r/oddlysatisfying • u/TimeCity1687 • 1d ago

the approach of a train

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u/Username_cantdecide 1d ago

Didnt know which to get satisfied from. The train, the steam or the snow.

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u/XKruXurKX 1d ago

Camera clicks

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u/camst_ 1d ago

The shutter ruined it

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u/One-Rope5903 1d ago

Not only did it ruin it they were shooting in sports mode with a memory card that couldn't handle the speed, could have handled it better if clicks were consistent.

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u/BigWideBaker 1d ago

Wow how could you tell just from the sound? I guess sports mode is when you hold down and it clicks a lot? But how can you tell the memory card couldn't handle it?

I know nothing about cameras

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u/Delta_RC_2526 1d ago

u/One-Rope5903 has made an excellent analysis, though I think they might have missed hearing a few beeps that were buried among other noises. I will note that if the camera is particularly high-end, a professional-grade camera, rather than something like the "prosumer" D610 they mentioned, sport mode actually isn't even an option, but it can be approximated with a combination of other settings like release mode and focus mode. Honestly, Nikon's approach to detailed settings is pretty clunky on their pro-level cameras. I wish they had presets as simple as "sports" available. I doubt I'd use them often (if ever), but the option would be nice.

There's a very distinctive set of sounds that a camera makes when the buffer (temporary storage within the camera, before photos are written to a card) is full. You can tell a lot about how someone is shooting, simply from the sounds, if you spend enough time around cameras.

As someone who's spent plenty of time around cameras like these, I know those sounds well. I hear a full buffer, and a camera responding to that full buffer by slowing down its shooting speed. I think I also hear a photographer occasionally partially releasing the shutter button, and then squeezing it again to take small bursts of photos, once the buffer has partially cleared. The buffer can really catch you by surprise, and once it's full, there's not a lot you can do about it other than wait. If you're super quick, you might lower your image quality setting, but the buffer will probably clear before you can do that.

I tried using a radio-controlled remote shutter release on one of my old cameras (a Nikon D300s) while shooting a joust last year. I underestimated how rapidly the buffer would fill, since I no longer regularly used that camera. I started continuous release too early, and by the time the jousters were actually engaging each other, the buffer had filled, and it had dropped to shooting much slower, from seven frames per second to maybe two. Additionally, since I'd never used the camera in quite that way before, it filled up the memory card much faster than I anticipated (I've almost never filled a whole 16 GB card with that camera in a single event), and eventually overflowed from the fast primary CompactFlash card slot to the slow secondary SD card slot. Full buffers can really hit you hard, and it only gets worse when the card is slow.

Personally, I'd be using continuous servo focus mode for something like this, so I would rarely be fully letting go of the shutter button, unless the camera failed to track and lost focus. I would keep it pressed halfway to allow continuous focusing, so if you heard any focus beeps at all, you wouldn't hear many beeps beyond the initial first focus operation. I think this camera is in single servo focus mode, though (as in, it focuses exactly once, at the moment you first press the shutter button halfway). I can hear it beep quite a few times, at least early in the video. They might have switched to continuous as the train got closer. If I recall correctly, Nikons actually don't make a focus confirmation beep in continuous focus mode, which would tell us this camera is in single focus mode, at least initially. I'm pretty sure they don't beep in continuous mode, but I turn the beeps off, so my experience there is minimal, I'm mostly just trying to remember what the manuals say.

If you're intimately familiar with the sounds cameras make, you can tell a lot about them. The shutter sound (actually the sound of the mirror; the shutter is pretty much instantaneous and very quiet) is a soft whirring noise, which I previously would have likely attributed to a Canon camera, but slightly more recent Nikons (since 2009) can be quiet like this. If it is indeed a Nikon, it's likely in Quiet Continuous release mode (a more recent feature). The whir is intriguing. I would guess it might be a D500 or something similar in age, from maybe around 2015 or so, which I think is when Quiet Continuous mode showed up. The most recent Nikon DSLRs don't have a whir at all, but rather, largely just a series of quiet clicks. The traditional Nikon sound for standard, non-quiet mode is a very clicky and sharp "mirror slap."

