Nice concise clip! Well researched, and you also pronounce our strange language very well. I rode on these cars often during my national service in Rovaniemi back in the early 1980s. Perhaps I'll ride a nostalgia trip before all are taken out of use.
1:40 på finsk er der tryk på første stavelse i ALLE ord. Så Kolari udtales med samme tryk som når du siger selleri på dansk. Udtalen af pikajuna er næsten korrekt 🙂
4:18 På finsk er der forskel på a og ä. A er et åbent a, som du så fint udtaler i Kolari og pikajuna eller i appelsin på dansk. Ä er lukket, på samme måde som du ville finde i ananas på dansk 🙂
5:30 K, P og T er alle bløde på finsk: For at ramme det K, skal man prøve at sige en mellemting mellem K og G. For at ramme det P, skal man prøve at sige en mellemting mellem P og B. For at ramme det T, skal man prøve at sige en mellemting mellem T og D.
Jeg ved jeg er en detaljerytter her 😉 Ikke ment som kritik, blot feedback som en mulighed for at lære og blive endnu bedre 🙂
7:25 As a fellow train geek, it baffles me that you completely missed to mention that Finland rail gauge is wider (1,524 mm vs the standard gauge of 1,435 mm). You probably unconsciously noticed that the wagons were more spacious than in e.g. Denmark or Sweden 😉
U.S. resifent stopping by to say Finland's "second-tier" sleeper trains are so much better in terms of product and price to anything available in North America.!
Ah, now this is nostalgic. As a kid my family used to travel from Helsinki to Lapland and back – with a car – quite a few times, and my careful estimation is that within the first 15 years of my life I've been on board of one of these blue devils close to 50 times. I in fact kinda miss them and find them better than the new ones as they're better scaled to my lumbering size, although now that I'm a grown man I do appreciate the in-cabin toilet quite a bit more.
As special note, just watching the train bending like in 13:45 is something that really can't be done that easily in the newer trains. This was my entertainment of sorts on those numerous trips, I really liked watching the train itself while moving.
I wonder who is “Finland” as no last name was provided that for some reason “does not want me to know about.” Anyone know who is this person and what’s the reason for keeping a train service in secret?
There is a carriage even less advertised. Two prisoner wagons from 1984 are regularly attached to passenger trains on the long easterly and less populated Helsinki-Oulu route. Cages in each heated wagon can securely hold 26 inmates, or up to 40, if packed tighter and using the processing room also. The number of armed train guards is not published. Prisoners are given a warm meal and drink on the up to 10-hour traverse to whatever permafrost penal colony they are assigned to, such as the underground mining facility of Rura Penthe.
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Was Olivia the ticket office in 2012 when I visited Helsinki in 2012?
Vittu, kyllä Helsinki on kunnon pummi-kaupunki. Voin sanoa maailmaa nähneenä.
Does the red carriage behind the diesels carry generators for train services?
Nice concise clip! Well researched, and you also pronounce our strange language very well. I rode on these cars often during my national service in Rovaniemi back in the early 1980s. Perhaps I'll ride a nostalgia trip before all are taken out of use.
It's a bit sad to see the old sleeper trains go away in a couple of years and the electrifying of kolari line. :')
video name=carriages what finland dont want you to know
me=they are just dying away and getting replaced by newer carriages
1:15 and there is a sauna in the basement of that Burger King
Does this night train have an official name?
1:40 på finsk er der tryk på første stavelse i ALLE ord. Så Kolari udtales med samme tryk som når du siger selleri på dansk.
Udtalen af pikajuna er næsten korrekt 🙂
4:18 På finsk er der forskel på a og ä. A er et åbent a, som du så fint udtaler i Kolari og pikajuna eller i appelsin på dansk. Ä er lukket, på samme måde som du ville finde i ananas på dansk 🙂
5:30 K, P og T er alle bløde på finsk:
For at ramme det K, skal man prøve at sige en mellemting mellem K og G.
For at ramme det P, skal man prøve at sige en mellemting mellem P og B.
For at ramme det T, skal man prøve at sige en mellemting mellem T og D.
Jeg ved jeg er en detaljerytter her 😉
Ikke ment som kritik, blot feedback som en mulighed for at lære og blive endnu bedre 🙂
9:00 Wood is big business in Finland, for those who don't know. More than 73% of Finland is covered in forest.
Nice report on an interesting train connection – as we can expect from you!
7:25 As a fellow train geek, it baffles me that you completely missed to mention that Finland rail gauge is wider (1,524 mm vs the standard gauge of 1,435 mm).
You probably unconsciously noticed that the wagons were more spacious than in e.g. Denmark or Sweden 😉
U.S. resifent stopping by to say Finland's "second-tier" sleeper trains are so much better in terms of product and price to anything available in North America.!
It has to be a global sin to mix wagontypes like that.. My eyes,, my poor eyes.. 🙂
8:45 did You mean The Dr16 locomotive?
This film makes me want go myself someday…😎🇸🇪
Ah, now this is nostalgic. As a kid my family used to travel from Helsinki to Lapland and back – with a car – quite a few times, and my careful estimation is that within the first 15 years of my life I've been on board of one of these blue devils close to 50 times. I in fact kinda miss them and find them better than the new ones as they're better scaled to my lumbering size, although now that I'm a grown man I do appreciate the in-cabin toilet quite a bit more.
As special note, just watching the train bending like in 13:45 is something that really can't be done that easily in the newer trains. This was my entertainment of sorts on those numerous trips, I really liked watching the train itself while moving.
I wonder who is “Finland” as no last name was provided that for some reason “does not want me to know about.” Anyone know who is this person and what’s the reason for keeping a train service in secret?
What do Helsinki Station, Dulles Airport and the St. Louis Arch have in common?
There is a carriage even less advertised. Two prisoner wagons from 1984 are regularly attached to passenger trains on the long easterly and less populated Helsinki-Oulu route. Cages in each heated wagon can securely hold 26 inmates, or up to 40, if packed tighter and using the processing room also. The number of armed train guards is not published. Prisoners are given a warm meal and drink on the up to 10-hour traverse to whatever permafrost penal colony they are assigned to, such as the underground mining facility of Rura Penthe.