[8T][4k] Milepost 51.4: Freight and Passenger Trains on the Dresdner Bahn, Baruth/Mark 08/13/2022
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Milepost 51.4 (km, not miles) is the location of the Baruth/Mark station on the 174 km long "Dresdner Bahn" in eastern Germany. This line was built in 1875 to provide a shorter connection between Prussia's Berlin and Saxonia's Dresden. In the 1930s, the famous streamlined Henschel-Wegmann train ran this line and covered the distance in less than 2 hours - a record that wasn't broken for six decades after. Nowadays, the modernized line is an integral part of the north-south rail axis through central Europe from the German ports south to the Mediterranean. Passenger service ranges from regional trains (RegionalExpress) to international connections (InterCity, InterCityExpress, EuroCity) for major metros like Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Vienna, and Budapest.
Freight traffic is as important and freight trains are about as frequent as passenger trains on this section. This is very much reflected in this video, which presents the train mix typical for this line. Freight trains are usually hauled by powerful electric engines, the types of which are dominated by the major builders Siemens (Vectron BR 193) and Alstom/Bombardier (TRAXX BR 185, 186, 188). The capture of the "White Vectron" RAILL 6193 682 and the new TRAXX MS3 CD 388 011-9 are among the highlights in this video. Enjoy - in 4k!
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Lots of fast action on this line. So many different rail companies that operate on state rails also. Excellent video as usual.
Yeah, that's really the fun part, that most of the time something's happening. It's not necessary to find a train, they are coming to you. I wish we still had more of these similarly busy lines here in North America nowadays.
Awesome. It's nice to see trains from other countries.
Cool you like it!
Nice footage. I wasn't a big german railway fan until I saw this video
Very cool!
Thank you for taking us along on this journey. Great video ! Very interesting equipment that many of us would never see. Judging by the train lengths I guess Europe has not yet discovered the "benefits???" of PSR. Good on them for that. 😁
No, PSR is not likely to happen there, but not because of opposition. It's just a different way how rail traffic is handled there. Distances are comparatively short, so it is easier to accommodate needs of train crews. Also the system is way more fluid, because all railroads share the entire network.
Great video
Cool, thank you, Boris.
Excellent video as always, looks like very well manicured track, the connection between the cars doesn't look very but I guess it works! Thanks
It looks like their coupling mechanism has also proven its value. Trains are rather short, but typically fast - even freight trains - so it seems to work well.
awesome video
Thank you!
I'm Hungarian so these trains are not that strange for me. But I'm sure the North American viewers are stunned how different everything is here in Europe. From the electric locomotives to the short trains. No doubt this is a pretty busy rail corridor with significant traffic. The variety is very nice, we see a lot of different freight and passenger trains. Great video again sir, I always enjoy your German uploads.
Thanks very much! I also enjoy watching trains on both sides. These are in fact quite different experiences. However, I notice that there is more and more European influence here, too, particularly on passenger trains. Siemens, Stadler, and others deliver essential equipment to passenger corridors everywhere in the US. As diesel engines will likely leave the scene in the foreseeable future, it will be exciting to see who steps in to supply railroads with new locomotives.
yeah..nice shoots from my homecountry... thanks mr mars!
My home country, too... Great you like it!
@@mbmars01 i like all your uploads sir..are your parents from germany?
Awesome! Yes, they are.
@@mbmars01 nice...greets to them!
Danke :)
Well done and interesting as usual!
Awesome, thank you!
Cool video, keep them coming.
Thanks, will do!
Awesome video! Thumb up!
Cool, thank you!
Nice video
Thanks!
I'm glad the little squirrel at 7:37 made it ok 🙂
Lol, yes it did :) Nice to hear from you again!
@@mbmars01 Sorry I don't comment often but I do watch (silently most of the time). Excellent work as always, thanks for sharing.
I find the "small" freight European style more natural since I grew up with that -- 1 electric plus a smaller number of cars, instead of the huge diesels MU and 2 miles of freight cars they do in the US.
One interesting bit here was the fairly elongated carriers with what seems like up to 3 containers each. I had seen only 2x long versions before.
Very cool. I've also been more used to these short, fast trains, but the monster trains in the US are very impressive, too. So I enjoy watching trains in both worlds :) I think those flat cars can carry the equivalent of two 40' containers, but sometimes it's one 40' and two 20', or four 20'.
I never could get a good count on the tank cars or the commercial cars. Seems like twenty five cars is a large train across the water. Way to many wires overhead for me. Excellent video !
You're about right. Trains are short and most typically have less than 40 cars. Nice you like the video!
I do enjoy railroads from other countries. The scenery was beautiful!
Perhaps it's just my imagination but it seems they give passenger service higher priority than freight. I say this because of the number of trains getting put in the sidings/train stations until a passenger train goes by. Also, I can't help but notice this line seems so pristine and virtually new. From your experience, are the mains typically like this? Even the branch line on the northbound side seems well maintained.
