)
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- We‘re sitting in one of total two locomotives in front of a fuel train filled with Diesel and we‘re ready to depart. The train started out in Cossonay in the french part of Switzerland, was handed over to us in Olten Hammer and we‘re taking it to St. Margrethen, all the way in the northeast of Switzerland, very close to the Austrian and German Border at Lake Constance.
A steep grade of 2% awaits us between St. Gallen and St. Margrethen and due to the weight of the train, it can‘t simply be held on speed with the dynamic brakes. Therefore, the trains speed is controlled with the „sawtooth“ braking method: Applying the brakes more than necessary, slowing the train down significantly and then releasing the brakes entirely, so the train slowly gains speed again, the brakes may cool down and recover, then the process is repeated. This is a very common method for heavy trains on steeper grades. The train consists of 20 fuel tank wagons, 10 of them are delivered to St. Margrethen, the other 10 are pulled up the hill again and reach their destination in St. Gallen Winkeln.
Since there was a lot of communication during the shunting sequence at the end of the video, I have muted it and replaced it with music instead. Music credits at the end of this description.
Locomotive: 2x Re 425
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Music in shunting scene:
"My Train's A Comin'" by Unicorn Heads
"Beauty Flow" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Quite a busy rail network.
So schön gewesen die ganze schöne Strecke und als Abschluss noch eine Musikeinlage….
Ich beneide und bedanke mich bei euch Lokführer so, da mein Bubentraum halt immer noch in meinem „Herzen brennt“ mit 65 Jahren! Merci!!
Sehr schön.
Keine Zeit verschwendete Klasse Fahrt und auch das die Rangierfahrten dabei waren!!! Und beruhigend! Jetzt gehts ins Bett.
Dies ist ein hochinteressantes Video von Ihnen!!! Ich habe viele Signaleinstellungen gesehen, die ich so noch nicht kannte! Aber ich bin nach
wie vor der Meinung, dass die Schweiz ein sehr schönes Land ist :-))) Mit den allerbesten Grüßen aus Bad Vöslau in Niederösterreich!
Can I just compliment you on your choice of music at the end - I think this is the first CZcams video I've come across where I wasn't instantly turned deaf by music that is more suited to car alarms. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Haha, glad you liked it. ;-) I can ensure you that this is not my standard though. There was just too much communication going on that I didn't want to be in the video, that is all.
Ein sehr gutes video
Enjoyable ride along even the music at the end lent well with the railroad theme of this video.
Super Mitfahrt. Danke dafür.
Auch ein zweites Mal sehr schön 😊
Thank You for sharing this Beautiful Journey. Completely Love it.
Wieder einmal "großes Kino"!!! Danke für´s hochladen. Interessant zu sehen, wie die Rampenstrecke hinter St. Gallen mit Sägezahnbremsung befahren wird. Eine Rarität ist der "Jail-train" bei 21:33!
Sehr schön und spannend. Da wird mein Traumberuf Lokomotivführer fast etwas Realität.
Ein tolles Video. Danke für die Reise durch die Schweiz !!!
Das ist wieder mal so ein Video von Dir...Was soll man noch sagen? Am besten nichts bis nicht viel und es sich einfach genußvoll reinziehen. Hier filmt ein Könner!
wie immer: GROSSES Kino! 👍👍👍
Fantastic!! Love this video and really enjoy the virtual "ride-a-long". The length was no problem for me.
Super Mitfahrt Daumen nach Oben
Enjoyed it thoroughly. I tend to enjoy longer videos more than short ones.
Muito obrigado, sou fã de seus vídeos, abraços do Brasil.
Long but Awesome thank you for the great ride
I love the dynamic braking! No screeching brakes the whole time!
Vielen Dank für das super tolle Video.Klasse
Very good, watched the whole thing over a few days!
Thanks for sharing this wonderful video !
Veľmi prekrásne natočené video 😃😃😃😃.
Perfektné super 😃😃😃😃.
Srdečne pozdravujem zo Slovenska 😃😃😃😃.
Since the pandemic hit I decided to watch train trip video so if and when travel resumes I can take some of these trip in person so these video offer me a way to scope out these routes
ahead of time, much thanks for posting your train journey online.
Glad you enjoyed it! There are many, many other cab rides on this channel you can watch. ;-)
Great video!!!thank you😊
Très belle video de la suisse et merci pour le travail. Amicalement de la bourgogne en France.
Very nice video. I enjoyed it. Thanks for uploading!
Thank you
Suiza es un gran País y no cabe duda que su maquinaria está bien engrasada.
