Tuesday 23rd September 2014

Train drifting: Time For Tea?

We've found it. The strangest drifting video on the web.

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We fully acknowledge this is going to be too weird for many. It's too weird for us, and we sometimes spend hours a day watching unlikely drift videos when we're supposed to be working.

Although, in this instance, we're blaming Google's autocomplete function. Apparently this is, by itself, responsible for some measurable percentage of internet traffic as people click on something they didn't expect to see. And so it proved when we entered 'drifting' and Google suggested 'train.'

How could you not click on that?

Full-Throttle Multi-Track Dorifto!
The resulting video is spectacular. Somebody has spent a serious amount of time designing a drift track in a train simulator and then produced a decent pastiche of an old-school Japanese drifting vid. Complete not only with some comical apex furniture, but also a soundtrack with alternate subtitled lyrics about drifting a train.

The train in question? We thought it was an InterCity 125, but according to the fount of all knowledge that is Wikipedia we should actually call it an HST power car. The real one's got 2,250hp suggesting that, with steel wheels switched for part-worn tyres and on a suitably greasy surface, it might be able to power itself sideways in real life.

Applying opposite lock might be a problem, though.

See the original video here.

 

[anonymous-user]

Such Madness.

[ecsrobin]

That's pretty impressive I want a go now!!!

Anyone know if it's actually possible for a train to do that in real life.

[Speed_Demon]

I'm crying with laughter.

I don't care if it's ridiculous nonsense. It's brilliant.

[DUMBO100]

I do that on the way to work every morning, while playing my favourite soundtrack too

[B10]

10/10 fantastic.

[rigga]

ecsrobin said:

That's pretty impressive I want a go now!!!

Anyone know if it's actually possible for a train to do that in real life.

No its not possible

[ecsrobin]

rigga said:

No its not possible

So how much movement does a train have with its wheels?

[P4ROT]

I've always loved these simulator parodies- there's something brilliantly infantile about them.

[bencollins]

Would be better if it hit a penguin.

[MIP1983]

That thing corners like it's on rails!

(some one had to do it).

[Swanny87]

MIP1983 said:

That thing corners like it's on rails!

(some one had to do it).

I bet it pulls like a train as well.

[rigga]

ecsrobin said:

So how much movement does a train have with its wheels?

Wheels are fixed axles, they turn at the same rate each side on a non powdered bogie, the only thing keeping it on the rails going round corners is the angle of the cut of the rim and the inside lip.
Powered bogies (Two of master and slave) have diffs inside due to slippage that can happen under power due to rail conditions, famous leaves on the line etc, which by the way don't stop the things running as the popular misconception It's when they get compressed to a mulch that stops the train breaking the rail contact so the signaler knows where the bloody thing is on the line.
The bogies themselves to which the axles are attached cannot articulate to that degree on the center casting that fixes them to the body of the train.

Edited by rigga on Tuesday 23 September 17:11

[iggysport]

FAKE!

[MitchT]

rigga said:

ecsrobin said:

That's pretty impressive I want a go now!!!

Anyone know if it's actually possible for a train to do that in real life.

No its not possible

Yes it is! Fun and games start at 1m 44s

http://youtu.be/GEkZPZpeaQM

[rigga]

We have them come off the rails now and then due to some numpty pulling the points before the whole unit has crossed over, it causes some damage as most driver's just feel the drag and gun the engine ....rips rails sleeper's out of the ground and trashes the underside of the train.

[oldtimer2]

Some one has far too much time on his hands.

It can happen if the points are switched between the front and rear bogies passing over them; I`ve done it on a model railway. Not sure if in real life there is enough movement in the bogies for this to be possible.

[samoht]

ecsrobin said:

That's pretty impressive I want a go now!!!

Anyone know if it's actually possible for a train to do that in real life.

Sadly, this is what happened at Potters Bar, unfortunately there was a platform between the two tracks that the carriage was straddling

(pic from telegraph.co.uk)

wikipedia said:

At 12:55, travelling at 97 mph, the four-car Class 365 Electric multiple unit (unit number: 365526) crossed over a set of points '2182A' just south of Potters Bar railway station. As the rear coach travelled over the points, they moved,[5] causing the rear bogie of the carriage to cross onto the adjacent line and ultimately derail, flipping it into the air.

Edited by samoht on Tuesday 23 September 19:21

[MyVTECGoesBwaaah]

Brilliant!

[rhinochopig]

Search for drifting tanks on youtube.

[SAS Tom]

Couldn't help but laugh at that!