Time-Lapse Footage Shows Flood Engulfing Stretch of Queensland Railway Line

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[@RickyRyanRay]

Those trees: “Boy it’s hot out here, I could use some water. Oh perfect, some rain....alright that’s good...I said I’m good....hey, that’s enough!! Hey!! Heyglurg fhprh glargg uugersb.”

[@judeodomhnaill9711]

Great comment.

[@atkguy7109]

😂😂😂😂

[@railfanaiden9094]

Lmfao

[@JaehaerysTheConciliator]

LOL!

[@LAQC1992]

😆

[@johnbjorkman4144]

Where's the guy in his Hilux saying, "no worries, I'll just drive through..."?

[@timbibin1301]

He started driving through at 0:58

[@Tattlebot]

@@timbibin1301 there's a farmer thinking "Hey, we could drown a hundred thousand head of cattle here."

[@YokRzeznic]

About 120km downstream now

[@eliesh3833]

Is it just me, or did the water get so high that it was close to submerging the camera?

[@langer24106]

I was thinking the exact same thing.

[@ClinttheGreat]

Sure looks that way.

[@OneRoomShed]

Right! After the bridge went under, I was waiting for it to take the camera out too.

[@Mikeoxlong902]

Looks like it did and died right before the water reached it

[@Lockbar]

At he end the camera was sending out an SOS signal.

[@WadeSafechuckAndTheWNB]

Knowing Australia, I’m guessing there’s gotta be at least a couple blue-ringed eight-legged crocodile-bull-snakes in there.

[@Mikowmer]

'Bout half a dozen drop bears too, mate! They love the water. Just as dangerous as those salties!

[@lxathu]

@@Mikowmer And the tail-biting cockatoos, of course.

[@barryfoster453]

The country is no place for humans.

[@mamacat63]

@@Mikowmer gotta watch those little sheep eating parrots, too

[@claire-christmas-august73]

& a bear as well.. lol

[@dissolvanizer]

who else wanted to see a train come barreling down the tracks throwing water sky high in both directions

[@juliaconnell]

Umm in the early stages - yes absoutely - look how HIGH the water is at the end - not possible!!

[@kishascape]

It would derail lol if the track is even still there to begin with.

[@sedlife8249]

underwater trains exist in some parts of the world , so why not

[@juliaconnell]

life um please provide some more info about these "underwater trains" - please, thank you

[@sedlife8249]

This is an article

[@JoeBeaudette]

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.. How it starts as a gentle gully and turns into a straight-up sea Manitoba experienced something similar in 1997

[@NetTubeUser]

Looks like a desert but the next day, it became a "dangerous river" ... it's incredible!

[@b_uppy]

They moved the Mississippi...

[@safirahmed]

The video of the flood is terrifying when considering that 1 cubic metre of water is 1000 litres of water weighing 1 Metric tonne at standard temperature and pressure.

[@asimanayak304]

Bruh

[@jen33sen]

OR 1 gallon = 8.34 pounds / OR 1 cubic foot = 7.48 gallons

[@Engineer9736]

It’s not like we have to carry it, right

[@safirahmed]

@@Engineer9736 The comment referred to the force of water which is often under estimated by people.

[@paulwilliams5208]

Thomas "I know the railway tracks are here somewhere..."

[@Kiina312]

I’m South Australian & for NYE 2009 we went camping down the river in our local area. It was quite a sloped ravine area & we rigged up a swing on this really high branch in a massive gumtree. I moved interstate a few weeks later but that year they had a huge amount of rain. About 12months later I went back for a visit with some friends & went out in the tinny. We were cruising along in the boat and noticed a tree branch in the water with a rope floating about. I suddenly turned to my mates who just nodded & went ‘yup, it’s our campsite. We’re floating above it’ It was completely GONE. Totally under water. You wouldn’t have even known that there was a ravine below it with a ginormous gumtree below.

[@e.graceoldstoneroses9947]

That must have felt extremely surreal!

[@Kiina312]

@@e.graceoldstoneroses9947 One of the weirdest things I’ve ever experienced. Because the bank of the river was then the top of the ravine. It was absolutely insane. Could be worse though, in 1956 the area had the biggest flood ever experienced. In our area the river rose 12m (40 feet). Some other areas were FAR worse. Shit was completely under water. It’s quite amazing though because if you boat down the Murray River, you can see the old signs nailed into the trees where the water rose to which was WAAAAY up high. I tried to paste a link to show but it won’t work. If you’re interested Google “tree of knowledge loxton South Australia” & click images. Has the sign up high up on the tree & for reference at how high that is - it’s in the park area, not even on the river bank!!! Edit; found a link. I think it’s photo 3/7 www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g2686396-d21169587-i464897308-Loxton_s_Tree_Of_Knowledge-Loxton_South_Australia.html

[@olsmokey]

@@Kiina312 I remember that flood in '56. I was 4 at the time and visiting Echuca. The Murray was flowing over the bridge if I remember right.