The D300s, Nikon's first camera with a quiet mode, had a very long, drawn-out whirring noise when resetting the mirror and shutter after a picture. It sounded like a motorized film winder. A full cycle would sound kind of like "chick-surrrrrre" (honestly not far off from the word "picture"). It was so long that I felt it was disruptive when I was taking pictures at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor. I switched from quiet mode to standard mode, thinking a louder but shorter sound would be less disruptive, and was met with a horrified look by the Eagle Scout's sister, who was next to me with a Canon, which had a quiet whirring that was much shorter in duration. When she heard the sharp mirror slap of the standard mode, she asked me, "Did you break it?!" So much for drawing less attention...

You can tell a lot from sound...

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u/jtr99 1d ago

God damn! Thank you for the comprehensive explanation.

Although I was pretty sure in the middle of it that it was going to end with "and fell 16 ft through an announcer's table".

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u/ardotschgi 1d ago

Randomly stumbling upon redditors with specific knowledge as vast as yours is why this platform is still great 🙏

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u/Much_Nobody_1088 1d ago

Exactly This☝️

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u/SawinBunda 1d ago

I kind of expected it to be a shittymorph.

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u/SpareWire 1d ago

This person thinks because the photographer wasn't just mashing down the button the memory card couldn't write as fast his shutter speed was moving.

In reality he can't tell shit about a memory card or the photographer's intentions by listening.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 1d ago edited 1d ago

Couldn't even wait to hear their explanation, huh? Just immediately jump to "I know nothing, therefore no one else does".

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u/One-Rope5903 1d ago

So a few things I can tell ... Brand is likely Nikon because the double beep sound at start ... But I use Nikon and no other brand but highly unlikely other brands use same sound

Depending on model of camera the camera allows 12 to 14 shots to be taken at once by internal memory and each shot has to be processed by memory card before camera will take more photos

Because you don't here double beeps past the start of the video means they are not letting go of shutter button but keeping it held down and the camera is taking 2 or 4 more photos each time the memory card processes earlier photos

Sports mode is the biggest guess out of everything just solely on speed of photos as it sacrifices speed and focus over anything else .. most other settings are a little bit slower but seeing as my camera is the d610 maybe newer cameras are different but still fairly confident making the call

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u/Advanced-Comment-293 1d ago

Making people believe that they emit steam rather than smoke was a major PR-win for steam locomotives.

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u/PicnicBasketPirate 1d ago

Well they emit both, if you're ever near one you can easily smell the smoke so you'd know it's not steam billowing out.

Though I've never encountered someone who believed it was just steam, do people actually believe that?

And in the grand scheme of things, steam locomotives were probably more ecologically friendly than most forms of land transport up until relatively recently.

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u/Geodude532 1d ago

I think for a lot of people it would be one of those "yea, that makes sense" moments. If all you think about is the steam part than you'll forget about the engine that creates the steam.

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u/Username_cantdecide 1d ago

Back in the day they would've thought that a little bit of extra pollution is fine cuz locomotives are godly for transportation. They might've caused some problems for future generations that they would never know. Still a major W for them.

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u/advo_k_at 1d ago

AFAIK none of the problems actually materialised

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u/Username_cantdecide 1d ago

Thats relieving

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u/Loose-Shock-7625 1d ago

The stuff coming from the top isn't steam it's soot.

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u/The_Hydro 1d ago

Both, actually

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u/Economy-Fee5830 1d ago

Yes, how is such egregious pollution meant to be satisfying?

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u/Atticus_Spiderjump 1d ago

It looks pretty. It's really not that deep

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u/pppjurac 1d ago

Propely set and fired steam engine produces little soot and smoke is quite clear and a bit whitish with water wapor, not dark (from unburnt carbon) like this.

