ENORMOUS 15,000 FT HIGH SPEED BNSF Intermodal Double Stack Freight Trains In The California Desert 1

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In today's day and age of precision scheduled railroading, train lengths are ever increasing, made possible by radio-controlled DPUs and limited only by the capability of the pneumatic air brake system. Great for railfans, not so great for railroad crew employment. Enjoy the action and stay tuned for more =)
Make sure to check out my partner's channel, 510trackside [ / @510trackside5 ], where you will find great railfanning footage like this and more. Enjoy =)
Pt. 2: • ENORMOUS 15,000 FT HIG...

[@GenesisSanctuary]

Awesome stuff! That first train is definitely one of the longest intermodals I've ever seen, and it's amazing seeing them go at 70MPH. The third train was really something else, though. I've never seen an intermodal combined with an oil/ethanol train before.

[@510trackside5]

They’ve been doing that train but-weekly for a while now

[@lesgrossman4636]

I see tanker cars connected to intermodal cars all the time...

[@mvcybron]

I counters 210 carriages on the first one. That’s just amazing.

[@SirenHead00]

@@mvcybrondam

[@HSETM]

I wonder if it's possible for trains to carry LPG.

[@22pcirish]

I drive freight trains in the UK and ours truly pale into insignificance, even if I think mine is long and heavy! I tip my hat to freight crews in the US! 👍

[@pacz8114]

Thank you. Nevertheless, we tip our cap right back to you chaps for inventing and developing rail transport.

[@igorp.4216]

We in Europe don’t need such long trains. Distances are much shorter.

[@death_parade]

@@igorp.4216 In India, the longest freight train we have is about 3.5 km long (2.25 miles approx.). But that one is single stack. Our longest double stack is around 1.5 km long (0.9 miles). But at least its all 100% electrified now. AFAIK, EU is still at 57% electrification, while UK is where we used to be about a decade ago, at 37% electrification. And USA, well, it'd be better if they just gave up on electrification and just switched to Green Hydrogen powered trains honestly.

[@syedasim3789]

Unbelievably long trains, simply amazing.

[@warrenwilson4818]

The nighttime lighting was very effective. It certainly adds an aura to high-speed railroading. A few years ago who could've imagined trains like this. Was there really only two people operating each of these trains? Making up and breaking down trains like this must take many hours. Hardly anyone ever sees or photographs this part of railroading. I'm 78. It's June 8, 2022 in St.Joseph, MO (BTW Trains through here have really dwindled in number in the ten years that I've been here.)

[@ABALLAM3]

212 cars to 236 cars to 240 cars. Beautiful trains. I love humongous trains. CN was the first railroad that showed off the 200 car trains and the majority of trains I have see in the 200's are CN, but CP, UP, and BNSF have now followed suit and are doing on their mainlines all over the place from what I have seen personally (same with NS and CSXT).

[@FFred-us9tw]

That's because that idiot Hunter Harrison and his PSR nonsense. Those giant trains aren't so much innovative as they are a way to put people out of work and maximize profits for rich hedge fund scumbags and their shareholders. Nothing at all to be proud of.

[@ryanbrown4618]

212 cars meaning 424 containers?

[@death_parade]

Damn. Are all these double-stack?

[@jeffvalentine9947]

I can’t imagine how long it will take for this to come to a complete stop!

[@silverhawk24]

One of these fast monsters slamming into a car would immediately turn the car into vacuum dust

[@nielsderuiter1991]

Around 20 seconds.

[@everythinggaming7938]

How long will it take to unload 😅

[@elideaver]

every car has breaks, so it actually doesn't scale to bad with length

[@HaiderAli-ot2gg]

my uncle drove trains and he said his heaviest train he drove would take around 90-100 miles to go from 60 mph to a stop. Insane

[@jdrailfan391]

4 engine mid train dpu?! Never heard of that before! Also holy crap those are some of the nicest gs type 1s I’ve ever heard!

[@MattsTrainsTractors]

Can’t wait to head out to Arizona. I wanna see some of this!!!!

[@whytepohnee1]

Awesome shot...thx for sharing 👏

[@terrymcnaughton1430]

I think this is the best video of freight trains I've seen.long,fast,a sure display of power.thx

[@pm565b2]

This is awesome! Not many people share the entire train. Its cool to see what the cars are and how it is set up.

[@asiatravelasiatravel-fv6ob]

Look amazing long the train This very FANTASTIC train Thanks so much for great sharing

[@fretlyra7767]

Very beautiful convoy 😎 Great video 👍👍

[@kushclarkkent6669]

Man that is a lot of freight!