[@Kiina312]

@@olsmokey I’ve seen that bridge - wow!

[@ashruffabdullah]

Train conductor: "Next station, Atlantis.."

[@jnolette1030]

I wasn't expecting THAT much water

[@JoeOvercoat]

“This will be interesti…oh good lawd!”

[@Xxxl0k0xxX]

Who else got it recommended out of nowhere

[@MarkFromEastleigh]

Nature doing what nature does best. Incredible footage.

[@trickle2238]

Props to the camera man. That is some serious dedication.

[@connorb9097]

QR announcement: “Rail service suspended due to unexpected river”

[@usvalve]

UK rail announcement: "The rail replacement bus service has been replaced with a road replacement boat service."

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Nope QR announcement : Mfftfmmmnhhhphhhfmmmffftttppp railmmfttfmmmbbhhpppfftffffttt qr

[@RudiKiefer]

Thanks for sharing this. Very impressive. A great teaching tool for my college courses.

[@notmanynamesleft]

That's a hell of a lot of water wtf

[@omnia9348]

I AM DROWNING

[@carolinacoreas7716]

Now imagine coastal US and the Pacific islands when hurricane/typhoon season happens. I've lived through Hurricane Harvey when it hit Houston, as a Houston native, I've never seen so much water cover an entire highway system, took it a really good while to recede into the gulf.

[@mccallfrank007]

So I’m guessing if that river froze to ice, it could create a polar express train ride feeling!

[@donrowson105]

This took place in Jan/Feb '19. It's summertime down there. But, yeah, otherwise that would've been cool!

[@chooseyourpoison5105]

This crossing is located in central Queensland. Summer temperatures around 40 degrees C and winter 25 degrees C. There are two chances that it will ever freeze over - zero and none.

[@bombasticbuster9340]

The New Queensland Undersea Tramway. Please bring your own O2 tank.

[@SeanJAnimations]

At 0:29 it kinda looks like something out of a classic "Thomas & Friends" episode.

[@writer125]

That was amazing the way and speed that happened at. There used to be a railroad track underneath all that water. Thanx for posting this.

[@3mtech]

Only took a week

[@KrypticWarrior2]

literally just turns the area into a lake, holy shit

[@darklordojeda]

Somebody just needs to shout up to the sky, "WHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[@monica012077]

I was hoping to see what the tracks looked like after.

[@kit1951]

Awesome footage!

[@richardlaw5737]

Well that’s one way to clean the tracks I spose

[@Lyf4rMusic]

And also to leave whole lot of wet mud and dirt to clean later 😉

[@kranson8514]

Crazy weather must have rose twenty feet thought it was high when got to the tracks, but went well above that.

[@ama230]

Thank you for posting such great footage : )

[@miro_kun555]

This video deserve millions of view

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Wow. Looked like the camera would drown if it kept up like that.

[@Dobviews]

"Ethel, I told you to pull the drain plug when you got out a the tub! Now you've done gone and flooded the neighborhood so bad even the trains can't get through!"

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

That is a unbelievable amount of water.. it rose up about 5 meters. And other places in the world, even in Australia there's a fatal drought meanwhile

[@patsk8872]

Looks like the train track in Kalimari Desert for MK64

[@darylcheshire1618]

Dunno if true, read about train approaching a trestle bridge (in QLD) and you can just see the tracks. The driver hesitated and when the floodwaters receeded, the bridge was gone, the tracks and sleepers just crossed the open space. In floodwaters, the bridge gets hit with debris and the rushing water weakens the bridge supports. In Victoria the old bridge at Stratford had timber members shaped like a boat around the brick bridge support to ease the debris aside. The new bridge just has rebar concrete supports, be interesting if it stands the test of time.

[@John_Locke_108]

Should have used a shamwow. All that water would have been gone in a jiffy.

[@atticstattic]

Name the point at which you stop thinking, "A train could still get through."

[@aidenh1790]

0:35

[@peachypussy]

Weird to be the observer and slowly feel yourself become the subject. Feeling fear slowly creep up then an acceptance of you being washed away underneath with everything else.

