TRAIN DRIVER'S VIEW: The "secret" room in the Finse Tunnel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- There has been a lot of questions regarding the spur that leads off inside the Finse Tunnel. Where does it lead? Where does it end? And what's in there? Well, I'll show you.
You can also see drill bits still stuck in the wall in the stubs. The turn table was used to turn the plow train before they started using the Beilhack.
I was on a position run (empty train) with the new VY-colored train from Drammen to Bergen. Had to wait a while for the train in front of me to reach the next station. Got permission from the traffic controller to go into the "secret" room in the Finse tunnel. With other words, there were no passengers.
Enjoy!
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There has been a lot of questions regarding the spur that leads off inside the Finse Tunnel. Where does it lead? Where does it end? And what's in there? Well, I'll show you.
You can also see drill bits still stuck in the wall in the stubs. The turn table was used to turn the plow train before they started using the Beilhack.
I was on a position run with the new VY-colored train from Drammen to Bergen. Had to wait a while for the train in front of me to reach the next station. Got permission from the traffic controller to go into the "secret" room in the Finse tunnel. With other words, there were no passengers.
Enjoy! :)
HinduCowGirl tørnet er i bruk det, til lastetraktorer med sporrenser og kost. Beilhacken har en eldre historie på Bergensbanen enn Finsetunnellen..
How often does the railway company get asked about using it as a filming location?!
What, you don't lead passengers to hidden chamber tours? :o)
@Pandacat 666 Ugh! Stay safe, but don't overreact - if you are reasonably healthy in general, this is no worse than bad seasonal flu.
That's cool! What about having a big party there, it's something unique all along.. Just cool this!
Call me when you're planning a party over there 😊👍🏻
I'm so imprest, this intro is a masterpiece :)
A measured walk, turning on the lights, shooting the sounds of water drops... I'll be wondered: "How could it be possible to go out and walk around during work?", "Will the stopped train meet an oncoming train?", "If the train is passenger, are there any passengers in?"
But everything was allright :D
Thanks for the emotions, also for your diligence and attention shown to us. :)
My train had no passengers as this was a rolling stock transfer from Sunderland to Bergen :) They were doing some work between Myrdal and Mjølfjell :) So I talked with the Traffic controller and made a deal that I could have my stop there before continuing :)
Thanks so much for the tour of the (no longer) secret spur! Loved the turntable!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just catching this now - the beginning was cool music and all and then the lights flashing on - the tour was so interesting - thanks as others have said, for taking time and thought to do this!! Exceptional!
Wow, a turntable in a cave. Just when you think you've seen it all...
where i am in norway we got roundabouts in the road tunnels XD
Yes, I have wondered where this tunnel spur and others led to. I was surprised to see a turntable in a tunnel. I shouldn't be, Norway has roundabouts in road tunnels. Thank you for having the initiative to enlighten The Herd! And I hope you had a Happy New Year! Ours hasn't gotten here yet...it's only 6:25 PM here in Vermont. Best wishes for 2020, HCG!
Well this didn’t age well 🤣
This is like a Russian matroushka doll, only the Norway version -- inside the tunnel there is, okay, wait for it, take a deep breath, ... another tunnel, and inside that one, take another deep breath ... another tunnel! Troll heaven! (Thanks, HolyCowGirl, fo this one. I think the national emblem in Norway should be the rock drill.)
Thank you RCG, you didn't have to explore the spur but you did.
Always deeply appreciate all of diligent work as always stay safe and keep up the great work.
You know that a 10 min video with 118 positive comments the first 24 hours is excellent, Thank you, HCG.
Fantastic!!!Thank You for taking the time to show us something that we would never see, but then someone like me will never see any of your beautiful country!!! I DO enjoy all of your videos and appreciate your effort!!! THANK YOU!!!
You are so welcome! :D
Thank You!!! It means a lot to me that YOU reply to me in this short of time!!! Or at all for that matter!! I have a lot of respect for YOU because of what you do I live in oklahoma city but I grew up in Friedberg Germany and was always at the train station hanging out!!! I Love trains and YOU bring out the best in them!!! THANK YOU!!!!
So NOW we know... very interesting room to me .... seems a long way to dig a tunnel and a room thru rock just for a snow plow turntable. Thank you HCG for a View Into The Secret Tunnel !
You're so welcome, Bruce :D
Okay, I see the point of it. If you have snow on one side of the mountain only (one end of the tunnel), you can run the snowplow into the tunnel, then turn the plow around and come out (maybe on the other track) the same way you went in. The spur is as long as it is because you need room to get the locomotive completely off the main track.
@@surlyogre1476 , Clever
Surly Ogre I remember reading about it and by law it must be 90m in length. It looked about that in the video.
