Is that a snippet found in the Andy Warhol archive ?

MichaelG.

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This beats it: **LINK**

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1965_film)

Here's a LINK to a more interesting wheel video; from a Gopro mounted inside a car tyre.

It shows how infrequently the flange touches the rail.

It's more interesting than the latest revalations from Prince Spoiled Brat. SWMBO gave up on it after 5 minutes

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In the way that it’s an even longer piece of what at first appears to be a thoroughly boring, almost static, subject.

… and, yes I was well-aware that yours came from Youtube < sigh >

MichaelG.

I think 'Empire' may be trumped by Charlie Shackleton's protest film 'Paint Drying', created for the sole purpose of forcing the censors to watch ten hours plus of exactly what it says on the tin.

Brian G

Oh, there is the video in the same anthology that is of no more than traffic stopping at a level-crossing on a cross-roads in the middle of a (Dutch?) town. Unusual only in the railway apparently running along the cross-street.

I wonder if the flange video had been lifted from a track-inspection system in which it had a genuine use, not the entertainment (?) it is posted as.

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Anyway it led me to stay up till 3am gone enjoying a cab-view run though part of South Norway – but as I like the country it was a trip through that as much as a railway-video. It was more interesting than might be expected.

I had already turned off early, one from Germany that was disappointingly a CGI version of a real train and route. It might originally have been part of a driver-training course, as it pointed out various controls and their settings, even to the extent of changing end-for-end cabs; but why not use the reality?

If I want to watch a cab-ride video I want to see the countryside as much as the railway, though I do like to see occasional clips of the business of driving the thing.

Maybe train drivers everywhere are extremely shy and like to be neither seen nor heard! Not even acknowledged at the end. Unlike in steam days they are normally alone in splendid isolation, and one I know says he likes that. He also says it is literally a "desk" job, but with scenery.

Lots of early dmus had glass behind the driver. I was once invited by the driver to come through into the front, showed how route knowledge is very important, especially at night where all sorts of extraneous light could be mistaken for signals. We still have 19th century technology signals in the UK, I wonder if they still have oil lamps?