How Freight Trains Connect the World
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He's moved on from planes to trains, boys
I like it!
That's mustard channel dumbass. Quit getting confused.
Automobiles may be next; oh, the hilarity!
aircraft**** and yeah TREASON
I think you'll find most railfans are also avgeeks, and vice versa.
Transport : EXISTS
Wendover : imma nut
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Haha fucking lit comment dude
Ugly burned 1900 I FINNA BUST
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Over my head
I live in Canada and when you see a freight train coming through a rail crossing, you put your car in park. They’re sooooo long. 🤦🏼♀️
leanneland because PSR is a total disaster
Winnipegger?
@@Phazon8058MS hahaha I've worked the tracks from Winnipeg to Armstrong and your comment made my day. Nothing like trying to get onto dugald rd with a cn train coming in or leaving Symington yard lol.
@@nakinajay As much as trains can be really annoying, there's something quintessentially Winnipeg about waiting 15 minutes for a train to pass, only for another train to start coming from the other way just as the first train ends.
@@Phazon8058MS haha yes indeed. Thank you for the reply and wishing you all the best.
7:03 Every single railroad company intersects at Chicago.
That’s one impressive transport hub, I can’t even imagine the city planning needed and logistics of that.
Chicago has historically been the train city of the us due to being a major commercial hotspot for the country, (although that has been changing over the decades)
At one time they had six major railroad stations to serve all the passenger trains.
Union Station
Northwestern Station
Lasalle Street Station
Dearborn Station
Grand Central Station
Central Station
I'm not even sure if there's even a map of Chicago's rail network at its peak, there's too many lines
Historically there were dozens of railroads that all intersected there.
St Louis is another good one
Also, you can sail cargo ships from Chicago to either the Atlantic Ocean or down to the Gulf of Mexico. This is true of all the Great Lake cities, and of course ship sizes are limited compared to ocean cargo, but it’s a factor.
Just amazing that the entire Great Lakes network is linked both down to the Mississippi and east to the st Lawrence
Wow, that's a ton of freight for just four cents!
AdamandRachel O'Connor
Grr, take your thumbs up and leave, please
I could absolutely pay to send a ton of freight across the country myself, but I don’t think that I even own a ton of goods. Crazy!
But how much for cruise ships though?...
I'd argue with my half ton, just my two cents
Timren1 couple million
Really must appreciate the effort to include both metric and imperial units in the video....!! U're awesome Sam!!!
So you didn’t have the time to type “you” but you did have the time to put an apostrophe?
He probably has a quite large non-American audience (myself included).
Liked for the way you spelled u're
ikr
0:18 "...a few hundred miles or kilometers" There's just something weird about that statement. A few hundred miles or a few hundred kilometers.
Thank you for including both miles and kilometers. The most annoying thing is having to pause a video to do a math conversion.
1,5 for miles, 1,8 for nautical miles, 3,7 for gallons and 0.3 for feet. 4 factors you gotta know, its not that difficult. the rest is training and gets easier every time.
@@uwootmviii8695 instead we could simply use international system altogether. 0 conversion factors needed.
@@joaotrovaofilho of course!
well..murica..
@@ericolens3 metric is really simple though, that's one of its advantages
I like how he is not smug about it like some other UA-camrs *cough cough Real Engineering*
Me: it’s midnight and I should sleep
UA-cam: TRAINS PLANES AND AUTOMOBILES BABY
I have never identified with a UA-cam comment this much before
Me too.
OMG same!!! there is a rail track almost right across the street, I usually dont have a problem with planes or automobiles though
then "BOOM! 6AM!"
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One of the few educational youtube channel with citations. This goes underappreciated :(
I love ur videos
They do have 2 million subs.
*Not without mistakes, sadly.* For example, the author is shockingly unaware that economies can only be compared by PPP GDP, not by nominal one, which is useless. To show just how absurd nominal comparisons are, it is enough to look at the UK in recent years. Nominally, the UK's GDP is ruined due to the UK pound/USD ratio drastically flatting. In reality, the economy of the UK did not fall at all.
