i’m not even a train nerd but watching that engineer operate the full analog engine made me jealous soooo much.

@fabr5747

2 ай бұрын

@@tylermcintyre1454 Engineer? Isn't it kind of overstating their job? Engineers design stuff, have an engineer diploma, etc. Why calling a train driver an engineer? Or is it like sound engineer? Not real engineers but somehow it is a commonly used term?

@sammy5576

2 ай бұрын

@@fabr5747 engineer is derived from the word engine, is derived from Latin and had an original meaning of machine or mangle

@roadie3124

Ай бұрын

@@fabr5747 It's an American strangeness. Train drivers are called "Engineers" in America. Most people don't seem to understand what engineers do. For example, they think that scientists design space vehicles and architects design advanced buildings and bridges. Nope. Engineers do that. The scientists and the architects might provide the concepts, but the engineers design the vehicles and the structures to make sure that they are viable and they don't explode or fall down. Of course, the accountants then come in and let the contracts to manufacturers for the least possible cost, compromising safety for the sake of a cent and people get killed.

@fabr5747

Ай бұрын

@@roadie3124 with the meaning of "engineer" having evolved so much, why not renaming them to "train driver / pilot / operator"? Less prestigious? But absurd.

Fun fact Google does not know of Autozug, it announces still Ferry when you drive on the train. I always chuckle thinking of ships going over the mountain.

@wernerviehhauser94

2 ай бұрын

Autozug is the term for carts carrying new vehicles, the correct term here is Autoreisezug. For trucks, try Rollende Landstrasse. And my google knows all of them.

@tylermcintyre1454

2 ай бұрын

Tyler Mac all aboard

@uranusjr

2 ай бұрын

Interestingly “ferry” as a verb only means “to transport things in a vehicle across a landscape” and it only implies a ship when used as a noun. Considering there isn’t a word for a train carrying cars maybe this should just be called a ferry.

@seprishere

Ай бұрын

Google *does* know of "car transporter (train)", at least for the Eurotunnel. Maybe the Swiss ones aren't coded correctly?

@WanderingZekko

Ай бұрын

The road signs near the Autozug also have the usual ferry icon, presumably because there's no Autozug icon. Imagine my surprise when I blindly followed Google Maps up and up towards a supposed ferry, only to find a train!

The Channel Tunnel between UK and France has trains that take cars and lorries from one country to the other through the tunnel, under the sea. Car passengers stay with their cars. Lorry drivers get a passenger coach to ride in.

@colinnich

2 ай бұрын

That's the first thing I thought of. Is the creator unaware of this, despite being quote close to it? 🙂

@jfv65

2 ай бұрын

In the 1970's we used to have a car shuttle train going from the Netherlands to Italy. Drive your car on, go to your seat in the train coaches. Enjoy food, drink and travel to your holiday destination in comfort. Some were even sleeper night trains.

@tylermcintyre1454

2 ай бұрын

Tyler Mac we are ready too see the world

@danieldabloxgamer9205

2 ай бұрын

And before that, motorail

@mattbosley3531

2 ай бұрын

Buses, too.

Swiss German, I speak German, but oh my, I can’t understand a word, it’s funny that I need English subtitles to understand a language I speak.

@electroman1996

2 ай бұрын

Der Lokführer hier spricht Walliserdeutsch. Da brauche selbst ich als Nordwestschweizer manchmal Untertitel xD

@marcd6897

2 ай бұрын

Then maybe your English isn’t good enough. I have no issues understanding this chap. English with a charming Swiss accent.

@felixtheswiss

2 ай бұрын

​@@marcd6897 I think hes refering to the locomotive engineer

@konsultarvode6527

2 ай бұрын

As a non speaker it almost sounds dutch to me

@lvovodessa

2 ай бұрын

@@konsultarvode6527 To me as a native Dutch speaker it sounds Nordic. I couldn't understand it well without subtitles.

This is the best channel on KZread.

