2005-08-06 04 København to X2000

[desse56]

"2 hours of train travel" Hahah! It takes 4 and a half hours from malmö to stockholm. But time goes by when having fun ^^.

[mrksvideos]

@desse56 Actually what I meant was that being in the cab was the best 2 hours. I was up there for half of the trip between Malmö and Stockholm ;)

[desse56]

@mrksvideos Aah! Between which stations were you in the cab?

[mrksvideos]

@desse56 Well, Even to this day I haven't figured it out completely.  If you read below, the first memory I have of it was at Gripenbergs slott, and I know I went back to my seat just before Gnesta as I have a still photo of it taken from my seat. I didn't video all of the time in the cab either. That is one thing I plan on never doing again. My recent videos of my motordressin are shot from a SSD camcorder with suction cup mount to the windows. I will do this next time I am up in a cab :)

[danishown2]

I have on comment the lokomotive in the start is a Litra ME from DSB which is used to haul/push Regional tog(which is trains going to citys like roskilde, ringsted, kalundborg and so on;)

GO Denmark:)

Live in roskilde

[TheDaggelito]

Go Lund

[izor99z]

I live in mjölby :P

[BNSF5608]

EMD 645! Allright!

[fontheking5]

Malmö in the beginning fo the video , i have been there a lot of time and rode that line many times .

[JuanPajaro]

Nice video! The wooden castle you say that you have seen is Gripenbergs slott, it is Sweden´s oldest preserved wooden castle. The guys in the cab are both engineers (one is working - there is only one driver on these trains - the other one is going somewere mayby to work at other thains), and they talk about that it is so little personal that they have to work a lot extra!

[RCdash9]

Thats 645 prime mover sounds like the GP40 that I saw in San Diego. Check out the video response.

[mrksvideos]

Yeah, it is too bad I was not able to hear the engine wind up to throttle 8, and hey, no horn on that Danish engine is ever going to sound like a GP40 :D

[kibidk]

To be exact it is the 3300HP EMD 16-645 E3B engine.

Originally this loco was supposed to be equipped with a 2500Hp MTU but DSB insisted on the reliable 3300HP EMD engine. This loco was the first dieselloc in Denmark to be equipped with asyncronic tractionmotors.

The horn may not sound like a GP40 horn - however i am sure no GP40 ever is going to reach 110mph which is the approx. top speed of the ME loco ;-)

[luzernd]

why you are writing speed in description of the video in indistinct miles per hour?

write speed in distinct kilometres per hour.

[elfabyanos]

Some people on earth are AMERICAN you know.

[mattegeniet]

although you should use m/s since that is the standardised SI-units ;) But the briish are moving over to the metric system, so soon the americans will be alone with their weird units. Would be so nice if everyone used SI-units =)

[vfp420b]

Very cool video! I live (that I wrote before in Sweden), so this video was much nice that see on! I hope that your visit in Sweden was much nice! You likes trains and railways?

[luzernd]

why this x200 train runs so fast?

in my opininion normal cruising speed of x2000 train is 200 km/h, not 250.

was it some test run without passengers?

[Quasi84]

SJ have reached 276 km/h under controlled conditions. They are only allowed operate up to 200 km/h. So they are most likely traveling at a maximum of 200 km/h here. Since he didn't film allowed speed, chosen speed and current speed then he's just pulling the "250" out of his pocket. None of the conversations heard are about velocity.

[mrksvideos]

Yes, my original post did show the incorrect speed of 250kph. I went by memory as the photograph I took of the speedometer was lost in a hard drive crash. I did recover it and you are correct, it was max 200. However, I did use Google Earth to measure two distances and then use a converter to convert distance traveled vs. time to get the speed via video. I am not too sure what the tolerances are for the overspeed control.

[Quasi84]

ATC (Automatic Train Control) locks you to allowed speed (depends on the tracks). Speeding will cause the train to break to a complete halt after a few warnings unless you disconnect ATC which you're not supposed to do unless you have to. Tollerance is probably 0.

[agardebring]

In fact, the trains go max 205kph, but they are only allowed those extra 5kph when they are delayed.

[v6power88]

No, that's not quiet right. ATC's limit is 4 over, which is 204 in this case, then it starts beeping up to 209. If you exceed 209 it starts braking. If you exceed 214 it will emergency brake. There is no limit to when you can go at 204, as it is totally legal when the limit is 200. The X2000 btw has been up to 274 km/h if im not wrong.

[ElixirSwe]

Cool i live in sommen :D

[mrksvideos]

Thanks for the reply. Sommen is the place between 4:20 and 5:15, correct? Can you get video of the X2000 going through town and post it? I would love to see it crusing at that speed!

[vfp420b]

Yes, this is Sommen (I live in Sweden, but not in Sommen). The station before Sommen was Tranås, there also a regional train stands, it go later to Norrköping.

[ChevoApocalypse]

haha its fun hearing what the driving is saying=P cuz i understand swedish lol!!

[mgospeed31]

That's cool. I've taken an intrest in trains lately, although I've never ridden one. There has been more than one time I have thought about hopping on a slow-moving train...:-)stupid I know.

[dashloc]

Did the cab smoothness is better in a tilting trains ?

Looks like motorbike :)

Nice vid !