One for you train lovers.

"British Rail regret to announce..." :D
 
That's a bloody long train.
 
How looooooooooooooooong is that train!!?

Only in the U S of A, surely?
 
Closer to home..

 
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Yep, Canada much more likely but I am more expert in English and European steam locomotives. Definitely is across the pond.

I didn't know you were a train spotter, Eve-on :D
 
RedRobin said:
Yep, Canada much more likely but I am more expert in English and European steam locomotives. Definitely is across the pond.

I didn't know you were a train spotter, Eve-on :D
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:eek: Nooooooooooooo.... I mean apart from anything else, I don't own an anorak! :p
 
ST4 said:
For sure, but the sheer mass of the snow, the speed it was going I'd have guessed (and I am no scientist) would have derailed it.

Obviously not although I'd love to know how the driver could see where he was going :D
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I'm not sure he could.
 
Yv said:
:eek: Nooooooooooooo.... I mean apart from anything else, I don't own an anorak! :p
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....Neither did I when I spent many days of my youth train spotting. In spite of the distractions by girlies, I still kept my basic interest in steam engines - Traction engines and steam lorries and then later petrol fuelled hot cars.
 
RedRobin said:
....Neither did I when I spent many days of my youth train spotting. In spite of the distractions by girlies, I still kept my basic interest in steam engines - Traction engines and steam lorries and then later petrol fuelled hot cars.
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Sorry, they really don't do it for me, although I can appreciate what wonderful pieces of engineering they are. My main clue for guessing where was the amount of snow and the fact it was a VERY long train, so somewhere with a lot of space probably.
 
New Brunswick and I'm assuming they use more than one engine to power through these drifts
I'm not even sure how many locomotives this train had ... Railfanning Post Blizzard of 2015 Storm #3. Canadian National Railway locomotive 2304 (ES44DC) plows through huge snow drifts and gives me a big ass snow shower as it leads the daily CN manifest train 406 West (Moncton, NB to Saint John, NB) at Salisbury, New Brunswick. I'm not sure how the train crew can even see with all that snow on the locomotive's nose! Southern New Brunswick was hit with three major blizzards in less than a week, and there is more snow in the forecast.
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Yv said:
Sorry, they really don't do it for me, although I can appreciate what wonderful pieces of engineering they are. My main clue for guessing where was the amount of snow and the fact it was a VERY long train, so somewhere with a lot of space probably.
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....Yep, plenty of girlies who love motorsport but I never met any who were into the glory of steam engines - Might be something in the male and not the female hormones/genes. For me, they live and breathe! They are alive!
 
And this is what happen every time we have snow in the UK . . .

 
 
I enjoyed that little film, Alastair :)
 
RedRobin said:
I enjoyed that little film, Alastair :)
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The BFI have a very good selection on their Youtube channel, I have quite a few of them on DVD bought several years ago before they decided to share them for free. The first one I put up was by Geoffrey Jones, he's got a really distinctive style. Alongside photographers like Colin Gifford I think the film makers and photographers of industrial Britain in the 1960s were a lot more progressive than we are today.
 
I've been watching a series on the discovery Channel about the Alaska Railroad. The trains and weather they put up with out there would be enough to make our puny things quiver in their tracks. They mentioned once on the series that they often carry loads up to a mile long.

That sheer mass and the way the plow is shaped won't show snow any mercy.
 
Some great videos there. I did think the the person videoing the track being washed away was training for the Darwin Award.

Dave
 
new2me said:
New Brunswick and I'm assuming they use more than one engine to power through these drifts
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Mostly it's just one engine, and more often than not, the whole train is about a kilometer long!

I've have the pleasure most mornings on the way to work, of sitting at a level crossing just as one of these beasts comes through. Takes on average 9 minutes to get the entire train & stock through.
 
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