1993 X2000-2 Demonstrator Trainset Visits Oregon/Washington

[mark10788]

Oregon is where i was born and live and now lives at oregon!

[penguinmaster7]

i wish we had kept them...

[jslasher1]

The X2000 was later trailed in Australia between Sydney and Canberra. An XPT loco was used to pull/push the train. The trail was a dismal failure on account of the poor infrastructure of the track and the curvature of the line. It was, however, a very comfortable train.

[trainfanNL]

X2000 as front drive, these locomotives driving through a control cable from the X2000?

[lunkan93]

Nice.... I love this Swedish X2000 train...

[kjrehberg]

No doubt the dead-in-tow X2000 was gathering test data on all this bad track.

[mrksvideos]

@kjrehberg *snicker*  Well, I DID talk to the Gullviks technicians for about 10 minutes and they did mention that the track here was 'different', bordering on awful compared to what the X2000's run on back in Sweden.

[kjrehberg]

@mrksvideos Yeah, people like to say that we are a third-world country when it comes to passenger trains, but third-world countries have better passenger trains than we do.

[sweJN]

@kjrehberg E de ett Svensk tåg eller Amerikansk?

[MrFarguss]

@mrksvideos you forgot 1 coach in destricption UA2G 2718

[AmfleetII]

I'm entirely watching this for the F40s. :D

[hornetpalooza]

Are there any X2000 in operation in the US?

[lunkan93]

@hornetpalooza yes... just one :P

[mulad]

Sheesh, demoing a high-speed tilting trainset, and the guy at 2:55 has to flip the switch manually...

[Artpop2008]

I wonder IF passengers on that Double Decker entering the station were told of the visiting train from Sweden?

You know: "Attention Passengers. Please look on our right, A RARE Sight: A High Speed Train from Sweden is parked at the station."

Interesting: RR Safety HAS to be an issue. Informing passengers of such a RARE Sight is not.

A sure BET more Passengers would have been looking out the windows.

...there may have been a few on lookers. Notice the Conductor @ 7:31?

[svarthyvler]

This is just great, ty for vid. I've actually worked on that train and I remember that in the Bistro there was a rather huge bronze-sign with a map and information about this trip. funny is that when the brakes hit at 4.23 I feel just as when we stopped by those stations going between Sundsvall and Stockholm.

[trainboy94]

I wish amtrak would test more foreign equipment, Amtrak was cool in the 90s because of all the tests and demonstrations they did of foreign equipment.

[mdamttc199]

What's the weird thing about the trailing F40? Is it because there's no marker or headlight displayed? I'm not sure what the rule is for signifying the end of a train out there.

[mrksvideos]

Good observation! Due to the fact that I was using the 'high speed shutter' on the camera, the frame rate was out of synch with the strobe lights. If you look at 0:25 you will see just one flash of the F40's red emergency marker light located between the number boards. In both videos where the F40's are pushing, this is the only time in the video you see it flash, but it was operating all the time the locos were in push mode.

[mdamttc199]

Interesting - I'm not aware of the red "emergency" strobe being used as a marker other than this case. Pretty cool.

[strosa57]

Cool! I thought I saw the red strobe flash once, but figured my eyes were playing tricks on me. This brings back memories of seeing the X2000 in Boston in May 1993.

Interesting what you said about the horn - I rode the X2000 in Sweden a couple times and saw several runbys, and I can't recall hearing the horn either!

[andybowe]

In Germany and Sweden and Finland they only use horns in Emergencies

[mrksvideos]

They actually do (but rarely) in Sweden at remote unprotected crossings. See Krille400 's video entitled "Obevakad plankorsning "

[TEMPLE7D]

@mdamttc199 usally when its lite it mean emergency brakes is on

[hotcore5312]

lol

[hotcore5312]

What was that man shouting at 4:45? Was he shouting at you?

[mrksvideos]

No, he was shouting at the employee off camera to re-align the switch for him. Why he didn't use the radio, I have no idea. :)