Excellent work and uplifting Thank you for sharing this outstanding catch Obviously a man who loves his profession and takes pride in his ability to connect with humanity Please forget about all the negativity in some of the comments and seriously consider deleting ALL OF THEM & blocking their authors
I couldn't hear what these folks were saying, due to the Diesel-Electric Locomotive running. Must have been his family. I also wonder who videoed this?
If only that little guy was around where I was by the Woodside station of the Long Island Railroad circa 1960 and took a trip to Manhattan bypassing the Sunnyside Yard of Pennsylvania Railroad where the Pennsylvania R.R. and the Long Island Railroad kept their trains for the rush hours. Both had the same type of trains except that the Pennsylvania R.R had pantographs for the overhead wire and the Long Island Railroad had a 3rd rail shoe for the 3rd rail outside the tracks. Bother had the hoot sound air whistles! 😊
@@luislaplume8261 from Canada: I wondewr what caused the delay prior to thios footase? Was it simply because so much of Amtrsak runs ontracvks owned by freight interests (as so oftenthe case in ?Canad also)?
I'm a long haul trucker; have been for 40 years now. Always loved trains - not sure why I never got into the rail industry; I always have wanted to drive a truck, though. A few years ago, I was at a customer with a spur next to the unloading lane, and I had a wait of over an hour. A local came in to pick up a couple cars and drop a couple more; I talked to the brakeman and he contacted the engineer - as long as I agreed not to interrupt the engineer or touch anything, I could get up into the cab and watch the switching operations !!!!! That was SO COOL !! Another place, I was delivering HUGE tires to a mine for their HUGE dump trucks; again, I had a wait. I asked if I could get up into the cab of one of the dumps; as long as I didn't touch anything, I was fine. Then the guy had ME drive that HUGE BEAST the 200 yards to the tire changing pad. ON MY BIRTHDAY!! When I was a kid, my grampa was a dispatcher for an oilfield trucking company. He arranged for a driver to take me out on a five minute ride - I WAS BESIDE MYSELF !!! Yes, these things stand out in a persons mind, no matter if they're 5 or 50...
I was at a railway museum with my two year old son, and on a siding was an enormous rusted out derelict steam locomotive. I walked up to the fossilized machine, carrying my son on my arm, and he was visibly awed, almost to the point of being afraid to approach the thing. It impressed me that even in its inert state, the old machine still had the power to inspire respect.
I’m an old trucky too 😊 and also a bit of a train fan , some decades ago , I got a job to pick up an over dimensional load , which was a very large 20 ton case that had a locomotive diesel engine in it , I had to pick it from the wharf and take it to the rail yards, As it turned out , the case was much bigger than their lifting equipment, so had to wait at the rail yard for the crane company to go and get an appropriate spreader bar , while I was waiting, I got talking to one of the young train mechanics that then gave me a bit of a tour of the workshop and let me have a look around inside one of the big diesel Locos, that was a very good day 😊.
That is SO COOL indeed! And on your birthday! I don't care if we're 6 or 60, trains, trucks, and heavy equipment are awesome - it's just that as we age we're supposed to act more nonchalant about such things. Not me! I'm they crazy lady pulling over in the big gravel turnout near the tracks over Tehachapi Pass to watch a train go by and wave at the crew. 61 and still refusing to act like a grownup. A thought, if you want to play with trains: Join your local railway museum. They'd be thrilled to have you. At ours (the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in eastern San Diego County) you can help with restoration and maintenance, track/MOW work, and even work your way up to become an engineer and operate the trains.
Thank you for a lovely post which shows common decency and niceness. That young lad will likely never forget a train driver talking to him. Maybe he'll be a train driver himself in 20 years? Please keep us posted!! We are not a garbage nation , we are a decent, kind, generous, welcoming people. We are Americans. ❤♥️♥️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I was already having a good day and watching this video shot things up 1000%. When I was a youngster about the age of the boy in the video (1948-1952) my grandmother took me on numerous train trips from California to visit family in Chicago and Tennessee. Just waiting for the train at the various stations made me so happy and whenever an engineer waved at me, I was ecstatic. God bless this little kid because, as so many have already noted, the memory will not only be something he will remember but it will also teach him a wonderful lesson about what being amiable and kind can do for human beings. Thanks for taking the time to film this incredible piece in such a caring manner. It is a beautiful and moving glimpse into the bright side of human interaction.
