You can keep your Tony /Emmy /Oscar's red carpets your grammys red carpets ... You haven't made until you are on the VRF cams... Yes? ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@christinatweet6580
Жыл бұрын
Indubitably so!
@jerryodell1168
Жыл бұрын
Back in the 1960's the Chessie (C&O) passenger trains were my favorite when I was in the US Navy. Always clean, bright, and comfortable.
@Smilecollector120
Жыл бұрын
I love how some of the conductor know were the VRF cam are and get the Railfans hype.
@hoscalemodeltrains1221
Жыл бұрын
Darwin award nominee at 1323.
@LanceB1960
Жыл бұрын
CSX really needs to do a Chessie heritage unit. Or two. Or five.
@lowellvillerailfanproductions
Жыл бұрын
Or 50
@Destin65
Жыл бұрын
Seaboard Coast Line too! I grew up a kid in rural Georgia who watched them traverse some of the lines in middle and eastern portions of Georgia. My grandparents lived across the street from one of their rail lines and I always enjoyed spending holidays and some weekends with them, running to the other side of the road and getting the engineer to honk the horn, lol. I would love to see an SCL again.
@lowellvillerailfanproductions
Жыл бұрын
@@Destin65 I honestly forgot about that SCL how bout seaboard system
@Shuttletrain
Жыл бұрын
The Fort Madison cam is getting more and more interesting things.
@christinatweet6580
Жыл бұрын
🦌🦌🦌
@robertschmidt6383
Жыл бұрын
Another awesome grab bag! Always a treat to see.
@arkie74
Жыл бұрын
I still say vote for a cam in Watts Oklahoma! there is a place where the old depot used to be, across from the mill. the platform has a mast signal, and when real long trains go by, high rail trucks watch for anything wrong. but its easy to get to and its not trespassing. I have seen over the last 25 yrs, or so almost every time I go through Watts, I noticed rail fans with there video, and cam gear on that platform. its a great place to railfan. there is a 8 track flat yard just west of the depot platform. ....and lots of Southern Belles grey ghost, and now and then you might get to see a white sd40.
@danielsarhad4646
Жыл бұрын
Amazing number of inspection trains
@MikeG42
Жыл бұрын
Another entertaining grab bag video. Thanks Virtual Railfan
@aprilgeneric8027
Жыл бұрын
18:14 underground water injection directional boring for utility lines.
@donaldfaris4798
Жыл бұрын
All rise for the happy honker of horseshoe curve
@Misterjaythegreat
Жыл бұрын
Very Nice Grab Bag
@MrBnsftrain
Жыл бұрын
0:14 UP 2002 (Salt Lake Olympic Unit) leading 0:32 clever signs, you two! 1:08 Chessie System boxcar 1:26 fresh untreated ties on flatcars hauled by two H2 dash 9s 1:55 UP new livery with engine room door left open 3:07 another chessie boxcar 3:24 new blue and white CSX coil cars. CSX has recently stopped using the boxcar brackets on their logo. 4:56 empty nuclear cars. 6:07 CSX trailing with cab light left on with loaded nuclear cars of the same type in the previous clip. 6:27 I've never seen UniOcean containers before. They company has existed since 2014 and is based in the UK 6:39 BNSF OCS of 14 cars pulled by two GEVOs 7:44 8-unit lash-up on a UP train 8:50 CSX welded rail train 9:58 BNSF 3-car inspection train 10:33 KCS, CN, NS, CN, and OmniTRAX through Ft. Madison 11:16 ex-Citirail unit on a UP train 12:22 Seaboard System boxcar 13:03 BNSF 6017 still has nose graffiti 13:13 knuckle couplers fail to engage 13:38 lovely lighting on this shot of a CP snowplow train with only half the snow-clearing cars 13:59 BNSF 25h Anniversary GEVO 6179 14:55 25th anniversary GEVO 6111 15:23 the flashbang that made the thumbnail (more noticeable when slowed down at 15:50) 18:52 same BNSF OCS but with only one GEVO 20:10 NS 38
@geofferywickline4846
Жыл бұрын
Its not owned by CN. Its owned by Norfolk Southern.
