Why we put our cars on trains

[@felixtheswiss]

Fun fact Google does not know of Autozug, it announces still Ferry when you drive on the train. I always chuckle thinking of ships going over the mountain.

[@wernerviehhauser94]

Autozug is the term for carts carrying new vehicles, the correct term here is Autoreisezug. For trucks, try Rollende Landstrasse. And my google knows all of them.

[@tylermcintyre1454]

Tyler Mac all aboard

[@uranusjr]

Interestingly “ferry” as a verb only means “to transport things in a vehicle across a landscape” and it only implies a ship when used as a noun. Considering there isn’t a word for a train carrying cars maybe this should just be called a ferry.

[@seprishere]

Google *does* know of "car transporter (train)", at least for the Eurotunnel. Maybe the Swiss ones aren't coded correctly?

[@WanderingZekko]

The road signs near the Autozug also have the usual ferry icon, presumably because there's no Autozug icon. Imagine my surprise when I blindly followed Google Maps up and up towards a supposed ferry, only to find a train!

[@CuoreSportivo]

i’m not even a train nerd but watching that engineer operate the full analog engine made me jealous soooo much.

[@fabr5747]

@@tylermcintyre1454 Engineer? Isn't it kind of overstating their job? Engineers design stuff, have an engineer diploma, etc. Why calling a train driver an engineer? Or is it like sound engineer? Not real engineers but somehow it is a commonly used term?

[@sammy5576]

@@fabr5747 engineer is derived from the word engine, is derived from Latin and had an original meaning of machine or mangle

[@roadie3124]

@@fabr5747 It's an American strangeness. Train drivers are called "Engineers" in America. Most people don't seem to understand what engineers do. For example, they think that scientists design space vehicles and architects design advanced buildings and bridges. Nope. Engineers do that. The scientists and the architects might provide the concepts, but the engineers design the vehicles and the structures to make sure that they are viable and they don't explode or fall down. Of course, the accountants then come in and let the contracts to manufacturers for the least possible cost, compromising safety for the sake of a cent and people get killed.

[@fabr5747]

@@roadie3124 with the meaning of "engineer" having evolved so much, why not renaming them to "train driver / pilot / operator"? Less prestigious? But absurd.

[@callumbooth-lewis6281]

(maybe you're a train nerd :p )

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

The Channel Tunnel between UK and France has trains that take cars and lorries from one country to the other through the tunnel, under the sea. Car passengers stay with their cars. Lorry drivers get a passenger coach to ride in.

[@colinnich]

That's the first thing I thought of. Is the creator unaware of this, despite being quote close to it? 🙂

[@jfv65]

In the 1970's we used to have a car shuttle train going from the Netherlands to Italy. Drive your car on, go to your seat in the train coaches. Enjoy food, drink and travel to your holiday destination in comfort. Some were even sleeper night trains.

[@tylermcintyre1454]

Tyler Mac we are ready too see the world

[@danieldabloxgamer9205]

And before that, motorail

[@mattbosley3531]

Buses, too.

[@torquetrain8963]

Living in the U.S. I can only dream about something amazing like this. We have the most idiotic car centric transportation system based on egos (huge pickup trucks). This is intelligent engineering and planning. Thank you Switzerland for showing the world what intelligent transportation engineering looks like.

[@toberwine]

The care and maintenance is clearly done a fastidiously high degree - the cab and the controls are immaculate and look as good as new

[@fabr5747]

Standard in Switzerland. The traffic density on Swiss rails is very important. Passenger and goods transport share the same rails. As you saw here, one side on the tunnel was undergoing maintenance. One problem on one train can have snowballing effects on the network. The Lötschberg-Simplon axis is one of the critical between the North and the South of Europe. The Gothard / Ceneri is another one, and soon the Austrian Brenner Base tunnel. To be clear, this here is not the base Lötschberg tunnel, but the pass with an altitude tunnel. But some goods still use the pass. So yeah, maintenance is key. And that's also a Swiss approach. Time is expensive here. So maintenance prevents emergency work that end up being more expensive. Economically it makes sense here. And in other places, using equipment up to the very last capacity makes sense. But the age of that train is a very very rare use case in Switzerland. We have rather modern trains, and a among the old ones still in service, they are refurbished with more modern engines, safety equipment, and comfort regularly on top of the maintenance.