@@StrangerHappened For the sake of this video, nominal GDP works perfectly fine.
@@Andreas4696 Unfortunately, not fine. It distorts viewers' perception quite a bit both in general and in railways business specifically. For example, judging from the nonsensical nominal GDP Russia should be of no interest but in reality, Russia's actual/PPP GDP is about as big as Germany's (though in reality is bigger since the Russian economy has way higher percentage of "grey" economy still, making it a top-five global economy) and specifically, in railways, it is in top five in terms of amounts of cargo carried via railways and number one in terms of distances (tonne-kilometre). And, of course, China is number one in terms of the amounts of cargo carried via railways (tonnes), which is tied to its number one position in PPP GDP. The system of railways in the USA is unique so it certainly deserves a separate video but it should have been noted that it is not like how railways work in the world; for that, China or Russia should have been considered as the strongest examples. So it would be interesting to see another video on this.
Trains? I think you mean *ground planes*
ground planes? I think you mean *landships*
I don't think that means what you think it means...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_plane
What an original joke.
Planes? I think you mean sky trains
@@correctopinion505 Land barge. Land barge is the phrase you want.
Amtrak: ok so I'm going to build some passenger railway.
America: we don't do that here.
wtf are you talking about. There's many passenger railways. Please stop commenting on America if you aren't American
Semiramis Bonaparte actually most of the track that Amtrak runs on is owned by freight companies. For instance at 4:06 when he says Chicago to Seattle, that’s the same route the empire builder goes. That is owned by bnsf. Probably the same thing with the California zyphyr and Texas eagle.
Tropicalfire correct. The Crescent from New Orleans to NYC runs Norfolk Southern track. Amtrak only owns a small bit of their own track in the northeast, and leases track from other class ones.
Semiramis Bonaparte ok I live in America and I agree, are Lassiter System was built for freight not passenger.
Yes, that's why freight train gets priority over passenger trains. And that is why Amtrak and my local(chicago-suburbs metra) are usually late.
It's amazing how cheap and fuel efficient they are.
In india almost every train is run by electric locomotive
economy of scale
@@prakashjha6388 Those are diesel electric 😂
Relationship ended with Planes.
Now trains are Wendover's best friend
What can I say?
They *coupled* together
*FACEPALM*
@@Lord_Magikarp Ba dum tsss
We've learned about Planes and Automobiles, now we finally get to learn about Trains. the classic P,T, and A
One of his first and most popular videos was all about why Trains suck in America
You pronounced both "Wenatchee" and "Spokane" perfectly. As a resident of eastern Washington, I'm impressed.
scwt89 Washingtonians unite!
scwt89 he said Lathrop California wrong tho, its supposed to sound like “Lay-Throp” not “Lah-throp”
He did mispronounce Norfolk, NE. As any Nebraska native will tell you, its pronounced "Nor-FORK"
He pronounced Kearny NJ wrong though lol. It's pronounced like car-ny
He pronounced Glasgow, as a scot from Glasgow this make me happy
There's an idiot driver swerving to exit at 8:32.
It be like that sometimes.
Lmao
* laughs in European *
lol
I-90 on a Friday night is some scary shit lol
The Planes of the Rails.
The rails of planes.
The planes of the land
Nobody:
Wendover: TRAINS
Nobody:
You: Random UA-cam comment
Nobody:
Sethbling:
MINECARTS
Nobody:
OP: "Wendover: TRAINS"
Me: I thought it says "TARS".
Finally someone else who respects American freight trains, that’s my dream job, is operating them.
Csx is hiring now, many locations. Get your application in
@@joker2668 Yeah I’ve seen lots of ads for it. Thanks for the information. However, I apologize, I am under 18.