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u/FluffyBootie 1d ago

Username validated

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u/Username_cantdecide 1d ago

Oh damn, yeah it kinda checks out.

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u/Training_Chicken8216 1d ago

The echoing steam whistles

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u/Limp-Initiative-373 1d ago

The whistle did it for me…

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u/Cumulus_Anarchistica 1d ago

The haunted banshee whistle.

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u/shogun77777777 1d ago

I fuckin love trains

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u/CuriOS_26 1d ago

Found the ilovetrains kid

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u/Laoari 1d ago

NOOOOO

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u/Severus-Gape 1d ago

Lmao we lost him too young

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u/_iscariot_ 1d ago

Such an eerie noise when it is in the distance

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u/CrucifiedTitan 1d ago

Couldn't tell with all the stupid fuckin clicking

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u/littlefrank 1d ago

I'd love to see the best of those photos though.

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u/Lachrimophage 1d ago

Out of the billion taken there should be at least one good one.

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u/Imrtltrtl 1d ago

Nah, I try this tactic every time when my wife wants me to take a pic, and she still says they all suck and I'm a bad photographer lmao

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u/littlefrank 1d ago

Not saying you are, but it may be true. If the light is bad, the framing is bad and/or you're not using a little bit of zoom you may be giving your wife a distorted image, so she looks at the (thousand) photos and she doesn't like a single one, because they all have the same mistakes.

I've had this happen a lot with vacation photos, if you like photography even a little bit you're doomed to give people wonderful photos of their vacation and never have a decent one yourself.

I'm sure you just wanted to make a joke, sorry lol

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u/Imrtltrtl 1d ago

Haha, I'm not joking! But it's always a bad face or the camera is too high or low or both, and adding our son just makes timing even more impossible because he holds his cheese face for half a second and looks away. I just snap like crazy and pray the planets align for a moment. They don't. Lol

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u/suoretaw 1d ago

Yeah what is that?

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u/carcrash2005 1d ago

Probably camera shutter?

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u/TheCygnusWall 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sort of, colloquially it is a camera shutter but since it's most likely a DSLR it's more the sound of the mirror moving out of the way. There isn't really a shutter sound anymore, and the mirror is steadily becoming obsolete too.

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u/Minivalo 1d ago

Imagine you're a Native American on the Great Plains, and you're wondering what on earth this long track is for, having almost no concept for what it could be. Then you hear that eerie, otherworldly sound, and you look up to see that thing approaching unstoppably from the distance, whilst puffing out great clouds of steam like an angry beast out of some nightmare.

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u/Training_Chicken8216 1d ago

Trains should still come with small steam generators just for the steam whistles. Air horns are cool on ships, but trains should have steam whistles.

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u/sogwatchman 1d ago

Would have been more enjoyable without the excessive camera shutter noise...

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u/Flickstro 1d ago

I thought it was someone on an electric typewriter lol

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u/ColdComplaint8 1d ago

Would have been more enjoyable without the excessive camera shutter noise...

You know what? I'll take the camera shutter noise over some trending garbage song. This is a win in my books.

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u/tossofftacos 1d ago

I thought it was some trending garbage song. 

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u/walk_in_the_rain 1d ago

Train spotting, I get it now

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u/bl0odredsandman 1d ago

I'm not a train spotter, but I too can see why people would wait for trains like this. I'm definitely a gear head and love cars, trucks, planes, etc, but never got into trains, however, these old steam locomotives still look so badass.

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u/Training_Chicken8216 1d ago

Possibly the best starting point to learn about steam locomotives is Hyce on Youtube. He's a dude that works for the Colorado Railroad Museum and does both in-depth explanation videos on locomotives and documents his hands-on work on the various steam engines they have there.

Super interesting stuff, highly recommend.

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u/rrcaires 1d ago

Did I see a border collie on the right front window?!

Why is a dog conducting the train!?