The power looks so interesting, although a couple of them remind me of ore cars here in the states.
This was excellent! Well done! Thank you for taking us along.
Sure, passenger traffic is given highest priority and, yes, most lines in central Europe look like this. One reason being in fact that the lines are shared by passenger and freight train like the line featured in this video. Great you like the video from overseas as well. Always good if people are interesting in things going on beyond the horizon.
@@mbmars01 Cool, I learned a little bit more about overseas trains. Thank you.
*Awesome*
Thanks!
@@mbmars01 *You're Welcome*
Why do you suppose they've never adopted the Janney coupler?
That's an excellent question that I actually have thought about. I think the answer is just history. Nobody wanted to pay for changing couplers on hundreds of thousands of freight cars. I think the Janney coupler is the better option, but we'll likely never see this in most of Europe.
@@mbmars01 It also has to do with the fact that European trains are much lighter than the trains you have in North America. We do have automatic couplers (AK69) but only for one specific wagon/load. It's used on the ore trains from Maasvlakte (Netherlands) to Saarland in Germany. A normal freight car is never over 100 ton and for that reason a 500kn screw coupler is used on almost all freight cars in Europe.
@Docter24 Yes, I heard about the automatic couplers. Maybe we're gonna see those on more trains in the future. Thanks for the additional information.
Weird looking trains in Germany,guess I'm just used to trains here in America.nice to see them though.
Since I grew up "on the other side" I actually initially had the same feeling in the opposite direction when I came to the US. Now I'm used to both and find it really interesting to compare the different approaches to railroading.
I have a question , maybe you know the answer . in the video at 19:48 i saw the connection system between their rail cars ,
it is so different from the way that u.s. rail cars connect , how does it work ? great video keep up the work .
They connect a chain from one car to a hook on the other and tighten the connection with a screw mechanism. Thanks, great you like the video.
It's always interesting to see railroads around the world. It looks very efficient in Germany but European and Asian railroads don't have the tonnage as here in the US plus passenger service basically is going extinct. I believe anti graffiti paint which is expensive is used a lot on locomotives and rolling stock.
Since distances are shorter, trains are shorter, but more frequent, too. On the intermodal side, I'd think tonnage moved in Europe is comparable to the US. What is interesting is that unlike the US, the rail nets are mostly in the possession of the states, which means any private company can use almost any line. This makes train watching even more interesting. You just never know what comes next.
@@mbmars01 A rail network like the Interstate system is interesting. Maybe in the future you could see more private rail freight company locomotives.
Really like this video also the variety of trains there. For your next holiday in Germany I recommend you to visit Frankfurt and the cities around. I am living in this area and it's great for trainspotting. There are two lines which I really recommend: The highspeed line Frankfurt-Cologne and the "Riedbahn" between Frankfurt and Mannheim which is the most busiest line in Germany. If you are interested you can see some videos of both lines on my channel.
Greetings from Germany
Oh I'd love to visit these (and other) lines, but my family visits are typically limited to the Berlin area. But thanks for the tips. I'll keep them in mind for possible future opportunities. Greetings back to good old Germany!
1:09 Without a doubt, the weakest headlights I"ve ever seen. Did they appear brighter in person?
No, they don't. As more and more grade crossings are eliminated and tracks usually don't run close to busy public areas, bright headlights are less of a necessity there than they are here I'd say.
Soy Miguel Navarrete cruz me gustan esos trenes que van muy rápido
You just showed the biggest difference between European and North American railways, in Europe the passenger trains have the priority and in North America the freight trains have the priority, which is why people take thew cars in North America.
Well, Amtrak should have priority, too, but as long as the freight road's dispatchers make the decisions it's not gonna work.
@@mbmars01 In Canada VIA Rail is mandated to run on the CN tracks and although it's not bad in the Quebec City - Windsor corridor, the Via train from Montrel to Halifax has to run over poorly maintainewd trackage through Northern New Brunswick that thhe Province of New Brunswick pays CN $ 26 million CDN a year to maintain.
What happens when the 'dirty' power plants are gone?
Good question...
electric trains..so quiet. no autoracks huh? interesting....
I have seen a rack train on this line before, but yes, not this time. There isn't much mixed freight there either.
auto carriers do run on european railroads and are quite common on certain lines, the wagons are just not those 6 m tall tri level autoracks. there is even one narrow gauge railway in spain that runs car carriers
There's a noticeable lack of tagger graffiti. Fewer miscreants maybe?
Most lines and yards have actually fence, so it's harder for sprayers to get to the cars. Although I'd say it's gotten worse throughout the last few years.
not rlly a fan of other countries trains but nice
That's alright. Good you liked watching the video, though!
It must be too hard to paint graffiti in German