@@meme-xn6wr patience
@@bradleybaker8872 That’s the plan, thank you. (Intended to be nice, and not rude)
Good for you bro! Hope you get there soon!!!
meanwhile in japan:
JR: "Tracks for passengers and freights are both mine"
What freight?
kof ola JR does freight. But from what I saw last time I was in Japan, it’s mostly intermodal and oil.
Joao Bueno Guimarâes the oil is imported. But you need to get the oil from the ship to places and how are you going to do that?
*high fives in German*
@@ironlynx9512 *then cries in German*
*Its time for Thomas to leave, he had seen everything*
Yeah I've seen everything that there has been to see
When Sam constantly upload videos about land, sea and air
*Perfectly balanced, as all things should be*
@@leg10n68 But everything changed when the fire videos attacked
*It was-
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Gordon is still pissed about that Japanese "Shinkansen" being the "fastest express" on the island of Sodor
I find it interesting that this so reversed between Europe and the US. I once read a statement along the lines of "In the United States, cars move people and trains move freight, while in Europe, trains move people and trucks move freight." This is of course massively simplified, but there is some truth to it. Passenger rail is scarce in the US while there are few freight trains in Europe (which are apparently also a lot shorter). This might have to do with good passenger rail infrastructure in Europe that makes those trains, which are a higher priority, occupy the tracks. And high speed rail lines are in most cases not even allowed to be used by freight trains.
Mostly, the reason why freight trains in Western Europe are not as dominant, is:
1. Train tracks are used more, sometimes up to 11 scheduled passenger trains per hour per direction plus others (freight, empty stock). Fitting other trains in is more difficult.
2. Direct result of (1) is that you cannot run such long trains, because they are very slow to start up. If an American train goes in an emergency brake application, it would probably take half an hour to get it starting again. In The Netherlands, that would cancel 5 passenger trains, leading to prompt parlementary enquetes...
3. Since distances here are shorter, the trucks can often offer more direct routes.
4. For its area, Europe has more harbours, since more of the continent is close to the sea. Therefore, distances to harbours are shorter, so you can truck easy.
5. Europa has more inland rivers, so containers are often transported on barges (mostly on the Rhine).
And there are probably even more reasons.
Well I am from Germany. And the ICE (intercity express, passenger train) goes up to 300km/h = 190mil/h. Since Germany is not that big you are nearly always faster by train than by car. If you book your ticket 2 month ahead of time you do only pay around 23 euros to get to anywhere in Germany in around 4-7 hours. Since we pay a lot for gas it's especially alone cheaper to get from a to b by train.
Well since you first have to get your freight from a ship onto a train and after driving for a short time the freight needs to go on a truck, there are not many distances where it's worth it to but your freight on a train first.
Although a lot of freight gets to Germany from the Rotterdam harbor or from other countries which are although very close.
@@marco23p Thanks for the info. I bet one reason is also: Money and lobbying.
The density of freight trains depends heavily on the country and it's government. Some governments (prime example: germany's) always talk about getting more freight around by train, whilst actually doing the opposite, whilst other countries like Switzerland or Austria tend to invest heavily in their railroad infrastructure and having less and less trucks on the highways. The EU is funding railroads which they consider as being important heavily, especially those going through rough terrain. By doing so it tries to put international freight services on trains rather than trucks (for obvious reasons).
@CK AK Flying is cheaper in Europe than in the US actually, Ryanair consistantly has fares for 10 Euros or less, so I don't think that's the reason. It just has to be competitive.
This has been one of Wendover's most informative videos and so many things make sense in its context. Like coal being $34/ton no wonder we love burning it!
Haskie
It’s been the only thing keeping poor West Virginia afloat since the steel industry died off.