[@SnakebitSTI]

11:56 the app the driver uses even has night mode lol. High attention to detail indeed.

[@AlexThomson-EasternApproaches]

From an EU interpreter: Brilliant technical subtitling and voiceover-compliments on the careful accuracy of your English!

[@sandro-here]

Thank you very much, much appreciated! It is quite a struggle to be honest - some of these words only exist in Switzerland and I have to come up with my own English translation.

[@fjkfkfkf]

​@@sandro-here i guess the best way to do it is to first translate it into standard german and then into english

[@AlbertoRestifo]

This is the best channel on KZbin.

[@tylermcintyre1454]

Tyler Mac and the company

[@andrewdarley8988]

I don't suppose many people remember it now but British railways used to run a similar ferry operation through the severn tunnel, on a much smaller scale though. By avoiding the need to go up to the first bridge at Gloucester and back it cut I think about 70 miles from the journey from Bristol to South Wales and was more reliable than the conventional ferry. However it became obsolete when the first bridge was built across for the M4 round about 1970.

[@milliedragon4418]

America still has it but it's so few that I don't even think most people know about it. In fact, I didn't know anything about it until I watched something from Peter Dibble its called AutoTrain, has a little bit different from us and that you still ride the train. I wish people would talk about the British busway guide system. I'm not sure why people don't. I think it's pretty cool. I like that it's kind of a good in between a light rail and bus. It predates these autonomous bus lane, which use regular roads. But because it would be on the track, it would be much better suited for autonomous busways. Part of it's just very expensive to do something like that, on the operators part. * Car ferry trains But I know a lot of people who love driving their cars. They don't want to not be able to drive then. I feel like it gives some people who want to have their car on their travel, a feeling of control. Ah, but the United States is also lacked behind on its passenger rail. My frustration.

[@jimmydesouza4375]

I am surprised this doesn't have more views, considering the quality of it. Would have thought youtube would recommend it to more people.

[@SigmundAnschutz-wi2fj]

Greetings from the UK. Thank you to all for making this video. Fantastic Swiss Engineering.

[@Cmoredebris]

This is the best informational video I have seen regarding Swiss rail operation.

[@fabr5747]

There are many good videos on the topic. This one doesn't inform AT ALL on the Swiss rail operations. This is a very very tiny market of a very specific rail line axis North / South through the Alps.

[@Cmoredebris]

@@fabr5747 "doesn't inform AT ALL"? Then offer some better ones.

[@fabr5747]

@@Cmoredebris Let me rephrase... It's not representative of the Swiss operations at all. This is a fringe old school small operation. The gap between this example and the main lines is as big as this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/joewo2qNj5ichrc For the train maintenance on "main lines", the core of the Swiss railway: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHzPp4OLlMmgbtk An amazing place for rail maintenance, with Swiss only technologies... kzbin.info/www/bejne/f16VYXtohp2GbpY

[@larynxaustrene3073]

This video is really cool. I love how the swiss dialect always peaks trough when the name of a village or city needs to be pronounced!

[@crompton33022]

What a fabulous video with many interesting facts. Thank you regards Ian, UK 🇬🇧.

[@cseblivestreaming]

I live very close to the veraina tunnel and take it regularly! I also once went to a firefighters and rescue training as an injured person with my brother, whp ended up on the wrong side of the tunnel at the end, 4.00am. Fun times

[@tylermcintyre1454]

Tyler Mac hello everyone

[@thethoeby]

Nice job...was a pleasure to do some maps for you. Kepp up the good work👍🏼

[@50upss]

I was on holiday in the alps when I was young and regularly saw these trains passing by our campsite. I never imagined it was a ferry and people were sitting in those cars, I thought it was a freight train. Very interesting, thank you!