I will always remember the Rock Island Conductor who tossed me a hat pin, at 89th & Throop St. with that famous RI Shield. I moved out to a College Apt. Sadly, I forgot it. So I made sure to buy a new one at Discount Trains of Addison. TX.
I always tried to do that with people when I worked for the railroad. I remember being a lonely kid watching trains and some of the train crews who engaged with me. I tried to pay it forward during my career as a locomotive engineer.
Very nice! That little guy just had a great time. Things like this impress kids in a positive way. I run a Powerhouse for a facility and enjoy giving people a tour of the workings. When someone has a chance to see something like that it's usually a great time for them. I wear Carhartt or Duluth at work and always try to look presentable. A little bit of public relations is good for most things and this was a great example
This is what it's all about, inspire our young ones and youth. Our time is short while hopefully theirs is very long. Kudos too the Engineer who may have planted the seed for this child to drive a train to the planets and stars..!!!!
Awesome. 50+ years ago I was that little guy looking up in awe at the locomotive. 50 years later I was the guy who spent many hours getting this very locomotive back on the road after a wreck. What will today’s little guy be doing in a half-century?
Train drivers are cool. I always take all of my toddler grandkids up to our local platform to wave at the drivers, and the drivers always wave back. They are great! 🙏
I spent 62 years in broadcasting as a design/build/operate/maintenance Engineer. in my youth, I was given tours and explanationn of radio and TV stations. I've always paid back those wonderful folks in kind. i was always proud to show off my TV truck, station, even transmitters. I recieved tours of railroad engines and switch towers. people like that Engineer let me to a great career and a wonderful hobby, and earned their wings by doing so.
Yes it does Thank you and especially thank you for someone saying this who is from 🇬🇧 the UK I am embarrassed by some of the shit for brains comments on this post by residents of my own nation People from the UK & Ireland 🇮🇪 are our BEST friends
It was mine also circa 1960 when my late parents took the subway train to Manhattan and changed subway trains at Queensborough Plaza station. The motorman had his cab door open and his side window open for fresh air. I saw him using 2 throttles to slow down and speed up the train. The train we were on to Manhattan was the BMT Standards built from the World War 1 era. 1914 til 1918. Check it out on Google. 😊
My friend was an Amtrak engineer and she would always wave to the kids along the line. One day she was waiting for some cargo to be loaded because the lift had broken down and stepped out to look back and there was a dad with a little girl and boy and when the girl saw her she yelled, "Dad the train driver is a girl!" The dad walked the kids up to the engine and she talked to the girl. She yelled and said , "When we get ready to leave, I'll blow the horn extra loud for you." My dad was an engineer for the NYC in the early 30's and he remembers the fireman tossing kids coal to take home, and women coming to the locomotive with buckets to ask for hot water in some small towns that didn't have running water.
Awhile back there was a great lady who was an Engineer on the Crescent between New Orleans and Atlanta. She was really great around us foamers and had a magic touch. Starts and stops were incredibly smooth. I haven't been on that run in ages, but I always enjoyed seeing her. And even in jest, if any of the old whiskers gave her a ration, she held her own. In spades. Even with the safety vest, gloves, safety shoes and all the rest, she was always looking sharp. Even a touch of makeup. Had I been 40 years younger... I hope she is still as happy at her craft today as she was then.
THIS is exactly how my love of trains began. Uh, a "few years" ago my grandparents took me to a grade crossing where a switcher came by every afternoon. The second day, the engineer stopped the locomotive and asked if I wanted to visit the cab. I don't think I've ever run faster than that day! It's too bad kids these days just tag trains instead of riding them. And yeah, this was back in 62-63'... just a few years ago!
The year was 1970/71. I was 9 years old in Mexico. My Grandma's house was right next to the rail switching section at the end of the tracks, where the train operators had to move forward and then back into a "Y" pattern to reverse direction. One day, my little sister and I stood watching the train when it stopped, and the operator invited us to get on to ride with him in the cabin. These were the days when rules and regulations did not interfere much with common sense and spontaneity. Certainly something special that I treasure and will never forget. The train station is now just a piece of history still standing there, but the rail lines are gone since a new terminal was built farther away from the town.
