Complete nightmare conditions on the mountain! This trip portrays some of the worst conditions I’ve ever faced on the mountain pass. It is on trips like this Line knowledge really comes to mean something, when you don’t see anything and the signals are all covered in snow or pops out of “no where”.
Arriving Geilo meeting the delayed passenger train 602 bound for Oslo kind of told me what kind of conditions I would be facing on the mountain. By the time I got there, the weather had turned worse! Faulty signalling system at Ustaoset, zero visibility and snow flying in all directions, this video surpass “Stormy winter conditions on the mountain pass (https://youtu.be/MLJQKaoPHGs)” by far!
Check out the chapters below for interesting points during the travel marked with “🐄”
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//CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 Intro and map
0:01:14 Ål – Geilo
0:20:53 Arriving Geilo and waiting for delayed passenger train 602 bound for Oslo (look at the front)🐄
0:35:20 Ustaoset Signalling failure this is where the nightmare begins🐄
0:44:18 Ustaoset – Haugastøl (1/2 sight speed due to signalling failure at Ustaoset)
1:03:56 Haugasøl – Tunga
1:12:39 Snow flying in all directions and covering the front 🐄🐄
1:15:02 Tunga – Finse (plow madness) 🐄🐄🐄🐄
1:24:05 Arriving Finse and photos of the train🐄🐄🐄🐄
1:27:19 Finse – Fagernut
1:32:32 Fagernut – Hallingskeid (piston effect in the Finse tunnel)
1:40:12 Hallingskeid – Myrdal
1:52:55 Arriving Myrdal station and waiting for the Beilhack to clear the track
1:54:22 Myrdal – Mjølfjell (zero visibility) 🐄🐄🐄
2:07:21 The ill fate of the White Rabbit (sorry children)
2:09:46 Mjølfjell – Reimegrend
2:16:55 Reimegrend – Urdland
2:24:00 Urdland – Voss
2:35:46 Voss – Bulken
2:42:56 A train too long for Bulken, do we solve that? 🐄
2:48:15 Bulken – Evanger
2:57:49 Evanger – Bolstadøyri
3:05:29 Bolstadøyri – Dale (Freight train waiting for me at Dale)
3:12:26 Dale – Stanghelle (Local Service train waiting for me at Stanghelle)
3:18:54 Stanghelle – Vaksdal
3:27:17 Vaksdal – Trengereid
3:35:18 Trengereid – Arna (Blasting through Arna at 100kmh)
3:44:08 Arna – Bergen (New Ulrikken tunnel)
3:51:58 Arriving Bergen and going to shunting mode to enter the Freight Terminal
4:02:50 OUTRO
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49 Comments
RCG the same RCG who sometimes watches the Aroura cam in Churchill?
Brilliant. Then in the UK you get a hint of snow and the whole country grinds to a halt.
All in all a bit of a straining night. My dad drove a truck 🚛 in his day and drove through many a snow ❄️ storm and blizzard here in the USA. He called them " white knuckle runs in the stormy rocky mountains" he had the tire chains to keep him company during his turn in the Rockies. He knows the feeling of your just on the edge of out of control. People don't know what a responsibility it is doing this kind of work.
Stay safe and KEEP THE SHINY SIDE UP"
This is just what the doctor ordered……..a nice train ride. I hate the city.
Utterly boring whether lol. One of those times you wish you were just a passenger
Wow is all that can be said
This is a simply fantastic video in a fanstastic landscape !! Did you had problems with wheelslip in this conditions ? What was the train mass ? Again : simply amazing footage !
Bombardier locomotive?? Come on.
Amazing tunnel system.
2:45:35 :))
2:07:26 bunk
Why the horn when there is or appears to be no crossing? And my butt would be pinched up tight not being able to see the rail like that, many places covered with snow.
2:07:24 Unlucky rabbit ((
The most interesting and interesting video I've ever seen. When there are idiøts posting so many st||p|d st||pid videos on youtube, these sound like medicine
I hope you had snow chains on! 🤪You certainly don't learn THIS situation in driving school, do you? whiteout.
