International Railroad Discussion > Drone views of grain train C160 (Brazil)

   Yesterday, Sunday 07/21, I went to "Ribeirão da Mata" siding (ERE) at Km 620 to use my drone to get some trains. Unfortunately I could watch only one train running there because there was switching operations in the yards nearby and the trains delayed a to arrived. So I had to return home for lunch time. I could see other trains in EVP yard in downtown later, but those will be shown here in other threads.
   "Ribeirão" means a small river in portuguese. "Mata" means forest, so that area is the valley of the "River of the Forest" as the old settlers called it. That is a farm land nowadays. There is a beautifull cave across the tracks in the siding area. I will show it in a future visit there. The rock wall near the tracks was explored as a source of railroad ballast in the past by the old Central of Brazil railway and its successor RFFSA until the 1970's. The siding also had a station from the steam days, but now only the platform and the water tower remains as a recollection from that golden era. Let's see the pictures.

1) The crossing level near the old station platform. The white building in the background is the old CTC housing;

2) A drone view of the same location with the end of grain train C160;

3) Vale BB40-9Ws 1287 and 1275 emerge from the cut near the siding switching machines leading grain train C160 with 92 cars of soybeam.

 

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,

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4 - 6) Train C160 entering mainline through ERE siding. The Winter is tge time of the great  blossoms of yellow and pink "Ipês" (Handroanthus albus) here.

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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7 - 9) The last pics of the grain train consist passing through ERE siding at Km 620.

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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10) The video. Since drones do not record sound, I used a small wireless microphone to send the sound of the train to my cell phone kept in the car and later I used an editing program to join the sound to the video. In the last part, I added a music because the train was far from me to get a good sound to the video. I hope you like the result of the edition.

That's all for today.

Pedro

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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Great coordination between sound and video!
Regards, Jim Evans

Very interesting series Pedro. Really enjoyed the drone video!

Larry

Thanks Larry!

Ritzville Wrote:
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> Very interesting series Pedro. Really enjoyed the
> drone video!
>
> Larry

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

Great video. Congratulations on VOTD.
John

Thanks John!

jmbreitigan Wrote:
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> Great video. Congratulations on VOTD.
> John

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1