@tylermcintyre1454

2 ай бұрын

Tyler Mac and the company

I don't suppose many people remember it now but British railways used to run a similar ferry operation through the severn tunnel, on a much smaller scale though. By avoiding the need to go up to the first bridge at Gloucester and back it cut I think about 70 miles from the journey from Bristol to South Wales and was more reliable than the conventional ferry. However it became obsolete when the first bridge was built across for the M4 round about 1970.

@milliedragon4418

2 ай бұрын

America still has it but it's so few that I don't even think most people know about it. In fact, I didn't know anything about it until I watched something from Peter Dibble its called AutoTrain, has a little bit different from us and that you still ride the train. I wish people would talk about the British busway guide system. I'm not sure why people don't. I think it's pretty cool. I like that it's kind of a good in between a light rail and bus. It predates these autonomous bus lane, which use regular roads. But because it would be on the track, it would be much better suited for autonomous busways. Part of it's just very expensive to do something like that, on the operators part. * Car ferry trains But I know a lot of people who love driving their cars. They don't want to not be able to drive then. I feel like it gives some people who want to have their car on their travel, a feeling of control. Ah, but the United States is also lacked behind on its passenger rail. My frustration.

I was on holiday in the alps when I was young and regularly saw these trains passing by our campsite. I never imagined it was a ferry and people were sitting in those cars, I thought it was a freight train. Very interesting, thank you!

Living in the U.S. I can only dream about something amazing like this. We have the most idiotic car centric transportation system based on egos (huge pickup trucks). This is intelligent engineering and planning. Thank you Switzerland for showing the world what intelligent transportation engineering looks like.

I live very close to the veraina tunnel and take it regularly! I also once went to a firefighters and rescue training as an injured person with my brother, whp ended up on the wrong side of the tunnel at the end, 4.00am. Fun times

@tylermcintyre1454

2 ай бұрын

Tyler Mac hello everyone

Nice job...was a pleasure to do some maps for you. Kepp up the good work👍🏼

This video is really cool. I love how the swiss dialect always peaks trough when the name of a village or city needs to be pronounced!

Ich find's so geil das du englischsprachigi Videos über Schwiizer nerd Sache machsch :D freut mi wenn Sache von hie ou international bekannt wärde :D

@marsaeolus9248

Ай бұрын

Nah, we must stay discreet 🤫

To be honest, the more "ferry" style of a train is most likely the trains that bring cars from Niebüll to the island of Sylt. Yes, there is also a ferry route from Rømø to List, but most will use the Autozug over the Hindenburg dam.

Tunnels for railway instead of roads was the right choice. Well done Switzerland! 👏

Trivial correction at 2:05: In the word „Lötschberg“ berg does not mean mountain, as it would usually in most German dialects, but rather pass. That is also the reason why there is no single mountain called Lötschberg. The same is true e.g. for the Arlberg. There is no mountain called Arlberg, the name just refers to the mountain pass. This is because the place names are derived from Walserdeutsch, whose speakers have historically inhabited these areas and some still do to this day, where Berg does or mean peak or mountain. Hope this clears up some confusion. Merci für die interessante Dok.

I love the RE 4/4 locomotives used on this service. I was lucky to stay in Kandersteg last year and see them before they are all withdrawn.

I would enjoy your take on the broadly similar US Auto Train, which has double decker car carriers and carries the people in sleeper cars over 855 miles with no intermediate stops.

@tylermcintyre1454

2 ай бұрын

Tyler Mac hurry up

@kevadu

2 ай бұрын

I feel like the Auto Train is qualitatively different. This is about using a train tunnel to bypass a single geographic barrier. Hence the comparison to a ferry makes sense. The Auto Train is more about long distance travel. You could always drive that distance, but it takes hours and drivers do have to stop and rest sometimes. But it's also a product of US car dependency...after all why should you feel the need to take your car along at all? You can certainly make similarly distant trips by train in Europe but most people would just leave their cars at home then.

