IDK why this popped up on my home, but great interesting vids. God bless Shoestring.
@lowellfultz1990
3 жыл бұрын
You mention a guy getting his foot run over...I grew up in a small steel town, Middletown, OH. B&O was king in the area. Around 1973, we were all 12-13 years old, bunch of us had big fun jumping on and off of trains, see who had the biggest set, who was willing to jump the fastest trains, right up til Billy got his foot ran over. He didn't yell, he just said, "OUCH". Then he pulled his shoe off and we all said a lot more than OUCH! The front 4" of his foot were basically hamburger. Our days of train jumping were over. Fascinating machines, but you gotta respect them.
@kens.3729
4 жыл бұрын
Mark, you’re a Wealth of Knowledge with the Railroad as well as a Lot of Day to Day Life things. 👍
@davidburch.tx_woodworks
4 жыл бұрын
The frog that rises we called a high lift frog, some railroads call it a jump frog or lift frog. Welding the rail together in the field can be either Boutet or thermite. The process is very similar for both. Retired in Feb. after 40 years.
@TheHoboShoestring
4 жыл бұрын
Wow... Long time
@mikecollins9569
4 жыл бұрын
Always learning new stuff about the railroad from you,I love finding things like this. I love watching the trains go by my house day and night
@RedDirtTucker
4 жыл бұрын
Still here. My youngest just turned 13. See you in 5 years. Fall 2025/Spring 2026 I'm riding one or two or 20. Stay safe Shoestring.
@macofalltrades6396
4 жыл бұрын
@Trump Grass Look to your own house.
@RedDirtTucker
4 жыл бұрын
@Trump Grass You obviously have thought about it too. I mean, this comment thread is on Shoestring's video. Don't be so scared of the word "illegal". It's only "illegal" if you get caught.
@kindcake
4 жыл бұрын
@Trump Grass really dude
@kindcake
4 жыл бұрын
@Trump Grass look some people are looking for a adventure and exitment and like trains. Some people like taking it old-school to the thirties and ride freight trains. So if you have a problem with freight hoppers then don't pay attention to them. And let us freight riders just do our thing and ride freight trains and you do somthing you like to do
@kindcake
4 жыл бұрын
@Trump Grass oh really well you do you and we do us
@boaboy8052
4 жыл бұрын
So frogs they're called, I've walked more on the ballast then riding rails and looked at a few frogs wondering what they do. So thanks for your unique style of teaching Shoestring Have a great adventure
@user-sh9du2nv5y
4 жыл бұрын
The CSX Railraod should hire you as a consultant, you know things some of those guys dont know.
@johnscherf1228
4 жыл бұрын
Agree to that!
@buttdreads
4 жыл бұрын
He wouldn’t take the job, he would loose (lose) his housing and food stamps
@clodwolf
4 жыл бұрын
@Trump Grass he is a disabled vet I thought
@fridasophia5356
4 жыл бұрын
@Trump Grass jealous beta foamer.
@tmonster1498
3 жыл бұрын
@Trump Grass and here you are watching like a dumb ass...your a big man!!! Your better than everyone....Leave shoestring alone, you don’t like it leave
@buttdreads
4 жыл бұрын
I am actually without a home. I ride rails for transportation due to not wanting to hitchhike or have money to fly or take the bus. You have a house and choose to ride trains for (vacation) you are not a hobo you have a house. You have new equipment, yeti bucket, and get free stuff in the mail all the time. And you get government housing and food stamps. Man, I wish I had it as good as you. I barely can keep my phone on and eat out of the trash and people’s leftovers from patio dining. You have it really good
@charlescorey184
4 жыл бұрын
Love hearing your wisdom and knowledge about RR operations.
@rad4627
4 жыл бұрын
The best teachers out there are like you Old school hands-on Experience are the best. Keep the wind in your face, salute to you
@gregbird6615
3 жыл бұрын
As a kid, I remember c and o, b and o and my love for the Chessie system paint scheme
@jamesakers1175
4 жыл бұрын
Great to see you out on the rails again. Good Luck and we will look forward to your next video.
@rickmoore6196
4 жыл бұрын
The new diamonds you were talking about are called (OWLS) (One way low speed)
@petercollingwood4108
4 жыл бұрын
Very clear video mate. Peter 🇬🇧
@zplates
4 жыл бұрын
I called the guide rails "check rails", guess my wording was off a bit. I see the one in this video has a lot of wear marks showing it is doing its job. Stay safe and healthy Shoestring, I look forward to all of your videos.
@TheHoboShoestring
4 жыл бұрын
Check rail actually seems a better name...