@jasondelaney6849
Жыл бұрын
They company?
@johnalder6028
Жыл бұрын
Nice! I like seeing Ashland Depot activity especially Amtrak trains.
@KenDillman0612
Жыл бұрын
That FRA car must be really heavy since it takes 3 engines to pull it!
@jamesmckenzie3532
Жыл бұрын
Depends on the number of AMTRAK cars in the consist.
@lachartershuttle2K6
Жыл бұрын
Awesome Grab Bag Video
@TheMetGuy
Жыл бұрын
This is a good grab bag
@Rob-tr1st
Жыл бұрын
We need more porch trains Mike!!
@lowellvillerailfanproductions
Жыл бұрын
Legends stays that Chessie still traveles the railway and if u listen you can here Chessie meow to us railfans letting us know that he/she is still with us
@Nerd3Ddotcom
Жыл бұрын
Chessie's husband, Peake went to serve during WWII and came home to their kittens Nip and Tuck.
@trainencounters586
Жыл бұрын
Does my heart good to see Chessie still plying thr rails!
@christinatweet6580
Жыл бұрын
That is just so sweet.....
@lowellvillerailfanproductions
Жыл бұрын
@@christinatweet6580 thank you
@debikawaii
Жыл бұрын
Love the wink! 😉
@mathuetax
Жыл бұрын
That was quite a traction motor failure!
@TouchoftheBrushModelWeathering
Жыл бұрын
The bnsf inspection train came through kansas city that evening
@kennethhanks6712
Жыл бұрын
13:22 Don't believe that was the proper safe way, stepping in front of moving car, that the crewman used to apply the handbrake on that gon!?! Actually probably should be a Darwin Award winner/looser.
@trainboy1979
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, looks like an employee from the business there.... had he tripped it could have been bad. It was sped up, so kinda hard to tell how fast they were really going, but stuff can change in a hurry.
@ihavenoideadanny
Жыл бұрын
The video was sped up, the railcar wouldn't have enough speed to be fatal.
@kennethhanks6712
Жыл бұрын
@@ihavenoideadanny Not sure what railroads you have worked on but there were probably several standard safety and operational rules violations here. Every rail operation I have worked on required you clear the ends of cars you walked around by at least 20+ feet, and that is for equipment STANDING STILL. Being in front of even slow moving equipment not allowed. Note in addition to the common tripping hazards such as rails, ballast, ties, you had the addition of slippery snow compromising his footing. And by the way do you have any idea how many tons that car weighs even when it is empty? At worst the move would have been to cross BEHIND car to other side and board car on side step/grabiron on "B" end of car to apply hand brake from side not end. When the initial coupling failed, probably the result of couplers not being aligned, the gon was set in motion. When car was left while other cars were worked the handbrake probably should have been set, tho not required if track layout favorable, but not doing so led to this problem. As stated the speed up of the action does complicate the analysis, so hard to tell if they were even using "3 Step Protection" in their moves but sad experiences have shown even at slow speed accidents do happen. It is common truism in rail safety training that every rule has "been written in blood".
@egparis18
Жыл бұрын
@@kennethhanks6712 I've never worked on a railroad, but I have got a brain in my head and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that guy do that. Thank you for your long, informative comments.
@Southwest_923WR
Жыл бұрын
I could not believe wgat i saw,and had to play back! That was simply crazy to run in front of that moving gondola! Any slip, .....🤯
@JerrytheRailfanner6103
Жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@randydobson1863
Жыл бұрын
hello virtual railfan its is randy and i like video is cool thanks friends randy
@christinatweet6580
Жыл бұрын
Hi Randy...👍👍👍🚂🚃🚃🐱
@christinatweet6580
Жыл бұрын
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@deborahmaidon4017
Жыл бұрын
No VR Railfan video is complete without the presence of the Happy Honker....
@williamjacobs236
Жыл бұрын
Another great video VRF . @ 8:55 how do they LOAD the ribbon rail on to the rail cars ?
@christinatweet6580
Жыл бұрын
Thank you professor.... 😑🤔
@poowg2657
Жыл бұрын
I'm guessing it's pretty hard to run a filtered air pressurized hood with the doors open.....