@alklesczewski1207

2 ай бұрын

@@kevadu The reason we (Americans) need cars at the end points is that most places we want to travel to are not serviced by public transportation. It really makes sense, though, to have auto-trains in the US because of the great distances between major hubs. I personally would love to take my camper trailer out west to do some camping! Remember, in Europe, 100 years is a very short time, but in the US, 100 miles is a very short distance!

@daniellewis1789

2 ай бұрын

The natural barrier crossed by the Auto Train is distance, not a mountain range. I believe comparing the two operations could be interesting precisely because they are different, while both accomplishing the same broad purpose - move people and cars on a railway.

@cyclicmusings2661

Ай бұрын

I was thinking about the Autotrain too. It is a more complex system as it utilizes the double decker train cars, which need ramps and a whole team of drivers to put the cars in individual cars that are then linked together - passengers can't load their own cars themselves. It is a much longer process than the train in this video where people drive their cars right onboard.

As a retired railway traction and brakes engineer who also worked in conjunction with Oerlikon Brakes in Zurich, I found this video to be a brilliant and informative one on this most interesting subject. Let’s have some more please.

This video deserves a lot of attention! Always a pleasure to listen to professionals explain their interesting work. Thank you for the translations.

America has one, too. Amtrak's Auto Train takes passengers and their cars from Lorton, Virginia (just below DC) to Sanford, Florida.

I was most happy to learn at the end of your video that you'd be releasing more footage and explanations on the different systems involved. BLS and its workers did a fantastic job in allowing you so much access and giving you so much of their time and explanation. I can't wait to see to next episodes !

Germany has a similar system to get cars from the mainland to the island of Sylt in the north sea. There is a rail link, the Hindenburgdamm, but not a road between the 2.

@acmenipponair

2 ай бұрын

Austria has it too, you can use the Autobahn A10 from Salzburg to Kärnten - but you can also use the Autozug from Bad Gastein to Kärnten through the high alps.

In 1955 we had Motorail in the UK, and in 1993 the UK and France got Eurotunnel. However we haven't used trains to pass through mountain ranges, mostly because we don't have ranges large enough to warrant it so our roads can go around or over them.

What a well made video it is comparable to an episode of Sendung mit der Maus.

Auto rail in the us between Lorton and Orlando. It’s one of the few profitable lines Amtrak runs

Other "Ferry- Trains" are operating in the "Euro- Tunnel" beyond the channel, "Vereina- Autoverlad" from 'Klosters' to 'Engadin' for example. Even in Germany you've "Ferry- Trains" from Loerrach to Hamburg or the "Connection" from 'Niebuell' to 'Westerland' (Sylt). At the "Loetschberg- Autoverlad" you've even the option to get trains, that brings you to "Iselle" (Italy) ... continuing Brig and the "Simplon- Basistunnel" under the "Simplon- Pass". It is an nice alternative to bypass the "Gotthard- Traffic- jams".

There is also an above ground car shuttle train between Andermatt and Sedrun when the road is closed, and a limited (3 trains per week) Kandersteg-Iselle service in summer.

@felixtheswiss

2 ай бұрын

Oberalp is not running anymore!

@TimothyEBaldwin

2 ай бұрын

​@@felixtheswissWould you like to edit Wikipedia (page Car Shuttle Train) or provide a source?

@100dampf

2 ай бұрын

@@TimothyEBaldwin Where on Wikipedia is that? If you put Autoverlad Oberalp into google, the first result is a page where the MGB explains the cancelation

@casparpolitman

2 ай бұрын

​@@TimothyEBaldwini confirm, i work in Andermatt! It doesnt exist anymore! MGB Is rushing to modernise withouth much common sense!

You make the right kind of nerdy videos which I love!

When I had a Tesla for the weekend, I took it through the Furka Autoverlad. I don't think I ever was THAT scared the whole weekend, except when I arrived at Realp and got into the worst snow storm Switzerland had seen in a march in literally decades - and realized I had bleeding SUMMER tires on.