@@GodlyHawks the amount you're saving by burning coal is taken by increasing health costs
@@GodlyHawks burning coal is way cheaper (at first glance) than investing in renewables, but in the long term, nations suffer from enviromental damages and air pollution because of diseases that occur more often under these circumstandes and which cause costs for society
@@GodlyHawks Coal is dead. Met coal has a future. Steel Mills won't being the jobs back like they did on the past, just more mechanized. Mingo Junction fired back up on the river. The future of the area is in natural gas, plastic production and hopefully the industry will follow lower energy prices and proximity to resources.
In Sweden where I live, 80% of all the tracks is electrified so the "1 gallon per ton of freight" fuel consumption is a lot less since our energy grid is based on mostly hydropower and nuclear energy
Edit: But since it's electrified then you're not able to stack containers on top of each other
In India you can stack a container on a container even in electrified routes. Passenger trains dont operate in those routes. moreover India also has double decker trains.
@@krishnamohansharma7705 yeah we also have dubble decker passenger trains but they are only just tall enough to fit between the train and the cable. So at the moment, you only have room for one container
high speed lines need lower aspect ratio cabins
stacking is fine for freight because lower speed helps in reducing costs
but not so for passengers
according to the video, most tracks are private owned by freight companies in the US
they appear to be single line cheap tracks, because they transport low value freight
radicaly different from smaller countries that focus on high value passengers cars
they build more expensive double and express electrified lanes
@@zazugee stacking passengers works great ... guess why there are so many double-deck passenger trains, both in the regional and in the HSR sector
I was going to make a joke but I lost my train of thought
try to keep the conversation on track please...
Evidently you need more train-ing
I don't get it
This quickly went off the rails
I was a-freight that would happen.
WENDOVER LOGISTIC/ TRANSPORT
He needs to form a consulting firm for himself if he hasn't already.
transport tycoon!
@@alveolate Yes was looking for this comment
@@TireFill i just picture the soundtrack playing when i watch wendover
Hey I'ma longtime fan just wanted to say Best video ever !!
My dad was truck driver for a very long time. He did intermodal last few years of his career. I've been to many train yards around Atlanta with him and this brings me back.
I wish he was still alive so I can show him this video :(
Bigger and heavier trucks damage roads. Railroads own thei track network and have an incentive to minimize wear. Trucks use PUBLIC road systems and have less incentive.
Bullcrap, there's an incentive for truck to minimize wear and is called maximum permitted weight per axle and you get fines in the order of 1000's of dollars if you exceed that even by 1kg, the US maximum weight per axle is around 7 metric tons per Axle, and that's 5 tones lower than in Germany or France, and 2.3 tons lower than in anywhere outside NAFTA, the weight of a 18 wheeler truck in the USA in around 34 tons while in germany is 60 tons and in anywhere outside NA is 45 tons.
The reason roads are awful in many parts of the US is just because the Standard for roads are much lower than in Germany, a german road uses a 2 meter deep multilayer compacted rock, gravel, sand and earth foundation and is paved with 50cm of reinforced concrete
i live in a country where roads are private funded and build and the roads are shit, they use less than 10cm of concrete in a merely worked ground surface and they crack in less than 5 years
False. Many of our freeways and major highways have weigh stations, and they would give you penalties that could exceed thousands of dollars for exceeding weight limit. The reason why American roads are in a derelict state is because building standards are inferior to European standards. Meanwhile, the FHWA imposes the strictest road safety standards in the world, but you still have a higher road fatality rate than in most of Europe, since people learn to drive at a younger age and they get less vetting from the DMV, which is why driving in Europe is safer
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@@brandenr6073 The main reason european roads are safer isn’t because of better drivers, but rather due to better roads and city planning.
Hummmm not about planes?
The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs it has been a long time since a plane video
trains are just LAND PLANES
Planes were mentioned though
i mean, your not wrong?
Tripp Belcher true
At 2:48, someone's riding on the train
Freight hopping..... dangerous and illegal yet people do it just to enjoy the views.