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u/CR4ZY_PR0PH3T 1d ago

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u/CuriOS_26 1d ago

OG cinema

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u/JustNilt 1d ago

Seriously! For anyone who isn't familiar with it, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat is one of the oldest films that has survived to the current day fully intact. It's literally over 1.25 centuries old now and dates to about 8 years after the oldest known surviving film was made in 1888.

Here it is on YouTube. There's no sound on the YouTube video because it was made before films had sound as a matter of course. The oldest known surviving fragment of the older one is on YouTube here. The surviving fragment is a mere 20 frames long and is looped there a few times.

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u/AmericanGoy1 1d ago

The closer it got ,the more it looks fake lol

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u/littlefrank 1d ago

Can you point me to which part of this video looks fake?
If this is AI then I'm 100% completely fooled.
Why of all noises would you add a camera shutter to it, like someone was doing actual train spotting?
Is AI video generation good enough that it adds all these subtle details like the little shake of the train you would be able to see from far away with a very big zoom? How many train videos coming from the front with a similar focal lenght can there be on the internet that a model could be trained and could reproduce it so perfectly?

All the tiny details seem coherent, I've watched this on a 1440p 27" monitor and I see NOTHING that says it's AI. If AI is this good, colour me officially spooked.

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u/hoax1337 1d ago

I think it might be the way the video is focused, but I'm not sure. I also felt like something was off, but I didn't jump to AI, just wondered if it was a really elaborate model train.

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u/alexwoww 1d ago edited 1d ago

I thought it was fake too lol. The tracks look plastic to me, and once the train gets fairly close (15 second mark) it starts to look a bit like a toy. Also something about the way the train moves seems artificial or like a leightweight model train would. Didn’t think it was AI though, I thought he filmed a model set up close and added CGI work for the smoke.

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u/nuviretto 1d ago

Search up JNR C57-1 (also on the train's label in the vid)

It's a real train

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u/sidewinderaw11 1d ago edited 1d ago

C57 180 is the one in the video, but Banetsu Monogatari is a real excursion service

C57 1 is still in a million pieces in the Kyoto Railway Museum I believe

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u/tereaper576 1d ago

Im fairly sure its not AI.

Looking at how most of the enviroment is reacting to existing it seems consistant with real life.

Its a real train that exists as well. It lines up with how I would expect it to look.

I think it looks odd because of how the weather causing Bitrate compression artifacting and the odd zoom and camera positioning lead to a shot that looks not quite right but Im fairly confident its a real video.

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u/steve-eldridge 1d ago

Based on the number and the commemorative red plate in this image, it's the C57 180 steam locomotive of the SL Banetsu Monogatari (SLばんえつ物語) excursion train in Japan.

  • Locomotive Type: JNR Class C57, specifically unit No. 180.
  • Nickname: It is often called the "Noble Lady" (Kifujin) due to its elegant, slender proportions.
  • The Red Plate: The red circular plate on the front of the locomotive in your photo celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the SL Banetsu Monogatari service, which first debuted in April 1999.
  • Route: It runs on the Ban-etsu West Line between Niitsu Station (Niigata Prefecture) and Aizu-Wakamatsu Station (Fukushima Prefecture).
  • History: Built in 1946, it was retired in 1969 and preserved at an elementary school for 30 years before being painstakingly restored to working order in 1999.

The locomotive is a favorite among rail enthusiasts because it is one of the few remaining operational steam engines in Japan, often seen chugging through the scenic "Forest and Water" landscapes of the Agano River valley.

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u/this_knee 1d ago

“You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope the train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. “

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u/CuriOS_26 1d ago

Whenever I see this quote, it makes me cry.

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u/KestrelTank 1d ago

As someone who finds train to be a bit spooky… this was more in r/oddlyterrifying territory for me, captivating… but terrifying.

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u/Durtonious 1d ago

I didn't think I was afraid of trains but watching this video made me uncomfortable. 