@elisabethboissard4823

2 ай бұрын

Si c’est juste c’était en septembre, il y a bien longtemps….je faisais régulièrement la liaison Valais Tessin…et c’est la première fois et la seule où j’ai dû dormir dans le haut Valais 😢 le matin je suis repartie avec ma petite justy avec les pneus neige que je ne changeais jamais…et j’ai dépassé toutes les BMW et Mercedes sur le bord de la route😅😅😅

This is the best informational video I have seen regarding Swiss rail operation.

Hey this is just awesome! So cool for all of these guys to not only operate all of these services, but to also allow us such a behind the scenes. And not to the least, great video. You've not just explained how stuff work, but made an interesting story for us. Thanks a lot!

There used to be a network of car carrying train routes across the UK. Started in 1955 running untill. 2005 when the London to Penzance service finally ended.

Such an amazing underrated channel. Keep up the amazing work!

We took this just last year on the way home from our holiday in Blatten. A really nice and unique area there, and the car train was an interesting experience too.

Don't know what I just found but I love it! Looks like I've got a new back catalogue of videos to go through!

What a fabulous video with many interesting facts. Thank you regards Ian, UK 🇬🇧.

Actually while Car riding by reain is rare nowerdays, I still remember one about 40 years ago. We travelled from Lüneburg/Germany to Spain, using a car train from Hannover to France. That was quite a nice combination as this is a distance of nearly 1400 km (about 870 miles) = a car ride about 15h. Plus about 1,5h drive to Hannover and about 3,5h to the final destination near Barcelona. The train had sleeping wagons. For a car drive for the whole ride it would have been much more stressfull. However, as my brother and I were still kids /I think I was about 14, my brother 2 years younger), we had a lot of luggage. So having the own car for the holyday was a huge plus - and also no carrying limited luggage on a train or to the airport. Much more comfotable to sleep on the trainride. Does not matter the ride taking longer than a flight, if you can sleep... Also it was an adventure for us kids. Sadly there are barely any car-trains anymore.

Excellent new video. Unfortunately I almost skipped over it. An idea would be some brand recognition these videos with your ski lift videos.

@sandro-here

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Could you elaborate?

@nedt

2 ай бұрын

@@sandro-here no problems. I know you as ‘the ski lift creator’. I view most of my videos in the subscriber tab, so I don’t look for your name (which is your channel name) but I always want to bookmark your content as I throughly enjoy it. When this video popped up in my subscriptions I thought ‘what’s this’ not yes I want to watch it because it’s from you. Maybe a name for the series or something in the thumbnail (logo) that you repeat and is recognisable, similar to what plainly difficult and other channels do. Thank you again for the videos, I appreciate it and my kids love your detail in the ‘how to works’.

@Rednesswahn

2 ай бұрын

@kalsan15 That happened to me too. I'm glad I clicked on the video eventually when YT kept recommending it to me. Then I checked the channel and saw that it's the one with great behind the scenes videos that I really enjoy :D So maybe, putting something on the thumbnails would be good. Thanks for the awesome videos. It's always really interesting!

@sandro-here

2 ай бұрын

@@nedt Thanks for the explanation! That's a good idea. I'll think of a way to make the thumbnails stand out in all configurations, perhaps even retro-fitting them.

@sandro-here

2 ай бұрын

@@Rednesswahn Thanks! This is valuable input. I'll see how this can be addressed.

the welsh and other british TOCs can learn from BLS, they are very friendly the staff letting you film all that, in uk you have to jump through hoops but i have had some managers permission to film at least with transport for wales

Really it isn't a strange idea at all. Trains carrying cars in long tunnels is safer then cars traveling alone in long tunnels. Thanks for the Great video showing how it all works.

I remember driving through Switzerland late in the evening following google maps and meeting a barrier in the middle of the road. At this point Google maps announced "Now put your car on the train". I was not expecting that! It seemed like the station was deserted, but in fact I was able to buy a ticket and put the car on the train at 10pm. That was the Furka Pass - made famous from the Hotel Belvedere scene in the movie Goldfinger. In the Summer months you can drive down the pass, but in the winter the pass is closed and you must take the train under the mountains.