Back in time... In the middle 60s we used to come with my Dad close to the tracks to watch the trains and... to count cars, especially cargo trains. Since that time I got ability to recognize loaded/unloaded cargo train by ear. Good memories! ...30 years have passed. One day, we were coming back from the woods with our three kids on the country road alongside the rail road . Approaching cargo train slowed down on the curve. Our two boys and daughter stopped and glued to it, fascinated as all children do. - Wave it, don't be shy, - I said. Three tiny hands raised up in friendly greeting. Long-long powerful honk awarded them. This lovely episode shorten our way home and was put into treasure of children memory.
When I was eight years old we lived by a Denver and Rio grand spur. We would run on the road along the track and the crew would throw a candy bar or a pack of gum out of the cab to us. They have families and miss them while working and are great people. We thought they were the coolest guys in town.
When I was 8 my dad had an office in an old warehouse in downtown Charleston. The warehouse had a siding and when the train would bring a rail car in id help the guys unload it quickly while the engine would wait. The engineer saw me helping and how fascinated I was with the locomotive. He asked if I wanted to jump in the cab to see how it worked. Then we got to switch the empty box car to another track. Wow. That engineer has no idea what an impact that has on this now 58 year old man. I can still hear the woom woom woom sound of that EMD as he let me give it a little throttle. Probably was against every rule in the book at old seaboard coastline railway but damn I'm glad to have had men like that engineer in my life. Will never forget that day
The real issue is we should hope this happens more often. Today, fewer and fewer younguns like trains. If it is not on their smart phone there is no interest. I am part of a group of Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec that are writing histories, operations, etc. that will be edited down to the 10 year old level in hopes that such material will help to feed the younguns. I know for a fact that the bug bit me on the posterior while sitting on my Uncle's knee as a two year old. He was a high seniority engineer on the L&N and worked such trains as the Pan AMerian, South Wind, & others. And guys, now almost 86 years of age I know that IT IS A TERMINAL BITE.
I also wondered why the train stopped. Does not appear to be a signal on that stretch. My son also had a memorable time in the cab of a engine shunting wheat cars in a small town in Western NSW (Australia).
We lived on 2 acres and a train track ran parallel to our property. Engineer was working on pushing cars onto the secondary track he stopped and asked me if I wanted to ride on the train needless to say my eyes huge, I road on that train while he worked on the secondary track dropping cars off spent probably two hours even let me run the control for speed a great memory
At which station was this film made? My spouse's brother and wife are members of MARP (Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers) they might recognize this area. 😀
I drove a Tour Bus for 30yrs, whilst sitting somewhere killing time a parent might walk by with a kid, they'd wave so I would say to the the parent to bring them on and sit them on the drivers seat and take a photo of them at the steering wheel, its nice to be nice.
Expected sth like that: you have bad day? Watch man who has worse, but instead it is just some kind man, who brought some joy to kids. Cool. Wish him all the best.
So there are brand new passenger coaches and an old AMFLEET1 snack car? How much longer will those old cars run? Why didn't the order for coaches include snack cars?
I can tell you from a guy who drives trains for a living. That little guy probably made the engineers day too. I love seeing the look of joy on a little kids face when you give them a toot and a wave. It Makes you feel pretty good.
I live in Europe 🇪🇺 and it's so weird to me that somebody can stop a passenger train in totally random place 😮 but I admire americans due to your flexibility and laid-backness 🙃 weren't there any delays or traffic interruptions then?
Amtrak has small stations in some towns, that don't have anything but a ticket office. The train stops, and you walk over to the track and climb on. I don't know if they are taking on passengers here, or waiting for a freight train to clear the track, but Amtrak uses track owned by the freight railroads and they have priority over passenger service. Sixty + years ago, it was the opposite, but then the railroads owned the passenger service, now it's owned by the federal government. If it wasn't for the government, we wouldn't have passenger service, because it doesn't make money here, except in the northeast corridor, between Washington and Boston, where all the population is jammed together.
@@ramblerdave1339 oh, thank you! But it's still a little weird. Passenger services in europe are much more paying off than the freight trains, and a lot better than driving a car. Many people prefer a train to a plane as well. That's why rails in Europe have to be competitive and reliable
@@JohnDoe-fl3mrin-reality, the population density of the US is much lower than Europe. Maybe in 100 years if the population triples, trains may become practical.