Yep... someone riding on top and tunnel coming :) I wonder how this all ended
snitch
@@Makoto778 Most don't do it for the views at all, these riders look like migrants to me. Most modern riders ride for freedom and as an ultra-low cost travel form. Its a surprisingly deep subject with loads of history tied to it.
that man is a real madlad
I know this is an older video, but Canadian Pacific now also travels from coast to coast, since they bought back their track to St. John, NB.
My dad has worked for BNSF for 20 years. It’s cool to see a video on the rail roads
Commenting this from a train
Show of
@@ftse07 *off
@Grant C. *000fff
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Amtrak?
I've wanted a freight train video on this channel for so long. This has absolutely made my day!
Freight trains are a huge part of my childhood.
great cinematics. I have always been fascinated by America's freight transportation system.
There is no shortage of truck drivers... there's only a shortage of truck drivers who will work for the shit pay
there is a shortage of both
In my opinion I don't believe there is a shortage just a lack of people with common sense, they'll not pay attention during the class they have to take and when the breakdown they also have an emotional brake down, my dad has worked as a truck driver since around 07 and tells me all about the stuff he deals with
Yeup, same tune, diffrent lyrics in the Airlines. Companies need to change, or get real good at automation.
I thought it was funny as shit when he mentioned driverless trucks. I would love to see a driverless truck back up to a crowded dock.
my impression is that few people want to start a career as a truck driver these days since it is widely believed this is a job that will very soon be automated
Can we have a video on planes? I'm getting blue balled here.
True
I actually want another "this country's geography problem" video.
Blue balled by a 777 9X...
Who actually dislikes these videos? They're educational videos of exceptional quality. The hell is wrong with those people?
They got no mother
The title should have been:
How freight train connect the US
Agree!
I totally agree
Agree!
Yeaaaa
So, yeah, *the world.* 😏
Well my morning just got a lot better
coolx10249 why
Mr Wendover, your videos are so professional. You put internet links, and you actually take time to read all these paragraphs and shrink the information so the audience can understand it. This is unbelievably hard-to-master skill, and you add subtitles to your videos - that also takes time. You are the most hard-working UA-camr I know. Respect! 👊
I always appreciate these videos. They’re so well researched and so well illustrated it makes the concepts easy to understand
Kearny, NJ! Jumped out of my seat when I saw my hometown. Soccertown, USA, baby. Future reference: it's pronounced Car-Knee.
As a Rutherford resident I’d be ok with the incorrect pronunciation if they just acknowledged we’re in NJ. Should be New JERSEY Giants and Jets😒 would love to see him try saying Secaucus 😂
Freight trains connect my nation to China, which helps my glorious nation prosper. My trains are the best trains
You sure they wont crash on their way to Seoul?
You are the last people in the world to use war trains. You should get some type of reward for that
That sounds like trump said it. Even the part about China.
North Korean leaders famously love trains. Your dad was afraid of planes, so he always use trains, even when he went to Russia on an official visit
How many carriages of your train are devoted to concubines?
Long distance freight trains should have a comfortable sleeper car for passengers.
*People would pay for such a trip,* if they can see landscapes.
Amtrak runs passenger trains with sleeper cars on cross country trips
I don't think it would be cost effective. But many people would want to go on a train from a freight terminal on the west coast to a freight terminal near Chicago on a train that takes nearly a week. There would have to be enough passengers to cover ticket infrastructure, changes to allow members of the public at the stations, the cost of the wagon or wagons and one more crew member in each shift
Mayank Vashisht I do compare it to long distance trains in Europe, and its the other way around. European services dont even come close to the American standards, as US companies have to go that extra mile to win over customers or the customers will just fly or drive. In Europe people have way less options, and railway companies know this.
And you heard this from a European who lives in the EU.
Sounds like you just made an anti-US comment that somehow fits your narrative.