I'm a boyscout and we went to KISC in kandersteg. We were sleeping like right by the tracks and it was so loud. But it was neat for train spotting lol. The BLS trains are much much quieter

Thank you for your reply. I watched the (excellent) video again and I understand how the vehicles board and disembark so my curiosity is satisfied. Thanks again.

Excellent video and commentary. I have only been to Switzerland once, about 60 years ago. I was and still am fascinated by the old locomotives.

Takes me back to 2007 when we were camping in Frutigen, we did a circular drive from Kandersteg. Being used to the Channel Tunnel between England and France I found the car carriages quite narrow. Thanks for an interesting video.

Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it!

Awesome video, very informative! Keep up the good work 😁

We used the one at Furka Pass last year. It was really cool!

I am surprised this doesn't have more views, considering the quality of it. Would have thought youtube would recommend it to more people.

Thank you for making this video 👍

Great content I have to say, I have used the Lötschberg car train once and it is a quite special experience, one thing that I remember so strongly will be a thing of the past with the concrete track bed, that's the overwhelming smell of creosote with which the wooden sleepers were treated. I had the chance to drive a short distance within the depot with the SBB Re460 when visiting the Erstfeld depot in 1996, especially then it was like a space ship. I subbed for more of this!

Absolutely superb video, and so interesting,

i like listen to that Schwyzerdütsch as an German and understand about 85% (75% - 95%) of that what was said.

From an EU interpreter: Brilliant technical subtitling and voiceover-compliments on the careful accuracy of your English!

@sandro-here

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much, much appreciated! It is quite a struggle to be honest - some of these words only exist in Switzerland and I have to come up with my own English translation.

@fjkfkfkf

Ай бұрын

​@@sandro-here i guess the best way to do it is to first translate it into standard german and then into english

this really is a great little documentary

I got to watch this later. There's also the Eurostar between the UK and France and the overnight auto train between Washington and Orlando.

The Channel Tunnel between France and England is I guess, the most famous train ferry.

I love the Autoverlad Vereina, have taken this quite a few times in summer to get from Switzerland to Italy. So very very convenient. I really appreciate these services exist.

If you are looking at understanding train brakes, I recommend Hyce's "AIRBRAKES 101" video, where he goes 10 levels of understanding, taking it from the simplistic and add on to it. It is from an American perspective, but the core way they work is the same, so it is a good place to start. And no, they are not like truck brakes.

@sandro-here

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Bookmarked it and will watch soon.

Very interesting and informative, thank you!

Sooo beautiful 60ies design!

4:24 The Car Shuttle predates the base tunnel, so it already had to compete with the whole traffic. It just doesn't make sense to use the highspeed tunnels for the shuttle 10:00 Your recherche is wrong, those green BDt were custom built in the 90s i think. The EW I are those with are rounded front, a normal passenger door behind the cab and without a panthograph. There is a third type built from SBB EW II with panthograph and a similar rounded front And soon a fourth type will enter service with the Re 465, built from NPZ Regional Trains

@sandro-here

2 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for the corrections! :-)

Nice. I have used that one and always thought it to be cool.

I wish we still had car trains to the north of England and Scotland. It takes hours to drive there and the traffic is unpredictable

Some other notable examples include the Sylt shuttle between Westerland and Niebül or the Rollende Landstraße operated during the 2002s from Lehrte eastbound dueto temporary A 2 expansion

Thanks for this video. The quality of the content is high.

mate, this makes perfect sense. in your context.

Oh, man! All those monitors! My two wide-screen monitor set up is so inadequate.

thank you very much.

Other countries have had similar services in the past, including the Motorail service in the UK, but these started to go out of favour in the 1970s as roads and cars became better, as well as increasing competition from air travel with the option to hire a car. For those sort of services too there is also the environmental issue. Whilst using the train is good environmentally, that doesn't mitigate concerns about congestion, parking and pollution at the destination if taking a car. Ultimately, the sort of people who would choose the train for environmental reasons are more likely to leave the car at home. Then there is the fact that these services tend to revolve around taking people from the big cities to rural tourist areas. These days the city dwellers are likely to either not have a car, be happy to drive all the way, or be happy to get a train/fly and hire a car.

