Grain Train Cab Ride Southern Illinois

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2015
  • Video shot by my Dad on a Grain Train from Greendale, Illinois towards Reevesville, Illinois on the former Illinois Central Edgewood Cut Off.

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  • @kaylatravis8367
    @kaylatravis8367 2 роки тому +7

    I love these cab rides the view from the cab is so pretty even with the iced over trees and snow around the rails

  • @Logan912
    @Logan912 8 років тому +23

    Awesome video! Apparently IC had friendly defect detectors "Have a safe day."

  • @reganrickson795
    @reganrickson795 8 років тому +14

    I did not realize that this line had tunnels. No wonder it was built later. Nice to see a caboose on the northbound coal train. The trailing carbody unit does not give the engineer much of a view backwards. Thanks for posting this view of rare mileage!

    • @dachauroad4517
      @dachauroad4517 5 років тому +1

      my dad used to run that line; I remember him talking about why the IC didn't use remote control pushers because the radio signals would get lost in the tunnels. you can find the tunnels on google maps with terrain turned on if you are persistent. one of the looks like it is a couple of miles long where the track goes under a big plateau...

  • @thomasfawcett9447
    @thomasfawcett9447 6 років тому

    Thanks for all the different views, going over bridge, tunnels, and inside the cab. I set the bell to get notified for more videos. Awesome job.

  • @stevec9102
    @stevec9102 5 років тому +3

    Just gorgeous scenery before and after the 2nd tunnel.

  • @FlyBikes089
    @FlyBikes089 5 місяців тому

    Wow this is so amazing video! I love it! ❤ 🔥

  • @LancesLens
    @LancesLens Рік тому

    That's the nicest defect detector message I've heard. Lol
    Awesome! Love cab engineer POV!

  • @choochoo3985
    @choochoo3985 8 років тому +1

    Being from Iowa and living in Wichita Ks. for many, many years, I'm no stranger to Ice storms. Beautiful, but cause so much damage. Thanks for the video.

  • @77hodag
    @77hodag 6 років тому +10

    It's like riding through an enchanted forest - right out of "The Hobbit".

  • @jameschristiansson3137
    @jameschristiansson3137 8 років тому +3

    Thanks for uploading this.

    • @Timothy_D_S
      @Timothy_D_S 5 років тому

      You're so welcome. Happy Jewday

  • @GetsugaTensho85
    @GetsugaTensho85 7 років тому +23

    Man I don't even know why, but I could watch this magnificent crap for hours!

  • @jenn011754
    @jenn011754 2 роки тому

    Saw the whistle sign this time. And a caboose. Very cool. Thanks

  • @onceuponatimeonearth
    @onceuponatimeonearth 2 роки тому +1

    0:47 this train is inbound to the black mesa research facility. Have a productive day!

  • @FDNY8231
    @FDNY8231 6 років тому

    Another great video ...

  • @markturner6240
    @markturner6240 8 років тому +2

    Love these trips!

  • @danielkennedy7845
    @danielkennedy7845 5 років тому

    great video! thanks!

  • @AdamAuxier64
    @AdamAuxier64 8 років тому

    Very fun to rewatch this

  • @cwby1978
    @cwby1978 7 років тому +1

    Good to hear his voice

  • @genuineplains4651
    @genuineplains4651 5 років тому +7

    0:34 Illinois Central detector lives on!

    • @lukasjames5452
      @lukasjames5452 3 роки тому

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    • @jaxxonvivaan5249
      @jaxxonvivaan5249 3 роки тому

      @Lukas James Flixportal :)

    • @lukasjames5452
      @lukasjames5452 3 роки тому

      @Jaxxon Vivaan thank you, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D Appreciate it !!

    • @jaxxonvivaan5249
      @jaxxonvivaan5249 3 роки тому

      @Lukas James you are welcome :D

  • @railfanningjonah3981
    @railfanningjonah3981 8 років тому +4

    CN love it favorite Railroad

  • @kddaniels5965
    @kddaniels5965 8 років тому

    awesome Andrew thanks!