@patriottothecore3070
Жыл бұрын
Those nuclear cars are for hauling new spent fuel casks to the nuclear power plants. For on sight storage of spent fuel nuclear fuel assemblies
@kens.3729
Жыл бұрын
Chessie Cat. 👍 Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty. 😬
@clarksmith5270
Жыл бұрын
I wish the Chessie system was still around.
@chessiefan902
Жыл бұрын
Same!
@parailfan
Жыл бұрын
Count me in as well. It would be nice if CSX did a heritage unit in honor of the Chessie System.
@clarksmith5270
Жыл бұрын
In the '60's, when I was in little league, all the teams in our area would take the Chessie passenger train from Grand Rapids to Detroit to see the Tigers play on "sand lot" day. Coolest thing ever for a kid.
@robiscrupe7694
Жыл бұрын
chessie is still here thats what csx stands for chessie system express csx
@chessiefan902
Жыл бұрын
@rob iscrupe actually it stands for Chessie Seaboard and the X has no meaning
@trainman2k
14 күн бұрын
That flash at the Horseshoe Curve - really weird because it doesn't seem to appear at regular playback speed - only when the video is slowed down.
@parailfan
Жыл бұрын
What kind of a unit train was that passing through La Plata at 1:28? They look like fresh wood ties to me.
@larrylawson5172
Жыл бұрын
They are fresh, untreated ties. I would guess they are headed for Koppers tie plant just south of Galesburg BNSF yard along Illinois Route 41. But they could go anywhere for treatment.
@parailfan
Жыл бұрын
@@larrylawson5172 Oh okay. I've never seen those kind of cars before. Usually I see ties being transported in gondolas whether they're new or rotted. Thank you.
@michaelanimate1601
Жыл бұрын
3:30 I never seen CSX had their own coil before
@ThePhotoDog7
Жыл бұрын
I am curious about rolling stock and what it's used for. What are the cars at 3:44 used for? The NS ones are more square which is what stirred my curiosity. They look like large rolling batteries.
@parailfan
Жыл бұрын
Those are coil steel cars. They transport coiled steel from the steel mills.
@ThePhotoDog7
Жыл бұрын
@@parailfan Thank you.
@parailfan
Жыл бұрын
@@ThePhotoDog7 You're welcome 🤗.
@michaelg.damons6229
Жыл бұрын
CHESSIE CAT LOOKING FOR ROUND HOUSE MOUSE.🐁
@jailynnstyle
Жыл бұрын
Will the Pulaski cam not be returning?
@James_Lee_
Жыл бұрын
I knew that second clip would make it at some point
@juliegogo2941
Жыл бұрын
Glad to see that the spaghetti works building sign replaced some of its blown out light bulbs. UP has some big power pulls. BNSF has many excursion trains and maybe private cars out and about. NS has a super hammer head engine with a matching train car. That explosion and flash appeared to not be train car produced. I know historically extreme right peoples have sabotaged railways and it's trains. Super long Convoy in KC. The gentleman in on Wisconsin is a brave man, stopping a loaded rolling Car. Almost superman! Thanks
@kennethhanks6712
Жыл бұрын
The gentleman in Wisconsin was breaking numerous basic railway safety and operating rules. If he were a regular railway employee, rather than an industrial plant crewman, he would be lucky not to be immediately fired. As it is if he keeps up that kind of behavior the odds are he will eventually be terminated, one way or the other.
@juliegogo2941
Жыл бұрын
@@kennethhanks6712 Yes, I am sure. It looked super risky for sure. Thanks
@christinatweet6580
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Ms. Gogo ....
@rootstownlocalrailfan1024
Жыл бұрын
Engineer be like play my song while I dance
@paul55
Жыл бұрын
Took me a while to get the sleeping cat. Thought it was a big letter C 😅
@kennethhanks6712
Жыл бұрын
Actually it was meant to be both.