@constancel4211

2 ай бұрын

SNCF used to operate many such long distance services, paired with sleeping cars, until 15-20 years ago. It was called "service auto-train". Given the large size of the country it was a very useful service for those who wanted or needed to cross the country with their car, instead of driving for 10 hours or more (even with the very extensive French motorway system). You'd have services like Lyon to Rennes, Nice to Paris, Lille to Marseille, Metz to Bordeaux, all trips that'd take a full day if you where to drive. I'm not sure the suppression of this service has any effect on alleviating problems at the destination, as many people will simply drive the car all the way there when they think the train is inconvenient (say, a family with young children who goes camping needs the carrying capacity of the car and the convenience of avoiding the terrible TGV connections in Paris, which are very stressful and physically exhausting). I think this may be the kind of service that's so convenient it can turn people into train users, and eventually consider switching to public transport when it's more convenient.

The old locomotives are well maintained and in excellent condition. This technology is exciting.

I do hope they keep one of these old locos as is and also one painted the 'new' green just for the 'shock' of something 'new'. As they did with the borrowed Re 4/4 II (Re 420) the BLS leased from SBB.

Trains are a great way to move cars and other road transport - personally use the channel tunnel - have used the double decker, single decker and truck transporter (in a van) - all are great. Currently driving an electric car so reducing time, and miles is key

Very interesting hearing the amount of braking on the electric brake being modulated by a relay! 17:02 This is great electronics.

Love that man with his big heavy train.

There are also such services in Hamburg Altona, going to various destinations such as Austria and Munich ^^

Super cooles video. Danke 👍

Super, vielen Dank.

Now that is ultra sensible. UK had three car carrier trains in the 1960's. Nothing like that now in UK.

@jimmydesouza4375

Ай бұрын

It isn't actually sensible. The sensible approach is to build a road tunnel. Just that the swiss have an "anti-car" culture.

@rodneycooperLMSCoach

Ай бұрын

@@jimmydesouza4375 You're joking right? The Railway is far more efficient in moving loads long distances than roads are where the vehicles ie cars and goods, all need their separate engines and drivers and are not controlled so are more likely to have accidents. Where the road comes into it's own is at either end of the journey to millions of different destinations so it makes sense to put them on a train for the bulk of the journey. I don't think Swiss have ever been anti car but they have a mountainous country and roads can be dangerous.

@jimmydesouza4375

Ай бұрын

@@rodneycooperLMSCoach The railway is not more efficient. Railway is only more efficient with specific types of load (extreme weight or extreme volume), neither of which a car ferry counts as (think instead hopper cars full of coal and things of that nature). Also switzerland is fairly famous for its people hating cars (or it would be more correct to say being propagandised into thinking public transport is superior). That is why they shut down the road infrastructure programs that would have solved this problem in the first place, for example.

@rodneycooperLMSCoach

Ай бұрын

@@jimmydesouza4375 Maybe I didn't express myself so well. Imagine a motorway with 100 lorries all with medium or light loads but all going in the same direction for the bulk of their journeys and all with separate engines and drivers. All of that on one train that is why they are more efficient. If run correctly public transport is less polluting and more cost effective than private. If they are not run properly then private transport wins hands down.

@jimmydesouza4375

Ай бұрын

@@rodneycooperLMSCoach 100 lorries would take about 15 minutes to cover the ground this ferry takes 45 minutes to cover if they had an equivalent tunnel. "If run correctly public transport is less polluting and more cost effective than private." No it is not. Which is the reason why all public transport is subsidised to ridiculous amounts. Public transport is always less efficient and less effective because of inherent limitations within the system. For example the density of people per square foot you need to make passenger rail affordable would be fatal to everyone involved, so instead you have to raise prices, but then that would make it more expensive than private vehicles so no one would use it anyway so then you're forced to legislate out private vehicle ownership (the phase we're in right now). You're a railfan, so you're emotionally tied to the idea of railway working for public transport (and further from that public transport working in general). It simply doesn't. You're from the UK, you should know this. Peak subsidies of 35 pence per passenger per mile in the 80's and it still was a lossmaker.