The train has stopped at the station, but the locomotive is at the front, beyond the station. Also the second car is the food car (with no passengers boarding or alighting), so there is an extra distance beyond the station to stop. It looks totally random, but it isn't. The passenger car doors are aligned with the stop
Witamy, oto komentarz i odpowiedź właściciela kanału: @falconseyeaerialservicesll8176 1 miesiąc temu Ponieważ ten film nie ma napisów dla osób niedosłyszących, a ja jestem niedosłyszący, nie mogłem zrozumieć, o czym rozmawiały te dwie osoby. Czy ktoś może mnie wypełnić? Dzięki! Odpowiedź @michiganrailfanfilms353 1 miesiąc temu Inżynier (osoba stojąca na lokomotywie), mały chłopiec i jego mama rozmawiali o kilku sprawach. Mały chłopiec idzie zobaczyć Thomasa z lokomotywą czołgową w Greenfield Village w Detroit, jak opowiada o tym inżynierze swoim nauczycielom i kolegom z klasy, dostał fajną koszulkę z pociągiem, a przed wyjazdem chciał kupić trochę lodu krem i jakie były jego ulubione lody. Zastanawiałem się nad dodaniem napisów, ale w wielu przypadkach nie rozumiałem, co się mówi. Przepraszam! (Przetłumaczone przy użyciu Tłumacza Google. Mam nadzieję, że to pomoże!)
My grandparents on my mom’s side grew up in Royal Oak. Plus my mom went to school in Royal Oak until 6th Grade when my parents moved out towards Howell.
Since this video has no closed caption for the hearing impaired and I am hard of hearing, I couldn’t get what the two individuals were talking about. Can someone please fill me in? Thanks!
The engineer (the person standing on the locomotive), the little kid and his mom were talking about a few things. The little guy going to see thomas the tank engine at Greenfield Village in Detroit, how he talks about that engineer to his teachers and his classmates, a cool train tshirt he got, and before he left, if he wanted to some ice cream and what his favorite Ice Cream was. I was debating on doing closed captioning, but there were so many times where I couldn’t understand what was being said. My apologies!
@@railfanningwithatrackhawk, I forgive u, there r so many people in this world that r hard of hearing that we can’t see with our own eyes. U can’t tell if that individual is hard of hearing or deaf just by looking at him/her. I just can’t hear the s, st, sch, ch sounds so I depends on lip reading. I can’t speak for others. Even if I hear u talking to me, without those sounds I can’t hear, I can not identify the words, does that help u understand how we miss words? I lost my hearing at the young age of 3yo, when a lady came over to visit my mother, she had brought her sick son with her, he had Measles and gave me an severe measles case, with fever of 107* degrees, and nerve damage to my ears. Lucky to be alive thanks to my mother. So it was not to loud music or guns as to what others say. Thank u so much for responding, I appreciate that.
@@falconseyeaerialservicesll8176 I totally understand, one of my best friends is deaf and uses hearing aids, and your comment about not knowing if someone is deaf is 100% true. I didn't know he was deaf until he told me, and I always thought he could hear without needing anything. There are times when he can't use his hearing aids, and we'll have to talk through text messages or I'll have to mouth (is that the right word?) what I'm saying to him. I'm sorry about what happened and how you lost your hearing. That is absolutely horrible and I can't imagine the pain you went through. Because of your comment, I realized that I should be more accommodating to my viewers, thus I will be adding closed captions to videos that are narrated or vlog style content.
Talk to the freight rail owners. Passenger trains are supposed to get certain priority, but often do not. This guy was likely waiting for a signal or was early and could afford a couple of minutes' pause.
@@The_DuMont_Network Good point. I do ride trains regularly and I realize that most of the passenger delays are beyond Amtrak's control. I wondered why a whole train would stop for a 3 year old. Now that you mention that it makes a lot more sense that this train was stopping for another reason and the child just happened to benefit from the pause. The fact that the engineer stopped right in front of the little boy and his mom is almost certainly not a coincidence, but the fact that they stopped at all is, i'm sure, not because they decided to just take a break and say hi.
*DISCLAIMER* :The parents of the kiddos in the video gave me full permission to post this.
You're a good rail fan. This was a good catch.
Excellent work and uplifting
Thank you for sharing this outstanding catch
Obviously a man who loves his profession and takes pride in his ability to connect with humanity
Please forget about all the negativity in some of the comments and seriously consider deleting ALL OF THEM & blocking their authors
How sad it is that you even need to add this comment! It really is a lunatic world.