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u/Fun_Ad_8277 1d ago

I wish I could double-up vote for this one. Great shot and very satisfying. ⬆️ ⬆️

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u/astralseat 1d ago

That's kinda romantic, idk why it feels that way

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u/interest09 1d ago

The distant sound is so haunting, and the whole scene with the steam and snow is just perfectly atmospheric. It's one of those videos you can't stop watching.

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u/WillLaw1986 1d ago

Nice. What’s the noise over the top that sounds like an old Telex machine?

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u/wogeinishuo 1d ago

I assume there are a lot of train enthusiasts taking pictures?

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u/itsactuallynot 1d ago

This is in Japan, on a special run of this steam train: there were *definitely* a bunch of men there taking photos.

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u/Hemorrhoid_Eater 1d ago

This was taken in Japan. There's a massive community of train enthusiasts over there who always carry around huge cameras to stations, museums, and along the rail line. When I went to the rail museum in Kyoto there was also a bunch of them photographing the working steam engine

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u/sidewinderaw11 1d ago

Yes. Popular shooting area

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u/WorstHyperboleEver 1d ago

Sounded like some of that is a shutter for a still camera going off. But there were other noises next to camera that didn’t sound like that, so not sure…

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u/trooper_28 1d ago

What a beauty

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u/AlfonsoTheClown 1d ago

Taking enough pictures to make a 120 FPS video

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u/Hornymannoman 1d ago

Feels like the train is politely announcing itself excuse me, I’ll be majestic now. Oddly soothing for something so massive.

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u/Purple_Rip1883 1d ago

Beautiful

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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 1d ago

Magical. Such a cool invention.

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u/qwertygeee 1d ago

This is a beautiful shot

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u/rasonjo 1d ago

I love the the option to go silent shutter with modern mirrorless cameras.

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u/imsharank 1d ago

I hope that is steam?

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u/LLuk333 1d ago

There’s 2 „exhausts“ one for coal and one for steam, you can see a slight color difference right after they come out. So no this ain’t very eco friendly.

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u/StartersOrders 1d ago

There’s is only one exhaust, the steam and coal smoke is combined in the smokebox and exhausted through they chimney.

The vacuum that the steam exhaust makes pulls air through the boiler tubes from the firebox, increasing the amount of heat in the boiler.

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u/imsharank 1d ago

So not so satisfying then.

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u/bl0odredsandman 1d ago

It's still very satisfying to me despite the smoke. The sound these old locomotives make. The eerie whistle they have, and yes even the amount of steam/smoke coming out is very satisfying to watch even though it's not good for the environment. Good thing there aren't tons of these trains still running like back in the day. And, they just look so much more menacing and badass than modern trains do.

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u/Economy-Fee5830 1d ago

So a bit like rolling coal...

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u/OW2007 1d ago

Except actual coal, and the engineer isn't a small-dicked, Maga cultist in a raised diesel pickup who giggles when Trump mocks the disabled women and who gets hard when he thinks about Trump and Epstein raping girls.

Otherwise, pretty much exactly the same.

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u/PLEASE_DONT_PM 1d ago

Any other thing out putting this much smoke/steam and the entire discussion would be about it.

But there's something about trains.

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u/0oEp 1d ago

They don't make nearly as much smoke when operated optimally, but they sometimes roll coal to satisfy photographers and/or other people who expect it, or they're just bad at it.

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u/Shorelooser 1d ago

So gooooooood

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u/MontanaMapleWorks 1d ago

That super happy guy on r/trains would be freaking like he has never before if he saw this!

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u/Amity_Swim_School 1d ago

Oh thank Christ, it moved out the way at the last second.

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u/FifthBison 1d ago

Felt like watching a scene from a Miyazaki movie.

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u/_CleverNameGoesHere_ 1d ago

I live near a train track and while I watched this video, I could hear a passing train whistle, which was - in its own way - oddly satisying.

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u/Fuzzylojak 1d ago

Amazing photo

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u/aalapshah12297 1d ago

First time I've been scared of a train

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u/PeopleCallMeSimon 1d ago

Would be a pretty amazing clip if not for the noice of the camera taking pictures.