I enjoyed talking you of the "Autoverlad" in the english text as it was a natural english word. :-)

great video

Wish we had this where I live.

Cool it sounds kinda like Danish, I took 1 year of German in highschool and iv picked up some Danish from learning Kalaallisut since they use danish words and was forced to speak in Danish for a long time.... Kinda cool how I recognized some words!

There is also one in Austria between Mallnitz and Böckstein.

Till the late 90's in italy we put the car on a train till Reggio Calabria , the train whit the car was loaded on a ferry, the ferry dock in Messina and download the car

America has something similar called the auto train

1:34 I was expecting the Tesla to lose a wing mirror or completely collide with the side of the train. Assuming that was LHD, it's going to be wrecked soon with that sort of width perception.

@fjkfkfkf

Ай бұрын

the tesla driver clearly couldnt drive properly. there was lots of space on the other side

Nice video! Actually we visit Switzerland twice a year. And if we go into direction of like Zermatt or saas-fee we take the car train trough the lotsbërg. It’s very special for me (A train fan). Interesting to hear how important all these car trains are!!!!

There's another one for the channel between France and Great Britain - like the Eurostar train for cars / trucks / busses

Lötschberg Autoverlad in Kandersteg / Goppenstein... been there, done that

Neat! Also, where is everyone else down here?

Sehr schön 😊😮

i love how the systems use dtmf tones to transmit the data

30:00 Very interesting screen! Its the same in germany, very importend! You can see every train and teh track where who used at moment! Wooow! When I no more engineer than i work as dispatcher! ^^

NOT ONLY does Europe have rail ferries but there is also one in the United States that is used by Amtrak, named: "The Auto Train."

@JapaneseHeavymetal

2 ай бұрын

Yeah. And its shit. Like every train service in the US. Because you still mostly use tracks from the 1940s and earlier. Nobody is investing any money to repair and maintain your rails. Which results in trains being no alternative to car or plane. Thank your shitty government since the 50s for that. Building giant highways and neglecting mass transit.

@Tom-Lahaye

2 ай бұрын

There are Auto Trains in many countries around the world, most of these are not aimed at closing a gap in the road network, but more as an alternative and convenient way to road travel for those wanting to have their own car with them on holiday but not having to drive the whole distance themselves. You can't really call these ferries, they don't cross a gap in the road. And that's what makes the Swiss Auto Zug and Channel tunnel so special, they close gaps in the road network trough mountains and under seas, and they do transport passengers IN their cars and not WITH their cars, the seats in the control car are only for the bikers which place their motorbikes and cycles in the luggage space of the same car. This solution is chosen as the electric train doesn't cause pollution in the tunnel and so less or no ventilation shafts are needed, and because it saves building another long tunnel

@DoDo-dq7yf

2 ай бұрын

@@Tom-Lahaye Also the Autozug to Sylt, well it's not a tunnel but you can't just drive to Sylt

@Tom-Lahaye

2 ай бұрын

@@DoDo-dq7yf Yes, I forgot that one, and I have even filmed these trains 20 years ago.

@lassepeterson2740

Ай бұрын

Didnt there also used to be some kind of rail ferry service thru a mountain in Alaska before they improved the highway ?

Looks pretty cool, the Eurostar doesn't really feel like a train, just a more confined ferry but the open rail car must be an amazing experience the first few times.

@RichXZ

Ай бұрын

Eurostar only carries passengers. LeShuttle is the service that carries vehicles under the sea in the eurotunnel

It's not exactly the same but in the U.S. we have an auto train from Washington, D.C. to Orlando, Florida along the East Coast for those who don't want to drive but who want to bring their cars.

Easter egg spotted at 1:46 ;)

yes in Australia from Perth To Adelaide every day

Eurup we have fairy trains, USA we have fairs for cars going from/to AK and Maby a few other places....