@deerejohn7209
4 жыл бұрын
You taught me more than i could ever hope to know and i live 3 blocks from a crew change station in Glasgow MT
@SaltyNationalist
4 жыл бұрын
Safe travels Mark... And thanks for the lesson..😁👍
@johnburruss1010
3 жыл бұрын
That's my backyard! Awesome instructional videos, I'm learning some very interesting stuff, please keep it up! JB
@ericspratt3164
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your knowledge Shoestring
@mag69r19
4 жыл бұрын
Seen you on the live cam in Elkhart tonight at the station. Happy and safe travel.
@bumprjak
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great videos, Weather will start to change soon, Stay Safe.
@redfordthefarmer1634
3 жыл бұрын
Ah! This is where I live! Charlottesville! Good to see you here.
@robertbohlinger3851
3 жыл бұрын
Looking good - luv the crickets in background
@jameslockard6956
4 жыл бұрын
Shroom says: On the rails again, I just can't wait to get on the rails again. 🤣🇹🇹🇺🇸
@TheHoboShoestring
4 жыл бұрын
I'm leaving on a freight train, don't know when I'll be back again.. John Denver
@tm8951
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheHoboShoestring🎶 till that train runs out of track🎶 " Can't You See" by The Marshall Tucker Band is my favorite train song. Have a good day Shoestring.
@MacnigMacgregor-jr3yu
Жыл бұрын
Love your channel, keep on keeping
@gilljo1
4 жыл бұрын
Good to see a new vid. Stay safe.
@mikejohns3104
4 жыл бұрын
Smashed the like button before even watching the video. Was not disappointed. Beautiful scenery. Thanks Shoestring.
@EricSmith-ve7qi
4 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure your right there called frogs...nice video shoestring again we learn from you!! Thanks b safe
@coloradostrong
3 жыл бұрын
"you're" and "they're" not "your" and "there" 🙄 🙄
@PC-bd3uh
4 жыл бұрын
thanks for the updates, really appreciate hearing all your knowledge/experience/info - cheers!
@knucklehead7456
4 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, that Thermite welding process is 🤯 oh BTW, GREAT video again 😁
@rogermelancon3957
4 жыл бұрын
Years of knowledge, great Big R. Thanks
@allansheldrake4832
4 жыл бұрын
hey hobo we call them type of crossovers in the uk a diamond crossover
@drush406
4 жыл бұрын
Would love to live in that apt building! Havent had a train go by my house in 12 years.😥 Gosh that pack sure looks more comfy! 👊😎👍❤🚂🚃🚃🚃
@r22jeff
4 жыл бұрын
in the states we also call them a diamond and they are high maintenance and often need to be welded once a week in high traffic areas.
@drush406
4 жыл бұрын
This one looks like a double diamond ♦️♦️
@Lynchfan88
4 жыл бұрын
Another excellent video full of excellent info. Great work as usual Hobo Shoestring and stay safe.
@seanwatts8342
4 жыл бұрын
I've heard them called 'diamond interchange' by a (designing) engineer (not the kind of engineer who drives the train.)
@sputnik5716
4 жыл бұрын
Love watching you have fun out there keep on railin
@brentmcc6048
4 жыл бұрын
I was once as we know here a Car and Wagon Examiner, I believe you call them Carmen (where Westinghouse rules). It is very interesting to see the differences between countries. Diamond crossings are very rare in Australia but as we know the basics are all the same. Tracks are owned by the Governments who maintain the system they then lease timetable space to the private freight companies. We run standard gauge in my part of the country but because of conflicting State Governments a federation type thing we have numerous gauges across the country. Your vids are tops. and other live railfan vids are also very informative.
@themyerlys2879
4 жыл бұрын
You might enjoy an account of a one day (approx) change-over of the non-standard RR gauges in the South US to the Standard Guage of railways in the Northern US after the US Civil War. kottke.org/14/09/the-days-they-changed-the-gauge Also other Google articles exist.
@bobs1474
3 жыл бұрын
Great video! I love learning this stuff
@percivalmcdiarmid5111
4 жыл бұрын
Safe travels. God be with you.
@bluetoad2001
4 жыл бұрын
you have a fantastic camera, and your health is also very good.
@SnowDog080
4 жыл бұрын
Good to see you doing what you love again! Where to next? Stay safe.
@ervinesprouse3041
4 жыл бұрын
Be safe Brother!! Enjoyed the video!
@brianc5518
4 жыл бұрын
They weld the rails together using thermite welding!
@murphmurph2124
4 жыл бұрын
Good video Shoestring
@kariweohr7993
4 жыл бұрын
Don't know the answer yet, but will as you educate me. Have a happy day.👣
@wafflesnfalafel1
4 жыл бұрын
love the train stickers and Cheetos...
@bertcochran1770
4 жыл бұрын
Peanut setting in the railroad track his heart was all aflutter round the bend came number nine, toot .... toot, peanut butter.
@hamiltonsullivan6563
4 жыл бұрын
Great video!!!! That's really cool find
@bowwiz
4 жыл бұрын
And I keep learning..