[@KreativeFotoVideo]

Amazing work

[@amsj2906]

Oh wow, gorgeous, particularly the night train. ❤🎉

[@austinstitzel]

I love trains in desert landscape so much!

[@MrPedroramos8911]

Fantastic thanks for sharing 👍

[@arcm4210]

this is rediculous i love it

[@billbeverly2864]

I have driven along I-40 out in the California desert with one of these trains along side of me. They really move out there, I’m going about 80 mph and they seem to be keeping up with me. I was watching one that had 4 engines up front, 2 in mid train and 2 pushing, it must have been more than a mile long and moving at.a good lip. Fun to watch as your driving out in the middle of no where.

[@CMichealB86]

Love that sound

[@irelandbloke]

Awesome shots ! 👍

[@john.highheels.3244]

WOW!! There's long then there's bloodey ridiculously long. Great sight to see when they come thundering past!!

[@Urban_Man]

nice shot, keep it up!

[@TheMetGuy]

These are definitely the longest intermodals for sure! Great catches! I absolutely love the Tanker train

[@gingerbread6614]

Thank you

[@anthonyxuereb792]

Rudolf Diesel would be pleased to see this and other workings of the engine that bears his name.

[@death_parade]

He sure as heck wasn't pleased for the only use his engine found when he was still alive. He was a pacifist, didn't like its use in the submarines. Yet that is all he ever saw, sadly.

[@codfish1113]

Holy long trains! Living in the eastern US (where it's mostly Amtrak and commuter trains, not freight), it'd be a treat and a curse simultaneously to see something like this.

[@Persac7]

we have csx

[@ArrowLooper]

This is the us economy at work

[@winchelllocklear531]

I love watching it on the Big screen TV 👍

[@Harta23]

Amazing train look beautiful and look fast this very avesome Thank you so much for Great sharing dear friend Greatting from Macau China Full watched here Friend'

[@aaronharvey7523]

Omg.... 😮 Man what a Beast... Never seen a train that long man.... Just pure momentum a... Wouldnt wanna see something go wrong...!!

[@Skidodles]

Nice catches

[@michaelwalterselevatorsrob5009]

if you think these are fast, watch this video at 2X speed

[@ttvvideos2050]

they're not fast

[@hernanmunozratto5899]

@@ttvvideos2050 they reach 130 km per hour

[@sontungle2641]

@@ttvvideos2050 112 km/h hmm that not fast 😅😅.

[@hamizangamingpanatagama7364]

I always watch trains with 2X speed,from indonesian train to Thailand Train

[@hamizangamingpanatagama7364]

@@ttvvideos2050 FAST!!!!!!!! NOOB

[@wijithagorakanage4560]

Amazing. Scary. How to apply brakes to it is just unimaginable.

[@NormanSilv]

Back in the Warbonnet days GE 8-BWs were a common sight hauling freight at high speeds to Chicago.

[@andrewilson453]

Great video

[@railpast]

They definitely not getting any shorter. Nice video and warmer looking there than here in Ontario Canada

[@aviationmd]

I’m british and i’m in love with American trains

[@user-ff8ks7kg2o]

Ultra longest 3 miles freight trains !! 😉👍️✨ But, Japanese freight trains are shortest than these ultra longest freight trains 😢💦

[@TrentEngineFan]

And people expect that thing to stop for them. Sad.

[@rafaelventura6324]

La verdad impresionante la fuerza del primer tren 4 delante y 4 remotas eso es mucho poder de arrastre,impresionante

[@alex31354]

Wow that was fast

[@user-ff8ks7kg2o]

BNSF is best cargo railway campany in United States of America !! 😉👍️✨ Greatest than Japanese JR Freight.

[@leojanis9709]

Intermodal trains are my favorite

[@jamesburrelljr.8561]

Holy crap that first train was wild

[@trainmancorey]

That's alot of Trucks off the road.

[@FanRailer]

Because emissions per ton of freight moved is A LOT lower with big freight trains like this vs moving the same amount of freight by truck.

[@FanRailer]

Couple of things. First, think about the distances involved here. Railroad lines out in the midwest and the western portion of the USA are at times HUNDREDS of miles away from any civilization. Electrification requires a LOT of infrastructure to be effective (transformers, switching stations, etc), and so therefore work well in urbanized areas where access to power is easy. The initial investment cost to electrify long freight corridors would be astronomical, on a scale that would not see returns for decades. Secondly, where do you think most of this electricity would come from? Currently, the US is still predominantly fossil fuel powered. Sure we could try to move towards solar, hydro, and wind, but there come your initial investment costs again. A lot of this is just politically unfeasible at the moment.

