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We have to shift away from focusing so much on profitabilty. Any new or unestablished method is going to have upfront investments required, which likely won't payoff financially for a long time, because all of our current industry, infrastructure, is built around oil and other fossil fuels, making them inevitably cheaper. Oil was in a similar place in the beginning, where those businesses lobbied heavily and somertimes even forced themselves into government power to have their interests met, which lead to policies -- and subsidies -- that benefited their profit margins. The end of fossil fuel usage is an existential matter for humanity, and therefore (short-term) profitability should be deprioritised if not outright discarded, because the mitigation of climate change fallout will grant much bigger returns than any corporate quarterly profits ever could.

TOPIC REQUEST: please make a video about cheap and clever ways to do transloading. I thunk that this is less efficient than intermodal, but it is more efficient than using trucks on roads.

Felix, this is brilliant. It also is compatible with small containers, so that tracks which are too poorly maintained can still be used. This is great news for our region, because we have waste station and an incinerator near different ends of tracks, which could use some great service.

09:00 That train was quiet anticlimatic . Sae two locos and expected a beautiful swiss intermodal train.

Norfolk Southern ran a service in the 1980s called “RoadRailer” which simply took standard roadway-haul trailers and fitted them with rail-gauge trucks and couplers. My father-in-law was developing the intermodal network at Burlington Northern then & they gave the technology much study, but rejected it as the trailer frames just could not handle rail operation stresses and speeds & strengthened trailers would be too heavy to economically operate on roads. COFC proved to be the most flexible and economical solution here.

That trash compactor attachment transforming the hook-lift to a garbage truck - pure genius!

Is this the same system that coop uses on their RailCare trains? If you have the time and resources please check out the Cargo Beamer system. It’s super interesting but there isn’t much about it on UA-cam.

In India there's only konkan railways, A subsidiary of indian railways which manages the rail lines in the western coast of india also has RORO trains but not as advanced as having special rail wagons, but as literal Roll on Roll off transporter, Trucks get into/out of the train at designated Sidings ,This is highly profitable for konkan railways as the terrain of the Western coast (konkan region ,hence konkan railways) Is very hard to traverse and build roads ,combined with the bad road network, truckers find RORO services time saving.

Britain and Europe 🇬🇧🇪🇺 needs more systems like this one as it’s saves time and more time is saved the more money is made. Good video👏

En France, il y a aussi quelques très rares trains de poubelles avec des containers ACTS comme dans le département de l'Oise

Question: what are the requirements for the balance of the goods in the trailers? Seems to me that the center of gravity of the goods in the trailer would have to be close to the center of the container, both forwards and backwards and side to side. Is this the case?

Jawohl, Schweizerische Vorbild🇨🇭🫡

I am not sure, but I feel like I've seen something similar in Freiberg im Breisgau

Very cool! I wish we would have this in Germany. What I don't understand: How can the operation of the freight trains be profitable? Or is it subsized? It seems like some of the trains (like those to the trash plant) are very short

ACTS was developed in the Netherlands, dating back to the 1980's, the company (now defunct) even used an decommissioned NS class 1200 and Belgian class 55 and Ost DB V60 locomotives...

hi there there is one more the system by railcare were they can roll the containers from the truck to the wagons its called "Containermover"

Great video, really enjoyed the in-depth look. Would be interesting to see other rail transport industries

I think the ugliness of catenaries is always over-estimated, especially tram catenaries, which are very thin. Once you install the catenary, you probably don't even notice it.

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Hey Félix! Could you tell me where you filmed the Aem 940 at 10:09 from? I would love to take photos from there. Thanks :)

I believe COOP and Post office use a variation to this system for both international and RhB size containers to road trucks. I have seen this type of swing wagons being unloaded at Zermatt on the RhB meter gauge in 2014.

Très frustré de ne pas trouver le moyen de regarder la vidéo en version originale...

Most trash moves by lorry. The railways are not even for trash reliable enough.

I sadly don´t know the name of the system, or how common it is. But there is a system in Sweden where a wagon is swong out, and the trucker can reverse there trailer onto a traincar, and it can just swing back. This way trucks can be loaded from any siding. It work fairly similar to the system in the video, but it can load a full 12.4meter long trailer.

I had to laugh at the 400km profitability threshold - here in the middle of Canada at a major rail nexus, I'm ~800km away from the next major freight terminals, BUT there's at least a way to unload one 40'/2TEU container at a time every ~100km or so. Meanwhile, the road tractor units pulling containers are the exact same tractors pulling other kinds of freight. I'm baffled why the Swiss system is so complex and IMHO over-specialized. Mind you at the same time, we just pile our lightly-compacted trash info miniature mountains dotting the landscape, so I'm not saying we're more advanced :-/.

Loading railway waggons on road trailers Hasn't just been experimente with, but it has been in productiv operation for years.