@@ScepticPJ well said; sadly
I couldn't hear what these folks were saying, due to the Diesel-Electric Locomotive running. Must have been his family. I also wonder who videoed this?
Thank you for taking the time to entertain this child, he will never forget it as he grows up, believe me when I tell you he will never forget this!
That little guy will never forget that. That engineer was so cool.
If only that little guy was around where I was by the Woodside station of the Long Island Railroad circa 1960 and took a trip to Manhattan bypassing the Sunnyside Yard of Pennsylvania Railroad where the Pennsylvania R.R. and the Long Island Railroad kept their trains for the rush hours. Both had the same type of trains except that the Pennsylvania R.R had pantographs for the overhead wire and the Long Island Railroad had a 3rd rail shoe for the 3rd rail outside the tracks. Bother had the hoot sound air whistles! 😊
@@luislaplume8261 from Canada: I wondewr what caused the delay prior to thios footase? Was it simply because so much of Amtrsak runs ontracvks owned by freight interests (as so oftenthe case in ?Canad also)?
I'm a long haul trucker; have been for 40 years now. Always loved trains - not sure why I never got into the rail industry; I always have wanted to drive a truck, though.
A few years ago, I was at a customer with a spur next to the unloading lane, and I had a wait of over an hour. A local came in to pick up a couple cars and drop a couple more; I talked to the brakeman and he contacted the engineer - as long as I agreed not to interrupt the engineer or touch anything, I could get up into the cab and watch the switching operations !!!!! That was SO COOL !!
Another place, I was delivering HUGE tires to a mine for their HUGE dump trucks; again, I had a wait. I asked if I could get up into the cab of one of the dumps; as long as I didn't touch anything, I was fine. Then the guy had ME drive that HUGE BEAST the 200 yards to the tire changing pad. ON MY BIRTHDAY!!
When I was a kid, my grampa was a dispatcher for an oilfield trucking company. He arranged for a driver to take me out on a five minute ride - I WAS BESIDE MYSELF !!!
Yes, these things stand out in a persons mind, no matter if they're 5 or 50...
Gear heads are born that way!
I was at a railway museum with my two year old son, and on a siding was an enormous rusted out derelict steam locomotive. I walked up to the fossilized machine, carrying my son on my arm, and he was visibly awed, almost to the point of being afraid to approach the thing. It impressed me that even in its inert state, the old machine still had the power to inspire respect.
I’m an old trucky too 😊 and also a bit of a train fan , some decades ago , I got a job to pick up an over dimensional load , which was a very large 20 ton case that had a locomotive diesel engine in it , I had to pick it from the wharf and take it to the rail yards,
As it turned out , the case was much bigger than their lifting equipment, so had to wait at the rail yard for the crane company to go and get an appropriate spreader bar , while I was waiting, I got talking to one of the young train mechanics that then gave me a bit of a tour of the workshop and let me have a look around inside one of the big diesel Locos, that was a very good day 😊.
Lucky for me I spent 21 years on the railway....now I'm a op....love the highway but it's more dangerous
That is SO COOL indeed! And on your birthday! I don't care if we're 6 or 60, trains, trucks, and heavy equipment are awesome - it's just that as we age we're supposed to act more nonchalant about such things. Not me! I'm they crazy lady pulling over in the big gravel turnout near the tracks over Tehachapi Pass to watch a train go by and wave at the crew. 61 and still refusing to act like a grownup.
A thought, if you want to play with trains: Join your local railway museum. They'd be thrilled to have you. At ours (the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in eastern San Diego County) you can help with restoration and maintenance, track/MOW work, and even work your way up to become an engineer and operate the trains.
Thank you for a lovely post which shows common decency and niceness. That young lad will likely never forget a train driver talking to him. Maybe he'll be a train driver himself in 20 years? Please keep us posted!!
We are not a garbage nation , we are a decent, kind, generous, welcoming people. We are Americans. ❤♥️♥️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Americans can be so nice. The little kid will never forget this experience Bravo.
He’s too young, he’ll never remember it. Even when you show him this video, he still won’t. It’s cool, no mistake, but let’s be real here.
