THE VIDEO SHELF · train cab rides
★ Cab ride 🇨🇭St. Moritz - 🇮🇹Tirano (Bernina pass), Switzerland to Italy [10.2019]
A two-hour driver's-eye cab ride along the Bernina railway from St. Moritz in Switzerland to Tirano in Italy. The UNESCO-listed line crosses the Alps at high altitude with steep adhesion gradients.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as relaxing slow-TV, a long scenic video to unwind with.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- lorirocks777
- Topic
- train cab rides
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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I'm personally very fond of train cab ride videos (e.g. [VIDEO] ). You can find these on YouTube with music as well, but pairing them with local radio (in this case one of the SWR channels [LINK] ) could also be nice in this project …
PeterStuer on Hacker News · 2020-06
In Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stationsI've been watching and unreasonable amount of train cab ride videos on youtube. Some how it's a good way to unwind at the end of the day, and pretend I can actually go somewhere :-) [VIDEO]
pwarner on Hacker News · 2021-02
In Cab Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike landSome of my favorite long ones. They are incredibly relaxing. Washington DC - Seattle full trip [LINK] All PS2 games ever released [LINK] (and they have a video for every single major console too) Switzerland to Italy through the Bernina pass train ride [VIDEO] Tokyo …
haunter on Hacker News · 2023-05
In The Odd Appeal Of Absurdly Long YouTube Videos
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