This is like Snowpiercer.
I don't think I've ever been more stressed out by snow conditions than watching this video besides one or two times in my life.
Does anyone know what those green say signs that appear every hundred feet or so in the tunnels?
wow
Thanks for this. I was a truly awful night!
Commercial airliners can fly and land in blind conditions. You would think by now train technology would be able to keep a train moving 24/7 in almost any conditions except for a flood or landslide. As long as the tracks are not damaged you would think it would be almost impossible to stop a train
Man you have some small trains there. In Canada you will commonly see a train over a km long. It's really cool that you have electric trains going so far though
1:13:36 fairytale
Truly a stupid question here. At 21:54 there is a shovel, broom, another tool & a stick between rail lines. There is no crossing of any sort here & other than the right track looking slightly cleared, there doesn't look to be a reason for it. Any idea why are the tools at this location?
this would be heaven.
Love this channel!
Hey keep your snow to yourself @ 22:50
That was quite a storm. I want to visit!
That tunnel is very long thanks for sharing
Wow, TUNNELS! I’ve never appreciated the Finse tunnel the way you drivers must! Then, coming out of the tunnel to see all of Bergen lit up – better than Christmas after this drive! That signal failure protocol, however necessary, is a stretch, too. Thanks for reposting this!!
Я очень люблю Ваши видео! Норвегия красивая страна. А у Вас очень трудная и опасная работа. Желаю Вам здоровья и удачи на всех Ваших дорогах! И новых, интересных видео! Спасибо. ))
I thought my commute in the winter was bad.
This is very relaxing. Thank you for posting.
Would this be considered a train or a cable car type of train due to the wires?
Just like my road to work but without tracks to keep you straight. It’s been a white winter for sure.
Thank you RCG, the scarier it is, the more calming it is! Love from India 💖
This comment is to help the algorithm. Also I love your stuff!
Love all your videos
Regardless of the responsibility you bear, I feel satisfied watching this journey. I work as a computer engineer and I have to be creative, but I could change jobs to experience the flow.
It is beautiful scenery here but it looks like it
can also be very scary especially in this cold
climate but still beautiful though 🗻🚈🚄
Great video. I notice the pantograph is sparking (arc) on the wire. I can see the blue flashing. I live near Northeast Corridor in USA.
It's like a horror movie but amazing and very exciting…
Does the snow the trains blows around in the tunnels and snow sheds trigger the smoke/fire alarms at all?
Amazing the difference in weather from one side of the first hill and tunnel to the other side!
01:32:54 RailCowGirl. Skyer dannes når lufttrykket faller (stormvær). Skyer forsvinner når lufttrykket stiger (finvær). Tilstedeværelsen av tåken i den brede tosporede tunnelen ved Fagurnut stasjon skyldes at stempeleffekten av den komprimerte luften som presses fremover i den smale enkeltsporetunnelen på grunn av toget som nærmer seg, utvider seg til det bredere volumet av den tosporede tunnelen, og slik synker trykket og stasjonsdåken dannes.
Clouds form when air pressure drops (stormy weather). Clouds dissipate when air pressure rises (fine weather). The presence of the fog in the wide two track tunnel at Fagurnut Station is because the piston effect of the air compressed being pushed forward in the narrow single track tunnel due to the approaching train, expands in to the wider volume of the twin track tunnel, and so the pressure drops and the station mist forms.
Is there a guide to the meaning of the signs and signal lights?
So relaxing when your sitting on your warm couch lol
In the UK the trains would be cancled and parked up at the sight of snow our country has a fear of it news makes out 2inches is a new ice age… Yet you just plod on not even being able to see the track brilliant videos fix my anxiety and bi polar disorder by keeping me clilled out
It must be awfull to drive like this in the blind. Why are not the trains equiped with radars to warn about a possible danger on the rail ?