It's fun to learn about this stuff but wow, that music/sound fx and announcer combo make it almost too hyped up to retain any information.
@nielspemberton5911 ай бұрын
I'd love to see a Siemens Vectron electric (Freight) locomotive in Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Norfolk Southern or Union Pacific Colors.
@swiaxy2 жыл бұрын
Somebody needs to fix the title and your math. Did you divide 25,000 volts by 120 for household voltage to get 200 homes? Voltage is not the unit for power consumption. This is like saying that at 100mph, this train is as fast as 2 cheetahs. The units just don't add up that way.
@tvm738272 жыл бұрын
Ha ha! 😀
@oxydong90212 жыл бұрын
fax
@danielcrow62192 жыл бұрын
Why are American documentaries like this?
@tvm738272 жыл бұрын
Like what?
@uber1337hakz2 жыл бұрын
Americans love over dramatic shows.
@andyhooper24163 ай бұрын
So annoying
@geomodelrailroader2 жыл бұрын
The four systems are Pentagraph, Third Rail Pickup, Two Rail Pickup and Return with is used with the Pentagraph or in two track territory, and the last one is Diesel. Each country has a different system so the engines need to be adapted for each border.
@extrude222 жыл бұрын
Third rail is pretty uncommon in mainland Europe for anything other than metros. The four systems he was talking about would have been different AC and DC voltages used in various different countries.
@sjokomelk2 жыл бұрын
What is a "pentagraph"? The locomotive only has four pantographs. Not five...
@OddsandEnds2 жыл бұрын
It's dumb we cannot agree on one type of electrical system
@amodmishra30306 ай бұрын
25 kv 50 Hz is where it is at. The gold standard for electrification.
@MoritzvonSchweinitz2 жыл бұрын
How silly is that super dramatic music and narration in context with this interesting but rather mundane and non-dramitoc topic? Please stop over dramatizing stuff. You're supposed to be THE Smithsonian!
@mokkingbird2 жыл бұрын
There are plenty of interesting facts about pantographs that they could have used - like how on high-speed trains, the power lines have to gently zigzag so that they wear the carbon contact down uniformly instead of cutting a groove in the middle, or why carbon is used for the contact in the first place, or the specifics of those four different power systems. But they didn't do any of that - just, "this is a pantograph!" "this pantograph is toast!" "OK, we are lifting the pantograph!"
@thewira2 жыл бұрын
Nice video 👍
@ImranKhanOfficiall2 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@tvm738272 жыл бұрын
Where’s the whole video?
@candidoandrestc2 жыл бұрын
Great.
@andrewlambert72462 жыл бұрын
I didnt know that they needed so much electricity? India needs lots of nuclear plants just drive its trains.
@klaibasler39842 жыл бұрын
In Switzerland its only 15kV. Other countrys have 25kV like Slovakia