Railway line Belgrade - Bar -- Winter and snowfall time at mountain pass Zlatibor -- Rail traffic 4K

Scenic winter landscape, calm snowy nature, panoramic, ice covered scenery and snowfall time at railway line Belgrade - Bar, over the wild mountain area of Zlatibor. Railway line Beograd - Bar is known for its uniqueness as a difficult mountain railway that passes through the wild and beautiful natural areas of numerous mountains on its way from central Serbia towards Montenegro and the port of Bar on the Adriatic Sea.

Some of the most beautiful scenic moments shown in this video were created in the area of ​​the Crni Rzav and the Semegnjevska river canyons. The part of Zlatibor from the Zlatibor train station onwards is non-urban, unvisited and is just wilderness, without settlements, roads or people. The railway line after Zlatibor train station faces southwest and goes to Goleš and Bosnia in the west. Zlatibor is the highest normal track railway station in Serbia, at 800 meters above sea level. After Zlatibor, the steep descent towards Bosnia begins. The route was built as a sloped mountain railway, with plenty of curves, tunnels, and bridges. The railway tunnels range in length from very short to very long. There are several large bridges, the largest stand out in Ribnica, over the Ribnica and Vrelo rivers.

As this is a main corridor and main railway line, the only one connecting Montenegro with the rest of Europe and Serbia, it was expected that a larger number of trains would operate on it. Despite the fact that it is the only one railway connection between the Port of Bar, Montenegro and Albania with Serbian Railways and European railway network, unfortunately there is almost no rail traffic. There is one international passenger train that runs at night, several local passenger trains (EMU Stadler Flirt) that run from Užice to Prijepolje (West Serbia) and an average of 2 freight trains per 24 hours. In the winter period around New Year's, it happens that no freight train passes through for the entire day. The freight trains that can be seen here transport copper ore concentrate from the Bor mines to Port of Bar (Luka Bar), as well as coal ore from Luka Bar for power plants in Serbia, and coincidentally also for heavy industry in Bosnia. Also, cereales trains can rarely be seen. The ores are sometimes transported in common open Eas wagons, and sometimes in containers on Rgs flat cars. The freight trains are pulled by Siemens Vectron locomotives, while the one video shows a Bombardier TRAXX.

The very small number of trains made it difficult to collect enough material fot the classic compilation rail traffic video. In winter, movement in the cold, icy, snow-covered and wildly mountain terrain is very difficult. Finding scenes to film and photographing the trains required a lot of hiking, canyon rock climbing, and a lot of time spent. A great love for nature, and especially for the scenic landscape around the railway track on Zlatibor resulted in the creation of this video. A large number of scenes were recorded while hiking the surrounding peaks and slopes, while reaching the desired location for filming the train. Every shot outside the Zlatibor station required kilometers of hiking along the railway and hiking through difficult canyon and mountain terrain. The natural scenic beauty observed along the way was only partially captured by camera.

Some of the most beautiful winter scenes snown in this video were: sunny and snowy views of the fog and clouds below the peaks, surrounding a railway that runs deep below the clouds, through canyons; a special sunset over the snow-covered station tracks, at the exit of Zlatibor station, with a view of the railway tunnel, which, for an observer who finds himself at that place for the first time, seems to be going "into the unknown"; views from a height above the railway to a large Black Rzav mountain river at the bottom of the canyon; dense pine forests covered with snow; special scenes of snow melting and snow falling from the branches when clear weather appears and the warm winter sun shines above; frozen scenes of icicles and large amounts of snow hanging from pine needles and branches; heavy snow blizzard, sounds of winter rain with falling snow and sights of surrounding rivers and streams; special winter night scenes, of nightly winter blue colors; special distant mountain echo sound of the train horn, when the train driver was stopped by the vigilance device during horn greetings...

Special attention is focused on recording the sounds of nature in those moments. The winter "silence" of nature is especially relaxing to watch and enjoy. From time to time, the occasional passing of trains, especially freight ones, positively disturbs this silence. Very soon after the train enters the tunnel, the sounds of nature take their place again. The 4K, ultra HD resolution should help to bring all the mentioned and recorded railway and winter mountain scenes to the screen.

The recording covered the period over the past 4 winters,
from winter 2022 to
January 2025.