UP 4234 westbound at 70MPH through Maricopa

[lawpar79]

Awesome K3LA! What's a doppler effect?

[Gooberwalla]

Hear that Doppler effect? Enjoyed watching this one. Too bad it wasn't in daylight.

[MexIntel]

Just Beautiful!!!!

[clinton984]

Awesome speed. 5*

[DBJW82]

We get 20k gross ton trains all the time in the Powder River. Having distributed power on the rear helps. Trains coming out of there go from having 112- 145 cars. Destination is about any powerplant that goes as far east as Chicago, south as Texas, a few to Utah, Nevada and everywhere in between.

[Boss302fan]

Simply amazing. For some reason I haven't handled (or paid attention to) trains of that weight. 110 - 100 ton cars is about an average coal drag for what we handle.

[DBJW82]

This video is pretty cool. Im a UP engineer. I wish I could go that fast. 50mph is all we get on the coal trains. In response to the train stopping in emergency, probably not long. I would guess a half mile to a mile. A loaded coal train at 40mph downhill takes about a half mile. The intermodals are much lighter however and I would guess take less time, but I could be wrong. I know brakes on those flat cars dont setup very quick.

[Boss302fan]

I'm a roadforeman on a joint BNSF and UP property. And like you said, the stories you read on youtube about trains taking 2 miles are just that...stories.

True, they don't "Stop on a dime". But gimme a 13000 ton coal train at 40 mph and as long as I'm not on wet rail going downhill I'll stop it far less than a mile.

[DBJW82]

Out in Wyoming, our trains leaving the mines are anywhere from 17000 gtons to 20 thousand. Heavy trains. Still, at 40mph, itl take about 1/2 mile to stop after "big holeing" it.

[Boss302fan]

I'm confused. You're pulling a 20k ton train out of Powder River? How many cars? What's the destination?

[Sniper12890]

Maybe you should watch the first response

[Sniper12890]

Do you want to go 70mph, use a GEVO.

[IntelCore2QuadCore]

I was there at the station with my kids, and the UPs going eastbound didn't seem to be going as fast as this one, I did not see any going west, but this one on the video is sure going way faster, than the 2 we saw.

[Sniper12890]

Watch "Union Pacific Stacktrain with DPU Flying through Maricopa, Arizona!!!!!HIGHBALL" by BNSFBJ to see a 70mph gevo soublestacker

[NismoFinder]

How long do you think it would take to emergency stop this beast at that speed?!?!?! My guess is at least 2-3 miles...

[Boss302fan]

3/4 of a mile.

[tornadoexe]

Is this faster than the german Ice(Intercity Express) or slower?

[GMEMDF7]

This is slow when you compare this to the ICE or TGV. Both run at regular speeds of approximately 180 MPH, more than twice as fast as this freight train. (the TGV's maximum speed, which was recently reached in a test run, is 357.2 mph, or 574.8 km/h)

[tornadoexe]

thanks for info.

[lequory]

the bellefontaine to indianapolis line here in ohio has some pretty fast trains. I haven't been able to observe them like I want because that line is 30 miles away from here. I'll go sometime in the future because I have a friend that lives near the line. Only time you can catch some fast trains is when they don't go through a lot of towns.

[diggwadd]

UP comes through Dekalb IL at night atleast this fast

[BNSFME2]

wow fast!!!

[AuSeMao]

damn man, thats wicked fast. I live in tucson and we get pretty fast trains here but not that fast.

[IntelCore2QuadCore]

Does anybody else have links or videos to intermodals going as fast as this one is? some titles say fast but the train is not really goin fast like this one.

[TVGenius]

I'm going to try to shoot some stuff this winter near Yuma, AZ (three hours west on Sunset line from Maricopa). We get stuff east of town that's absolutely flying. One time I was out driving at night and had to stop at a crossing, and being a rail nut always pull right up to the barrier. Then the Amtrak Sunset Limited comes haulin' around the corner and just flew by. Felt like I was watching an Acela Express... then again, as usual it was already 3 hours late.

[IntelCore2QuadCore]

hahahahahah 3 hrs late!!!!! It's crazy how many trains use that route, when I drive on the 8 to california I see tons of them all the time, not going fast though.

[kskcsfan]

Wooo TVGenius an Amtrak train being late sorry to be rude but that is nothing new

[UP1340]

BNSFBJ saw this WB GEVO here in Maricopa and it was going 70 MPH

[NS4100]

and this train will become a CSXT Q100 series (Q110 series) at some point and head to terminals, look at those CSX Stacks CSX won't take those things but 70 ;-)

[72harvest]

I have seen them go 79 in Modesto, on BNSF however. They blew off my hat and it got shredded.

[theup3985]

I live in Norman, OK along BNSF's Red Rock sub, and the trains go pretty fast through there, but I don't think they go quite that fast!

[karldotcom]

That is the Sunset Route baby! They all fly that fast....even the manifests

[dashloc]

Damn fast !!!

[lotusbandicoot]

DANG that was one fast UP, the fastest I've seen! Where I live the trains don't go ANYWHERE NEAR that fast

[jackson1333]

i live in maricopa i know where that track is!!!!

[greenlaserboy]

dam dawg that thing is flying... kewl