As an ex Sydney Trains driver I wonder about that total length of the brake pipe air and how long it would take to both fully apply and release the brakes.

1/4-mile time? (Please come back tomorrow).

That is equivalent to 199,464,000 pounds that's a big s.o.b 🤯🤯🤯

What? "It weighed 99.732 tonnes -> as it reached its destination" Well, how much did it weigh when starting off? In other words: does this imply it lost weight on the trip? Yes, the diesel locos weighed a couple of tons less when arriving than when started , because they burned a lot of diesel fuel. Wait six minutes at the crossing? What's the problem, are people that nervous today that they chew their nails off in the meantime? Take a deep breath and do some yoga - and you will find the train all gone when you finish! It's so easy. What isn't easy however is the extra strength and mass having to be built into car frames and couplers to withstand the huge tractive forces and inevitable surging forces at each change of speed. In curves the flanges wear heavily against the rails - it's questionable if this is economic railroading or not just record chasing.

A good name for the upgraded AC6000CWs would be AC60AHs

I guess that ore going to the ccp.

0:50. You can thank general electric for that sir

Was waiting to see if The Rescuers was there.. One of the vintage soundtracks I own.. The song, Will you rescue me is beautiful..

I seen all iron ore over 45yrs from mt Newman mining and Mt Goldsworthy mining co and hammersley iron ore trains from mt tom price and paraburdoo eastern range iron ore mines

Didn't Peter, Paul and Mary or Pete Seger do this?

I seen it all in port hedland and dampier and cape Lambert robe river Rio tinto operations and hamersly iron ore trains from paraburdoo and mt Tom price iron ore mine

It looks like a GE ac6000

I want to go to Australia just to watch all the trains

Imagine how long it would take to stop

If I were going to Canada, I would prefer taking the train instead of a car. Wish that train from Chicago to Toronto were still in operation! How would one cross the US/Canadian border in Michigan now? Is there a cross-border train from Detroit, for example? Or would one need to take a bus or ferry across to Windsor or Sarnia, if one wasn't driving one's own car?

Nearly 200 million pounds!

109,935.71 US tons, damn. x2 the titanic’s weight

Those are not 45. They are 7" 33 1/3 records with read-along books. 45s have big holes in the middle.

i had Davy Crockett and the Aristocats record. My favorite is "Everybody Wants to be a Cat".

Why do they have gevo cabs

Here's a story about Gil Turner, who is singing on this recording. The legend has it that one evening at Folk City in Greenwich Village, Turner (who was emcee there) walked into the basement where Dylan was strumming a guitar. Dylan told Turner that he had a new song he wanted to hear. Turner was so impressed that he asked Dylan to teach him the song, and that night Gil Turner sang “Blowin in the Wind” to an audience for the first time. www.michaelppowers.com/turner/

I cant even imagine what the hell would happen if it hit something. Billions of dollars in ore would go flying everywhere. I wonder how long it takes to stop something that huge anyway.

*pulls back independent brake barely back* *Every couple breaks* oof

did you just assume that trains gender?

I don't get it, it's an AC6000 with a DC traction motor. The reason why it called (AC)6000 is because it as an AC traction motor. and because of the 6000 at the end it's for how many horsepower it has.

outstanding!!!

That's an "Aussie" world record for every one, thanks B.H.P.

Silly woman, it's call railway in Australia railroad in America.

Carriages? They're cars, you dag.

As heavy as an aircraft carrier. I wonder how much the engine weighs.

Imagine waiting at a crossing for it to pass. But its only going 15 mph.

Very nice collection!!

What a great collection! I have pretty much all of these, at least as digital samples.

Damn it must of sucked when someone had to wait for the train to go by

Yehhh, there Australians using American locomotives.

I wish we had trains like this in the UK haha. 7KM long, 99,000 tonnes moving at 70KMh sounds insane!

Pro American this pro European that has nothing to do with what train is used or the size of the train. End of the day the whole world knows when it comes to engineering the Germans hold the crown in EVERYTHING! Thats not the point the sole point to this is one simple thing 'money'. The fact is it's cheaper to import American loco's and modify them for our conditions then it is to engineer our own. By the time these loco's bite the dust the money save in R&D we just buy more of the later next gen American loco's (it's bloody cheaper). BHP uses the locos to make money not break records or have show pony's, they are strictly work horses. The only reason the train is so long is a single trip saves on time and fuel therefor i higher return for the ore. It really is that simple, they are a business to make money not loose it on designing local built loco's

i wish i could have a train take that long..or longer at top speed to go by....

From top speed to standing still, what would the break time (and distance) of this marvel be?

Holy shit, what a monster! Biggest train I've driven was a 21, 000 ton grain train. I'm surprised the locotrol worked over such a length train too.Would be cool to drive once but these monster trains are wholly impractical. They don't fit in any siding or yard so meets are crap for everyone else that has to get out of the way and it's a long job to yard the thing when you have to rip it apart and stuff it into multiple tracks. Also if anything goes wrong way back good luck for the conductor to have to walk or do a pull by inspection. Basically required for someone in a vehicle to follow it along.

I wonder how long it will take for this train to make an emergency stop.

That's my uncle Gil Turner singing lead vocal's!

omg i love this!! i just recently got into vinyl and i'm trying to get a lot of old disney soundtracks on vinyl to go with the record player i'm getting for christmas.

es una AC44cw ge

It's not about breaking records. It's about few pennies you can pinch per ton of freight. You can't haul extreme weights like this by electric train. You couldn't build a power distribution system beefy enough to handle the many tens of thousands of amps that would be required to squeeze down a narrow 1" copper wire at 18,000 volts.

I still have many of my Elvis 8 track tapes. Most still play on a stereo that's long been replaced, but still works that was bought in 1978.

You're kidding. Whar a geap of crap,.

is that ac6000cw still in service?

That driver would be pulling in $200K. But, considering the value of the load, well deserved.

This is the first record of this song, prior to Bob Dylan though written by Dylan of course.