Por donde uno ve o grúas o fábricas felicitaciones por su trabajo.
Un saludo a los Suizos.
Tolles video. Danke 🙂
Another great train ride in Switzerland
Hello Thank you super vidéo
In person I don't know whether in this life but your video make to have a feel of being their and experience real beauty
Spettacolare video!
Great video! Thanks for sharing and greetings from Finland :)
SUPER !!! LIKE !!!
ottimo lavoro ......
Geniales Video. Die Musik am Schluss ist wenigstens optisch sehr intressant.
I love those BLS monsters, look so old school and a bit steampunk :)
Das schweizerische Schienennetz ist schon gewaltig, Auch geographische sehr interessant, besonders wenn man hauptsächlich "nur" das Strassennetz kennt.
Another excellent production
Die Sägezahnmethode, ein altes Verfahren, auch am Gotthard angewendet!
Die Sägezahnmethode kommt einfach überall da zur Anwendung, wo schwere Züge in einem stärkeren Gefälle gehalten werden müssen
@@RailwayEmotions Da scheint es unter den Schweizer Lokführern unterschiedliche Meinungen zu geben. Ein "alter Gotthard Kutscher" meinte: Wenn wir so am Gotthard gefahren wären, wäre da der Verkehr zusammengebrochen. Er und ein Kollege der gleich schwere Züge bei Cargo führt, bremsen auch solche Schwergewichte" mit der Regulierbremse.
Very interesting !!! Thank you for sharing !!! :):):)
Super parcours. Une très bonne vidéo comme à l'habitude. Le parcours n'est pas facile, mais le conducteur est très bon, avec une conduite tranquille ne demandant pas trop de coups de freins. Les Re 425 demandent de la conduite à l'ancienne, de la vraie conduite. Merci beaucoup et sincères salutations.
Bonjour cette loco a un sons presque comme nos anciennes BB 25500 SNCF peut-être je me trompes et j'ai l'impression que sa doit être la même conduite à l'ancienne mais peut être je me trompes
Great after-party in St. Margarethen. XD
Very byutiful plece
So many corners 🤩
sickest whistle I ever heard.
POWER!!!!
Nice one.
Super long video...nice
[Polish] Ależ w kabinie huk! Zupełnie jak w moim ulubionym dwusuwowym radzieckim dieslu M62/ST44/BR120 na pełnej mocy! :D
[Google translator] What a bang in the cabin! Just like in my favorite Soviet two-stroke diesel (Ivan/Gagarin/Taigatrommel) at full power! : D
Ein sehr gutes video danke
Hello good video 🎥👍
That was a great way to spend Sunday with you on a fuel train!! Very interesting to see the sawtooth braking in action. It was certainly more apparent how severe the gradient was when heading back to St Gallen. What is the ruling grade for that stretch of track? And I am so impressed by the performance of the Re425. Aesthetically, they do not look as if they have that much power yet they remain reliable and cost effective. Where else can we expect to go in your wonderful country and on what type of train? It is always fun to await your next adventure!! Have a good week ahead. 👍🏼
The grade is about 2%, not extremely steep, but long and definitely dangerous if not under control by us.
Where the next video will take us is always a surprise, so stay tuned ;-)
Very interesting and nice video. Beautiful country and well maintained tracks also. Why didn't they drop off the 10 cars in St Gallen right away when they passed through there. Now they pulled all 20 cars to the farthest point and then went back to St Gallen for the remaining cars. Also, this is not a train question, but I noticed in this and other video many Swiss place names that end with -ikon, like Oerlikon for example. I guess local lingo for stream or something? Thanks for posting these videos.
Interesting that motor cars drive on right side of the road and trains on the left. Here in US cars and trains run on right side. Great video. Just love freight over passenger trains. Thanks.
As a former train driver, I can explain this to you:
We also have right-hand traffic on the streets.
It's different on the rails, there is left-hand traffic and that dates back to when the English were still leaders in railway construction because the steam engine and steam locomotive originally came from England (James Watt invented the steam engine)
In the past around 1900 there were still many individual railways in Switzerland until they were later merged into SBB, but left-hand traffic has remained
Als ehemaliger Lokführer kann ich dir das erklähren:
Auf den Strassen haben wir auch Rechts verkehr.
Auf den Schienen ist das anders, da ist Links verkehr und das stammt aus alter Zeit als die Engländer noch führend waren im Eisenbahnbau denn auch die Dampfmaschine und die Dampflok stammen ursprünglich aus England (James Watt erfand die Dampfmaschine)
Also früher so um 1900 gab es in der Schweiz noch viele einzelne Bahnen bis sie später dann zur SBB zusammen geführt wurden, doch der Links verkehr ist geblieben
Motor cars used to drive on the left, and practically over night switched to the right!