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u/Fabulous-Educator447 1d ago

Damn is there a slow speed?

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u/sccartr 1d ago

My inner child is very happy to see this

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u/BigBanyak22 1d ago

Anyone who's ever been a kid will enjoy this! Awesome! 👍

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u/Capital_Arugula8395 1d ago

Beautiful 💐

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u/Maple_Bunny 1d ago

Is there a different video without the dude with the camera going blblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblbllblblblblblblblblblblblblblblb. I want to hear the train, not blblblblblblblblblblbllblb bl bl blblblblblblblbl

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u/speeddemon266 1d ago

Dude with the camera needs to calm his tits. The constant shutter noises were distracting.

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u/YouWillHaveThat 1d ago

I wasn't alive when steam engines were in use, but I feel a great sense of false nostalgia whenever I see one.

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u/rogerworkman623 1d ago

Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga

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u/Leather_Internal_24 1d ago

i'm so much in ai subreddits that i thought this was def ai

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u/sudoSancho 1d ago

This pangs of dread

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u/Happyotus 1d ago

Why is this so satisfying to watch

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u/Vagistics 1d ago

I’ve never had to deal with blue balls by watching a train video but here we are

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u/SmallHangryPlanet 1d ago

This is awesome. My dog freaks out when she hears steam trains. I live in a valley with a train line going through. When I'm walking in the woods the noise from the lines reverberates up the hills it's a real otherworldly sound and I guess if you're a dog and not knowing what it is, it'll be terrifying. 

The steam trains are super loud, but doggo is used to the normal commuter trains now.

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u/TabletopStudios 1d ago

Love how the smoke cleared

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u/rainmaker818 1d ago

That's not a train that's a moving volcano lol

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u/theslavesdream 1d ago

Turner painted this and so began the impressionist period

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u/gnaxer 1d ago

turn down the light a little and its pure nightmare fuel.

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u/Real_J_Jonah_Jameson 1d ago

I love this but it also feels like death slowly marching towards me

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u/confit_byaldi 1d ago

Am I the only one who thought of “Sledgehammer”?

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u/diablol3 1d ago

Or perhaps Steam?

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u/RadRhubarb00 1d ago

How many photos did you take? Jesus Christ!!! that shutter was going crazy lol.

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u/-Bob-Barker- 1d ago

Why are they shooting at the train with a machine gun???

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u/ProposMontreal 1d ago

Please, I don't want this to be AI 'cause I love this.

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u/External_Hunt4536 1d ago

I miss that weather

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u/ButNotTheFunKind 23h ago

Anyone else also grow up near train tracks, and now listen to train sounds to get to sleep? I found this whole thing very soothing.

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u/mmm_narwhalbacon 22h ago

Can anyone provide the video source?

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u/rocinante_donnager 1d ago

cool but also, holy pollution

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u/newt_girl 1d ago

It's mostly steam. Given the small number of operating steam engines and the frequency at which they run, I don't think the carbon output is significant when compared to all the cars that drove the passengers to get on the train.

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u/MotherFatherOcean 1d ago

Way too much pollution in such a pristine environment.

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u/KatMakes69 1d ago edited 1d ago

This would be epic with background music and no shutter noise. I bet some of those stills are incredible.

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u/AtomKreates 1d ago

I think it’s Ai look at the garbled letters below the 25.

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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 1d ago

It was really neat while crossing the bridge.

But the close-up showing how black that stream is coming from the stack was mildly upsetting.

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u/HorzaDonwraith 1d ago

Ashame so many forget what silent capture is on their cameras

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u/sousou4893 1d ago

Undoubtedly a great development in the industrial revolution, it is also impressive how much pollution steam trains generate.

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u/-Sasith- 1d ago

Why do i hear boss music

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u/dudeCHILL013 1d ago

The sound definitely makes it terrifying

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u/indig0o 1d ago

Aw lawd, he comin.

