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> track like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2A2f6E5DI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2A2f6E5DI I can't believe that the train can actually travel d

> track like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2A2f6E5DI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2A2f6E5DI I can't believe that the train can actually travel down that track. If I had just come upon that track, there's no way I would have ever thought that it was still an operational track. I'm sure the engineers navigating that track have a lot of colorful opinions about it as well

LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
While certainly suboptimal track, much of that seems to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_distortion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_distortion due to extreme telezooming.
jazzyjackson 1y ago
There's a great video from 1944 of how much rail you have to knock out before derailing a train. Pretty humorous voice over too. Train Wreck: Experiments To Derail Trains https://youtu.be/Xplxx0Fc4ew https://youtu.be/Xplxx0Fc4ew
- dylan604 1y ago
  that VO sounds much more modern than the footage. I was hoping for authentic 1940s voice over like from Newsreel type of footage.
  - em-bee 1y ago
    here is a different voice-over: https://youtu.be/RK8cWY7MOtU https://youtu.be/RK8cWY7MOtU also not original, but an explanation in the description: The quality of the audio was poor in the copy of the film we obtained. Some audio restoration was attempted, but the results are less than ideal. i guess the original audio will remain lost. here is a related video with some original voice (first original is half a minute in): https://youtu.be/Zz0dadJoyzc?t=36 https://youtu.be/Zz0dadJoyzc?t=36
    - jazzyjackson 1y ago
      cool! thanks for digging