@@mayankvashisht6856 premium trains in India like maharaja express are most expensive and most luxurious train ride on planet
Having just ridden Amtrak's City of New Orleans route from NO to Chicago, it's not hard to see why long distance passenger service is failing. While I loved the trip, I can't imagine doing 18 hours in coach class (the drive is ~14 hours). Sleep in the tiny sleeper cabin was fitful at best, and the food was a letdown. Even so, I'm a fan of trains, so I enjoyed the overall journey very much.
Everyone who said “why are they using a train instead of a space ship” in Solo, should watch this video. Fuel ain’t cheap
This video reminded me how much of a sweet spot Chicago is for the country with the many railyards, and why I saw Amtrak trains on tracks usually for freight
Yo I literally get so freaking excited whenever a Wendover vid pops up in my feed🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Your train of thought is right on track.
I'm a logistics teacher, and this video is just awesome. Thanks so much for the illustration.
I Love your content! The focus on logistics and transportation is enlightening, fascinating, and surprisingly entertaining.
As a former UP conductor myself I was pleasantly surprised to see that your video contained as far as I could see exactly ZERO inaccuracies about how rail freight operates in the USA. Very well done!
Don't know about the U.S but here in India our Gov't is shifting from Diesel to electric trains and the Railway is saving alot. Freight trains are now faster and cleaner than before !
Electric lokomotives have a number of advantages.
They are generaly lighter, have a better power to weight ratio, and with the power generated in large scale, dedicated powerplants, they can be overall more efficient, even with transmition losses. With fewer moving parts compared to a diesel engine they are also more reliable and need less maintenance.
In addition in mountainous regions, regenerative breaking can be used to get a lot of power back.
If you synchronise trains ascending and descending a mountain, the descending train can generate a substantial portion of the energy the ascending one uses.
However, there are disadvantages as well:
The infrastructure is expensive and vulnerable both to natural events as well as sabotage - you'd think stealing the powerlines is a stupid idea - and it is - but this is actually done.
Also you have not insubstatial transmition losses.
Too much track in the US to make that transition. Plus the mountain railroading would require large amounts of energy for electric trains. The current US power grid could not sustain the required output and would have to be expanded significantly to accommodate such a switch.
Fuck you bitch
Ethan Matz
On the long haul through sparsely populated areas in the US, the infrastructure costs are clearly too high atm, and in the forseeable future.
Maybe, for a few routes where there allready is a lot of infrastructure.
However, with rising costs for fossil fuels, the situation might change in a few dacades.
@@GarrusN7 Unlike India, we have nuclear power, gas and abundant of coal. Our grid is doing fine.
Greetings from a logistics operations professor from Brazil
I’ve worked for a Class I railroad for 16 years and I took very few exceptions to the information in this video (chief among them being a train operator is called an Engineer, not a “driver”). Really nice job, sir!
As far as I know, every other county calls the job title of the person that is driving the train, the driver.
@@nataliehilton9334 and what do drivers operate? The engine
@@poisonpotato1 Right... so why is a car driver not called an engineer then, a car has an engine does it not? Just a train driver trying to make their job sound better than it is. Silly boy.
He made this video just to talk about the price of planes he’s not switching to trains
Hi, Wendover. You mentioned that the frictional force is smaller for the trains than the trucks around 2:40 of the videoclip, but that is not the case. Rolling objects do not get their kinetic energy reduced by the friction since rolling objects are not sliding and the total amount of work done by the frictional force equals zero. This is because the work is a product of force and distance and the distance in this case is zero. What actually differs is the thing called "rolling resistance". The wheels and the ground deform at area around their contact point due to the vehicle's weight, and then these area revert back as the wheel rolls (of course, the area around the new contact point starts to deform). Due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics, deformation and reversion causes some of the input energy (this case, the stress applied on the wheels times the strain) to be lost as heat. Therefore, we loose some of the rolling kinetic energy of the wheels as heat, therefore getting the speed reduced. However, since steel is a much more elastic material than the rubber of tires and asphalt of roads, most of the deformation work is returned intact as kinetic energy and less portion of the rolling kinetic energy is lost as heat.