[@rubenvo3627]

Trivial correction at 2:05: In the word „Lötschberg“ berg does not mean mountain, as it would usually in most German dialects, but rather pass. That is also the reason why there is no single mountain called Lötschberg. The same is true e.g. for the Arlberg. There is no mountain called Arlberg, the name just refers to the mountain pass. This is because the place names are derived from Walserdeutsch, whose speakers have historically inhabited these areas and some still do to this day, where Berg does or mean peak or mountain. Hope this clears up some confusion. Merci für die interessante Dok.

[@kuyans3889]

This video deserves a lot of attention! Always a pleasure to listen to professionals explain their interesting work. Thank you for the translations.

[@IamTheHolypumpkin]

Swiss German, I speak German, but oh my, I can’t understand a word, it’s funny that I need English subtitles to understand a language I speak.

[@electroman1996]

Der Lokführer hier spricht Walliserdeutsch. Da brauche selbst ich als Nordwestschweizer manchmal Untertitel xD

[@marcd6897]

Then maybe your English isn’t good enough. I have no issues understanding this chap. English with a charming Swiss accent.

[@felixtheswiss]

​@@marcd6897 I think hes refering to the locomotive engineer

[@konsultarvode6527]

As a non speaker it almost sounds dutch to me

[@lvovodessa]

@@konsultarvode6527 To me as a native Dutch speaker it sounds Nordic. I couldn't understand it well without subtitles.

[@constancel4211]

I was most happy to learn at the end of your video that you'd be releasing more footage and explanations on the different systems involved. BLS and its workers did a fantastic job in allowing you so much access and giving you so much of their time and explanation. I can't wait to see to next episodes !

[@bobododo692]

You make the right kind of nerdy videos which I love!

[@acmenipponair]

To be honest, the more "ferry" style of a train is most likely the trains that bring cars from Niebüll to the island of Sylt. Yes, there is also a ferry route from Rømø to List, but most will use the Autozug over the Hindenburg dam.

[@PMass]

Such an amazing underrated channel. Keep up the amazing work!

[@WeichenherzByChrookie]

Ich find's so geil das du englischsprachigi Videos über Schwiizer nerd Sache machsch :D freut mi wenn Sache von hie ou international bekannt wärde :D

[@marsaeolus9248]

Nah, we must stay discreet 🤫

[@rampel1]

Hey this is just awesome! So cool for all of these guys to not only operate all of these services, but to also allow us such a behind the scenes. And not to the least, great video. You've not just explained how stuff work, but made an interesting story for us. Thanks a lot!

[@timevans815]

Thank you for your reply. I watched the (excellent) video again and I understand how the vehicles board and disembark so my curiosity is satisfied. Thanks again.

[@screwdriver5181]

As a retired railway traction and brakes engineer who also worked in conjunction with Oerlikon Brakes in Zurich, I found this video to be a brilliant and informative one on this most interesting subject. Let’s have some more please.

[@daniellewis1789]

I would enjoy your take on the broadly similar US Auto Train, which has double decker car carriers and carries the people in sleeper cars over 855 miles with no intermediate stops.

[@tylermcintyre1454]

Tyler Mac hurry up

[@kevadu]

I feel like the Auto Train is qualitatively different. This is about using a train tunnel to bypass a single geographic barrier. Hence the comparison to a ferry makes sense. The Auto Train is more about long distance travel. You could always drive that distance, but it takes hours and drivers do have to stop and rest sometimes. But it's also a product of US car dependency...after all why should you feel the need to take your car along at all? You can certainly make similarly distant trips by train in Europe but most people would just leave their cars at home then.

[@alklesczewski1207]

@@kevadu The reason we (Americans) need cars at the end points is that most places we want to travel to are not serviced by public transportation. It really makes sense, though, to have auto-trains in the US because of the great distances between major hubs. I personally would love to take my camper trailer out west to do some camping! Remember, in Europe, 100 years is a very short time, but in the US, 100 miles is a very short distance!

