Amtrak's ICE 167 mph test run, Amtrak's X-2000's at 156 mph & the Acela's 168 mph test runs
94.5 هزار بار بازدید -
12 سال پیش
-
PLEASE READ:The ORIGINAL audio for
PLEASE READ:
The ORIGINAL audio for the X-2000 clips went all weird and I had to dub it in with a recording of an Acela train, and a Regional with an AEM-7 to fill in the awkward lack of sound-as well as a recording of a K5LA horn in a high speed locomotive for the short cabride clip I found. Both the cabride video and the video of the X-2000 meeting the Metroliner belongs to Amtrak, which is what makes it public domain, as well as Pentrex, which supplied the camera equipment that Amtrak used. :)
Now, in the X-2000 clips I found, they got video of the X-2000's test run thru Princeton JCT New Jersey in the early spring of 1993, where they hit a top speed of 156 mph for the X-2000!!!! Take note how it meets a NB Metroliner just before passing the camera.
I shall say it again-I had to dub in the two X-2000 clips because the audio went missing in the editing process :P
The high speed ICE train clip belongs to Amtrak-since they used that ICE clip in their 40th Anniversary movie-as well as youtube user cbehr91. In the clip that Cbher91 shot, that ICE train hit 167 mph in his video thru Princeton JCT New Jersey, just a couple weeks after the X-2000 meet video was made.
Then more recently, in a news report I saw, they showed three clips of the Acela doing 168 mph thru Princeton JCT in October of 2000. Amtrak also did some high speed test runs on the North end of the NEC, specifically thru Mansfield Massachusetts, and Wickford JCT in Rhode Island. On October 11th, 2000, The Acela test train departed Boston, bound for Kingston RI, where it would stop for the night, and made a return trip to Boston the next day. On its way south, thru Mansfield, the Acela hit 165 mph thru the MBTA station platform, where FRA personnel placed numerous instruments to ensure that waiting and standing passengers wouldn't be in any danger if the Acela went thru at, or above the 150 mph speed limit. Those tests came back to Amtrak saying that passengers waiting on a narrow platform would be safe-even if the Acela went thru above the legal limit of 150 mph. As the Acela went south thru PVD, it slowed down for the Providence area. (They stopped briefly at PVD to pick up some people representing the Associated Press as well as Scientific American, and some local RI and MA newspapers) Then in Davisville RI, they put the throttle up to 100%, and the Acela blasted down the tracks, and under Interstate I-95 at speeds well over 150 mph. Then, at it approached Wickford JCT, the Acela hit its fastest speed: 168 mph. The Acela is fully capable of 200 mph, but it depends on the track, the amount of weight on the train, etc, numerous factors. Either way, the Acela is going to push the limit again this coming September, where Amtrak will be doing numerous test runs where the Acela will be going at 165 mph between Trenton NJ and New Brunswick NJ-because of the new catenary and new signal systems that they are installing.
The ORIGINAL audio for the X-2000 clips went all weird and I had to dub it in with a recording of an Acela train, and a Regional with an AEM-7 to fill in the awkward lack of sound-as well as a recording of a K5LA horn in a high speed locomotive for the short cabride clip I found. Both the cabride video and the video of the X-2000 meeting the Metroliner belongs to Amtrak, which is what makes it public domain, as well as Pentrex, which supplied the camera equipment that Amtrak used. :)
Now, in the X-2000 clips I found, they got video of the X-2000's test run thru Princeton JCT New Jersey in the early spring of 1993, where they hit a top speed of 156 mph for the X-2000!!!! Take note how it meets a NB Metroliner just before passing the camera.
I shall say it again-I had to dub in the two X-2000 clips because the audio went missing in the editing process :P
The high speed ICE train clip belongs to Amtrak-since they used that ICE clip in their 40th Anniversary movie-as well as youtube user cbehr91. In the clip that Cbher91 shot, that ICE train hit 167 mph in his video thru Princeton JCT New Jersey, just a couple weeks after the X-2000 meet video was made.
Then more recently, in a news report I saw, they showed three clips of the Acela doing 168 mph thru Princeton JCT in October of 2000. Amtrak also did some high speed test runs on the North end of the NEC, specifically thru Mansfield Massachusetts, and Wickford JCT in Rhode Island. On October 11th, 2000, The Acela test train departed Boston, bound for Kingston RI, where it would stop for the night, and made a return trip to Boston the next day. On its way south, thru Mansfield, the Acela hit 165 mph thru the MBTA station platform, where FRA personnel placed numerous instruments to ensure that waiting and standing passengers wouldn't be in any danger if the Acela went thru at, or above the 150 mph speed limit. Those tests came back to Amtrak saying that passengers waiting on a narrow platform would be safe-even if the Acela went thru above the legal limit of 150 mph. As the Acela went south thru PVD, it slowed down for the Providence area. (They stopped briefly at PVD to pick up some people representing the Associated Press as well as Scientific American, and some local RI and MA newspapers) Then in Davisville RI, they put the throttle up to 100%, and the Acela blasted down the tracks, and under Interstate I-95 at speeds well over 150 mph. Then, at it approached Wickford JCT, the Acela hit its fastest speed: 168 mph. The Acela is fully capable of 200 mph, but it depends on the track, the amount of weight on the train, etc, numerous factors. Either way, the Acela is going to push the limit again this coming September, where Amtrak will be doing numerous test runs where the Acela will be going at 165 mph between Trenton NJ and New Brunswick NJ-because of the new catenary and new signal systems that they are installing.
12 سال پیش
در تاریخ 1391/05/26 منتشر شده
است.
94,516
بـار بازدید شده