Very welcome to this brand new cab ride, where indeed, almost everything is new! The company, the operations, the routes – I promise this one is packed with a lot of interesting operations and great views onto the Swiss landscape! railCare is a 100% subsidiary of Coop, one of Switzerlands biggest retailers. They operate their own fleet of rolling stock, trucks and containers and achieve an impressive goal: Efficient and cost-effective transport of goods, including frozen and fresh food, from door to door. It does not even require a crane or any other specialized infrastructure. If a truck can park next to the train on any siding, it can then load and unload containers from and onto the wagons with its own built in "ContainerMover". Many sidings are not electrified, which is no hurdle: The Siemens Vectron features a built-in diesel engine and can operate fully autonomous, even with a heavy train on the hook. Of course, this is only used for operating in sidings. Everything else is done with electric power, therefore quiet, powerful and environmentally friendly. railCare are not the only ones combining all these technologies, but the only ones doing it for a single retailer. Other customers also use their services, however most work is done for the retailer Coop.
We've started our day by travelling to Gwatt on a normal passenger train and bus. The locomotive arrived there in the morning, pulling the wagons you see at the start of the video. First, we take the locomotive empty to Bern Niederbottigen, where our train waits for us. It consists of 12 wagons that have been unloaded at the branch before and need to go back into the cycle. It is our task to pull them to the hub Wangen bei Olten, one of railCares biggest hubs. The wagons are then either unloaded, crossloaded or pulled further by another train. Last but not least, you'll get to see A LOT of brand new routes that we've never seen before. Sit back and enjoy the beautiful trip!
Locomotive: Rem 476 (Siemens Vectron)
More information about the train and the trip is displayed in the video!
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