[@daniellewis1789]

The natural barrier crossed by the Auto Train is distance, not a mountain range. I believe comparing the two operations could be interesting precisely because they are different, while both accomplishing the same broad purpose - move people and cars on a railway.

[@cyclicmusings2661]

I was thinking about the Autotrain too. It is a more complex system as it utilizes the double decker train cars, which need ramps and a whole team of drivers to put the cars in individual cars that are then linked together - passengers can't load their own cars themselves. It is a much longer process than the train in this video where people drive their cars right onboard.

[@TimothyEBaldwin]

There is also an above ground car shuttle train between Andermatt and Sedrun when the road is closed, and a limited (3 trains per week) Kandersteg-Iselle service in summer.

[@felixtheswiss]

Oberalp is not running anymore!

[@TimothyEBaldwin]

​@@felixtheswissWould you like to edit Wikipedia (page Car Shuttle Train) or provide a source?

[@100dampf]

@@TimothyEBaldwin Where on Wikipedia is that? If you put Autoverlad Oberalp into google, the first result is a page where the MGB explains the cancelation

[@casparpolitman]

​@@TimothyEBaldwini confirm, i work in Andermatt! It doesnt exist anymore! MGB Is rushing to modernise withouth much common sense!

[@LordCarpenter]

America has one, too. Amtrak's Auto Train takes passengers and their cars from Lorton, Virginia (just below DC) to Sanford, Florida.

[@PGHEngineer]

I remember driving through Switzerland late in the evening following google maps and meeting a barrier in the middle of the road. At this point Google maps announced "Now put your car on the train". I was not expecting that! It seemed like the station was deserted, but in fact I was able to buy a ticket and put the car on the train at 10pm. That was the Furka Pass - made famous from the Hotel Belvedere scene in the movie Goldfinger. In the Summer months you can drive down the pass, but in the winter the pass is closed and you must take the train under the mountains.

[@japanesetrainandtravel6168]

I am disappointed that am only discovering your video now! I was just watching Swiss Rail Journeys BLS episode and then your video came up. Really enjoyed this and nice to see the Re 4/4s still in action

[@Thommygun-qv7um]

Germany has a similar system to get cars from the mainland to the island of Sylt in the north sea. There is a rail link, the Hindenburgdamm, but not a road between the 2.

[@acmenipponair]

Austria has it too, you can use the Autobahn A10 from Salzburg to Kärnten - but you can also use the Autozug from Bad Gastein to Kärnten through the high alps.

[@MervynPartin]

Excellent video and commentary. I have only been to Switzerland once, about 60 years ago. I was and still am fascinated by the old locomotives.

[@connormclernon26]

Auto rail in the us between Lorton and Orlando. It’s one of the few profitable lines Amtrak runs

[@LondonEmergency999]

I love the RE 4/4 locomotives used on this service. I was lucky to stay in Kandersteg last year and see them before they are all withdrawn.

[@johntezz55]

Thanks for this video. The quality of the content is high.

[@cullyn]

Don't know what I just found but I love it! Looks like I've got a new back catalogue of videos to go through!

[@Beam_of_Love]

We took this just last year on the way home from our holiday in Blatten. A really nice and unique area there, and the car train was an interesting experience too.

[@Lutl]

There is also one in Austria between Mallnitz and Böckstein.

[@marcd6897]

I love the Autoverlad Vereina, have taken this quite a few times in summer to get from Switzerland to Italy. So very very convenient. I really appreciate these services exist.

[@feynthefallen]

When I had a Tesla for the weekend, I took it through the Furka Autoverlad. I don't think I ever was THAT scared the whole weekend, except when I arrived at Realp and got into the worst snow storm Switzerland had seen in a march in literally decades - and realized I had bleeding SUMMER tires on.

