Worlds longest train, must see!!! total length of 7.353 km, total weight 99,734 tons

Australia BHP Run on 21 June 2001, comprising 682 wagons and hauled by eight 6000 hp General Electric AC6000CW diesel-electric locomotives controlled by a single driver with a total length of 7.353 km on the 275 km iron ore railway to Port Hedland in Western Australia -- total weight 99,734 tons

[@Gabriel-he6ih]

God it must've been a nightmare in the shunting yards.

[@geraldjr3399]

the train head reach its destination while the last wagon still about to leaves Lol

[@dinomike1513]

surely they could have just added 266 tonnes more

[@ghostgarden8032]

They just may do that one day soon, just adding more ore cars, a few more locomotives In between the head end and the end of the train

[@ChrisPMT]

This train is longer than the branch line that runs through my town.

[@auxxx]

7.3km. Some people may think it's 7353km.

[@HeySlowPokes]

+diamond ... Time to change ! o0o

[@auxxx]

+HeySlowPokes I'm not saying it's wrong. It's all correctly stated in the title

[@tracynation239]

An excellent video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. ♡ T.E.N.

[@patrickrancourt4782]

God bless Australia !!!!

[@michalrimmerak1646]

Didnt want to meet it on crossing :-)

[@BoudiccaPLG]

Lived there. You take a packed lunch just in case you get caught. Did once. Bloody hell.

[@dermelonensaft3103]

perfect opportunity to have sex in the car

[@noahparsons7688]

Yes, the world is always in a hurry

[@CarlosGonzalez-kt5be]

THANKS YOU FOR THE VIDEO..SALUDOS FROM NEW YORK.

[@davidrayner9832]

Robe River still holds the record of 'world's longest and heaviest train to run from origin to destination successfully and without incident'.

[@jacquespienaar4687]

Hi David. I am not familiar with this one. I know the line is some 1300 km long, but I would love some stats on the train you mentioned.

[@chopperking1122]

@@jacquespienaar4687 still waiting i see ?

[@jacquespienaar4687]

@@chopperking1122Yup

[@sweetdude1298]

@@jacquespienaar4687 search for it yourself? You do have eyes and fingers right?

[@MrDavid4998]

you would have to wait 16 minutes at a crossing

[@Skellomaniac]

Loooooonger!

[@praneshsawant4137]

...if the train was going at 27.57375 kmph😆

[@ajaypatil1654]

I'm Happy to see old comments 6 years 🤗❤😘much love and respect from Bharat 🇮🇳❤🙏

[@kenhurley4441]

7,353 METERS is a little over 4.5 MILES! 48,000 HP and 8 engines. Okay where's Charles Atlas when you really need him?

[@SupriceSupplies]

I like trains. :3

[@borntoclimb7116]

Impressive train, sehr interessant und beeindruckend, ich dachte immer das der 2,5km lange "Sahara Express" der längste Zug wäre.

[@RollingEasy]

A few times over the years you'd catch the crossing red lights on the Great Northern Highway and so you'd park up and go light a fire and boil a billy and kick around some stones and watch the sunset and then go back to your car and warm it up for a few minutes before you could be on your way again.... And they say that Australians like to exaggerate all sorts of things.... Nah... We just say it as we see it.

[@johncholmes643]

What is boiling a Billy mate?

[@spagoz2136]

@@johncholmes643 A Billy is short for a billycan. A metal can used to boil water over an open fire to make tea or coffee.

[@hirsemehlmesser6746]

Why is the video repeating? Did you want to make the train twice as long?

[@futuretech-thefutureoftech1442]

Worlds strongest locomotive ever built: 2-6-6-6 Allegheny, w/ 12,000 HP at max, maybe more. Cool, right? P.S, it was a steam loco.

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

FutureTech - The future of technology, 52 Most often, steam and diesel locomotives are judged on the real work they do and in the railroad business that statistic is tractive effort. It's a measurement of how much weight the locomotive will pull. Boiler horsepower is deceiving because it's simply a measurement of how much steam a boiler can produce and doesn't reflect the useful work the locomotive can do. In Robert A LeMassena's book, "Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America," a trusted resource used by authors, each articulated's major statistics are presented and if you'll read it you'll see the Allegheny was not the most powerful. In fact, with a modest estimated tractive effort of 110,000 pounds, it wasn't even in the top 5. The Great Northern R-2 2-8-8-2 holds the title based on it's conservative 150,000 lbs. tractive effort. When limited cutoff was eliminated it went over 152,000. The Allegheny was much larger and heavier with more boiler horsepower but that weight and power didn't make it down to the wheels on the rail where a locomotive's true value is measured.

[@hadesdescent6664]

@@douglasskaalrud6865 I disagree, 4-8-8-4 Big Boy and 2-6-6-6 Allegheny were the strongest. Allegheny was for slow coal drag and up the grades, that tractive effort must be expressed at which speed you measure the tr,ef,!!!