The intro sound makes this a true thriller.... eerie... darkness, Steven King novel material. Thanks HCG for all your work for us.
Hehe, thank you so much :)
Ah, my life is now complete. I'll bet the inquisitive kid in you HCG, was just like us, as you began your career and first started driving through that tunnel. You were busting to know and go see, just where it led. Well, so have all of us, as we sat with you sailing past that spur at Mach 4. Now we are satiated and can retire our curiosity, for now, until we see yet another interesting spot that needs investigation. Thank you!
This is what i'd expect to find if i ever started working as a janitor at Umbrella Corp.
I loved the intro to this video! At first, I thought I was looking at footage from a trainsim video game and I expected zombies or giant lizards to jump out of the tunnels, but then I remembered that HCG is a for-real train driver and this is real, lol.
So thanks for this, HCG! You're becoming a professional cinematographer the way you set the mood and everything :-)
Yeah she is. RCG is great, her vids are great💯💯
There is very good drainage because no water backup from the leakage. I also noted the use of Pandrol clips on the rails to the ties. The tunnel and room doesn't change temperature much during the year being so far in the mountain. This has been very enlightening, Thank You very much.
Okay, this is the coolest tunnel I’ve ever seen. I wondered why there were no turntables in use in Norway. Now I see that they were once used a long time ago. Too bad this isn’t in America. This tunnel would be a great haunted journey for those who like to be scared during the Halloween season. Thank you SO MUCH for this awesome look at the past. 👍🏼💕✌🏼🖖🏼
If you pull down on one of the steel bars in the dead end, it will open a passage into the hall of the Mountain King!
No, you only need to say “Friend” in old Nordsk, or Sindarin.
I usually like watching your videos and exploring abandoned mines... Now, I get BOTH! Thanks!
I recon that is YES for more videos like this ;)
@@RailCowGirl That would be a GIGANTIC yes!
@@RailCowGirl Not just a yes, but a OMG...YES.
That was a great mini adventure.
Ah! At last. Into the Hall of the Mountain King...! Thank you HCG! Now I will sleep at night lol.
I love all your videos but this may be the coolest video yet!!!
This was awesome! The way you filmed it, it felt like I was really there exploring! Love the attention to detail. :)
Thank you so much!
Thank you for satisfying our curiosity!
Any time!
Thanks for the explanation. Without it, it looked really surreal - you enter the 10+km tunnel with a whole train, casually leave it in the middle and go exploring a hidden cavern with, I don't know, Nazi gold? :o)
I am glad I recognized that simple snowplow and turntable right away. Still, with huge doors and all, it all looks positively spooky!
But all your routes are chock full of curiosities, like station platforms in tunnels. Another day I spotted another branching tunnel near Bergen terminus (it also had a platform near the beginning where your train stopped) It is amazing how deep into the land Bolstadfjorden (and other fjords) reaches.
Wonderful country, fascinating railroads, amazing videos. Thank you!
This was incredibly satisfying to find out. The second I saw that gaping blackness I wanted to know. And then the arrow appeared...
That was excellent CowGirl !!!
I felt like a school boy breaking in there and hoping we didn't get caught !!! :):):)
Thank you for sharing that little secret with us!!! :):):)
Happy New Year to you and your family !!! :):):)
Great vid! Now we have a meeting place for RailCowCon! 😁🚂🐄
That would be cool!
Neat, reminds me of the snowshed at Norden, California, on the old Southern Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada mountains, they had a covered turntable to turn the rotary snowplow and steam engines back in the day. Part of the snowshed is still there protecting track switches, but the turntable has since been removed...........
Very interesting behind-the-scene video. Thanks. Happy New Year!
Awesome. Thank you for posting so many great videos.
Wow, what a great video!!!
Thanks so much!
Very well done, especially the opening with the spooky sound effects!
Thank you so much, glad you liked it :)
Excellent video HCG. Very interesting. Happy Moo Year!
Happy Moo Year! 🐮
Blimey! What a revelation!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!
Who would think to build a turntable inside a tunnel/cave...wow, just amazing. Looks like something from WW2 that the Germans would have built. How about a spin on the turntable outside the shops some day? Keep up the great photo work!
Probably cold war. For keeping a couple of locomotives safe deep inside a mountain.
@@zapfanzapfan "There is also a short side track ending at a turntable, used when snowplows were unidirectional." -- W'pedia
Thank you for taking the opportunity and taking the trouble to show us this secret room.
The swing bridge was used to turn over the snow ploughshare
OK thank's very much
Thank you for showing us the spur.
Thanks for watching, glad you liked it :)
I am very glad to be part of the Herd!
I fully expected a Balrog. The Norwegians dug to deep! 🙂
Really fascinating, thank you. I love the trips through the Finse Tunnel.
Thank you so much, glad you liked it :)
Thank you RCGirl
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for giving us a tour it just kept getting stranger and stranger.
Thanks for watching, glad you liked it :)
Thank you very much.
Welcome 😊
A very spooky and eerie place. I bet you were glad to get back to your train! But many thanks for sharing-I was curious.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)
Well that is unexpectedly and insanely cool. Turntable inside a mountain cave. That's some beautiful history right there, thank you for sharing it with us
Another interesting video and the Pinned item explains it all. And yes the Beilhack is very unique as the rotating body reliefs a lot of handling to turn the snowplow.
Thanks very much! You are an explorer and an adventuress! Thanks for bringing us along. I really like these individually curated, informative videos. Not sure I enjoy your "Live Streamed" video as much. Thanks again! Be safe! Best!
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!
Looks like the antlions haven't made their way in there yet. Good for you!
You have a unique talent for filming an 'archival' method, even on foot. Bravo
I loved this adventure.
Thank you!
Very cool I 'm glad I found this channel and have subscribed .
Thank you for making these wonderful videos.
I have never been in Norway, but want to visit someday soon, as I am half Norwegian and and half German (and a little French!) by my parents! I definitely plan on traveling by train when in Norway.
Sometimes when I am working in my home office, I leave your long videos running on my 65" Samsung 4K, and enjoy seeing the country side, especially the beautiful snowy country side, down here where I live in Sunny SE Florida! As I write this I am watching Winter Wonderland in the Halling Valley (first one I have seen where you talk). Great to hear your comments, which are very interesting and informative!
I especially enjoyed this video showing the secret spur in the tunnel. As an electrical engineer, I know that Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, use 16-2/3 Hz (or 16.7 Hz in Germany I believe) for traction, and I noticed in your video of the "secret" tunnel that the lights seemed to be flickering. My question is: are these lights being powered by 16-2/3 Hz traction power?
Also in Norway are the signals, level crossing gates, etc., also powered by 16-2/3 Hz traction power?
In the US, the portion of the Amtrak line that is 25 Hz between Washington, DC and New York City has special 2400 volt 60 Hz power (used for signaling and other non-traction uses) run along with the 25 Hz traction power. This is stepped down to 120/240 volts by small 60 Hz transformers where needed for signaling and other non-traction uses.
I notice along the way there are transformers installed that seem to be powered from the traction lines. Some of these transformers seem to be larger than what would be needed for signaling. I am curious if you know what those are used to power?
Hope these questions are not too technical!
Again, thanks, and Happy New Year!
Hello :)
There is kind of a mix when it comes to power for the signalling systems. Some places get's its power from the grid and other places uses the 16kv 2/3hz system.
The transformer sheds you see along the line is return current booster. :D
@@RailCowGirl Ah, booster transformers! Now it makes sense. Those are pretty big transformers as they have to carry all the current in their windings for the particular segment to which they are connected, and their purpose is to cause the return current to flow in the return wire by bonding the rails to the return line and segmenting (insulating) the rails at intervals (so return current does not flow through the earth, metallic pipes, communication circuits, etc.)
I am pretty sure (read on Wikipedia article) that the Amtrak and SEPTA 25 Hz traction power systems in the US just use the rails for the current return (no booster transformers).
Looks like in Norway, at least on the Bergen Line, that the rails are also used for current return (no separate wire above the catenary), but with the rails connected to the secondary of the booster transformers and segmented (insulated) where the booster transformers are located. But in areas where there are multiple tracks, there may be a separate return wire. Hard to tell.
You have a great TH-cam channel. Thanks again!
Eric
Generations of scientist tried to find the end of this tunnel. You answered one of the last unsolved questions in universe. Honor and wealth will be sure for the rest of your life. I suggest you for the next Nobel Price.
LOL!
The way the tracks just end in front of the bare rock in the first dead end looks almost like the rock is just ma hologram with the tracks leading on into some secret base 😄
It is a hologram and the behind it is a secret alien installation 😂 just kidding, but I totally agree. I had to feel that wall lol
@@RailCowGirl Haha, yeah secret alien installation sounds about right 😂
Fascinating - and so unexpected, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really interresting. Thanks for all the videos this year. Happy new year to you. 🎉🎊✨👍😀
Happy new year, Kristina! :D
Wow! Amazing video! :-O
4:00 i get it, it enables the "Lord of Frenzied Flame" ending, cool!
It's nuts what you guys keep all hidden away underground, out of the snow and Ice. : )
I imagine how amazing would be to explore those tunnels and galleries only with the light of a genuine Dumas & Benoit Ruhmkorff-Geissler miner's lamp like those ones described by Jules Verne in "Journey to the centre of the Earth". One of my dreams from decades ago.
This is straight out of Silent Hill! Thanks
I always wondered where that spur went. So it’s used for spare maintenance-of-way stuff. They must also have to use a diesel switcher (shunting) loco as I didn’t see a catenary. Thanks for solving the mystery and posting another informative video!
Thanks for showing. I had wondered where the winter equipment was stored. But it needs a diesel locomotve to get to the plow. So it needs the Bellhack rotary plow to get to the wedge plow with a diesel if the snow and wind gets realy bad. Luck the wedge plow works either way, its a long run round in the main tunnel to clear both ends beyond the tunnel.
Very interesting and it's a good you are not scared of the dark.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)
*wanders by a few literal years later* I'm actually shock the top comment isn't a Half-Life reference. Thanks for going down that spur to show us what's there.
Thank-you!
That was awesome. Thankyou for the tour.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for all of your support!
It was fun exploring with you.
Thank you, glad you liked it :)
Happy New Year! I encountered your channel yesterday, engaged in the live chat, loved it and subscribed to your channel!
I don't know how it took me this long to see this, but thank you so very much!! The tin cans cracked me up...I was just wondering what they were, then you bent down to look!
This is fantastic! Thank you for taking the time and effort to film this. It is amazing what things are hidden underground.
I have noticed there is a tunnel entrance, just after departing from Bergen Station, on the left after the train washes. I have always wondered what is in there because I cannot find the other entrance to the tunnel. Perhaps something equally as "secret" as this?
I thought that was the old tunnel to Arna and the one we ride now is its replacement? In some of the older HCG videos we do ride in the older tunnel.
@@alanmusicman3385 Thank you for your reply, I will do some research based on this lead!
At 07:09 in this video:
_"So THAT is where I left my snow plow!!"_
😊😊😊
Thank you for the tour you actually did you company a favor. The tracks the tunnel the turntable should be inspected from time to time.
Thanks!
And thank you again, Patrick :D
That was cool; thank you for the tour.
Thank you for watching, glad you liked it :)
Now, I kind of imagined a James Bond (well, the next one) type scene playing out here. The side tunnel and its machinery would be an excellent location for the showdown between 007 and the baddie.
Make a video of the old line around the Finse Tunnel
It's in my future plans :)
@@RailCowGirl So has your plans to make a video materialized yet? This hidden tunnel vid is simply fascinating. Thank you for it! From a fan in California.
That is just amazing.
Thank you!
wow never seen this before thanks for this
Welcome, and thanks for watching!
Very Interesting! Thank You
Thanks for the great videos, a good New Year's Eve and a prosperous and especially healthy 2020!
Thank you, that was so cool. :)
Thank you so much for showing us and happy new year
Thank you so much, glad you liked it :)
Oh! That was amazing thanks for that little video
Thank you, glad you liked it!
they have a neat little shop with a turn table in it but no power over head.
it's not a shop. it's just a turn table used for the snow plow etc :)
Thank you for sharing this
Thank you for watching!
4:20 pretty sure that's the portal to the Magic Railroad from the Thomas movie
railway*
This is like an adventure. Creepy but I like it a lot.
Secret tunnels - I'm In -
Wow! Skulle ønske jeg visste det i 2021 da jeg tok toget til og fra Bergen en haug med ganger! Du har en awesome jobb! (PS, må takke Devin Townsend for at jeg snublet over din kanal på TH-cam 😍)
And here I thought that’s where you take your herd to see the moooovies🤣👍🇨🇦
Cool. I bet that rock opens to another dimension. Happy new year. Thank you.
Incredible experience! Something like between Half-Life and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg...
Thanks for watching!
Fascinating video HCG , Happy New Years to you !! .
Thank you so much :)
Great place to put a Secret Steam Locomotive! Even a turning facility! 😆
Hehe ;)
That's fascinating!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I must admit that I was surprised to see you stop your train and walk through the tunnel. I hope your superiors were okay with that. I notice in other tunnels there are rooms to the side of some of the tunnels. Are they used for storage?
I was on a position run with the new VY-colored train from Drammen to Bergen. Had to wait a while for the train in front of me to reach the next station. Got permission from the traffic controller to go into the "secret" room in the Finse tunnel. With other words, there were no passengers.
the other two stubs in there can be used to park rolling stock if needed. But it's mainly used by the maintenance teams
1:45 Everyone who played Metro 2033 know: after this cutscene check your gear and prepare to fight mutants.
Oh yeah :D
This looks like urbex :-D
I love the videos that show something beyond the routine
Happy new year!
Thank you so much! Even though I reply three years later, it's that time of year: Happy New Year! 🎉
@@RailCowGirl Happy New year to you 😊🥳