[@elisabethboissard4823]

Si c’est juste c’était en septembre, il y a bien longtemps….je faisais régulièrement la liaison Valais Tessin…et c’est la première fois et la seule où j’ai dû dormir dans le haut Valais 😢 le matin je suis repartie avec ma petite justy avec les pneus neige que je ne changeais jamais…et j’ai dépassé toutes les BMW et Mercedes sur le bord de la route😅😅😅

[@ConnerPlays1]

I'm a boyscout and we went to KISC in kandersteg. We were sleeping like right by the tracks and it was so loud. But it was neat for train spotting lol. The BLS trains are much much quieter

[@simplygregsterev]

We used the one at Furka Pass last year. It was really cool!

[@jakobholzwarth1544]

What a well made video it is comparable to an episode of Sendung mit der Maus.

[@nedt]

Excellent new video. Unfortunately I almost skipped over it. An idea would be some brand recognition these videos with your ski lift videos.

[@sandro-here]

Thanks! Could you elaborate?

[@nedt]

@@sandro-here no problems. I know you as ‘the ski lift creator’. I view most of my videos in the subscriber tab, so I don’t look for your name (which is your channel name) but I always want to bookmark your content as I throughly enjoy it. When this video popped up in my subscriptions I thought ‘what’s this’ not yes I want to watch it because it’s from you. Maybe a name for the series or something in the thumbnail (logo) that you repeat and is recognisable, similar to what plainly difficult and other channels do. Thank you again for the videos, I appreciate it and my kids love your detail in the ‘how to works’.

[@Rednesswahn]

@kalsan15 That happened to me too. I'm glad I clicked on the video eventually when YT kept recommending it to me. Then I checked the channel and saw that it's the one with great behind the scenes videos that I really enjoy :D So maybe, putting something on the thumbnails would be good. Thanks for the awesome videos. It's always really interesting!

[@sandro-here]

@@nedt Thanks for the explanation! That's a good idea. I'll think of a way to make the thumbnails stand out in all configurations, perhaps even retro-fitting them.

[@sandro-here]

@@Rednesswahn Thanks! This is valuable input. I'll see how this can be addressed.

[@fakech]

Tunnels for railway instead of roads was the right choice. Well done Switzerland! 👏

[@peterammann4500]

Vor Eröffnung des Autostrassentunnels gab es auch am Gotthard einen Autoverlad. Im Winter ist die Passstrasse geschlossen.

[@davidklyne5134]

Takes me back to 2007 when we were camping in Frutigen, we did a circular drive from Kandersteg. Being used to the Channel Tunnel between England and France I found the car carriages quite narrow. Thanks for an interesting video.

[@TheKlink]

mate, this makes perfect sense. in your context.

[@TrainsOfEurope]

Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it!

[@MrAlex3461]

Very interesting hearing the amount of braking on the electric brake being modulated by a relay! 17:02 This is great electronics.

[@mrowl-the-dsm1304]

Absolutely superb video, and so interesting,

[@Tom-Lahaye]

Great content I have to say, I have used the Lötschberg car train once and it is a quite special experience, one thing that I remember so strongly will be a thing of the past with the concrete track bed, that's the overwhelming smell of creosote with which the wooden sleepers were treated. I had the chance to drive a short distance within the depot with the SBB Re460 when visiting the Erstfeld depot in 1996, especially then it was like a space ship. I subbed for more of this!

[@grahamsmith9541]

There used to be a network of car carrying train routes across the UK. Started in 1955 running untill. 2005 when the London to Penzance service finally ended.

[@ray076NL]

this really is a great little documentary

[@nhansen197]

Wish we had this where I live.

[@dentie3]

Awesome video, very informative! Keep up the good work 😁

[@ZorenManray]

Really it isn't a strange idea at all. Trains carrying cars in long tunnels is safer then cars traveling alone in long tunnels. Thanks for the Great video showing how it all works.