@chessiefan902
Жыл бұрын
Well that is the Chess-C
@normsweet1710
Жыл бұрын
That crewman at 13:50, must think he got a pair. wonder how many times he’s done that w/o getting hurt or reprimanded
@MatthewMello
Жыл бұрын
He looked like a plant worker to me. They were using a trackmobile. Industries like to switch without air for some reason
@kennethhanks6712
Жыл бұрын
@@MatthewMelloActually at 13:22. Switching without air not totally a problem IF done safely and carefully. Any rail worker properly trained is always to allow at least 20ft or more when going around cars that are SITTING STILL. Gon should probably have been spotted, stopped and brake applied before other cars in string were handled-looks like they were attempting coupling with couplers not properly aligned. Even going around to other side of gon and getting on side step of "B End" to apply brake while car moving not generally allowed these days.
@MatthewMello
Жыл бұрын
@@kennethhanks6712 we switch without air all the time in Framingham Ma. But that is a pretty controlled environment with a bowl type yard. But some of our C&D customers like to switch with no air and leave the cars inches from the end of the track.
@kendufresne
Жыл бұрын
@@MatthewMello is that the same way in Worcester?
@MatthewMello
Жыл бұрын
@@kendufresne P&W may switch in their bowl without air but we switch with air in Worcester Yard. Just the type of switching we do there.
@RICARDOGARCIA-wr9hx
Жыл бұрын
That was a big violation jumping in front of a moving railcar.
@Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan
Жыл бұрын
*😊😊❤😊❤*
@ozgirl45
Жыл бұрын
What was that train at Skykomish at 18:52? 14 cars seems a lot for some sort of track assessment.
@parailfan
Жыл бұрын
I assume that's BNSF's Office Car Special.
@ozgirl45
Жыл бұрын
What is that?
@Z4Zander
Жыл бұрын
@@ozgirl45 Basically a train they use for events,company outings and promotions.Some of the cars are used separately or in conjunction with other cars for track inspection.There is also a "power car" to supply functions for the passenger cars as modern freight engines are not equipped to do so.Edit:In the next clip the red "engine" with the single passenger car behind the NS engine is also a power car built into an old loco shell (No fans or exhaust on roof)
@ozgirl45
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for all the information!
@Z4Zander
Жыл бұрын
@@ozgirl45 I made a copy of this for my model railroad.Glad the research helped someone else.
@stephenhudson8739
Жыл бұрын
But I half width frame looks like a skeleton car for carrying containers or semi trailer
@jamesmckenzie3532
Жыл бұрын
If you look at the slow motion clip, it's for placing the welded rail in place.
@stephenhudson8739
Жыл бұрын
Oh okay but it looked like a skeleton car to me I had one on my HO scale model layout
@bbrauer5
Жыл бұрын
12:29 Both CSX & Conrail cars have NYC marked on the sides. Cars look too new to be former New York Central cars. Can anyone explain?
@parailfan
Жыл бұрын
The NYC reporting marks are own by CSX. After the Conrail split up in 1999, CSX used the NYC reporting marks on all the freight cars they acquired from Conrail.
@MatthewMello
Жыл бұрын
Same way you see intermodal and autoracks have the WRWK reporting marks. The Warwick railroad ended before those cars were built.
@frederickschulkind8431
Жыл бұрын
It looks like the railroads inherit reporting marks through the mergers. That would allow them to use the same number on different cars.
@JCZ2601NL
Жыл бұрын
🇳🇱👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🍀
@dorrisbeseril1636
Жыл бұрын
You zoom in on lots of things, why not the little girl with the sign?
@tomp8871
Жыл бұрын
At the end, the flash, I had to shut down...oh wait 🙃
@danieldouguet913
Жыл бұрын
At 5 min 50, the red car is registered BZH. This is the acronym for the Brittany region in France.
@davidmihevc3990
Жыл бұрын
Guy in Fort Madison at 4:23 going , who are you waving to? 😅
@turnerdeedo4633
Жыл бұрын
0:27 Not Darwins 3:21 New coil cars 6:05 Nuclear waste carriers 15:15 Flash and noise
@georgeadams1853
Жыл бұрын
0:32 Really? They need to move about 5 feet to their left for that to be so.
@super_zeus1548
Жыл бұрын
What are the odds that someone on that train actually had a flashbang grenade on them?
