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Steve Larson
Приєднався 30 лис 2011
Trains, planes and rockets.
Stevens Pass Christmas
Merry Christmas! This video was filmed in the beautiful Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, located in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Put yourself in the Christmas holiday mood with snow scenes from Stevens Pass and the pristine Miller River Valley near the railway town of Skykomish. Reviews of my work are most welcome.
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Cascade Tunnel Operations (HD)
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This video highlights daily operations at the East Portal of the 7.8 mile long Cascade Tunnel located in Byrne, WA, near the Stevens Pass Ski Area. This tunnel is the longest rail tunnel in the western US and is used by Amtrak and freight trains. This tunnel replaced the Old Cascade Tunnel after the Wellington Disaster of March 1st 1910 and has an interesting history.
Not SR-2, it's US 2
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I like train videos on UA-cam 👍
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This thing could be classed as Brutalist in appearance and sound........I like it.
great catches of the empire builder rescued helped by a BNSF unit and a stacker train next as well as a gran train after that as well, but sorry about that problem with the door opening for no reason when there was no train coming through the tunnel after that
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High clear green signal after the door opens and the fans turn off slowly
Americans are incredibly stupid to not have electrified their trains by now.
I would cross Stevens Pass going to Cle Elm Ranger Station. Also went to the ski area.
What's a wonderful operation
Wouldn't the tunnel ventilate better without a door.....open at both ends for cross ventilation?
13km long. teensy doors in comparison. no ventilation shafts. also read comments?
@@ianweniger6620 I still don't see the need for the door. The huge ventilation fans, yes, but the door makes no sense.
1929 👏👏
This is why i clearly dont trust myself going in that tunnel... even on cold days...
What’s the curtain for
Btw, here in Italy we actually used to have a tunnel (called *Galleria dell'Appennino* on the Porrettana railway from Pistoia to Bologna) that used ventilation fans just like the Cascade Tunnel to clear out the fumes from steam locomotives. The only differences were that: 1) If I'm not mistaken, the Galleria dell'Appennino (Apennines Tunnel) didn't have doors unlike the Cascade Tunnel 2) The ventilation fans were steam powered, whilst on the Cascade Tunnel (like other tunnels in North America including Flathead, Moffat and Mount MacDonald) the fans are electric powered The ventilation system is no longer in use since the line was electrified in 1927 More here it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleria_dell%27Appennino (in Italian)
1:26 why is there a BNSF locomotive hauling an Amtrak train? What happened to that P-42 behind the BNSF locomotive?
I've seen that happen from a few times, it's usually due to control system problems with the p42s. They work fine while trailing, though.
I hopped a freight train in the eighties and went through this tunnel. It was the first time in my life I was in complete total darkness.
4:40 holy shit, what a sound! *AWOOOOOOO!!!* ...but the one at 7:50 is even better. *ALAAAAAARM!!* 😁 ANd the blowers take quite long to wind down.
I love this video, and recently visited this spot. I wonder, though: Where is the smoke going?
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So in other words “this tunnel sucks😂😅”
I expected a tunnel that includes some huge elevators lifting or lowering the train to the next level. That is a cascade tunnel. That Cascade Tunnel is just another large tunnel. No special effects. No cascade for trains. What a bummer.
You are not smart. Do you think the Empire Builder Amtrak service establishes colonies in the name of Rome?
Now I want to go through the Cascade Tunnel!
I mean… it‘s interesting and all, but the obvious solution, electrification, has been implemented in Europe 100+ years ago.
Congrats to Europe no one cares
I doubt that you know what anyone except for yourself cares about...
@@ntmoucn that's pretty closed minded thinking my guy. I know a lot of people and know them well enough to know that they don't give a shit that Europe has electric trains while America doesn't 🤠
@@HookerHeels alright, if _you_ say that, it must be the truth then. Happy life : )
Right, because Europe is always correct 😒
The major rail terminals in NYC are all fed by underground tunnels, and the trains that go in and out of them must be electrically powered. But at times, in the passenger area of Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station,l, I have smelled diesel exhaust - when I reported it to a railroad employee, he said that once in a while a train has to be pushed or pulled into the station by an auxiliary engine, which might be diesel. (And this is probably related to the main tunnel under the Hudson River, which is ridiculously in need of repair after nearly 100 years of operation.)
Is Steve Larson still alive?
Why was that BNSF locomotive pulling an entire Amtrak train at 1:23?
It’s a rescue the p42 probably had promlems
i just hope my taxes aren't paying for this crap
What? "crap'? You mean a much needed engineering marvel?
Honestly, who builds a single track tunnel for trains and forgets to put in ventilation. This whole mountain should be torn down and rebuilt but the right way.
Get a job, hippie.
Why does this tunnel have a red & white chequered closing door 🚪?
maybe it's more visible to train drivers than the door that got driven through in 1996?
Yep, this was the fifties--such a different time from today. Back then America and Americans had the self-confidence to believe that they could solve any problem, rather than just sitting and whining and playing with their 'smart' phones. I was born in '55 and certainly wouldn't want to return to that time, but I miss that self-confidence.
ok boomer
I'm surprised they didn't run a chimney Wouldn't be hard run a vacuum in there
0:50 "it is apparently BNSF property" Well, obviously. You're standing right by the track.
Open the blast doors! Open the blast doors!
3rd world... just use electric trains.....
Buddy we barely have trains as it is 😂
yes, some of the most powerful diesel locomotives in the world are somehow “third world” because it isn’t technologically feasible nor cost feasible to electrify the entire US rail system and all the problems that go with it.
The feeling of seeing Amtrack being towed by BNSF
CLICKBAIT, THIS IS THE EXHAUST PORT FOR ROSIE O'DONNELLS BATHROOM
so electric locomotivs were apparently less efficient than tearing down electric infrastructure, developing, planning, testing and building an entire new ventilation system, then maintaining it and pay for the power it uses... I'm not so sure about that...
I would guess only the tunnel was electrified with an electric locomotive needing to be attached and detached at each end taking extra time and needing extra crew.
All those road runner cartoons finally make sense!
Why close the door? There are not in Japan.
So fresh air can be blown right through the tunnel and not exit via the nearest portal?
Why would a BNSF locomotive be pulling an AMTRAK train? Particularly since the train already had an AMTRAK engine?
Im curious why electrification wouldn't be a better option
It's not used in the US
@@pootispiker2866 there's electrification on several lines in the US
@@MaxVliet Oh, my mistake. I forgot about all the electric freight locomotives in use 🙄
@@pootispiker2866 was that your attempt at sarcasm? 😂
What's the wind pressure inside the tunnel when it's ventilating? Is the door one solid metal plate or multiple? Why do you have to stand back from the gate 50 feet?
Pretty sure it's not that much pressure, it just ventilates the fumes
Anyone know the kW of those fan motors?
Good audio capture of the fans coming on. I would like to take my field recorder and a shotgun mic up there for some audio samples.
Not gonna lie, it’s cool to see a BNSF train lead an Amtrak train
a question because the tunnel closes, that is, because there is a door that closes?
It is not the longest tunnel in the western US. It is the longest tunnel in the US -- period.
Thank you very much.😊 I like train.