[@welshfurrygaming69]

the welsh and other british TOCs can learn from BLS, they are very friendly the staff letting you film all that, in uk you have to jump through hoops but i have had some managers permission to film at least with transport for wales

[@rodneycooperLMSCoach]

Now that is ultra sensible. UK had three car carrier trains in the 1960's. Nothing like that now in UK.

[@jimmydesouza4375]

It isn't actually sensible. The sensible approach is to build a road tunnel. Just that the swiss have an "anti-car" culture.

[@rodneycooperLMSCoach]

@@jimmydesouza4375 You're joking right? The Railway is far more efficient in moving loads long distances than roads are where the vehicles ie cars and goods, all need their separate engines and drivers and are not controlled so are more likely to have accidents. Where the road comes into it's own is at either end of the journey to millions of different destinations so it makes sense to put them on a train for the bulk of the journey. I don't think Swiss have ever been anti car but they have a mountainous country and roads can be dangerous.

[@jimmydesouza4375]

@@rodneycooperLMSCoach The railway is not more efficient. Railway is only more efficient with specific types of load (extreme weight or extreme volume), neither of which a car ferry counts as (think instead hopper cars full of coal and things of that nature). Also switzerland is fairly famous for its people hating cars (or it would be more correct to say being propagandised into thinking public transport is superior). That is why they shut down the road infrastructure programs that would have solved this problem in the first place, for example.

[@rodneycooperLMSCoach]

@@jimmydesouza4375 Maybe I didn't express myself so well. Imagine a motorway with 100 lorries all with medium or light loads but all going in the same direction for the bulk of their journeys and all with separate engines and drivers. All of that on one train that is why they are more efficient. If run correctly public transport is less polluting and more cost effective than private. If they are not run properly then private transport wins hands down.

[@jimmydesouza4375]

@@rodneycooperLMSCoach 100 lorries would take about 15 minutes to cover the ground this ferry takes 45 minutes to cover if they had an equivalent tunnel. "If run correctly public transport is less polluting and more cost effective than private." No it is not. Which is the reason why all public transport is subsidised to ridiculous amounts. Public transport is always less efficient and less effective because of inherent limitations within the system. For example the density of people per square foot you need to make passenger rail affordable would be fatal to everyone involved, so instead you have to raise prices, but then that would make it more expensive than private vehicles so no one would use it anyway so then you're forced to legislate out private vehicle ownership (the phase we're in right now). You're a railfan, so you're emotionally tied to the idea of railway working for public transport (and further from that public transport working in general). It simply doesn't. You're from the UK, you should know this. Peak subsidies of 35 pence per passenger per mile in the 80's and it still was a lossmaker.

[@GriffithsFfestiniog]

Very interesting and informative, thank you!

[@Thelift2013]

i went with this Autoverlad.. it is a whole different experience.. the feeling of going deep underground on that train.. it felt like something straight out of sci-fi

[@Sp4mMe]

Back in ye ancient days of the 2000's you could take a "car train" from Hamburg to Munich all the way to Verona. However, those worked a bit differently - park the car on the train, then get into a passenger carriage. There's some efforts to make some of it happen again but it's expensive, there's barely any route capacities, etcpp. Who knows, one day maybe ...

[@GenX-Gamore]

Whie I do enjoly watching the video, I'm not a fast reader, and need to pause it to read the subtitles, problem is many of them are below the youtube pause screen elements, it gets annoying to be honest to try and read with all the onscreen elements.

[@oleurgast730]

Actually while Car riding by reain is rare nowerdays, I still remember one about 40 years ago. We travelled from Lüneburg/Germany to Spain, using a car train from Hannover to France. That was quite a nice combination as this is a distance of nearly 1400 km (about 870 miles) = a car ride about 15h. Plus about 1,5h drive to Hannover and about 3,5h to the final destination near Barcelona. The train had sleeping wagons. For a car drive for the whole ride it would have been much more stressfull. However, as my brother and I were still kids /I think I was about 14, my brother 2 years younger), we had a lot of luggage. So having the own car for the holyday was a huge plus - and also no carrying limited luggage on a train or to the airport. Much more comfotable to sleep on the trainride. Does not matter the ride taking longer than a flight, if you can sleep... Also it was an adventure for us kids. Sadly there are barely any car-trains anymore.