[@dannyatmadja6763]

Super duper awsome

[@ROTE]

This is soooo fast! And wow 4 DPUs?!?! That’s rare!

[@rogersoler5644]

1:22 The first train in the video has 2x4 DPUs

[@ahmadtheaviationlover1937]

Holy cow what a long train!!!!!!!!😮😮😮😮

[@PASKEN458]

Love turning this full noise

[@kevins5011]

This is what a 22 trillion dollar a year economy looooooooooks like

[@engineeredarmy1152]

Lol

[@edsonvander233]

BNSF... sensacional!

[@Er.Sunil.Pedgaonkar]

Exciting

[@everythinggaming7938]

Follow the damn train CJ!!!

[@livinlifetothefullest2750]

love how at 3:04 the horn passes you before the loco + horn goes by

[@christopherfairs9095]

This is an impressive sight/site for the railway enthusiast. The UK isn't large enough to accommodate trains of this length, neither does it have deserts, I'm afraid. Our railway network has become very run down through lack of competent investment.

[@hypermaster8232]

Amazing from India

[@railfanakshatjodhpur1275]

Nice Capture 😍

[@bryantsanders6936]

Love bnsf

[@thisisprayag4172]

Imagine how efficient it would have been if the line was electrified😮

[@hiteshadhikari]

Check indian dfc

[@sontungle2641]

The third one are H train right ?. Mixture between wellcars & tank cars.

[@maxheuser4968]

Question: what are the dynamics on the couplings when you have the lead locos pulling but several assist locos far down the train pushing/pulling. Are the couplings in tension or compression or a mix of states?

[@FanRailer]

It would be a mix of both; at the front of the train behind the last locomotive, you would have high coupler tension. Then as you progress down the consist towards the pack of DPU engines, there should be a linear decrease in tension force, and half way to the DPUs, you should have zero force, then a transition to compression forces that then rise linearly until you reach the DPUs. This is all assuming your train is on level, tangent track. Curves and changes in gradient are going to affect coupler forces throughout your train consist.

[@maxheuser4968]

@@FanRailer Thank you for replying to my query in such an informative fashion

[@rajr1032]

Arround 4.5 km long. Impressive!

[@leenettywilson528]

Derailing at that speed and all that weight would be catastrophic but I don't want to go on about that , I would love to go to america too see the trains over there I am going too do it one day I,ll try top top video godbless america and its trains love from across the pond england, netty Lee,

[@jeffvalentine9947]

It would take a long ass time to clean all of that up.

[@tiltedalyssa]

So sick

[@alex-dj3of]

California is mighty powerful with industrialization

[@RailfanBraden]

What camera do u use?

[@smitap4436]

Wow 211 + 8 engins 👌👌

[@juliangriffiths242]

Question, assuming these are unloaded in a siding, so as not the block the main line, does the siding have to be as long as the longest rrain or are they broken down somehow in to section or broken of in section as it passes various destinations ?

[@FanRailer]

Container trains are loaded / unloaded in special-built container terminals. Depending on the specific terminal, "yard tracks" there may approach a mile to a mile and a half in length. If a train is longer than that, then yes, it will be split upon entering the yard, or put together upon leaving the yard.

[@jimwhitsett4736]

That's a lot of containers!

[@thio59]

Jeez what a ginormous train

[@phuchoanggia8499]

Thi fist one almost blew my mind

[@herbertjohnston4608]

Unbelievable. 🇬🇧🍀

[@bananakampreto3033]

How many kilometers long is that train?

[@joelc9439]

More should do this.

[@colbs4055]

4 mid train dpu well damn

[@Edward4Plantagenet]

For 1st train, 1500 meter (1/3 of train length) is space between the containers. Actual train length is 3000 meter - 3200 meter.

[@jerroldkazynski5480]

When the 2/3 of train by your calc has passed, just pull through the crossing.

[@SimonLikesAnime]

I counted all the cars in the first one, and it had 217 cars total!

[@itwasaliens]

4 Engines in the front. 93 Cars. 4Engines in the middle. 117 cars in back. 8 Engines. 210 Cars.

[@SaturnineXTS]

I counted 214 cars and 6 locomotives, pretty inconceivable haha

[@andrewdutton3831]

Wow!!!

[@SahajGupta-os6df]

In India we have same double stack trains but its run by overhead electricity unlike USA we are dependent on oil imports

[@harshabiliangady3211]

Wow that would be 4.5 KM long. My only thought is how long it would take for this train to cross a Road Crossing and there is an ambulance with a woman in labour on one side.