Edit: timeline of the videoclip adjusted.
I always love the background footage in your videos, and this video also had a ton of cool train shots. Rail is a super interesting topic, both passenger and freight. Your channel is amazing.
2:57 Wow, I had no idea freight trains could get this long! Two to four kilometres! That's crazy. I wonder how long you would have to wait at a railroad crossing to let such a train through!
It would depend on the speed of the train....
We had waited 7 mins for a train to pass
I've waited 45 minutes before. It was a very slow moving train. Stopped a couple times. That's rural America 😂
@@kaned5543 only 45 min, damn ur lucky. In Canada you wait like an hour for it to pass, and that's if your driving beside it.
Usually on the mainline about 3-5 minutes but when they are leaving or entering a town or rail yard that when the minutes become double digit.
Yet another amazing video. As a content creator myself, I highly admire your videos. Keep up the great work.
He's done planes
He's done trains
But he needs to do automobiles
No, fuck cars
@@waabmigizi7369 even supercars?
Wendover should create a video about dry bulk or/and tank shipping. Much different than container shipping!
Tarjei Romtveit good idea
At 3:42 you can see everything is slanted because that's how the camera works.
I think that's cool
We need to build railroad tracks across the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean to connect us to the other continents
The Alaskan/Russian tunnel is the only way I believe we'll connect the world by rail but even that has it's issues
no ships are still more efficient. there is no limit to the size of a ship out site of the fact that it needs a harbour to get in and enough cargo to be so big.
There has been talk about building a bridge across the Bering Strait. That would make it theoretically possible to drive from New York to Paris or even from New York to Johannesburg. ua-cam.com/video/VgHJ7qLajWc/v-deo.html
But the Eurasiaan continent doesn't have an integrated rail system. Even in Australia every state has a different railway system. The gauge or gap between the rails is different in each state.
Europe is connected to Asia by road and rail, and yet they still use shipping through the Suez Canal because its cheaper. That might change some day, but there's the complexity of heaps of international border crossings, language barriers and different train companies and systems, including different gauge (width) railway tracks. Not to mention the wars and the geopolitical situation in the Middle East.
Even the Internet cables from Europe to Asia just go through the sea.
@@newsgetsold even if Seuze is not a option and they have to go around the cape it is still cheaper do to the bulk.
1 train can carry about 120 containers in one go before it becomes to heavy.
1 ship can carry up to 10.000 containers in one go and even grow bigger the water has no max to carry.
This is one of the best videos you've made. I've always wondered about trains
I work for a major Class 1 rail carrier in the US. This is one of the better videos I've seen on this topic. A few minor errors, but very well done overall.
Fun Fact: The lead locomotive in the thumbnail is a ES44AC/DC/C4
except when it was a blurred out BNSF EMD SD70ACe
Dude i study traffic and SCM and i've learned more from your videos than from 4 years of college...🙌
I like trains!
Impeccably good and well-researched video as always! As an avid railway fanatic, I can say that everything in this video is really great!
Another overlooked aspect of freight rail is shortlines. These railroads collect freight from larger railroads bound for destinations off the main line, and in many instances drop off freight at the front doors of companies. Shortlines can haul everything from agricultural goods to coal, oil, timber, etc. and usually run once a day in each direction. Shortlines are rarely more than 30 miles long and have some of the friendliest crews out there! These railroads make way less than the major powerhouses, but serve a veey important purpose and are often owned by train enthusiasts. In fact, my local railroad (the Everett Railroad) is one of the enthusiast-owned lines and shunts many different goods to and from the main Norfolk Southern line in Central PA.
I genuinely like this video it's made very good and with high quality as someone who works in cargo (maritime) I always wonder where the cargo ends up when we drop it over at port
This was excellent - that last shot was beautiful. More train knoelwege!