@jimmypeterson778
18 күн бұрын
Hello ho bo!!!!
@charlesmorris8491
4 жыл бұрын
Those guide rails are actually called "guard rails" and you're correct the other part is the "frog" and the bolts are simply called "frog bolts".
@jeffwallace957
4 жыл бұрын
They weld the tracks together with thermite if my memory serves me and it's really something to watch.
@bradleyw3771
4 жыл бұрын
Ever ridden on the old E.J.&E. RR out of Joliet Illinois to ether Gary, Indiana ,or Waukegan Illinois? I live on that line in Frankfort Illinois, at Sauk Trail, if you are ever in the area, get off and I will pick you up for lunch or dinner.
@eezyclsmooth9035
4 жыл бұрын
Shoe, At very end of the video you told a compelling story of a guy who got his foot run over. You go to the head end and tell the engineer, they haul him off on a wooden stretcher..... and the story ends. What happened to him, did they save the leg ? In which video do you talk about your accident ?
@dylanleamananderson7811
4 жыл бұрын
Love the videos
@arty2k
4 жыл бұрын
Gomez Addams would know about those crossover tracks because he loved crashing his trains on them.
@kenstonecipher9290
4 жыл бұрын
Do you ever come thru Smyrna TN? Offering my house for a shower sometime. Fascinated with trains. Former school teacher.
@stevez9392
4 жыл бұрын
good video
@albertcastillo2056
4 жыл бұрын
Its called a diamond where they meet. It takes a beating up n down. .
@kman-mi7su
4 жыл бұрын
Shoestring, have you ever known anyone who was killed riding the train? Just curious. I've seen 4 people killed by trains, 2 Norfolk Southern, 1 CSX, and 1 Amtrak. I work near next to the rails in a job that supports them. The Amtrak was the worst, the person just exploded into meat flaps because the Amtrak train moves so fast. The only way you could tell it was a person, is because his right hand survived and was stuck in the front of the locomotive's front coupler. I watched the medical examiner collect up what they could of his remains and I told him, "whatever they're paying you, it ain't enough!".
@joeparker282
4 жыл бұрын
A number I bo!
@DESO718
4 жыл бұрын
The diamond your talkin about is called a Flange Bearing type.
@TheHoboShoestring
4 жыл бұрын
That's right.... Pretty neat design
@DESO718
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheHoboShoestring easier to maintain.
@dennisjacobs3309
3 жыл бұрын
Talk about railroad torpedoes and flares. Here in San Diego Amtrak is running it's new locomotives . Have you ever rode the rail's to San Diego
@TheHoboShoestring
3 жыл бұрын
If I can find some I will
@dennisjacobs3309
3 жыл бұрын
Where you off to now ? I wish I could ride the rail
@TheHoboShoestring
3 жыл бұрын
@@dennisjacobs3309 Hoping South Carolina
@dennisjacobs3309
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Des Moines Ia. Right near Rock Island switch yard , then changed to Chicago /northwestern railroad plus the big green Burlington northern now it's BNSF railroad I used to hop freight cars when I was 10 to 12 years old we used to go in the cabooses to steel the railroad torpedoes and flairs but those torpedoes were louder than a M 80 fire cracker. I wish I could still ride my leg's are bad now I'll be 59 this year. Railroad fan since I was 3 year's old used a railroad simulator on the computer for 3 year's learned to operate the loco and dynamic breaking 200 cars long 3 DPU's one in the middle 2 on the end Mojave Ca. to Bakersfield 2.5 to 3 % down grade.
@johnringoo756
4 жыл бұрын
Cool..
@TrafficTony
3 жыл бұрын
Hi ShoeString! Love all of your wisdom and info...but what are the little wire connection I see in the four-way? I it an electrical connection and if so, can the rails be shorted together?
@cprs5000
4 жыл бұрын
Hello hobo Kirk here we all need to remember that these tracks are owned by Timothy Mellon the man who is known for destroying the Delaware and Hudson Boston and Maine main Central yeah he has modern equipment now but he still doesn't really give it to s****
@floater81floats37
4 жыл бұрын
miss the videos of you riding trains with the views of the country side flying past. do those videos get demonetized? is that why you dont show it very much anymore? also like seeing you board the trains. mabye it was stobe i was thinking of that showed that. anyways take care shoestring
@chadwright7614
4 жыл бұрын
Great internet here in Fostoria Ohio lol
@johnscherf1228
4 жыл бұрын
Another educational fun video!!!
@bluetoad2001
4 жыл бұрын
Diamond cross
@benthetrainman866
4 жыл бұрын
Have you been to Albert Lea mn on the up spine line
@michaeldavis8259
3 жыл бұрын
I think it’s called a diamond
@royahold1966
4 жыл бұрын
hope the camera straightens out on its uploads. the video quality is great when it does upload one thats for sure.