Also im Gegensatz zu dem Kollegen aus den USA (siehe unten ) fand ich den Film sehr interessant. Aber die Geschmäcker sind ja bekanntlich verschieden. Ich hoffe, er hat inzwischen den passenden Kanal gefunden. Den gibt es bestimmt. Gute Nacht.
Look how clean and tidy it all is! Unlike UK's Network Rail who must be the worst fly-tippers in the country.
I thought the same!
Let's not forget that it is the British public who do the fly-tipping, not NR. That percentage of Brits who do the tipping are anti-social in their habits and tar the whole population with the same brush - to visitors and residents alike.
Olten Hammer? U can't touch this! I must have missed this one when it first came out. So now we're in one of BLS' brown Re 4/4s then?
Very cool, thanks for posting! First cab view of a freight I've seen. Satisfying trip without all of the passenger station stops. I'm surprised Swiss trains run on the left; I'd have thought it would have been on the right as in the neighboring countries. EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention, It was a highlight of the trip to pass by the Tobler plant. Used to love their butterscotch candies as a kid!
For a neutral Country, they should drive in the center, not left or right! Lol!
They drive on the left because the British built the network and they haven't bothered to change it. On single stretches of track when passing at stations or elsewhere you will find they switch to the right.
Great vid. 2x 50 years old locos about as far away from home rails as they could get. Some new mileage to keep us satisfied. Video first none stop, through Brugg and Baden. Suggest a split into 2 parts in the video at the point the train is split for easier watching.
I've thought about that, but the first part to St. Margrethen already takes so long, the second part would be way too short. And I wanted to show the whole thing in "real time", a proper, long cab ride. I hope you still could enjoy it ;-)
Nice video from the booth greeting Mr. mechanic I greet you from Timisoara
Excellent cab ride -Am I going daft or does the video repeat itself halfway through?
Super schön, grossartig!! Aber, Energie bzw. Strom sparen ?? -> wieso werden 900 Tonnen von St. Gallen Winkeln bergaufwärts auf St. Gallen, dann hinunter nach St. Margrethen, wiederum auf nach St. Gallen und abwärts nach St. Gallen Winkeln geführt ?? Hier hätte die 165 Meter auf die Abstellgeleise "parkieren" können das sowieso auch noch einen Traktor vorhanden ist (Zeit = 2:09)
Sehr schönes Video zum geniessen.😎👍
Darf ich fragen, welche Lok du lieber fährst? Die Re 4/4 II oder die Re 425?
Oder welche fährt sich besser...😃
(Fast) jede Maschine hat ihren Reiz, die 420er ist bei schlechtem Wetter aber sicher die bessere Wahl.
Echt schön diese Fahrt
Mich würde es mal Wundern was man als Lokfürer so alles Machen muss
Wäre es mal möglich eine Kamera beim Bauch zu haben und sehen welche Knöpfe Tasten etc. So gedrückt werden einer Fahrt
Sorry, aber das wird leider nicht passieren.
Boa noite. Muito bom o vídeo. Só não entendi o porque ir até aquela estação para depois voltar, sendo que já tinha passado por essa?.
Another well-made video traversing the various Cantons of Switzerland. Extremely enjoyable for a wet Saturday afternoon. 2 chocolate biscuits and a cup of coffee - yes! As ever I saw things I can't work out, so the track-side signs at 43'07, 21 and 27, I presume, have to do with the overhead catenary, but what do they instruct a driver to do?
They show a protective section where two different overhead lines come together. We must turn the main circuit breaker off and coast through that section, in order to avoid pulling a spark.
@@RailwayEmotions Mmm, fried pantograph. Not something to have on a CV!
Thank you for another very good video. Am I correct in thinking that you are the only crew member responsible for two locomotives and 2000 tonnes of cargo? It's a big responsibility for one person! I will have to watch it again to sort out any other questions.
Yes, we‘re usually all alone during the trips.
If you can do longer that would be great only if you like 😁
Reached at Wil SG..
Extremely interesting video. May I ask you, how come BLS motive power operates so far from it home base. Moreover, after detaching them in St. Gallen Winkeln, how they return to the home teritory. I assume that you are SBB driver, so how come you operate BLS locos. Thanks and best regards.
Any railway company may apply for open offers, if they are successful, they drive it, quite simple. BLS operates around almost all of Switzerland. Also a driver can work at multiple companies or help out temporarily.
Locomotives stay there, engineer takes a passenger train home. Next engineer arrives with a passenger train, picks the locos up and does the same thing the other way around.
@@RailwayEmotions Many thanks and my best regards.
Fantastic video and lovely journey. Thank you for uploading. Where did these locos go at the end of the video?
They stay there until the next service departs, I think it was in the evening.
i would have like seeing the dashboard and you acting ; also seeing more of those wonderful brown locomotives and there unusual semi front access. thank you.
And what kind of wooden booths on long poles are sometimes found along the railway ? One of these caught at 3:17:46.
2:24:27 - 2:25:16 Auf der rechten Seite sieht man noch die alte eingleisige Streckenführung. Aufgrund von Hangabsenkungen führt die Strecke nun über das im Jahre 1982 eröffnete Galgentobel Viadukt.
Nice video. Have subscribe to your channel.
LIKE.
It was early morning when it was shot? Almost no people on streets.
Excellent video. Why did you not leave half the train somewhere in the St. Gallen area and go back and deliver it later? It would have saved a lot of energy not taking it all the way to St. Margrethen and dragging it back up the hill.
It is not possible to deliver the tankers from the side we came from, since there is no switch from that direction. Uncoupling, leaving them somewhere and coupling again takes a lot of time and also capacity on the infrastructure. It is much easier to just haul them around.
Apparently that facility at 35:10 is the Abwassereinigungsanlage Turgi. I'm not sure what it does, but it sure sounds impressive
Sewage treatment works \m/
The theme of brakeforce leads me to ask about braking ratio you always quote at the start of your clips - is it merely based on friction brakes or is a percentage of the dynamic capability factored in? \//\
That depends on the train type, but dynamic brakes will fail when the main switch turns off or the catenary is left without voltage. It rarely happens, but it can happen, so whenever the dynamic brakes are calculated in, there must be a safety net in form of another brake technology.
Let's see the train video
That was a great ride! Thank you. If you were serious about questions, I have some. If you are a train driver in Switzerland, are you qualified on all the lines? Is all the dispatching done from one central location, and if so, how many dispatchers are on during one shift? When you are done with a trip like this, do you stay in the town where you tied the train up or take a train home? I assume you are alone in the cab, but when you are shunting, is there always a switchman to help? Does a dispatcher ever make a mistake and send you down the wrong line, or is there a system to prevent that? Some signals have a large number underneath that usually says 6 or 8...what do they mean? Answer none, any or all. I'm really enjoying travelling with you! I worked on the railroad here in the U.S. and am fascinated by your amazing system. Steve (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
That’s quite a few questions. Yes, I am a train driver, and no, I am not qualified on „all“ lines, because nobody is. Depending on where a driver works, he or she has route knowledge for certain parts of the country. Some drivers are quite local, others drive through the whole country, but no one drives everywhere. I assume by dispatcher you mean signalmen, so I‘ll answer accordingly. There are four central signal boxes in Switzerland, but some stations are still controlled locally. I don‘t know how many signalmen are in duty at the same time, but probably a lot. They can make mistakes, but it very rarely happens to be sent down the wrong line. In 99% of our shifts we sleep at home. We either take the train back to the depot or we‘re simply passengers in a public passenger train that brings us home. Switzerland is small, most of us spend their nights in their own bed. Yes we are alone in the cab and when we‘re shunting backwards, there‘s always someone at the back guiding us, it wouldn‘t work otherwise. The number underneath the signals shows the allowed speed x10 in km/h. I guess that should‘ve answered most... ;-)
@@RailwayEmotions thank you! Is this like your signalman? www.gatewaynmra.org/2000/union-pacific-omaha-harriman-dispatch-center/
Pretty much, yes. Watch this and you'll know! czcams.com/video/4pdnDLbLQJY/video.html
These engine and the horn are very similar to what we have in India.
Railway emotions, can you edit the beginning of the movie and put a map of the railroads to be taken ?!
I wanted to do it a long time ago, but there are copyright issues when using third party content, like maps. I recommend you use open railway map to follow the trip.
@@RailwayEmotions Are there copyright issues as well with > map.geo.admin.ch/ ? I use them on my laptop parallel to your video's to get situational awareness.
Congratulations!
00:23 Olten Hammer
03:38 Olten
07:51 Dulliken
10:11 Däniken
12:22 Schönenwerd
15:34 Aarau
22:19 Rupperswil
24:45 Wildegg
25:53 Holderbank
27:41 Schinznach Bad
31:23 Brugg
34:19 Turgi
38:10 Baden
40:52 Wettingen
44:52 Würenlos
47:09 Otelfingen
47:50 Otelfingen Golfpark
49:34 Buchs-Dällikon
51:37 Regensdorf-Watt
53:53 Zürich Affoltern
55:44 Zürich Seebach
1:07:13 Opfikon
1:08:38 Kloten Balsberg
1:09:51 Kloten
1:15:42 Bassersdorf
1:19:34 Effretikon
1:22:29 Kemptthal
1:27:00 Winterthur
1:30:32 Winterthur Grüze
1:31:42 Winterthur Hegi
1:33:06 Räterschen
1:33:55 Schottikon
1:37:27 Elgg
1:39:50 Aadorf
1:41:33 Guntershausen
1:44:19 Eschlikon
1:47:23 Sirnach
1:50:01 Wil
1:52:53 Schwarzenbach
1:55:44 Algetshausen-Henau
1:57:57 Uzwil
2:02:11 Flawil
2:05:58 Gossau
2:09:11 St. Gallen Winkeln
2:11:52 St. Gallen Bruggen
2:16:07 St. Gallen
2:19:27 St. Gallen St. Fiden
2:26:36 Mörschwil
2:32:23 Goldach
2:34:23 Rorschach Stadt
2:36:02 Rorschach
2:37:54 Staad
2:41:35 Rheineck
2:45:52 St. Margrethen
2:53:03 St. Margrethen
2:58:30 Rheineck
3:02:34 Staad
3:06:37 Rorschach
3:08:20 Rorschach Stadt
3:09:40 Goldach
3:14:30 Mörschwil
3:20:41 St. Gallen St. Fiden
3:23:06 St. Gallen
3:26:16 St. Gallen Bruggen
3:28:45 St. Gallen Winkeln
I’ve been watching train vids for a while now and I really appreciate the timetables. Rock on, buddy. Happy trails
02:05:44 Aaarrrgghh!! Dead bug on the windscreen is creeping me out! Thank goodness it dried up and blew away at 02:06:53. :o
on every station almost in UK you see Train Spotters with their Cameras and note book and chocolate bar at the ready :) Swiss we see none of this. is This because people have jobs in Switzerland?
What happens afterwards? Is there a load/empties for you to take back? Or do you leave the engines there and catch the train home? One other question if I may ... do you know about trips like this ahead of time or only when you get in on the day?
Locomotives stay there, engineer takes a passenger train home. Next engineer arrives with a passenger train, picks the locos up and does the same thing the other way around. No, we always know at least one day ahead what we're doing. Anything else wouldn't work.
I see I'll have to add an important detail: There are so called "reserve" schedules, where you stay at the station during defined times (for example, 3am - 11am) and whenever someone gets sick, comes late, whatever might happen, the reservist is there and can help out. The working hours are of course defined, but anything can happen during these schedules, from sitting around doing nothing to receiving a full tour.
Belle vidéo! Est ce possible d avoir les sous titre en français! Cordialement
Malheureusement non, parce-que mon français est seulement à un niveau moyen, anglais est la langue du monde et la majorité des spectateurs ici parlent anglais. Aussi, j'ai simplement pas suffisant d'espace dans les vidéos pour mettre plus de texte. C'est la même chose pour italien.
@@RailwayEmotions C'est vrai que la langue française n'est une des langues officielles de la Suisse que depuis 1848 et qu'elle n'est parlée que par 18 % de la population helvétique
Abermals viele Dank,haette 2 Fragen. Sind Schweizer Lokfuehrer alle bei der SBB oder bei der BLS in Dienst. Warum haengt man die 10 Wagen schon bei der Hinfahrt nach st.Margrethen in Winkeln ab. Haetten Sie eine Lehrfahrt zueruck.
Es gibt auch andere Privatbahnen wo man als Lokführer arbeiten kann.
Das Tanklager Winkeln lässt sich nur von Seite St. Gallen her bedienen. Daher nimmt man den ganzen Tross mit und zieht den Rest wieder hoch. Dazwischen abhängen ist dann wieder eine Zeit- und Kapazitätsfrage und daher wird darauf verzichtet.
@@RailwayEmotions Dankeschoen fuer die erklaerung.
Do you get an in cab signal of upcoming switches?
No
1:24:57 as bayrakları as as :D
Welles isch die beschti Lok zum Fahre?
Solange sie zuverlässig fahren, sind alle gut ;-)