[@michaelhayden725]

Jacques I have to doubt that the (former) Robe line is 1300 km. I lived in Port Hedland during the early 1970’s when Cliffs Robe River were building the king from Panawanica to the port at Wickham/Withnel Bay. I would estimate the rail line distance at around 250/275 km. The Robe River Company was taken over by Rio Tinto.

[@aquamermaid10]

wow i have never seen anything like it!!!

[@bangdaustandjoeng9551]

Amazing..

[@trebor220145]

It appears it was a once off. South Africa's Sishen- Saldahna ore train is about 4km long and has been running for about 30 years without interruption.

[@jacquespienaar4687]

Quite true, but we're not comparing apples with apples with apples, are we? The Sishen train of 1989 (7,2km 72000 tonnes) was operated on 3'6" "narrow" gauge (compared to AAR 4'8,5" gauge of the Pilbara lines) and covered a distance of 861km (compared to 275km) and without breaking it!! This is nevertheless an impressive achievement, but I would still like to see them emulate the achievement on "narrow" gauge.

[@Compendyum]

I was thinking the same, but doesn't look like this train is going to pass that crossings like passenger ones.

[@nsl.4994]

A single mammoth steam locomotive can do the job, so as I was told by two senior men at a local hostel in India. They are NOT impressed by multiple diesel locomotives moving a train. But steam on the other hand can do it singlehandedly. That's what they told me. Therefor they consider diesel power as WEAK!

[@alexwade9888]

This train is longer than my daily train commute.

[@killman369547]

good god imagine trying to stop that thing in an emergency it'd take forever to stop

[@xaenon]

About the same as a regular train, actually. Each car has brakes.

[@johnfenn]

And then last month they had a train take off without the driver nd had to derail it just to get it stopped. Millions of dollars damage due to a spftware glitch. The driver set the emergency brake and was told to get out and go check something. However noone knew that the emergency brake had a time out of about 60 minutes and then it timed out and SHUT ITSELF OFF! So the driver was somewhere down the train and it started rolling away.

[@lhsboyproductions3446]

It's a shame the BHP AC6000's were scrapped

[@kannanpnkappukannam3135]

BHR train company nice

[@Krish1991]

Omg..

[@kdmq]

2:13 Statistics wins again LOL

[@chrisgriffiths2533]

So if it the Trip Time was much Longer than the Normal Shorter Trains, is it Really a World Record ?.

[@RDC_Autosports]

AC6000s 👍

[@jamesduff6937]

Does this train pass through any roads?

[@beebeenyneeee7692]

Thats the length of like 5 imperial star destroyers!

[@clonetrooper576]

THE AC6000 WILL CONQUER!

[@mdgfb05]

+Clonetrooper576 WOOOOOO YEAH

[@danno02]

Pay for your software.

[@aToOoOoMboi]

This one rewrite the do not cross road sign !

[@bigPianist99]

Now make a circle train round the earth

[@moheedsyed7278]

And still CJ couldn't get on the damn train

[@hokutosei.hershey-ho.high-8203]

BHP AC6000CW

[@mrgoodwrench8181]

No Wabtec involvement?

[@TrainTrackTrav]

With PSR going into effect on most railroads here in the States, I wouldn't be surprised if we break this record.

[@bjorn1583]

still waiting

[@chopperking1122]

still waiting

[@TheSwamynathan]

BHP-Broken Hill Proprietary Co.Ltd.Broken Hill, Victoria.Aust,

[@dybooma]

Broken Hill is in NSW. BHP may be headquartered in Victoria.

[@ponce49508]

any idea of how aggravating putting that graphic into the middle of the video is?

[@SACWarrior70s]

WHEN YOU AMATEURS PROFRICK YOUR VIDEOS LEARN HOW NOT TO BE ANNOYING! THAT CENTERED "CREATED WITH", YOU COULDN'T READ, AS IT WAS TOO SMALL AND THE RED MADE THOSE CHARACTERS HARD TO READ....NOT GOUNG TO SUBSCRIBE TO ANYTHING YOU DO ON HERE...CAN'T GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME, THEN YOU EFFORT IS DOWN THE "LOU!", counter-clockwise!

[@QuadMochaMatti]

@@SACWarrior70s It's spelled "Loo", if you mean WC. I think Louis our Louise would be offended if you shoved anything down them.

[@zerocool6452]

But what happens if the train crashes??

[@MrOlgrumpy]

Recovery crew has two weeks work

[@cn7835656]

eight 6000hp GE's giving a total amount of horse power of 54000 horse power that's a lot

[@maheedhara]

*48000hp you seem to be american

[@maheedhara]

lol learn 6*8 first and then use KZbin

[@mikemoore2791]

@@mdgfb05 yeah ok mate. But 6 x 8 =48. In any language. Anywhere in the universe.

[@Glendixontwba]

Kiwis can drive!

