Under Bridges, Over Bridges
July 25, 2015 3:47 PM Subscribe
It's been a while since we took to the rails together so it's time to buy our tickets and climb aboard for another trip around the world in the drivers cab.
Japan
Japan
- Tokio - Otsuki (1h 39m)
- Miyoshi - Gotsu (3h 19m)
- Tenryukyo - Tatsuno (3h 10m)
- Kisuki - Bingo ochiai In a heavy snowstorm (2h 19m)
- Geneva - Brig (2h 27m)
- London Victoria - Gatwick(35m)
- Acton - Reading Freight train (59m)
- Westbury - Bristol Temple Meads Freight train (46m)
- Halmstad to Göteborg (1h 09m)
- Fond du Lac - Schiller Park Freight (1h 51m)
- Skagway - Fraser (1h 43m)
- Philadelphia - New York (1h 30m)
- Fox Lake - Chicago (1h 02m)
- Trail - Nelson (3h 46m)
- Campo Santo - Rio Mojotoro Freight (11m)
- Lima - Huancayo (19m)
- Diakofto-Kalavrita Rack Railway (31m
- Koprivshtica - Karlovo (49m)
- Kulata - Blagoevgrad (1h 12m)
- Plaza de Mayo - Carabobo Buenos Aires, Line A, filmed from one of the original 1913 wooden trains, withdrawn from service in 2013 (21m)
- Lewisham - Bank London, DLR (27m)
- East - West Hong Kong, tram (1h 09m)
- Aldgate - Chesham London, Metropolitan Line (1h 15m)
- Rashidiya - Jebel Ali Dubai, Red Line (1h 10m)
- Route 96 Melbourne, tram (59m)
- Trieste - Opicina Funicular (25m)
- Red (1h 03m) Orange (57m) Blue (1h 22m) Pink (59m) Brown (1h 20) - Chicaga CTA
7 hour train ride across Norway
This post would be incomplete without mentioning this. It's amazing.
posted by hippybear at 4:37 PM on July 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
This post would be incomplete without mentioning this. It's amazing.
posted by hippybear at 4:37 PM on July 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
The fact that something like this (from the Loop in Chicago) is not only physically possible is still amazing to me.
posted by zachlipton at 5:52 PM on July 25, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by zachlipton at 5:52 PM on July 25, 2015 [2 favorites]
Cool - I live at the end of the line on the Trail - Nelson video. I can see the last few hunderd meters and the train yard from my place. Neat to see where it goes when it's not next to the highway. Thanks for sharing.
posted by sauril at 6:11 PM on July 25, 2015
posted by sauril at 6:11 PM on July 25, 2015
That's a first class Half Man Half Biscuit reference, jontyjago
posted by dmt at 12:52 PM on July 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by dmt at 12:52 PM on July 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
Thanks for this. Every now and then I look up train cab videos. Or play Train Simulator. There's almost nothing else quite as wonderfully meditative and relaxing.
posted by honestcoyote at 7:39 PM on July 26, 2015
posted by honestcoyote at 7:39 PM on July 26, 2015
Sweeeeeeeet.
posted by Quasirandom at 10:56 AM on July 27, 2015
posted by Quasirandom at 10:56 AM on July 27, 2015
Oh my. I just watched the Kisuki - Bingo Ochiai segment (tracking the train's progress with the help of this site) and the part starting at 1:31:00, with the departure from Izumo Sakane station, is pretty scary: enough snow up the switchback that the train had to back up and then ram forward to get through drifts. (And when the train switches direction, and the engineer walks to the other end of the single-car "train," we can clearly see the camera guy is the only passenger still on board. WITH GOOD REASON.)
posted by Quasirandom at 12:31 PM on July 28, 2015
posted by Quasirandom at 12:31 PM on July 28, 2015
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But my commute actually includes 12 miles (normally just 2, but there's a diversion on) on one of the linked routes. Hauled by a class 43 not a class 37, obviously.
posted by ambrosen at 4:17 PM on July 25, 2015