@GeorgeJansen
Жыл бұрын
13:21. Burn that clip... Yikes
@Southwest_923WR
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking it woukd have been safer from the end closest instead of running to the far end.
@kennethhanks6712
Жыл бұрын
@@Southwest_923WR Most freight cars only have hand brake on one end ("B End" designation). In this case the lesser of the evils would have been to go behind the car movement, go to the B End, mount the side grab iron/foot stirrup and apply brake from side but most industry practice has been to discourage mounting moving equipment. Car should have been spotted w/hand brake on while other cars were worked then come back for coupling.
@kennethhanks6712
Жыл бұрын
Well, it is a graphic demonstration of what NOT to do!
@GeorgeJansen
Жыл бұрын
@@kennethhanks6712 thank you
@GeorgeJansen
Жыл бұрын
16:02. Name that honk
@centheiatrust9153
Жыл бұрын
Will you please move your video title down so that we can read the camera location !
@railfaninacar
Жыл бұрын
Yo
@lachartershuttle2K6
Жыл бұрын
Hey, What’s up
@brucechapman5553
Жыл бұрын
Great video. Maybe sometime do a video of just rail fans waving at the different cams.
@fasteddiesgarage5000
Жыл бұрын
7 engines on that short double stack wasted fuel
@jstaruk2
Жыл бұрын
Were the engines running on all of them?
@parailfan
Жыл бұрын
They could have isolated two or three of them.
@MatthewMello
Жыл бұрын
Railroads have rules on how much power you can have online at one time.
@lindaterrell5535
Жыл бұрын
Engines being delivered somewhere
@freedomfan4272
Жыл бұрын
@Fast Eddie's garage FYI just because 7 engines was in the consist doesn't mean they all was on online and running.
@loganhane5270
Жыл бұрын
First
@christinatweet6580
Жыл бұрын
So, who's the true WINNER?? 🤔
@wayneyadams
Жыл бұрын
7:00 The Silver Service Amtrak trains from NYC to Miami only have four coach cars, a diner, two sleepers, and a baggage car in that order. Apparently there are not many people traveling that route who want to take the train. The autotrain, on the other hand is a different story. 12:25 That train running down the middle of the street looks dangerous, not to mention inconvenient for the people parked there. I wonder if the drivers get any warning to get off the street when the train approaches 17:40 More military equipment, this time tanks. Warms my heart every time I see them. I hope these are staying here and going to Zelinski, who bought and paid for Biden's support. .
@kennethhanks6712
Жыл бұрын
If you consider the NE Corridor to FL is currently supporting 3 trains per day each way (Silver Meteor, Silver Star and Auto-Train) that seems to indicate a fairly good passenger count for basically one route.
@lindaterrell5535
Жыл бұрын
They hear the locomotive. Also,the guardrails go down and blink.
@wayneyadams
Жыл бұрын
@@kennethhanks6712If you read my post again, you will see that I said the opposite was true for the autotrain, It is packed. The last time I rode one of the Silver service trains, it was more than half empty.
@wayneyadams
Жыл бұрын
@@lindaterrell5535 There are no guardrails and signals ALONG THE ROAD, that is my point.
@kennethhanks6712
Жыл бұрын
@@wayneyadams Well, not exactly sure about your sample size but looking at the ridership figures for the Silver Meteor, Silver Star, and Auto-Train in 2019 (the last full year before COVID) the ridership figures were 343,000, 377,000 and 236,000 respectively. If you check the counts for the 5 years previous the figures were comparable. In FY 22 the Meteor 80,000, but it had been annulled Jan-Oct due to Covid Amtrak staffing issues etc, Star 434,000 (garnering some of Meteor traffic while it was not running) and Auto-Train 279,000. With Covid restrictions, etc now all but gone ridership should mostly once again reflect pre-19 levels baring equipment, crewing etc problems. It is to be noted ALL Auto-Train passengers ride full route while many Meteor and Star passengers only do partial run. These figures can be found several sources.
@ChainsawNW1218
Жыл бұрын
Seen the NS brick/geometry train in Roanoke on rewind earlier!🛤🚂👍
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