[@TailorL]

30:00 Very interesting screen! Its the same in germany, very importend! You can see every train and teh track where who used at moment! Wooow! When I no more engineer than i work as dispatcher! ^^

[@HBvD]

Thank you for making this video 👍

[@dl8cy]

i like listen to that Schwyzerdütsch as an German and understand about 85% (75% - 95%) of that what was said.

[@100dampf]

4:24 The Car Shuttle predates the base tunnel, so it already had to compete with the whole traffic. It just doesn't make sense to use the highspeed tunnels for the shuttle 10:00 Your recherche is wrong, those green BDt were custom built in the 90s i think. The EW I are those with are rounded front, a normal passenger door behind the cab and without a panthograph. There is a third type built from SBB EW II with panthograph and a similar rounded front And soon a fourth type will enter service with the Re 465, built from NPZ Regional Trains

[@sandro-here]

Thanks a lot for the corrections! :-)

[@SpinThwomp]

Watching this about to board the auto train in Florida!

[@kulkarniprabhanjan]

thank you very much.

[@isaakpdm]

There are also such services in Hamburg Altona, going to various destinations such as Austria and Munich ^^

[@maremonte157]

I enjoyed talking you of the "Autoverlad" in the english text as it was a natural english word. :-)

[@Thetrainexpertyouknow]

Nice video! Actually we visit Switzerland twice a year. And if we go into direction of like Zermatt or saas-fee we take the car train trough the lotsbërg. It’s very special for me (A train fan). Interesting to hear how important all these car trains are!!!!

[@kemi242]

The Channel Tunnel between France and England is I guess, the most famous train ferry.

[@nautilusshell4969]

Love that man with his big heavy train.

[@Nick-zp3ub]

I wish we still had car trains to the north of England and Scotland. It takes hours to drive there and the traffic is unpredictable

[@markwright3161]

1:34 I was expecting the Tesla to lose a wing mirror or completely collide with the side of the train. Assuming that was LHD, it's going to be wrecked soon with that sort of width perception.

[@fjkfkfkf]

the tesla driver clearly couldnt drive properly. there was lots of space on the other side

[@peterammann4500]

Die Wagen sind breit genug für LKW

[@briancooper562]

I do hope they keep one of these old locos as is and also one painted the 'new' green just for the 'shock' of something 'new'. As they did with the borrowed Re 4/4 II (Re 420) the BLS leased from SBB.

[@jensschroder8214]

The old locomotives are well maintained and in excellent condition. This technology is exciting.

[@True_NOON]

Some other notable examples include the Sylt shuttle between Westerland and Niebül or the Rollende Landstraße operated during the 2002s from Lehrte eastbound dueto temporary A 2 expansion

[@roachtoasties]

I got to watch this later. There's also the Eurostar between the UK and France and the overnight auto train between Washington and Orlando.

[@Lorre982]

Till the late 90's in italy we put the car on a train till Reggio Calabria , the train whit the car was loaded on a ferry, the ferry dock in Messina and download the car

[@paulrandig]

Sooo beautiful 60ies design!

[@Tuberuser187]

Looks pretty cool, the Eurostar doesn't really feel like a train, just a more confined ferry but the open rail car must be an amazing experience the first few times.

[@RichXZ]

Eurostar only carries passengers. LeShuttle is the service that carries vehicles under the sea in the eurotunnel

[@CMDRSweeper]

If you are looking at understanding train brakes, I recommend Hyce's "AIRBRAKES 101" video, where he goes 10 levels of understanding, taking it from the simplistic and add on to it. It is from an American perspective, but the core way they work is the same, so it is a good place to start. And no, they are not like truck brakes.

[@sandro-here]

Thanks! Bookmarked it and will watch soon.

