57 minute train ride down Norwegian mountain
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Hi Guys --

Just thought I would share this youtube video - a 57 minute cab ride on the Flaamsbana down from the mountaintop at Myrdal to sea level at Flaam, through some rather spectacular mountain scenery in Western Norway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFqYZJWVTto

Creative Commons licensing (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/). Essentially you can do whatever you want with the video (sample it or change it whatever), as long as you don't try to charge people money for the work, and as long as you include the following origin statement:

The film “Flåmsbanen” was originally created by NRK (Norwegian Public Broadcasting Corporation), web link: http://nrkbeta.no/, .

Smile,
Stein
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#2
That is friggin AWESOME!!! I'll have to watch the rest at home. Thanks for posting this. Thumbsup
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tetters Wrote:That is friggin AWESOME!!! I'll have to watch the rest at home. Thanks for posting this. Thumbsup

You are welcome.

It was nice to see that line again. I haven't taken that train for 14-15 years - it's over on the west coast, and I haven't been there since I took my then girlfriend, now wife of 13 years, over there on a "Norway in a nutshell" trip (train Oslo-Myrdal, train Myrdal down to the fjord, boat to Bergen and then train home again). It's a pretty nice landscape.

Btw - they have the video in better quality for download at the URL I gave - the YouTube version is lower resolution.

Smile,
Stein
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#4
That was a beautiful ride! I found it interesting how far ahead sometimes the horn was blown before the actual road crossing. What is the difference between the two signs? One is just a horizontal line and the second was a horizontal with a vertical. The horn seemed to sound just a bit more with the plus sign. Lots of neat waterfalls. I especially liked the one at 30:34 but there was a brief shot of a much bigger one further down I'd of liked to have seen more of. What was the reason for the stop inside the Kjosfossen tunnel other than to clean the camera lense? Also, was the train we passed at the Berekvan station similar to the one the video was shot from?
Neat stuff. Thanks!
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TrainNut Wrote:That was a beautiful ride! I found it interesting how far ahead sometimes the horn was blown before the actual road crossing. What is the difference between the two signs? One is just a horizontal line and the second was a horizontal with a vertical. The horn seemed to sound just a bit more with the plus sign.

Signal 67B - road crossing:
[Image: signal67B.jpg]

Signal 67C - station:
[Image: signal67C.jpg]

Signal 67D - road crossing and station:
[Image: signal67D.jpg]

For all three signals engineer must give signal 83 "train approaching" (long horn)

Here is a list (in Norwegian ...) of train signals of various kinds:
http://www.lovdata.no/cgi-wift/ldles?doc...tml#map036


Quote:Lots of neat waterfalls. I especially liked the one at 30:34 but there was a brief shot of a much bigger one further down I'd of liked to have seen more of. What was the reason for the stop inside the Kjosfossen tunnel other than to clean the camera lense?

Mmm - not sure why they stopped in the tunnel. They stop the cars at Kjosfossen so the tourists can get some pictures.

In the summertime there is someone playing "Huldra" (a mythological female creature that would turn men's heads so they walked straight into the water and drowned) up by the waterfall.

Quote:Also, was the train we passed at the Berekvan station similar to the one the video was shot from?

Yep - only passenger traffic with standard consists on Flåmsbana.

Smile,
Stein
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