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Beautiful Nighttime Winter Cab Ride down the Brenner Pass

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 1:54 PM

Can't figure out the signalling system - Green, Yellow & Red are OK.  However, what are the Lunar White 'stick diagrams' all about.  Don't understand the dwarf signals within the limits of the high signals.

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Posted by zardoz on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 10:27 AM

Lots of videos of night operations usually lack sufficient lighting or camera resolution, making watching the video tiresome (at least for me); however, this video is very clear, and the headlight illuminates the ROW very nicely. 

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Beautiful Nighttime Winter Cab Ride down the Brenner Pass
Posted by beaulieu on Monday, January 21, 2019 2:04 PM

There is a beautiful winter Cab Ride video posted over on YouTube. It was taken a few days ago during a heavy snowfall on the Brenner Pass in Austria during the after midnight hours. The video is shot from the cab of a freight train bound for Germany and covers the complete Austrian portion of the journey. The train appears to have the railway all to itself as it passes though the small towns, like St. Jodok where there are still Christmas decorations illuminated. With the exception of the Innsbrücke bypass tunnel all the long tunnels are avoided as it appears that the Controllers are using the freight to keep the passenger tracks clear during the night when the passenger trains are not running. 

Nighttime Winter Cab Ride

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