[@davidstone408]

Trains are a great way to move cars and other road transport - personally use the channel tunnel - have used the double decker, single decker and truck transporter (in a van) - all are great. Currently driving an electric car so reducing time, and miles is key

[@outminded6622]

1:50 how was she watching the video that was being made? It's like the textbook cover photo.

[@sandro-here]

Congratulations, you found the easter egg! And AFAIK you are the first to do so, so you win the prize, which is all the glory 🙂 As to your question, at the moment where 1:50 was filmed, part of the video was already edited and I'd send her the first preview for evaluation. She took the opportunity to place this easter egg in her footage and I decided to keep it in the final video.

[@UtzoUuti]

great video

[@fredschmitt456]

Lötschberg Autoverlad in Kandersteg / Goppenstein... been there, done that

[@domi9322]

Interessants filmli Als Bähnler isches au schön zum gseh dases immerna di alte Lokene im Isatz sind. Mage mi na zu guet dra erinnere womer na mitem RABDE12/12 unterwegs gsi isch, und jedi Schalt-Stufe ghört u gspürt het.

[@peterammann4500]

und wo jedi Schaltstuefe gchlepft het

[@VacuousCat]

I'm curious about the running cost comparison between pure passenger train, this, and motorway. Of course it'd be in this order, but how much?

[@gamingforlive2150]

i love how the systems use dtmf tones to transmit the data

[@alm958]

I wonder how the emissions/ energy usage of having the cars ferried by the train compares to the alternative of having a car only tunnel for all the cars to go through. This could be a great alternative to long roadtrips on highways for when you need a car at your destination. I guess Amtrak has a similar service, but it only runs from DC to Florida :(

[@DavidMeza-e9m]

I recently took the autozug for the first time. It was a surprise since google maps was showing it up as a ferry so we didn’t know until we get there that it was a train actually. Can somebody explain to me why a train instead of just a road tunnel for cars?. There should be many things I’m not considering for this idea but I would really like to know.

[@peterammann4500]

die Bahnen waren vor den Autos da, auch am Gotthard gab es einen Autoverlad

[@DavidMeza-e9m]

@@peterammann4500Thank you for the answer!

[@KD10Conqueror]

​@@DavidMeza-e9m Not only that, but in many cases it doean't make sense to build a road tunnel. Neither financially or ecologically. We swiss take the protection of our alps very seriously after all. That's also the reason why there is no road tunnel from Klosters to the Unterengadin, but there is a rail tunnel (including an Autozug connection like at the Lötschberg)

Ach wie beneide ich die Schweizer um ihr tolles Bahnsystem. Die haben es einfach früh genug erkannt, dass man als Binnenland viel Durchzugsverkehr abbekommt und haben gleich alles auf den umweltfreundlichen Zugstransport umgestellt. Wir Österreicher hätten den Nord-Süd-Transit genauso organisieren sollen, dann hätten wir die Probleme am Brenner nicht und Italien keinen Grund zu klagen. Ich wäre überhaupt dafür, besonders lange Distanzen mit dem Autoreisezug zu absolvieren. Dann bräuchten E-Autos nicht so Monster-Battereien, die Autos könnten am Zug gleich geladen werden (vielleicht sogar optimiert beim Bremsen des Zuges), man braucht diesen ganzen Selfdriving-Schmarn nicht zu entwickeln und in Verbindung mit hochwertigen Schlaf- und Speisewagen wäre ein Zugreise wesentlich komfortabler als jede Autofahrt. Leider wird das Angebot an Autoreisezügen weniger statt mehr und die Kosten sind auch grenzwertig, zumindest wenn man nicht bereit ist für diese umweltfreundliche Reiseart mehr zu zahlen.

[@Brauiz90]

There's another one for the channel between France and Great Britain - like the Eurostar train for cars / trucks / busses

[@dertigerbauch]

Super Inhalt Sandro, grad es Abo gmacht 🥰

[@dirkeisinger4355]

Nice. I have used that one and always thought it to be cool.

[@fritzfam5]

America has something similar called the auto train