  • @daniels4227
    @daniels4227 4 роки тому

    I was raised in Carmi, IL. I miss the old Illinois Central

  • @EuropeanTrainDriver
    @EuropeanTrainDriver 7 років тому

    Nice video

  • @Jakecr7isgoat
    @Jakecr7isgoat 5 років тому +2

    Bonito viaje..👍👍

  • @donaldswink6259
    @donaldswink6259 5 років тому +1

    I love those Locomotives. I would like to have those horns on my car.

  • @treckdimondback3253
    @treckdimondback3253 6 років тому +2

    10:00 nice mesmerizing drone to put me to sleep

  • @ALL-bj7mj
    @ALL-bj7mj 5 років тому +3

    seems like last night I was running on this line....a pair of ex BN SD40-2s or ICG....hired out on the CCP....its sad to see CN with their deferred repair plans....even some of my EJ&E friends say their old line is torn up.

  • @genesis070365
    @genesis070365 4 роки тому +1

    Best job in the world 👍

  • @brianburns7211
    @brianburns7211 6 років тому +1

    Those SD70M are my favorite to run.

    • @jakeearle9392
      @jakeearle9392 4 роки тому +3

      Brian Burns this loco is actually an SD75i

  • @dsfsdffdshdsf1875
    @dsfsdffdshdsf1875 4 роки тому

    awesome

  • @sniper11506
    @sniper11506 7 років тому

    Love this Video, do not get many of these, Thanks

  • @michaelwright8403
    @michaelwright8403 4 роки тому +1

    As a former engineer on the I.C.'s Chicago Division, I never got the opportunity to run on the Edgewood Cutoff. Looks like I missed out on some pretty interesting trackage.

    • @scoobycarr5558
      @scoobycarr5558 4 роки тому

      That would be the tracks heading to Metropolis, IL, home of SUPERMAN, with their final destination Fulton, KY from the Ohio River Bridge

    • @michaelwright8403
      @michaelwright8403 4 роки тому

      @@scoobycarr5558 Thanks! I'm familiar with Metropolis as the I.C.'s locomotive engineer training school was in Paducah. Can you tell me where the tunnels and the rock cuts are located? For Illinois, that's really cool scenery.

    • @scoobycarr5558
      @scoobycarr5558 4 роки тому +1

      @@michaelwright8403 Actually never been near the tunnels or rock cuts before

    • @eelb53
      @eelb53 4 роки тому

      @@michaelwright8403 You can find the tunnels on Google Maps in Terrain view. Find the bridge over US45 at Stonefort, and follow the railroad south. You have to zoom in close to see where the track disappears and reappears out the other side. There are 3 of them between Stonefort and Reevesville. The first 2 are close together in the vicinity of Ozark. The 3rd is between the IL146 underpass and Reevesville.

  • @clam502
    @clam502 2 роки тому +1

    Why at the 5:07 mark, the engineer kept blasting the horn till around 6:13 approx.?

  • @eddieknox9874
    @eddieknox9874 6 років тому

    are you holding the camcorder the whole trip?

  • @EdmontonRails
    @EdmontonRails 8 років тому

    wow CN blue devil and IC SD70 at 7:30!

  • @ssweeps
    @ssweeps 3 роки тому +2

    Should always have 2 lanes.

  • @heavyhauler1000
    @heavyhauler1000 7 років тому

    was that an old cn rail loco or some how a pilot??

  • @shaunchisholm11
    @shaunchisholm11 8 років тому +3

    awesome video! hopefully there will be more?

  • @jeffboansscannerweatherbox5553
    @jeffboansscannerweatherbox5553 8 років тому

    + Andrew Shafer
    I'm ALSO on U-Tube .
    Nice Horn .HOPE to hear FM Ya Buddy
    J Boan

  • @josiahhorner6705
    @josiahhorner6705 3 роки тому

    What is the bell for on the trains?

