Driver`s Eye View: Trondheim to Dombås

This video is from one of my many trips between Trondheim and Dombås.

What you see is what i see when driving.
Some facts about this train line:
The train line is called Dovrebanen since it is crossing a mountain called Dovre in the mountain region Rondane, before arriving Dombås. If you have heard about the "In the hall of the Mountain King" or "Dovregubbens hall" in Norwegian this is where he is supposed to live..
There is at least two tragic incidents at this train line:
One train accident where two trains collided in Ila ( The left bend after the tunnel after leaving Trondheim) Where a day train from Støren heading to Trondheim failed to stop and collided with a extra train from Trondheim with some high prominent people from the grand opening of Dovrebanen the same day.

A total of 12 injured and 6 killed in this accident.

The architect who had designed the stations: Drivstua, Kongsvoll, Hjerkinn, Vålåsjø and Fokkstua, all of these is still standing and can be seen from 1:57:00 into the movie. (Killed)
The Engineer leading the work to build Dovrebanen was also killed in this accident called "Nidareid-Ulykken"
The other incident I`m thinking of is taking us back to WW2 at the railway tunnel right before we are arriving Dombås, the exact date is 21. April 1940.


At that date there was a American military Captain named Robert Moffat Losey in Dombås.

During a German bombardment of the railway station Robert and other peope ran for the railway tunnels for shelter, and when he was looking out of the opening he was hit by grenade shrapnel and died.

He was the first American military casualty during WW2, in 1987 there was put up a monument in Losey's honor saying:
"In memory of Captain Robert Losey, USAAC killed in action at Dombås 21st April. The first American serviceman to give his life for his country in World War II."
And there is some deer, a eagle and a birdstrike in this video. If you watch you wil see.

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