Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Before Acela even existed, this is what we were experimenting with back then. This video taken in 1993 when two different test trains, the X2000 built in Sweden, and the ICE (Inter-City Express) built in Germany, were shipped to the US for testing of their first ever high speed train on American soil. Eventually this would result into the creation of the Acela, Amtrak’s first and only high speed express train service stretching from Washington DC, to Boston MA.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the rights to this video! Original video made by Railhead Video Productions (owned by Pentrex), which was deleted from YouTube since who knows how long? Yeah I’m that old. lol
© 2026 Fast Freight Productions
Before Acela even existed, this is what we were experimenting with back then. This video taken in 1993 when two different test trains, the X2000 built in Sweden, and the ICE (Inter-City Express) built in Germany, were shipped to the US for testing of their first ever high speed train on American soil. Eventually this would result into the creation of the Acela, Amtrak’s first and only high speed express train service stretching from Washington DC, to Boston MA.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the rights to this video! Original video made by Railhead Video Productions (owned by Pentrex), which was deleted from YouTube since who knows how long? Yeah I’m that old. lol
© 2026 Fast Freight Productions
![[Trainz 2022] With Real SFX Volume 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/81KutIzx9fA/mqdefault.jpg "[Trainz 2022] With Real SFX Volume 2
Well everyone, I have done the impossible. Despite all the odds, especially now that its raining a lot down in SoCal at the time Im uploading, here is the second installment of my Trainz with real SFX series! Enjoy!
- Train 1
At the crack of dawn, all is quiet in British Columbia, until the sound of a 101-car-long freight train breaks the silence, with an ear-splitting burst of the air horn, which grew louder as the train got closer and the earth-shattering rumble which followed afterwards.
https://soundideas.sourceaudio.com/track/11473304
- Train 2
A local BC Rail freight train gives an early wake up call from its horn, and then made a stop for what seemed to be a crew change point.
https://soundideas.sourceaudio.com/track/11488555
- Train 3
Back in the 1990s, long before there were Surfliners, there were the San Diegans. This train was running a few hours behind schedule, and the engineer was desperate to make up for lost time.
https://sounddogs.com//search?keywords=10994729&share=true
- Train 4
It was late in the afternoon, and a Metrolink commuter train comes around a bend blowing its horn for... you get the idea.
https://sounddogs.com//search?keywords=10284676&share=true
(Side note: The bells you are hearing are supposed to be from another crossing which can be seen from the distance after the train passes the camera, not in the foreground.)
- Train 5
Former SP GS-4 #4449 pulls the most beautiful train in the world gives the locals a big surprise, since theyve never seen such a rare breed of locomotive before.
https://youtu.be/6oIuabw9Sdc?si=Y551JyP3KfZ5LQLW
- Train 6
Here we see yet another Amtrak San Diegan roaring through downtown. Not much to explain here.
https://sounddogs.com//search?keywords=10071004&share=true
- Train 7
- A SP local freight rounds a bend, approaching a lonely crossing.
https://sounddogs.com//search?keywords=10260962&share=true
- Train 8
Training day on the BC Rail (no pun intended) and SD40-2 #766 was supposed to be off to get a coal train, only to end up on a wrong track! The 766’s crew had a good laugh after the little mishap after the day, but that’s another story.
https://soundideas.sourceaudio.com/track/11473306
- Train 9
Former CP Royal Hudson 4-6-4 #2860 pulls its excursion train rounds a bend blowing its whistle for a nearby crossing offscreen.
https://soundideas.sourceaudio.com/track/43957140
-Train 10 (Final)
We travel back to California, and a local SP Cement train pulled by two GP9s closes the curtains passing through an apple orchard, and into the distance.
https://soundideas.sourceaudio.com/track/43956662
Ok I made most of that stuff up, but its loosely inspired by several railfan videos which had vivid descriptions of where certain shots were taken.
Edit 3/26/24: The route that has been featured in this video, as well as several of my other videos is now deleted. Sorry everyone. I had a bit of a problem with my computer storage, and… yeah.