  • @scottm6227
    @scottm6227 6 років тому +3

    It must have been an job cutting through all that rock

    • @hakeemsd70m
      @hakeemsd70m 5 років тому

      @@Timothy_D_S Your response though 😂😭🤣😁🤣

  • @daveyboy_
    @daveyboy_ Рік тому

    It's like Stobe said, it's the only way to see the USA . Even if it's a Canadian train.

  • @justinstoreforyou
    @justinstoreforyou 7 років тому +1

    Nice video! I know it may sound like a silly question. I know this was uploaded in 2015 but was this shot in 2015?

    • @AbelG8781
      @AbelG8781 6 років тому

      Justin Millham nope filmed way earlier than that

    • @AbelG8781
      @AbelG8781 5 років тому

      Wasn't filmed 2016

  • @doug5959
    @doug5959 6 років тому +2

    I thought they would sound the horn before entering tunnel

    • @The3751FAN
      @The3751FAN 5 років тому

      A person ???

    • @hakeemsd70m
      @hakeemsd70m 5 років тому

      @@Timothy_D_S Nice failed attempt at a joke...

  • @wastemanagementfan1161
    @wastemanagementfan1161 5 років тому +1

    Sounds like a flat spot in the wheels.

  • @user-wg8mj5bz3o
    @user-wg8mj5bz3o 6 років тому

    Where can you go to get to ride on a train in the locomotive I'd love to have this kind of experience I've been a train fanatic since I was a little kid

    • @nickt.2238
      @nickt.2238 3 роки тому +2

      I think it may depend on who you know.

    • @maxrshelltrack7443
      @maxrshelltrack7443 3 роки тому

      Unless you wanna be like hobos and transients and just hop on a dpu.

  • @boggy7665
    @boggy7665 7 років тому

    24:10 - What is the building sitting over the tracks?

    • @kino1989
      @kino1989 6 років тому

      a coaling tower for steam locomotives

  • @40belowful
    @40belowful 8 років тому

    cool

  • @Pilotguy251HC
    @Pilotguy251HC 8 років тому

    G888 possibly?

  • @donaldswink6259
    @donaldswink6259 5 років тому

    What does it mean when you hear the dispatcher say, total axles I always thought it was the locomotives but was wrong on that.

    • @sc0tte1-416
      @sc0tte1-416 5 років тому +1

      It's not the dispatcher that says that it's the defect detector on the back of the train. Total axles each car has 4

    • @hakeemsd70m
      @hakeemsd70m 5 років тому

      @@sc0tte1-416 So the Total Axle count on the detector is just for the cars aft of the locomotives and does not include the locomotives themselves?

    • @Chasingrail
      @Chasingrail 4 роки тому +2

      Hakeem Sd70M it includes all the locomotives. Total axles on the train itself

    • @hakeemsd70m
      @hakeemsd70m 3 роки тому

      @@Chasingrail Thanks for the info, I appreciate it greatly. Love learning something new about the railroad.

    • @kaylatravis8367
      @kaylatravis8367 2 роки тому

      Its the axles of the consist that the defect equipment detecter counts including the locomotive axles

  • @HYPER973
    @HYPER973 5 років тому

    Why no use of horn before entering any of the tunnels? only seen you did the horn for your fellow co workers that were on the other track

  • @cbalducc
    @cbalducc 8 років тому

    Is this the Edgewood Cutoff? God bless.

  • @billybull1139
    @billybull1139 11 місяців тому

    this is good (Thanks for it!😃) cuz ya' know W/o thinking you always imagine "engineer-ing" a train 'd be a pretty easy job but; Damn really it ain' no cakewalk, -Rather just like being a (commercial) jet pilot... 😳 You got a LOT of mass there that you're responsible for / moving &... It aiN'T to be taken lightly➖‼____

  • @csxbaltimoresubdivision7746
    @csxbaltimoresubdivision7746 6 років тому

    one day can you show starting up the engine

    • @robertbowman3406
      @robertbowman3406 5 років тому

      That's a secret. The problem here is they, the railroad, does not want the public to know how to do it.