[@Coldcloves]

Yeah even watching the video felt like my house could be flooded any moment

[@peterjohannsen8472]

Hitchcock would be proud.. excellent description!

[@marcel_max]

why not showing when the tracks get cleared?

[@181stTIE]

The marvels of Man are nothing more than a dying candle to time and nature

[@zzyzxPL]

Uncle Noah and his pets went thru something like this once.

[@ankuhans360]

And our elders after this. Once there was a way but now there exist a river. We: i know you are lying.

[@Marc_donkey]

WOW , I wasn't' expecting that , half expected to see a train go by , until the water kept rising and rising

[@tonymark2043]

This video would've been much better if there was also a timelapse showing the flood drain away slowly.. would've been so cool 🤩

[@chefgiovanni]

Cool video. Any damage to the tracks ?

[@thejaideeparora]

My heart sank when the water rose up to the level of camera. I genuinely felt scared. Damn!

[@brianmoore1820]

Shoot! That's some rain.

[@steveabq7913]

I'd love to see the receding of the flood as well.

[@technewsfortechnoobs]

"Flood"....possibly one of the words almost no one ever uses to describe weather events in Australia.

[@davidhoward4715]

The Australian landscape is more flood-prone than most places in the world. Arid and semi-arid areas cannot handle large volumes of water... and these places tend to get six months of rainfall in six hours.

[@chooseyourpoison5105]

Tell us you know nothing about Australian weather or geography without telling us you know nothing about Australian weather or geography

[@JustJanitor]

That is insane! Slowly but surely it just took over. wow!

[@nadiafarhana3018]

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[@codywarhawk7099]

Kinda wish this was the case in the project area I'll have to work at this week, because I absolutely despise this project we're doing.

[@peters972]

First they prayed for rain, then they prayed for dry. God said, “whatever next!”

[@ranger2316]

Wow! That's impressive!

[@jaramillolugo5921]

Just knew we should have flown, mate!

[@egdiryellam68]

Mother Nature at her best.

[@prateeksharma729]

I literally thought that this time cameraman will drown. But it didn't. Invincible !

[@darknesslight3100]

California needs this kind of raining right now.

[@wantsomemilk6931]

Driving a train through that would be like that one scene from the polar express

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

Except instead of rolling on ice, you're struggling to pull through one of mother nature's most destructive weapons: water.

[@abmonkey33]

Trust the Aussies to have a bigger n better rain storm than the rest of us!!! Guess it goes along with the dangerous reptiles, snakes, spiders, drivers, oh, and sheep!!! Gotta love you guys!! 👍🏻

[@arindamkumar7725]

The water level became dangerously high

[@dazling5890]

It was so bad you had to apply for a home loan just to get 3 bananas.

[@MrMilkBR]

So that’s where they filmed spirited away right?

[@lalemon]

Wow nice captures ..

[@leanisastay3781]

Am i the only one who was waiting for it to submerge the camera??

[@whofandb]

Were the train tacks there when things dried out or were they washed away too?

[@nesnibila4888]

that's terrifying actually

[@T.P.030]

Yes, it was the right Choice to use an Mobotix fully weatherproof professional camera here…

[@denitzilla]

Wow that escalated quickly

[@LinuxLuddite]

They didn't elavate the underlying ground before constructing the track. The track should have been at least 5 ft higher then the surrounding area.

[@csfourier]

Kudos to the cameraman for surviving Day/Night

[@Mr2blue2]

I think I see the remains of an older bridge structure to the left that was built at the proper height for this area.

[@ItsEzlan]

will show this to my kids and say this is what happens when you leave the tap running

[@gododgers3491]

Now there is a "wow" for you.

[@dashingdave2665]

Electric trains in Queensland use overhead wires, and that's only in some places, so diesel locomotives only in this part of the world.

[@marissaq7485]

The fact this happened in only 6 days

[@imarriedabrkfsttaco3737]

It would be cool to see a massive locomotive plow through this lake.

[@advaitofficial1991]

It was the moment when the trees knew they are fu.cked up 🌲🌳🌴🎋💀

[@Shree12344]

River : It's time to kidnap the railway line ...OK wait we have to hide him first

[@Orcinus24x5]

Holy shit, that is some deep water.

[@ronanoboyle6348]

Respect to the cameraman he must be up to his waist in water by this point

[@ankuhans360]

Before: camera was enjoying After: this is known as struggle.

[@Mickmickster]

Jesus, that’s not a flood that’s a space station!

[@rinkumiah]

This flooded area will become a permanent ocean if we don’t take global warming seriously.

