Interesting train today in Switzerland
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If you ask Hans nicely , he will give you details . I hope .
Or perhaps not as I can’t get the damn picture out to here . Ha . Diddit .
Mike
What am I looking at?
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David Maynard said:
What am I looking at?
You’re looking at a train that exited the Landwasser tunnel, crosses the Landwasser viaduct and is just about to dive into the Zaleint tunnel where this webcam is located.
What used to be shipped in boxcars is now transported in containers which get transfered to smallish trucks that can negotiate the narrow mountain roads and deliver to where the groceries are needed.
Oh BTW, that’s the railway I model and some day I’ll have a viaduct that will look similar to the Landwasser viaduct - it’s only a matter of time. No containers for me, I’m stuck back when …
PS the containers are empties rolling back to Landquart.
A bit more on the bridge:
height: 65+ meters
curve radius: 100 meters
grade: 2%
Thank you Hans .
Why is the steeple cab loco in the train----overhead pickup down ?
Mike
Containers? Yea, I with you Hans. Containers aren’t as interesting to me as boxcars are.
Mike, maybe running empty, downhill, that second motor isn’t needed.
You could well be right David , but it’s almost a museum piece not in general service .
Hans is an expert on which locos are in general use and occasional use , hence I pointed the photo to him rather than give incorrect info .
Mike
Isn’t that the viaduct and tunnel that Alfred Hitchcock used as a metafore for…ummm… friendly relations between a hero and a heroine?
Not quite with you there Steve .
I bet it’s rude and not fit for the tender souls who happen along here .
Mike
David Maynard said:
Containers? Yea, I with you Hans. Containers aren’t as interesting to me as boxcars are.
But the cons are a lot handier for shipping purposes. I love the v-e-r-y long container unit trains that both CN and CP run on their trans conti out of Vancouver BC.
The small switcher engines , like the one in this consist, get added to any freight train if they need to be transfered to a different station, either for new duties or servicing at Landquart. Applies to both Diesel and electrics.
Thanks , Hans .
Mike
Steve Featherkile said:
Isn’t that the viaduct and tunnel that Alfred Hitchcock used as a metaphor for…ummm… friendly relations between a hero and a heroine?
Hitchcock ended North by Northwest with this scene:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/DPt-4Nwght0
Ya just gotta love the tympani in the closing seconds of that clip… 
Mel Brooks spoofed that scene in High Anxiety using the above shown viaduct and tunnel. I have yet to find the scene, but maybe our erstwhile movie critic, Vic, can come up with it. 
The locos in the shot in NbyNW are American Diesels, not Swiss or European. It could be any tunnel, it’s still a cute visual metaphor (that has been used to death!).
Andrew Moore said:
The locos in the shot in NbyNW are American Diesels, not Swiss or European. It could be any tunnel, it’s still a cute visual metaphor (that has been used to death!).
Yeah and it’s straight into the tunnel, no curvy approach over a viaduct with the abyss below.
Steve Featherkile said:
Mel Brooks spoofed that scene in High Anxiety using the above shown viaduct and tunnel.
Yes, Andrew and HJ, I know. Apparently, you didn’t read my whole post. 
Steve Featherkile said:
Yes, Andrew and HJ, I know. Apparently, you didn’t read my whole post.
And you didn’t understand mine.
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Steve Featherkile said:
Yes, Andrew and HJ, I know. Apparently, you didn’t read my whole post.
And you didn’t understand mine.
Au contraire, HJ, I fully understood your post. That’s why I don’t think that you read mine.