[@stevekalis139]

All you foamers think these monster trains are cool, but they are part of what’s putting enormous strain on the industry and essentially killing it.

[@isaachousley325]

How do you figure that? More frieght moving stimulates the economy, it doesn't harm it.

[@FanRailer]

It's not "more freight" per se. It's the same amount of freight, with fewer, longer trains and fewer crews. That places strain on the industry bc the fewer crews are stretched thin and longer trains are more prone to pull-aparts or stringline derailments. It doesn't help that the folks at NS don't know how to build a train and still routinely put empties in between loads instead of all at the end of the train. If I had a dollar for every time NS has derailed on the Horseshoe Curve in the last 5 years because of that.....

[@winginit6145]

Question. How many container cars are there in the USA?

[@sontungle2641]

Its depend from 100 to 200+ cars.

[@ramyg5037]

I like long trains have engines in the middle and in the back

[@nathanstock7368]

That second one had to have been doing close to 100mph. I understand this might be normal out west, but I live in southwest pa. Lots of mountains so the railway company's here are limited to lower speeds.

[@FanRailer]

No, these trains are limited to 70 mph maximum.

[@donstarr7261]

Can you imagine having to walk these trains if a UDE happened? Dispatcher! Can you please start a patch crew?

[@paVlo711]

anyone manage to count the amount of cars on that last train? I got like 235 but I'm probably off by a few

[@simpatico9181]

En France nos trains de marcahndise sont plus petits, si petits qu'on n'arrive pas à les distinguer dans le paysage.

[@itsyourboytrippy6201]

bnsf 6985 what typa locomotive is that is it like an sd70ace or something?

[@FFred-us9tw]

It's a GE ES44C4

[@michaelgilbert7973]

Imagine waiting for that train at the railroad crossing

[@marticronosslava141]

And you need to go to work💀

[@rizkiaiss9887]

First comment 😁 on 0:10 there is 4 locomotive in front and 4 locomotive in middle and 311 freight cars 😍😍 correct me if i was wrong 😁

[@stampycatfan01lol]

I didn’t actually count the cars, but a vast majority of the cars are actually in three- or five-unit sets. In reality, there’s likely closer to 100-125 cars because of this, though it would appear like there’s closer to 300 cars to those who may be unaware of how they’re usually made. There are 8 locomotives though: 4 in the lead and 4 towards the middle.

[@510trackside5]

A majority of individuals count each individual well car ... as a car.

[@GEES44DC]

@@stampycatfan01lol You still count each carbody as a car.

[@FanRailer]

@@GEES44DC Only buffs do that. The railroad considers one articulated well car as, well, one car, regardless of how many sections it has.

[@GEES44DC]

@@FanRailer Nope. CN counts a 5 pack as 5 cars.

[@brotakig1531]

God imagine having to inspect that on foot before it sets off. Need a sleeping bag and a tent.

[@juliangriffiths242]

2nd Question wha are some double stacked and other singles, wouldn't it be better/quicker/more efficient to double stack the whole train ?

[@FanRailer]

Weight may be an issue. Just because you see a well with a double stack, doesn't mean both are loaded to capacity. The well with a single container may be heavier than one with a double stack.

[@juliangriffiths242]

@@FanRailer thank

[@juliangriffiths242]

thank you, so splitting is fairly quick and the main track won't be interrupted ?

[@juliangriffiths242]

@@FanRailer thank you for answering - OK so the weight limit is dictated by the wagon on which they sit or a limit on the tracks bridges for. the weight at any given point in the train ?

[@FanRailer]

Since they will only route the trains over lines that can handle the theoretical maximum weight, the weight limit you are thinking of here is the capacity of each well. The train would generally already be in the yard and off of the main line, so no, main tracks are usually not interrupted if the train needs to be split.

[@user-ff8ks7kg2o]

These very longest 3 miles freight trains are can transportation to maniest cargos than trucks and jumbojet freighters and can operation by little crews and littlest of greenhouse gas than trucks and jumbojet freighters. These very longest 3 miles freight trains are king of the cargo transportation in United States of America.

[@Dessme]

Oh no It is more than 200 double containers. My question is though how can a station accomodate this long train when unloading?? Half of it should be outside of the station compound IMO or how does it work??

[@FFred-us9tw]

The train is broken into sections and put on multiple tracks

[@DaveInCanada081]

That's the longest train Ive ever seen.

[@ihaveasmallpp8453]

Holy