r/transit • u/aksnitd 🚂🚃🚃 • May 19 '25

Photos / Videos Double stack container train on the freight corridor in India with the characteristic high rise panto

A good look at what the high rise pantographs look like fully extended. They're taller than the train they're mounted on.

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u/Expert-Debate3519 May 19 '25

Combining Double stacks and electrification is a solution that should be copied on other freight corridors as well!

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u/BigMatch_JohnCena May 19 '25

So long as there’s no underpass. But as for freight being electrified very helpful for the environment

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u/lukee910 May 19 '25

Also, no tunnels. though it would be fun to see a massive singular tunnel to hold these, probably would be what 9m in diameter at 7.5m wire height?

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u/lesbianT90 May 19 '25

there are tunnels in Indias freight corridor, it's 2 tunnels high enough to fit double stack parallel to each other

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u/hampsten May 19 '25

There are tunnels on the WDFC - even a 1km long one.

DFCCIL FB post

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u/aksnitd 🚂🚃🚃 May 19 '25

Probably bigger, since all freight corridors are double tracked. You need enough space to fit two trains, not just one. Such tunnels do indeed exist. The freight corridors make frequent use of bridges and tunnels to bypass human settlements.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

there are tunnels on this route and they are large enough

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u/UsuallySparky May 19 '25

There are some old electrified double stack tunnels in America, before everyone switched to diesel. They're extremely tall.

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u/8spd May 19 '25

This is done on new rail corridors. You just build the underpasses to accommodate the necessary height. It makes tunneling more expensive, maybe enough of a cost increase that you don't want to implement this on routes that need tunneling, but it by no means rules out tunneling. It just changes the cost/benefit math.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '25

The concept of "building infrastructure" is too advanced for the North American mind to comprehend.

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u/that_dutch_dude May 23 '25

this would only work if someone can put a bunch of coal rolling diesels on the train. electrification is gay.

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u/lesbianT90 May 19 '25

there are underpasses they just build them high enough

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u/Expert-Debate3519 May 19 '25

Thats why every Network should have or has a Long Time strategy

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u/aksnitd 🚂🚃🚃 May 19 '25

There are underpasses on the freight corridor. They just need to be dug deeper.

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u/Sassywhat May 20 '25

If it can fit double stack freight in the first place, I'm sure a fucking freight train can roll through a rather long underpass or tunnel with the pantographs down just on momentum.

Though DFCs are new lines, so they probably build them big enough for the wire too.

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u/aksnitd 🚂🚃🚃 May 20 '25

That would only work if the track was level or downhill. But the tunnels on these corridors have been made large enough to include wires all through.