[@julesparkinson9235]

sounds like a mainlander...aye bro

[@SACWarrior70s]

KIWI's are NEW ZEALANDERS not AUSSIES....get your facts straight Mate!

[@barrymartin7085]

Aussies

[@ajaypatil1654]

OMG 😱 I'm very happy to see 9 years old comments🤗😘❤much love and respect from Bharat🇮🇳❤🤗🙏

[@markissboi3583]

powered by 8 locomotives 😲👍 this train is longer than the Bullchit coming out of parliment

[@wayneschenk5512]

To miss 100000 as a target.

[@cazacuflorin2126]

Lenght of 7353 km is imposible :O maybe 7353 metres :O

[@kessedk]

. is the decimal mark - Australia uses a . (dot) not a , (comma) source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark

[@aussiefirie]

length of 7.353km

[@SACWarrior70s]

YEAH, 4.6MILES! OVER 4 1/2 MILES IN LENGTH.

[@alfapainting5790]

Why is so long????

[@xaenon]

they mention it in the video - to 'test the limits' of their equipment and infrastructure.

[@QuadMochaMatti]

Greed.

[@michaelprocter1298]

Only in Australia

[@velotill]

would be soo cool, If they made this operation to be run on solar power, with prices for PV/kWh having come WAY down. The metric tons of Diesel that could be saved per day...

[@nuffsed196]

cumpnee or company

[@QuadMochaMatti]

Country or cuntry.

[@indridcold8433]

Hey, it's not the size of the train that matters! It is the way you use the train! I am sure a shortish-medium train could satisfy the desire as well! Some engineers can not help but to have a very capable to satisfy shortish-medium train. Some engineers like shortish-medium trains. There is nothing wrong with shortish-medium trains!

[@gabbyjonson3498]

Be cheaper to bring the Port to the Mine

[@jaytrock3217]

I really don't see the point of this. How is this cost efficient? Seems like you have to wait a very long time to fill that many wagons.

[@skippy5712]

About 1/3 day on there figures. Normally 9 trains a day 1/3 the size.

[@xaenon]

The point was to test equipment and infrastructure. Even here in north America, they run some big-ass trains. Not quite this size, but still.

[@flamingfrancis]

BHP Biliton was working towards these trains becoming driverless at this time and has succeeded as at 2018. Opposition miner Rio Tinto did so around the same time. BHPB had a nasty accident with one in 2018 where a driverless train had to be deliberately derailed. Details can be found with a search.

[@NoTaboos]

People who put "must see" in titles are wankers.

[@xaenon]

Also people who loop the SAME VIDEO twice, and don't register their damned editing software.

[@SaranganiBob]

Or "blow your mind"....how? and where to?

[@reginald2004]

And even more jobs down the drain. Lucky they only broke one coupler.

[@cj382]

Proudly powered by "American" built General Electric Dash 9's

[@Jemalacane0]

cj382 No. General Electric AC6000CWs.

[@SACWarrior70s]

Cj didn't watch the videos Twice played, mentioning the 6000 MODELS WITH 6000 SERIES NUMBERS, AND LISTED IN THE CREDITS. CAN I REFER YOU TO A GOOD OPHTHAMOLOGIST (SP) and the maybe LENSCRAFTERS or some other Optical shop?

[@ignemuton5500]

i get that this train is supposed to deliver things from state to state but this looks way too useless.

[@Squigglyize]

No,it's taking Iron Ore from the Mine Site to Port Headland in Western Australia where it is then loaded on to Ships!! I think they mentioned that is was about a 270km trip. BHP own the Railway and the Locos.

[@ignemuton5500]

Akita but the longest one is located in USA....

[@NicolaiBDK]

Funny it´s not the world record then....

[@bigkiwial]

Notumengi wrong wrong wrong.

[@bigkiwial]

Nicolai B oh yes it is, google that shit before you comment.

[@ssubbaraman4732]

ஞ😅ஞ

[@robertmcdonnold3038]

Sounds like the company is getting ready to cut jobs.

[@thgtchr6815]

This is more a corporate promo than a rail-fan video. Impressive accomplishment, but...a boring video.

[@bicccboi]

dumb piece of junk. it creates more problems; people have to wait who knows how long for this shit train to pass. fixing this piece of junk would be such a hassle and many other problems. worst construction ever.

[@weirdunclebob]

There aren't many people who might be waiting for this train. It's in the middle of the Pilbara which is very sparsely populated. If you'd listened to the narration you would've heard that this was a one-off run to test equipment, limits, tech etc. and that it was over three times the length of the trains they operate normally. I believe you would only have to wait about six minutes for the normal trains. Not long at all, really. Do some research before you mouth-off next time, dude! :)

[@bigPianist99]

Now make a circle train round the earth

[@ajaypatil1654]

😱 old comments I'm happy to see🤗😘

[@bigPianist99]

@@ajaypatil1654 welcome ;)