Video clips of high speed rail

[Anonymous]

I found a site with small video clips of the TGV trains in Europe. The first link is a quicktime shot of a train passing by. The second link is a media player of 5 shots from the cab.

We are talking fast here, around 186 mph.....

http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/tgv/video/trackside/index.html
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/tgv/video/cab/index.html

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have a video camera of the Acela train going fast in eastern Connecticut? If you do, many of us would like to see a 20 to 30 second pass of the Acela going fast. It would not be a bad idea to post such a video on a homepage somewhere. Please post a link here.

[Anonymous]

Good news I have found not only video of the Acela in Connecticut but also of the Aem7 in connecticut the latest version of the 0 Series Shinkansen Bullet train as well as the 100 Series bullet and the 700 Series Hikari Rail Star.[:D]

The link you have is out of date here is the new version of the TGV link.
http://www.trainweb.org/tgvpages/video/trackside/index.html
http://www.trainweb.org/tgvpages/video/cab/index.html

A link for general RR videos is at
http://www.trainorders.com/videos/

A link to RR Wabcams is at
http://www.railserve.com/RailCams/
if it doesn't work the first time just press Refresh

For info on the Shinkansen Bullet Trains you should go to
http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~dajf/byunbyun/types.htm

Also some very good pictures are at
http://tec.supertrain.net/index-e.html

Some excellent pics. of the Brand new 800 Series and others are at
http://www.hood-online.co.uk/shinkansen/

The Hikari Railstar and 100 Series can be seen at
http://railphot.hp.infoseek.co.jp/700/700.html

The 0 Series can be seen at
http://www.nrm.org.uk/html/exhib_pb/SHINKANSEN/movies.asp

And last but deffinetely not least clips of the Acela and Aem7 as well as clips of the F40Ph and the TGV can be seen at
http://my.execpc.com/~dross/trains/

just to let you know the cameraman is closer and the train seems to be going faster in the Aem7 clip then in the Acela clip[:(]

found another one of the acela and other trains at
http://www.matson.us/railfan/video/default.htm

Also if you want to get some really good pictures of the Acela or practically any other american train so should go to
http://www.railpictures.net
it has over 63,000 train pictures, with at least 80 or more being added each day[:D]

Here's a sampling of the great pictures
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=72711
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=41044
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=34668
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=74202
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=62825
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=65630

Also if you wan't Discount N Scale Bullet Train sets and don't care if you have to ship them from england to get them then this is a web site for you.
http://www.mgsharp.com/japanese_Shinkansen_sets.htm

Info and images of the Japanese Maglev is at
http://www.rtri.or.jp/index.html
it's in english so you don't need to download any japanese text things

[AntonioFP45]

Thanks!

Really enjoyed watching them "Whip by!"

[RudyRockvilleMD]

The Acela Expresses do not run that particularly fast in Eastern Connecticut because the curving nature of the right-of-way between New Haven and the RI state line results in plenty of speed restrictions. Some examples that I that I know of are Stonnington, CT, Mystic, CT, New London, CT, and Niantic CT.

I photographed a southbound Acela Express passing the station in Mystiic, CT which is where the tracks change direction from northwest-southeast to northeast-southwest. I didn't notice the Acela Express' tilting mechanism being deployed, and the train didn't seem to be traveling much more than 60 mph.

West of New Haven, however, thetrack is owned by Conn DOT, and it is operated by Metro North. The last I heard the maximum track speed between New haven, CT and New Rochelle, NY is 90 mph; I understand Metro North and Conn DO are working on improvements to allow the maximum track speed to be increased to 110 mph.

[Anonymous]

Impressive...... Ask and you shall receive....... Thanks for the whiplash......

[AntonioFP45]

Does anyone have any clips of the "Classic Trains" going at high speed. Talking about Pre-Amtrak, when even in the 1960s, some passenger trains were still hitting 90 m.p.h.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know of a cross country bullet train being built that exceid 200 mph
America?

Passenger is best by rail.

David

[Junctionfan]

On Oaks Model Railroad, there are a good few videos of Acelas on the North East Corridor as well as the regular passengers pulled by an AEM7 or two. They go quite fast at times. There is a trains right now on there and it is pulled by 2 AEM7s and about 17 cars long.

[Anonymous]

Found a clip of the Jet Train that Bombardier is trying to sell to the florida high speed project going 150!! and it looks alot like the acela to give you an idea of how it looks going 150.
http://www.bombardier.com/index.jsp?id=0_0&lang=en&file=/en/0_0/0_0.jsp
due to the way they set up the web site the above link doesn't send you directly to the video. here are the directions
1.Click on Bombardier Traxx

2.On the screen there is a menu with the title PRODUCTS, under that go to Rail Vehicles, then Intercity/High Speed Trains, then click on High Speed Trains

3.On the screen under Reference Projects go to JetTrain USA and Canada

4.Then Click on hJet Train

5.On the menu on the side go to Multimedia, the Videos

Lastly click on the first video for the actual jet train, the second is just a muted view of the turbine that is in the Engine.
Sorry the directions are so long.