It's a sunny spring afternoon on the Bergen Line and today I'm hauling a freight train from the Terminal in Bergen to Ål, where it will be a crew change. The train will continue to Alnabru freight terminal in Oslo. Composition of the train is:
2x Bombardier TRAXX F160 AC3, 17 cars totalling 616m and 1343 tonns. Maximum speed allowed with this composition is 100km/h.
The shift starts at 5pm at the Terminal in Bergen where we assemble the tran and do the break testing before heading off. Departure time is 7:12pm and arrival at Ål is 11:08pm. This time of year it never gets really dark in Norway.
The big difference in this video compared to others I have done, is that you get to see the coupling between loco and cars and not to mention that I've swapped out the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K for a Sony FX3. A huge difference when it comes to noise and visibility in the tunnels. There shalt never be darkness again.
Check out the chapters below for interesting points during the travel marked with "🐄"
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//CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 Intro & what's to come
0:00:46 The walk to the terminal and locomotives
0:01:58 Walk around the locomotives 🐄
0:03:30 Moving down to the first half of the train and coupling 🐄
0:05:13 Coupling 🐄
0:06:58 Pulling out on track 84 (Kronstad track) and slipping back down to the other half
0:11:36 A Stadler FLIRT Class 75B is arriving Bergen Station during our brake testing
0:11:59 Pulling all the way to the top of the Track 84 (Kronstad track) and slipping back to the Departure track.
0:18:16 Map and elevation profile of the trip 🐄
0:19:16 Bergen - Arna (Through Norway's first TBM drilled tunnel) 🐄
0:31:40 Arna - Trengereid (Scenic parts) 🐄
0:42:08 Trengereid - Vaksdal
0:51:04 Vaksdal - Stanghelle (Scenic views of Sørfjorden fjord) 🐄
0:58:41 Stanghelle - Dale (Scenic views of Mjelkevikjæ) 🐄
1:05:45 Dale - Bolstadøyri (going through Trollkona tunnel, translated to Trolls Wife tunnel)
1:13:24 Bolstadøyri - Evanger (scenic parts running along the river Bolstadelvi) 🐄
1:20:45 Evanger - Bulken (Scenic parts running along the river Vosso)🐄
1:29:04 Bulken - Voss
1:33:53 Voss - Urdland (the start of the climb all the way to Myrdal and Finse) 🐄
1:47:13 Urdland - Reimegrend (scenic parts of the Raundal valley and Raundalselvi river)🐄
1:59:24 Reimegrend - Mjølfjell (following Raundalselvi river with scenic view onto the mountainpass)
2:07:25 Mjølfjell - Myrdal (Start of mountain pass) 🐄
2:36:16 Myrdal - Hallingskeid (mountain pass climb with lots of snowsheds) 🐄
2:40:30 Hallingskeid - Finse (Mountains pass main part with the new highspeed track) 🐄
2:45:21 Entering the Longest tunnel on the Bergen Line, Finse Tunnel ("Naomi tunnel"), 10.300m long 🐄
2:53:15 Finse - Haugastøl (Finse is the highest situated station in northern Europe at 1222m above seal level. Filming location for the ice planet Hoth in Star Wars: Empire Strikes back)🐄
3:17:29 Haugastøl - Ustaoset (going down from the mountain) 🐄
3:26:04 Ustaoset - Geilo (The end of the mountain pass and descending into the Hallingdal Valley) 🐄
3:36:08 Geilo - Ål (Scenic view of the Hallingdal Valley and Strandafjord lake) 🐄
3:39:38 The Moose to the left 🐄🐄 and Hare running to the right 🐄🐄
3:56:06 Arriving Ål with crew change and exterior view of the whole train leaving the station 🐄🐄
//MUSIC USED IN THIS VIDEO FROM EPIDEMIC SOUND
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Tigerblood Jewel - Viriginia Highway
Ooyy - Ghandi
Alexa Cappelli - Stuck in the moment (Instrumental Version)
//CAMERA GEAR I USED FOR THIS VIDEO
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○ Rode Stereo Videomic Pro: [ Ссылка ]
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