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![[Trainz 2022] With Real Train SFX Volume 1 (First Video of 2024)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8xSLQfs0X44/mqdefault.jpg "[Trainz 2022] With Real Train SFX Volume 1 (First Video of 2024)
Well everyone, this is what I would concider a reboot of my Real Train SFX series (which was literally only one video) except that now I am using Trainz 2022 instead of Trainz 2019! And of course, all the SFX belong to SoundDogs.
- Train 1: Amtrak #42 with Milwaukee Road SD40-2 #185 leading the train along with two SDP40F locomotives, while approaching a nearby railroad crossing offscreen.
SFX: https://www.sounddogs.com//search?keywords=10132442&share=true
Note: This is not the exact recreation of a typical Amtrak Consist, but I did try my best.
- Train #2: Two ATSF C40-8W locomotives were being transfered via light engine to a nearby district just a few miles outside of Los Angeles.
SFX: https://www.sounddogs.com//search?keywords=10132445&share=true
- Train #3: A Santa Fe Intermodal roars by through a small town before heading back out to the rural farmlands. When trains haul, they can haul. Big time.
SFX: https://www.sounddogs.com//search?keywords=10132443&share=true
- Train #4: A Southern Pacific freight train is approaching a crossing in the woods just outside an abandoned rail facility not too far away.
SFX: https://www.sounddogs.com//search?keywords=10132447&share=true
- Train #5 McCloud River #25 is traveling smoothly along the old tracks through the majestic woods.
SFX: https://www.sounddogs.com//search?keywords=11386518&share=true
- Train #6: A Santa Fe coal train drifts easily with loaded hopper cars en route to a nearby coal plant.
SFX: https://www.sounddogs.com//search?keywords=10132446&share=true
- Train #7: A pair of three SP GP9 locomotives were hauling a mixed freight train up the grade. These old diesels sure can still haul despite their age.
SFX: https://www.sounddogs.com//search?keywords=10138628&share=true
© 2024 Fast Freight Productions")
![[Trainz 2019] Cajon Railz Ep 3 “A Blast From The Past” - Halloween Crossover Special](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9W7bsChjF5I/mqdefault.jpg "[Trainz 2019] Cajon Railz Ep 3 “A Blast From The Past” - Halloween Crossover Special
Happy Halloween everybody! Hope y’all are ready for some spooks today, cause this video is guaranteed to give you the willies in no time flat! If you know what I mean. 😏 Enjoy!
*PLEASE READ: This video has been reuploaded for the following errors: 1) There was a cropping error I made at 6:11, which is now fixed. 2) There were no ambient SFX in the beginning of the video, which that problem is now fixed. Now the video will stay as is.*
Original Videos:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/qDjHHuuov2w?si=QBF6lVlK2gD6sfZC
Part 2: https://youtu.be/3pBW2eEBuBA?si=0YEpHRTlE7ey8xIq
For those who are asking why I changed the music throughout the entire video, it’s to avoid copyright claims, which is why the intro to Part 1 (if no one remembers it used to be “Living On A Prayer” by Bon Jovi) was silenced. Here, I made my own intro using the music which is included with iMovie. No need to worry about any copyrighted music here. As for the other songs used in the original, I didn’t know if these songs were copyrighted or not, so I decided to replace them anyway.
Btw if anyone is wondering who the heck Boston is, he’s the Boston and Albany 4-6-2 steam locomotive, who encountered the Doctor and the Tardis in New York.
Also, this video is made into a single video instead of being uploaded in two separate parts since I figured that it would feel more like how people watch several TV episodes or movies, especially those MCU ones, and other pieces of media which always have to include just enough suspense to keep you guys at the edges of your seats from start to finish. This also proves how far the game’s graphics have come a long way, as well as the skills of editing footage of said game (Trainz 2019) can go for such a long way. It also pays tribute to the now unavailable Tidewater Chronicles Trainz series, and its creator Tidewater312 which is probably no longer on Youtube anymore sadly, and the discontinued Cajon Railz series on SCL3618’s channel, which he has now moved onto model railroading instead of focusing strictly on Trainz videos like he used to be when he first joined. Ah the good old days, they will dearly be missed.
As for me, I’m still here, and the Christmas episode remake is in the works! Be sure to stay tuned for that remake on such a wonderful time of the year!
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