Passenger Trains > Fast times at Cornwells Heights

Last Sunday at Cornwells Heights just north of Philly on the NEC - breaking in my new Pentax K3

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Nice job, Jon.

Bob

Very nice editing - a little earthquake at the end of series :-). Fun to watch.

as usual ... nice vid Jon

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Neat video. How fast through here?

Seating for at least 480 passengers. I poor stressed individual working the food car?!!

CPRR Wrote:
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> Neat video. How fast through here?

125 on the inside tracks, 110 on the outside tracks.

First train was doing just about 100 mph
if your camera reproduces its speed right.

If y'all want to calculate speed, it's exactly a mile from the overpass in the distance to where I was located. They're coming off of a 90 mph speed restriction on the curve in the distance, so the time calculated would be an average that includes the acceleration from 90 to 125, if they actually get up to full speed in a mile.
By my calculations......train 1 is 00:36:13 (36sec, 13frames at 30fps) = 36 sec + 13/30th sec = 36.43333seconds to travel 5,280 feet = 144.924 ft/sec = 98.8118 mph avg.
The Acela did it in 00:29:22 frames = 29.73 sec = 177.598 ft/sec = 121.0895 mph avg