You should also take a look at Austria, where there is the company Innofright, which often has special solutions, but also shows the necessary foresight. In Austria, for example, there are Mobilers. Mobilers are swap containers for bulk goods that are transported by rail and are only loaded onto the truck for the first or last mile, and the cargo can also be tipped to the rear. For reloading, there are container wagons that have free space so that the truck can drive under them without any problems using arms that extend to the side and lift them up, so that the mobiler can then be moved onto them between the wagon and the truck, without any additional equipment. The system is also suitable for containers, tanktainers or swap bodies, which are also transported on such wagons. Reloading takes 5 minutes, and no one is needed except the driver... Voestalpine uses mobiler to deliver alloying elements for steel production and uses them to send metallurgical products such as granulated blast furnace slag to concrete and asphalt plants. Bernegger, an Austrian construction company, loads gravel into the area Molln-Spittal/Phyrn, from where it is transported around 100 km to its own asphalt and concrete mixing plant in Linz. Bernegger saves around 100 truck journeys every day. Incidentally, since the last government, waste transports in Austria have had to be loaded onto rail if they are transported further than 100 km. Trucks are no longer allowed to travel these distances with waste... But Austria is interesting in other respects too: 2 out of 3 manufacturers of system freight wagons are located here. This means that the chassis and the body are independent of each other, so you can very easily lift a body off the chassis and lift another body that serves a different purpose onto it, or use it to transport swap bodies such as mobiles, containers, tanktainers or swap beds. In addition to Innotrans, which builds the oldest type of wagon of this kind with the Innowagon, there is also the TransANT, which is a Voestalpine - Rail Cargo Austria Cooperation and relies even more than the Innowagon on lightweight construction with higher-strength steel types. The TransANTs are used, for example, between the steelworks in Linz and the Styrian Erzberg, and can therefore transport 316 tonnes more ore per train than their predecessors, the 6-axle ore wagons, and all with the same train weight. Since Linz does not need any additional quantities, this saves 2-3 train journeys per month... Both Innowagen and TransANT are prepared for the DAC and the associated measuring technology. The third player in the system freight wagons is the DB - VTG M2 project. By the way: It is also not true that container wagons are not allowed to drive through humpyards. Marshalling yards such as Maschen or the central shunting yard in Vienna Kledering have no problem with container wagons, loaded or unloaded, and you see these wagons rolling off there every day.

omg, that trash compactor module is GENIUS

I can’t see how this could be competitive with separate collection trucks, a transfer station, and transfer trailers. That’s a lot of small steel boxes to keep moving and requires track going to disposal facilities, which are put far away from where trash is made.

Huh, this exact system was trialled in New Zealand in the 90's or early 2000's and for whatever reason it didn't catch on.

It is really neat to see an older intermodal practice being put to use again! We had a system like this in the US in the 50's-60's. It was called "Flexi-Van" and operated via the same principle as shown here, but instead of garbage and waste, they hauled containers full of express freight, usually at the head end or rear end of a passenger train. This practice died out in the early 1970's when we created Amtrak, but the idea of the "intermodal" concept carried on and then took off in the early 1980's.

Next year, I'm moving to Germany to study masters degree, from Türkiye. And this is my biggest dream now. I was supposed to be studying for my finals now, but after entering UA-cam, now I have a new study of planning the trip in a little advance :) Very nice journey!

Winterthur switzerland, 120k, no tram. But double articulated trolleybuses on busy lines. 8 buses/h during peak hours. widest gap during off peak: 15‘. Good!

Hi Félix, very interesting topic and video. I think you will grow a big audience with such quality content. One small criticism I have: you made a lot of cuts in the video. Sometimes in the middle of your speech, which I found very distracting. I think your speaking style doesn't go well with these quick cuts. Personally, I am more than willing to listen to you for another 5 minutes in this video. Keep it up and I'm looking forward to your next video.

Fascinating video, Felix. Really well constructed & narrated. V-interesting subject matter too. Well done! Yours, Paul

10:07 Last Wagon: I quit I leave you now…

09:03 two Loks for one Wagon…. Ok

Transportiereds würkli öpfel mit dem? :D

What looks really big gap in efficiency is coupling method used for cargo trains in a lot of old EU countries.

In La Chaux de Fonds wird es auf Schmalspur praktiziert!

I would have never expected it to be a mainly Swiss system, as it is so common here. Also, I pretty confused by the English accent. It is more sounding like Swiss-german, but most of your sources/footage are from Swiss-french parts... 🥲🤷‍♂ Or I'm simply a dumass that think everything revolves around him 🤦‍♂

I heard that the line besancon-le locle is now being renovated by SNCF, but they choose specifically to keep the line on diesel locos so that SNCF does not get any competition! What a shame....

thats neat

We need more direct rail connections to industry. In Austria, we only have 1 sector that uses it and that's a steal work.

ACTS Nederland BV was a Dutch railroad company. The abbreviation originally came from "Afzet Container Transport Systeem" (Disposal Container Transport System). On February 5, 2011, the operations were continued by Husa. The company was founded in 1989 for the purpose of the Disposal Container Transport System.