I really love the way you edit your videos and your voice! Every piece of content you make is wonderful!!
Kept looking out for Stobe The Hobo.... the UA-cam has gotten me on a freight-hopping bender the last few weeks... watching (too) many hours of guys freight-train-hopping across the world, mostly USA and Canadia. This video is on-point. Now off to Skillshare to train myself.
What an amazingly accurate and informative video. Being a Locomotive Engineer up in Canada (train driver) I can confirm that everything started in this video is very accurate
"It would take nearly an hour to walk past this train."
It takes nearly an hour for one of those $&#/*& trains to get through an intersection.
Complain to your government they put the road there
great video and presentation mate! thanks for sharing!
My congratulations on the depth and breadth of your channel.
Sam you should make a video on specifically trucking, and how important is. Although of course I love trains and planes haha.
Ever heard of the Black Mesa and Lake Powell railroad? They had completely automated trains, until the unions ended it.
I was on an Amtrak train and was delayed because a BNSF driver reached the 12-hour limit. It was the Winter Park Express if your curious.
Working in the transportation industry, I very much appreciate this. While there are many details that come into moving freight from one side of the country to another (or one nation to another), this gives a relatively accurate, small picture, depiction of what it means to move freight within land based areas! I appreciate it. I'd love to see a "logistics of trucking" video. Reach out if I can provide any insight or help if that's something remotely on your radar! Keep up doing what you're doing; I love it.
Hey sam awesome video bro. I love ur videos from half as interesting
you got to make another collab video with real life lore and real engineering
I really appreciate the use of those discreet footnotes
keep uploading those kind of videos , nice work !
I see wendover I click.
Hahahahaha I’m smart I knew this already
* train enthusiast noises *
That was a very cool video. Being a railroad contractor and being apart of the railroad and trucking industry this was a very educational video about my industry. Thank you
Very detailed video. I literally enjoyed every minute watching it. Great job!
"These countries have some areas over 1000 miles from the coast"
Australia: "So . . . . .next door then"
Meh. Australia has like only one railroad going east-west, so...
@@brandenr6073 That is extremely vital to Australia's economy. Some of Australia's freight trains in Western Australia are around 7 km long.
Australia has three different primary rail gauges. The most popular gauge, Standard gauge, only takes up something like 51% of the rail lines
There is not a single place in Australia that is even 1000 miles from the coast. Australia is big, but it DOES have coastline all around.
It's amazing how cost efficient trains are. I work for a rail company and sometimes it blows my mind how much money is wasted to get the job done. Mostly due to fixing screw ups.
I live in Wenatchee, you're one of few people I know that can pronounce it correctly, thank you.
I’d love to see this topic revisited with a case study the way “new” Wendover works, following a specific train as it crosses the country and picks up or drops off cars
Congratulations on the efficiency of the communication used, the good voice service and the audio quality achieved in this video. So worth seeing and listening.
Nice job. Keep it up that way.
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Trains have one more advantage:
Train carry trucks.
They do that so it’s easier that way when the train arrives at its destination all they need to do is takeoff the trailer and attach a semito it
This was such a beautiful video I was honestly more into the cinematography than the content
I live in a small town in Mississippi and the track that runs through our town is owned by Norfolk Southern but Union Pacific and BNSF trains also use it. Interestingly it is the same crew(s) each time, they go on duty in Muscle Shoals AL , run a westbound train to Memphis TN, then swap to an eastbound train back to Muscle Shoals and repete until their twelve hours are up.
Yes, they will simply just borrow their competitor's engines rather than switch them out with their own to save on money and time. This is called "foreign power" when you see Union Pacific or BNSF running on Norfolk Southern's lines. They pay for the use of their engines and return them on a follow up trip back.
@@Dr_Won_Hung_Lo I've noticed that coal trains are always BNSF
@Clayton Lee BNSF (Burlington Northern & Santa Fe) does alot of business with the coal mines out west in the states of Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota