[HD] Monsters of Virginia: 200+ Cars, 12+ Locomotives, and More; November 2015
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- čas přidán 14. 11. 2015
- This Video Features some rather interesting Catches over the course of a couple of weeks in Virginia. In some of the first clips, you will see a 14 locomotive Lite Engine Movement heading to Cumberland, Maryland. The next few shots are of a few large trains, including a couple of ~165 car trains, one of which was at Ashland Train Day. There is also a Q400 shown with 12 locomotives, but a rather short train. After that, you will come across what is the largest train I have ever encountered. Q416-10 on November 10th was a monstrous 850 axles, 9 Locomotives, 201 cars, and 12,100 feet! The last clip is of a 176 car Q416 which had just two locomotives on the head end, both working hard to pull that monster train! Hope Everyone Enjoys!!!
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Thanks airing and sharing the outstanding video with magnificent locomotives.Endeavors are prominent.Bliss
*Nice Catches ❤😊*
This is the best video 👍👍👍
Beautiful video. Pura Vida from Costa Rica.
97 cars in total with along 10 locomotive engines 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
Great catches
Awesome! I've seen some big trains but the one at train day was huge, both the Q416 and Q401 that day were two of my largest. Great job.
VCUrailfan15 productions ,
At 1:25, the train has a total power of 4400+3000+4000+4400+2000+4400+3000+4000+4000+2000 = 35 200 hp or almost 26 MW with 10 locomotives.
The Swiss do more than 27 MW with only three locomotives, two Re 620 and one Re 410.
Can't compare electric locomotives with diesel ones tho.
@@edkode why ?
Awesome shot in Doswell! I was just there a few days ago and spent 2 nights there where I could see the trains from my bed. lol
I like ta model em' this SAME way ... "NEVER under 100 cars EVER". GREAT CLIP !!
Now that's a MEGA train!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good stuff TY. Increadible steep grate on the one scene.
Very interesting video!
Standing in the rain :)
The first one was a power move!
Fantastic video, very impressive!
+benchedthatpiece Thanks!
GREAT!!!!
So big train.. Love it
I like you camera work. you don't keep panning the camera back and forth. my favorite thing to do as I watch a train go by is to count the cars. I very much like your video style. Thank you
awesom lashups!!! great video
Thank ya!
your welcome
nice video
Very nice!
j es pair voir sa au moins une fois dans ma vie !!!
Super video thanks
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Looks like you caught CSX doing what they occasionally have to do: Power move unused power and shift MT cars where they are needed. Trains that long - even on pool table flat Tidewater terrain - would have DP if there were any weight on the train.
Cask car at 20:14. Nice catch !! 😱😱
10:23 *I Added 8 6 Axle GE & 1 EMD Engine And 3 4 Axle EMD Engines The Total Number Of Axles Is 714*
Nice video
3:04 nice rock island hopper!
CSX 811 has the best K5LA I've ever heard
Yas bud
Why are there only shunting locomotives, not proper line ones?
194 wagons 2 machines ... !le 03/02/18 Un bonjour de FRANCE
I would loved to have seen Montana!
I think the last train needs a Mid DPU or an engine on the rear.
Wow, that's amazing. 164 cars on the second one! The only train we ever get through here is always 4 diesels, no more, no less, and is usually around 50 cars, sometimes 40s, sometimes 70s. Once it was 102 cars, but I don't think it had any more than 4 engines on it.
Even more amazing is that there's not a caboose to be seen, and they run these things with nothing but an engineer and a couple of brakemen. How can they even know when they've cleared a switch, unless they drop a brakeman off and make him wait. I guess you'd have to do that anyway, but that's a hell of a hike back to the locomotive! No-one at all watching the rear end of the train; you could loose the last 50 cars in a pileup all across both tracks, and not even notice until the brakes kick in! And how do the couplers on the cars on the head stand the strain? Think of the force exerted on the pins, knuckles and running rigging of the couplers on the head end of the train. Amazing to think about. They used to complain about pulled couplers and busted knuckles back when they were pulling 90 car trains, and those cars were about half the weight of these ones! But think of all the money they save on personnel. Always the biggest expense and the first to go; I was reading about the glee with which the railroads were able to "let go" about 4/5ths or more of their maintenance force when they switched to diesels. What a happy saving that was for them. Not very happy for all the men who lost their jobs, but oh well. And then the firemen. And the conductors. Half the brakemen. No more passenger service to worry about; now they can hire the bare minimum to maintain the track with automated machines, and run each 150 car train with a pair of men (or a single engineer, all alone; such was the case in the Lac Megantic disaster).
I think trains are more interesting coming toward me than going away from me. Trains in the dark are... too dark. Interesting choice of subject for the radio traffic scene, I usually just point the camera at my shoes. Your secrets are safe with me, all that coded yellow lettering looks like a secret rocket fuel formula.
Filmed trains in the dark are pretty boring. In person, they are a great deal more exciting. Big huge, dark shapes bulling past, buffeting you with the wind, shaking the ground, squealing and rattling, rushing by one after the next. You can't see the end of the train until you glimpse the red of the flasher glinting on the rails. The locomotives are big, ponderous, long shadows, rumbling away and hissing and popping, faintly lit up all along their length by running lights, except the big headlight peering down the rails like a shaft from a ponderous brow. The diesels shake the ground; that's how you can hear them miles out of town. They sit across the river in the dark, a line of lights along the track, idling like dangerous, powerful beasts, and the air vibrates in the dark when they open the throttles. Or you hear them miles away sounding their horn or making the grade in the silent night at 2AM; you don't hardly hear them at all in the daytime with traffic and whatnot drowning everything out. At night it's different.
Kel Harper
I'm from southwest Virginia & i remember as a kid seems like no matter when I woke up in the middle of the night I would hear a train blowing it's horn in the distance.
There was 14 I counted but awesome video
The Cumberland train was running out of Richmond? Or where? [AWESOME postings!!!]
My t fine. Thanks
" we can go to taco bell" and come back. Lol
The biggest train on csx I’ve ever seen was 212 cars. They need to run a dpu or helper in these massive consists. In Baltimore they tried to start a big heavy train with all power on the front and it string lined right off the bridge and into the road.
Q401 needs to pick up a cut of cars and put it where the end of train device is located on the coupler and put the cars right where the last car is.
I only counted 10 units
Can someone tell me how they connect multiple locomotives and synchronize the power between them so well? If one locomotive wasn't pulling the same amount as the others wouldn't that make it more of a burden on the other locomotives pulling/pushing against it or at the least make It useless in the lineup? I have wondered this for years.
They 'MU' locomotives together, so they will work in sync so to speak. While they all have different horsepowers, they'll still work together to pull a train just fine.
They are all computerized and connected together so when you open the throttle in one, it opens it the same in all of them. I imagine these days that you can even basically open the throttle of your 4,000hp diesel to 75%, or 3,000hp, and have the MU'd 5,000hp automatically open to 3,000hp as well. I'd guarantee that they wouldn't let a MU unit put out _more_ power than the controlling unit. Less perhaps. Because it doesn't really matter if one loco is working harder than the rest; it's like having 3 guys pushing a car up a hill. As long as all three are adding a net force to help push, they are adding to the acceleration of the car. It doesn't matter if one guy is a big, powerful man and one is mid sized, and one is a weak, slight man; it's the sum of their forces that is applied to the car. It's not as if there was some careful balance to make. You don't, however, want a man pushing so hard that his feet start sliding instead. So the ground is icy, and if you exert too much force, your feet tend to just loose traction and slide back; and say that when the small man puts his full force out, the large man automatically exerts his whole force as well. In that case, when the small man puts his whole 500lbs of force into pushing the car, the large man automatically also exerts his whole 1000lbs of force...and instantly overcomes the traction, and just starts slipping wildly. What you want is a limiter that allows the weaker man to push with 100% of his 500lbs, and the powerful with only 60% of his 1000lbs, to stay below the threshold of adhesion. A digital MU controller does this work for locomotives; I can't tell you just how it works, but it does work. Of course one CAN tell the more powerful loco to exert its whole force when needed.
However, like i said, it doesn't matter if one loco is only exerting half the forward force of the others, unless it gets to the point where the others are actually dragging that locomotive ahead and it is unable to expert net forward force, it doesn't matter. It's still contributing to the driving of the train.
Love 🚆 especially the video where two trains racing type train racing 1st video where u see one engine on the side you see the other barely until they make that turn oh yeah
I have seen a 800 car mix freight in north platte Nebraska
On the lite engine move, are the extra locomotives being moved to a maint shop ?
Typically yes; either that or moving storage locations.
Funny, but when they run cab-forward I prefer the old small-hood noses, not the wide "safety cab". But alternatively I prefer them to run hood-forward. Maybe it's just because the similarity between that and steam locos, but it seems so right to me. But they almost never do it; always running cab-forward, and usually it's a big, fat hood. Basically I like the hood to either be long and large, or small and discreet, one or the other. Although either is better than no-hood, bluff-fronted locomotives. Not even sure that the word is for that...the ones they use in Europe. They look like subway power units! (Yes, I am aware this is all totally irrelevant a to operational ability or merits, but I have my opinions regardless).
I watched this 2 times
Trains oh yeah!!
A railfan's dream, a car driver's nightmare
17:16 CSX #657 is Larry from rails of highland valley, shame on you larry
The train at 4:04 is my favorite
great video... I'm a new subscriber and looking forward to more of the same
1:33 squashapenny hehe ( right side)
10 mn passée =162 wagons ! le 03/02/18
MARTINE JOSEPH Vous avez vu la vidéo du train le plus long du monde ? 7km de long le bestiaux
Merci de votre partage ! le 21/03/18 ( Vesoul ) , un bonjour de FRANCE
5:29 how was taco bell?
I seen csx trains carring 500 cars on a coal train
Jeez
Yas
Pulling about 4240 to 6360 tons just asking
Just ask it pulling 200 plus cart it pulling around 8,480,000 to ,25,440,000 pounds
All 12 units are not on-line as it is a fuel waste and the drawbars cannot handle the tractive effort produced. May look impressive but its mostly just a power move, nothing more.
Any reason CSX has such rusted out junkie train cars.....really give railroads a bad name....how about painting or just washing them once in a while.....
Allakazee1. They are going broke. HeadQuartered here.in Jacksonville Fl. Heard it on the news and.HOSTILITY on the job!
Might be the next one for CP to come along & gobble up .
Pauvre FRANCE ferroviaire. JM
Sorry, just not my thing. Like watching paint dry.