[@RightOnBud]

Will it? What math did you run to come to that conclusion? What field are you in?

[@rinkumiah]

@@RightOnBud Are you stupid? There are many places like this which once was a dry land now permanently flooded. It’s a high probability that if we don’t take actions against global warming, many places in the world are waiting to become an ocean.

[@alexcrawford5350]

That must be bone-dry landscape for the floodwaters to be that deep.

[@SuperSqueakyboy]

The camera finally went underwater in the end.

[@az8theist977]

Don't fuck with Mother Nature. She will win EVERY time....

[@oddities-whatnot]

Wow that turned bad pretty quickly

[@matthewlamb7928]

Now that's a lot of water!

[@scottryan6279]

Wow, that is amazing and terrifying

[@axelfoley133]

I swear, I left the train station right here.

[@LauRa-re9un]

Water is out of control, poor trees, poor animals that live there.

[@nikkispanish3752]

Looks like hurricane Harvey in Houston Texas

[@henrymoreland8719]

And yet with all in engineering brilliance of mankind, there will be drought in the region at some stage.

[@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002]

That’s what I call a flash flood… it covered that railway in 59 seconds

[@laughtoohard9655]

That was a flash. It took six nights and snuck up on critters that hibernate.

[@Tonie0]

i bet that there will be that one guy that is going to scream "ITS A FUCKING TIMELAPSE YOU DUMBASS"

[@jeffadams4590]

Wooshing sounds will soon be heard in this comment section. I'll be waiting to pounce on those comments 🤗

[@laughtoohard9655]

@@Tonie0 Yes, a time lapse that required six nights hence not qualifying as a Flash Flood. A Flash Flood requires seconds, minutes, or a few hours. Not six nights, which then makes it a Flood. Here's an example of a Flash Flood: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3qknWaDf5d8nsU

[@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002]

@@Tonie0 well, Looks like we found him 😂 ^^^

[@dragons_red]

I want to seen the ending, when the water recedes and the mess that is left (buried tracks).

[@tcmtech7515]

Hey, Frank. How high was the last flood? 6 feet. Why? *Sets camera at 6 feet 2 inches. (Edit, 4200+ likes in 3 months, Thank you, everyone! 🥳)

[@spythere]

@@zachlualhati The real measurement unit

[@ScottRothsroth0616]

Under-appreciated initial comment that probably has some truth to it.

[@jango7889]

@@spythere the metric system is gay which is why canadians are so fond of it

[@Ram875]

@@jango7889 90% of the world is gay then, nice...

[@ManOnTheRange]

@@jango7889 so better be "gay" because we use metric system then alone in basement like you :D

[@MichaelKinzer]

Australia: *engulfed in flames* Also Australia: *creates new ocean*

[@CosmicSeeker69]

and Sheeple won't take international weather manipulation seriously

[@howard5992]

@@CosmicSeeker69 Wut ?

[@nathanielpillar8012]

what? @@CosmicSeeker69

[@joesmith-es1zy]

@@CosmicSeeker69 Have you considered getting psychiatric help for your delusions?

[@ImFieldy]

@@CosmicSeeker69 coz its always done it. just cycles

[@evequickk]

I would like to see when (if?) the water recedes!

[@TheDemocrab]

Australian here: Queensland is permanently underwater after the great Ipswich Flood of 2018.

[@waverider8651]

@@TheDemocrab really!?

[@Selmarya]

Media pretty much washed out but not underwater as it receded over a few weeks and Queensland was severely destroyed with most building severely damaged or gone

[@theshillneckedlizard8364]

@@Selmarya Rubbish. I'm a Queenslander, you do realise that the state of Queensland covers nearly 2 million square kilometres? The flood was limited to the area around Ipswich. The rest of the state was just fine.

[@Selmarya]

@@theshillneckedlizard8364 whoops, your right, i meant the ipswich metropolitan area and nearby towns and citys were flooded for weeks I forget Queensland is about 7 times larger than my nation lol

[@thomashigdon5015]

I was starting to think the clip would end with us seeing Noah’s Ark float by.

[@MarloSoBalJr]

Or some lad named Noah's house

[@veradayen8559]

Omg same... was thinking about Noah's Ark while watching the water rise lol

[@juneberry1982]

@@aubymori1333 read the first book of the bible: Genesis. Then you'll get the reference.

[@thetessellater9163]

The real reason Billionaires have massive yachts - they know what's coming.

[@thetessellater9163]

@@juneberry1982 - Don't bother reading the bible, it will control how you think, it all leads to silly superstitions.