@ethanrobinson3723
4 жыл бұрын
Hey shoestring. I need to find out what trains to take from Kingsport or Bristol to Washington dc. I have hitchhiked all over but have not had anyone to help me figure out how to ride the rail. I have a bucket and full gear because I'm homeless so everything you do I do without the trains. My Dr is in D.C. and I have to go every two weeks so any help and info would be extremely helpful
@Rick9802
3 жыл бұрын
So how is it that you found a train atop your hand ?
@paducahandlouisvillerailro1694
4 жыл бұрын
I’m always want to know what railroad spike cnw has
@gearjammer938
3 жыл бұрын
Is there a video that has the story of your hand accident?
@DavidPT40
4 жыл бұрын
How did the guy manage to get his foot run over by the train?
@mikemclean6849
4 жыл бұрын
"the lest traveled rail" by shoestring . do a knock off on robert frost poem please.
@bobcoopersliveyoutubevlog
3 жыл бұрын
damm i almost got hit by a amtraxx locomotive today.i was walking the traxxs and didnt see or hear himi was walking in the sun the sun and rail were bright loco coming right at me a car horn warned me
@rockfordwes
4 жыл бұрын
You ever been through rockford illinois on the rails?
@garygeer7646
4 жыл бұрын
😎👌
@outlaw2191
4 жыл бұрын
Shoestring, did you ever get on or off a train while it was moving? If yes, do you have video? 09/06/2020
@Peasmouldia
4 жыл бұрын
Here in the UK, all running lines have AWS (Auto-warning System) on all track circuits. I don't think I've seen an AWS ramp between the rails on any of your videos. I can see how, with the huge block sections on US lines, it could be a problem. Do any US lines have Automatic Train Control or AWS on all their route? Is it something you see much? Blessings and thanks fella.
@themyerlys2879
4 жыл бұрын
Positive Train Control --PTC, is slowly being implemented in the US with great difficulty and expense due to complexity of task and requirements. It is mandated in the US by the federal govt. since a horrendous head-on collision on Sept. 12, 2008 in Chatsworth, California. Start date delayed continually over many years, and very sporadic in installation location. The task is much more difficult than it would at first appear. There really is nothing in the US that is similar to the AWS system in the UK.
@Peasmouldia
4 жыл бұрын
@@themyerlys2879 Thanks. I did a little "research" ( i.e.read wiki) after posting, and I knew of the crash you reference. US railroads pose challenges that are difficult to imagine here in the UK.
@Jan-Sietze
4 жыл бұрын
The above is indeed a cross. As a switch it looks like this picture. Increases the availability of the tracks and saves space. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels_wissel#/media/Bestand:Engels_wissel.jpg
@TheHoboShoestring
4 жыл бұрын
That's really neat... Don't think I've seen one before
@MarkAiley
4 жыл бұрын
Those 4 ways are called a FROG.
@fairwayray
4 жыл бұрын
Damn! What happened to your hand?
@PeterT1981
4 жыл бұрын
You’re in Charlottesville?
@deanjollow2892
4 жыл бұрын
Gday. Medicine Hat
@TheHoboShoestring
4 жыл бұрын
I was deported from Moose Jaw in 2007... lol
@deanjollow2892
4 жыл бұрын
Tell us about that deportation,how did that work, where did they send you and how. By train? Lol
@TheHoboShoestring
4 жыл бұрын
Twice from Newfoundland in 1992 flew me back to Louisiana and Alaska those two times then Moose Jaw SK in 2007 back to North Dakota... No crimes committed just not enough money on me. Two years federal crown straight if caught again in Canada
@deanjollow2892
4 жыл бұрын
They fly you home,no cost. Can’t beat that. Have to wait in jail for a couple days? Probably fun being under arrest in Newfoundland,even the cops are decent there
@garycharpenter543
4 жыл бұрын
Think you were picking your brain for "lift frog" where one rail is lifted or more precisely the flange is lifted on the low traffic route.
@rogerwalp7925
2 жыл бұрын
I like your videos but when you step away from the camera I can't hardly hear what you say.
@harryemery9953
4 жыл бұрын
Its called a🐓🍳
@foscoe2496
4 жыл бұрын
Like to meet u
@allansheldrake4832
4 жыл бұрын
hey hobo first
@TheCheapReefer
4 жыл бұрын
Your in OH ?
@TheHoboShoestring
4 жыл бұрын
Virginia
@papazahn
4 жыл бұрын
I know exactly where this is.. about 45 mins away.
@catpurrson3651
4 жыл бұрын
Bummer. I thought youvwere gonna tell us about signals.
@TheHoboShoestring
4 жыл бұрын
Have to do a video on that
@MrDLRu
4 жыл бұрын
That's some crap welding right there. Full of porosity. When you writing your book.
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