What happens when one gets together an heavy train (for european standards, and long too), tough grades (reaching 2,4 % in some parts of the line shown) and tight curves? A really slow climb (to the point the the passenger operator using the line complains about delays caused by such trains), and with a familiar sound
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Very nice, thanks!
That horn doesn't seem very loud, even for European horns. Interesting.
That's really a sound problem of the original video, maybe the author, while converting it or recording it had it in a 'lower than usal' setup
By US standards, not much of a train. 25 40 foot equivalent containers and one empty - probably a gross tonnage of less than 2500 tons.
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BaltACD By US standards, not much of a train. 25 40 foot equivalent containers and one empty - probably a gross tonnage of less than 2500 tons.
BOB WITHORNRated as 49 TFE's (twenty Foot Equivalents) wouldn't 24 1/2 40 footers be 20 tons each or are they lighter in Europe?
If you look at the load limit on containers - foreign and domestic - 20 foot to 53 foot - they all have a load limt in the 34 tons (68000 pound) vicinity. Larger containers are for commodities that cube out before they weigh out; smaller containers are for commodities that weigh out before they cube out. A ton of steel and a ton of styrofoam have very different cubic footprints.
Understood, spent the last 40 years paying for shipping. I just missed the math calc. since it was soooo complicated, 25 x 100 = 2500.
It costs me more to get a T/L of loosefill (peanuts) @ class 300, than a truck of steel strap @ class 50 - same 53 footer.
On this side of the 'big Bathtub' things, altough looking similar, are indeed worlds apart. First of all, with the ruling grades on this line, that runs Northeast - Southwest, are quite tough (lots of interstation sections with 2% reaching a maximum of 2,4% just right after Teruel, and in terms of alignment it's sort of 'bi-polar', having very good and straight sections good for 125 Mph - the present 'faster' trains there, wich are series 599 railcars, reach a maximum of 100 -, but with lots of tight curves limiting the speed, and others wich have so many tight curves that the speed must be limited to 45 or 60 Mph). Then there's the 'european coupler' that's limited to a maximum of 2000 trailing metric tons, and after that, almost all the sideings are not big enough for all of these 'big' trains
Did not know the european style couples were that limited - explains a lot for me.
groomer manWhat was the loco?
Vossloh Euro 4000, basically an SD70 with a few minor differences in a different carbody.
NorthWest groomer man What was the loco? Vossloh Euro 4000, basically an SD70 with a few minor differences in a different carbody.
groomer man What was the loco?
Actually it's basically an SD70M2 (I think the engine power output is even the same), with different trucks and carbody (designed by Vossloh). These engines are built in Vossloh's Albuixech factory near Valencia Spain. There are both passenger and freight versions (I think the only costumer that bought the passenger version was Israeli Railways), and also of different gauges. See more here ;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vossloh_Euro
Lovely video. Fun to watch. The track and scenery so perfect it looks like a model railroad!
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