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I think that's game footage, but not sure what game it is. The train game or sim genre has a bunch of folks who go incredibly deep and accurate in their representations of real trains.

If you want an incredibly detailed 3 hour history of the genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vwE_p9SCXw

That’s not a real life video. Is a capture from a train simulator app.

Like Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for trains.

Example: https://www.trainsimworld.com/

Your example is the exact answer.

Apt example considering that they also released Microsoft Train Simulator in 2001.

The secret behind this camera is that it exists within a virtual world, and therefore can freely float anywhere ;)

An easier giveaway might be the floating teal icons on the station platform.

I believe this is an example of ludonarrative dissonance. The camera is simply at a fixed offset from the train model.

Simulations have gotten quite good, apparently. It threw me for a loop for a moment, too, until I figured out what was going on.