  • @clinthymes5067
    @clinthymes5067 6 років тому

    Gotta watch out for those Clay Co folks! Jk. Gods country down there.

  • @derekrock3563
    @derekrock3563 7 років тому

    what type of train and what type of horn is this

    • @SteveO.1997
      @SteveO.1997 7 років тому

      derek rock grain and K3LA

    • @AbelG8781
      @AbelG8781 6 років тому

      derek rock K3H, Not K3LA

    • @hakeemsd70m
      @hakeemsd70m 3 роки тому

      Lead locomotive is an EMD SD75I.

    • @NJT6050
      @NJT6050 2 роки тому +1

      @@AbelG8781 it's a K3HA

  • @alexmislevy7222
    @alexmislevy7222 5 років тому +2

    Why is there a caboose?

    • @nickt.2238
      @nickt.2238 3 роки тому

      The short answer is to save money. This device called an end of train device does the same thing a caboose does but you don't have to pay it wages.

  • @Dansvideos03
    @Dansvideos03 5 років тому

    RS3K Horn?

    • @mic8040
      @mic8040 4 роки тому

      K3l

    • @NJT6050
      @NJT6050 2 роки тому

      @@mic8040 it's a K3HA horn

  • @johnmills7459
    @johnmills7459 4 роки тому

    Why do the trains go so slow?

  • @BossSpringsteen69
    @BossSpringsteen69 5 років тому +1

    Realy? Have a safe day. Lol

  • @benmussolini2284
    @benmussolini2284 5 років тому +2

    caboose????

    • @buoy77micmacmark
      @buoy77micmacmark 3 роки тому

      I just said same thing I thought caboose were extinct years back

  • @uraqtee
    @uraqtee 8 років тому

    Do you have someone run ahead of you in weather like this to make sure track is clear?

    • @TrainMike2013
      @TrainMike2013 8 років тому

      +ken gossett I saw CTC signals, no need to do that.

    • @tommytruth7595
      @tommytruth7595 8 років тому +3

      CTC signals cannot detect trees across the row. They probably had a high railer patrol the line before the train.

  • @PGCRail
    @PGCRail 3 роки тому

    3:31

  • @thud9797
    @thud9797 Рік тому

    Should leave the zoom alone, just keep it zoomed out and forget it. Makes for a more natural look.

  • @robertgift
    @robertgift 8 років тому

    5:45 Why repetitive grade crossing horns when no grade crossings?

    • @robertgift
      @robertgift 8 років тому +1

      Joe Dohn Yes. So? Aini't no grade crossing.
      A couple of brief blasts not enough?
      Let's keep blasting the ears of MOW personnel.

    • @andrewshafer4838
      @andrewshafer4838  8 років тому

      I dont know why dont you ask the engineer

    • @robertgift
      @robertgift 8 років тому +1

      Joe Dohn Yaah. Working on the railroad we're all too stupid to think a train may be approaching. Without looking just two directions, we waltz right out into foul all the time.

    • @andrewshafer4838
      @andrewshafer4838  8 років тому +2

      I have had MOW guys walk right in front of me before, or been in the foul when I have come around a curve. My dad probably hit the sequencer because thats the rules kick they were in during the time.. It does not matter at all.

    • @ct737
      @ct737 8 років тому +1

      No, this guys just out to attack everyone. I've seen him on TONS of videos nitpicking something. Literally anything.

  • @ClinchValley_Railfan
    @ClinchValley_Railfan 5 років тому

    Do you cuss

  • @steveib724
    @steveib724 3 роки тому

    I wouldn't be good at this i would derail it every day

  • @BrooklynPerson30000
    @BrooklynPerson30000 8 років тому +1

    wow a caboose- what year was this?

    • @eelb53
      @eelb53 4 роки тому

      @@Timothy_D_S Not with CN power it wasn't. CN didn't take over the IC until 1999.

  • @Belleville197
    @Belleville197 3 роки тому

    Don't zoom in... it ruins the perspective and sense of speed.

  • @jamesrivis620
    @jamesrivis620 7 років тому

    Boring as all hell.