Thats impressive.............faster than I ever saw their old F units run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmGF0sDtrs
No zero-40 or Notch 6 garbage where the financiers are concerned!
Although seriously, that clip doesn't look to me to be anywhere near 79mph.
Maybe it is about 80 feet per second (one passenger car goes by per second) or maybe 55 MPH?
If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
I was thinking somewhere in the 55-60 range, not quite 65mph, by eye.
60 MPH is 88 feet per second
Speed appears to be about 62 or 63 MPH. A far cry from 79 MPH.
Early in my career I worked the B&O's agency at Salem, IL - which is about 7 or 8 miles from, what then was, the IC's Main Line that crossed over the B&O at grade at Odin, IL. One evening I went to a farm location, where I could park off the road and have a good view of the Panama Limited as it streaked South at triple digits that was authorized through that territory. There is a difference between 60 MPH and 100 MPH.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Don't know how video cams work but my phone cam does speed up the action. I put the phone on the front or the rear of my G gauge garden trains. The train crawls around the railroad but the video will have it moving at near breakneck speed through the R1 curves.
CEO, navvy and everything in between for the Mineral Belt Railway & Navigation,
but just call me
Rick
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rixflixDon't know how video cams work but my phone cam does speed up the action. I put the phone on the front or the rear of my G gauge garden trains. The train crawls around the railroad but the video will have it moving at near breakneck speed through the R1 curves. CEO, navvy and everything in between for the Mineral Belt Railway & Navigation, but just call me Rick
The video was not sped up. You can view other items in the frame and see that.
CMStPnP rixflix Don't know how video cams work but my phone cam does speed up the action. I put the phone on the front or the rear of my G gauge garden trains. The train crawls around the railroad but the video will have it moving at near breakneck speed through the R1 curves. CEO, navvy and everything in between for the Mineral Belt Railway & Navigation, but just call me Rick The video was not sped up. You can view other items in the frame and see that.
rixflix
Don't know how video cams work but my phone cam does speed up the action. I put the phone on the front or the rear of my G gauge garden trains. The train crawls around the railroad but the video will have it moving at near breakneck speed through the R1 curves. CEO, navvy and everything in between for the Mineral Belt Railway & Navigation, but just call me Rick
Grew up in Cincinnati. B&O had two portable model railroad displays, (an O gauge and an HO gauge) one of which they placed in C. G. & E's lobby at christmas time. It had a replica of the three track main line and as a kid, it did not look like the trains were going very fast. Compared to my Linonel. But their brochure mentioned that they were doing scale speed and that one should pick out a fixed object (like a signal bridge) and watch as the train passes it. As a famous man said, "Its relative"
Good a guess as any: train length is 810-820 feet, so if the video speed is correct, they're doing 75 mph or more. Doesn't look like that to me either, but can't be much less than 810 feet in 7.0 to 7.1 seconds.
So.... I checked the ETT. Allowed 79 mph there. There's a nice 3.5 mile stretch of it there.
Timing off the video a couple of times - 5.8 to 6.0 seconds for the 8, 85 ft cars. So 77-80 mph. Sneaky fast. YMMV
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
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