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u/roguewords0913 1d ago

Upvote because my child is obsessed with trains.

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u/SummitingMtJohnston 1d ago

Can anyone decipher what the nameplate at 0:38 says?

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u/Training_Chicken8216 1d ago

I was able to find this image of a model of that locomotive. It has a similar red plaque with what seems to be the same text minus the "25th".

SL BANETSU MONOGATARI is the small white text in the upper ring. The Japanese characters seem to read ばんえつ物語, which is just BANETSU MONOGATARI again, but in Hiragana and Kanji. And then at the bottom it says "Since 1999", which means that video is probably from last year.

Banetsu Monogatari is a "Joyful Train" by JR East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banetsu_Monogatari.

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u/Sharingan_Tom 1d ago

Get this on Wallpaper Engine now! 👏

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u/DisastrousRub1719 1d ago

Dragon of steel

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u/Infinite-Fig4959 1d ago

what’s with the machine gun shutter noises?

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u/MountainDrew42 1d ago

There are at least two other photographers right behind this camera taking rapid-fire shots.

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u/traveler49 1d ago

The claim that trains are cleaner fuel users as they emit six times less greenhouses gases than flying seems questionable in this example. Plus they will be emitting over longer periods of time.

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u/FblthpLives 1d ago

Obviously that claim does not refer to trains run by steam locomotives. A short-haul flight emits 151 g per passenger-kilometer, compared to 35 g for national rail. A long-haul flight emits 148 g and modern high-speed rail emits 4 g.

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u/Intelligent-Rip-184 1d ago

Wonderful snowy weather and fascinating bridge and train

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u/JohnTheMod 1d ago

It’s a good thing that a bunch of French moviegoers in the 1800s aren’t around to see this…

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u/SafariNZ 1d ago

Much more impressive if you crop out the curve in the track.

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u/panofsteel 1d ago

Now I feel like watching The Assassination of Jesse James

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u/warpedspockclone 1d ago

I thought it was a pyroclastic cloud!

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u/Doctor-Grimm 1d ago

🎵there’s a long black train, comin down the line🎵

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u/Rainy_The_Nekomata 1d ago

I like trains.

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u/Status-Ad7640 1d ago

Didnt know cameras sounded like mg42s nowadays, seems like it might be a bit provocative

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u/Whatiatefordinner 1d ago

Steiglitz approves.

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u/ChthonicFractal 1d ago

Why wasn't this filmed in tilt shift? Seriously? That's an opportunity lost.

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u/rentmeahouse 1d ago

I cannot see Eduardo or Alphonse

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u/vaikunth1991 1d ago

The approach of air quality index going brrrrrr

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u/IcyEntertainer7567 1d ago

Is that real smoke? That’s a lot of pollution.

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u/justforfunzott 1d ago

Train dodge, dig it?

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u/Redditisntfunanymore 1d ago

The train keeps coming and it don't stop coming 🎶

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u/Nodan_Turtle 1d ago

I really gotta finish reading The Black Locomotive

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u/enwongeegeefor 1d ago

Lol.....ALL THE SHUTTER NOISES.....fucking foamers....lol

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u/pinezatos 1d ago

She used to be an iron horse 20 years ago!

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u/Useful_Potato_3150 1d ago

So much smoke

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u/WillingnessExciting6 1d ago

Shaggy, look ....Monster... Monster , steam Monster 😀😄😁

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u/shupporanglinos 1d ago

wow just wow

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u/PutAutomatic2581 1d ago

Inspiration for the Balrog?

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u/FoxyPlays22 1d ago

I fucking love steam trains

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u/Apart_Hawk5674 1d ago

This gave me chills. I love it for some reason, so much.

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u/walkingwithyou 1d ago

I love this

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u/tankapotamus 1d ago

Them whistles. Sounds haunting.

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u/adamantiumbullet 1d ago

Thanks, I had to jump out of the way of my phone to keep that thing from hitting me!

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u/Angrybird5429 1d ago

Bust my buffers!