I was already having a good day and watching this video shot things up 1000%. When I was a youngster about the age of the boy in the video (1948-1952) my grandmother took me on numerous train trips from California to visit family in Chicago and Tennessee. Just waiting for the train at the various stations made me so happy and whenever an engineer waved at me, I was ecstatic. God bless this little kid because, as so many have already noted, the memory will not only be something he will remember but it will also teach him a wonderful lesson about what being amiable and kind can do for human beings. Thanks for taking the time to film this incredible piece in such a caring manner. It is a beautiful and moving glimpse into the bright side of human interaction.
I will always remember the Rock Island Conductor who tossed me a hat pin, at 89th & Throop St. with that famous RI Shield. I moved out to a College Apt. Sadly, I forgot it. So I made sure to buy a new one at Discount Trains of Addison. TX.
You can bet the driver felt pretty good too. It's so sad that interactions like this have become so uncommon as to be noteworthy.
I always tried to do that with people when I worked for the railroad. I remember being a lonely kid watching trains and some of the train crews who engaged with me. I tried to pay it forward during my career as a locomotive engineer.
Very nice! That little guy just had a great time. Things like this impress kids in a positive way. I run a Powerhouse for a facility and enjoy giving people a tour of the workings. When someone has a chance to see something like that it's usually a great time for them. I wear Carhartt or Duluth at work and always try to look presentable. A little bit of public relations is good for most things and this was a great example
So cool!! If you get the chance make someone happy. It's a great way to live.
"Be the bright spot in someone else's dark day".
This is what it's all about, inspire our young ones and youth. Our time is short while hopefully theirs is very long. Kudos too the Engineer who may have planted the seed for this child to drive a train to the planets and stars..!!!!
Awesome. 50+ years ago I was that little guy looking up in awe at the locomotive. 50 years later I was the guy who spent many hours getting this very locomotive back on the road after a wreck. What will today’s little guy be doing in a half-century?
Truly wonderful! I've always loved American trains since I saw the film Silver Streak.
Train drivers are cool. I always take all of my toddler grandkids up to our local platform to wave at the drivers, and the drivers always wave back. They are great! 🙏
i'm a train fan since i was a kid. that little fellow will remember that moment for sure, i know.
and that very cool and awesome engineer.
I spent 62 years in broadcasting as a design/build/operate/maintenance Engineer. in my youth, I was given tours and explanationn of radio and TV stations. I've always paid back those wonderful folks in kind. i was always proud to show off my TV truck, station, even transmitters. I recieved tours of railroad engines and switch towers. people like that Engineer let me to a great career and a wonderful hobby, and earned their wings by doing so.
Brilliant. Restores your faith in humanity.🇬🇧❤️
Yes it does
Thank you and especially thank you for someone saying this who is from 🇬🇧 the UK
I am embarrassed by some of the shit for brains comments on this post by residents of my own nation
People from the UK & Ireland 🇮🇪 are our BEST friends
The best public relations any company can have, when the employee take time to talk to future riders
Made my day start better. Greetings from Port Saint Lucie, Florida ! Train people tend to be very nice, at least thats been my experience.
It was mine also circa 1960 when my late parents took the subway train to Manhattan and changed subway trains at Queensborough Plaza station. The motorman had his cab door open and his side window open for fresh air. I saw him using 2 throttles to slow down and speed up the train. The train we were on to Manhattan was the BMT Standards built from the World War 1 era. 1914 til 1918. Check it out on Google. 😊
Reading your comment in Stuart FL.
My friend was an Amtrak engineer and she would always wave to the kids along the line. One day she was waiting for some cargo to be loaded because the lift had broken down and stepped out to look back and there was a dad with a little girl and boy and when the girl saw her she yelled, "Dad the train driver is a girl!" The dad walked the kids up to the engine and she talked to the girl. She yelled and said , "When we get ready to leave, I'll blow the horn extra loud for you."
My dad was an engineer for the NYC in the early 30's and he remembers the fireman tossing kids coal to take home, and women coming to the locomotive with buckets to ask for hot water in some small towns that didn't have running water.
Awhile back there was a great lady who was an Engineer on the Crescent between New Orleans and Atlanta. She was really great around us foamers and had a magic touch. Starts and stops were incredibly smooth. I haven't been on that run in ages, but I always enjoyed seeing her. And even in jest, if any of the old whiskers gave her a ration, she held her own. In spades. Even with the safety vest, gloves, safety shoes and all the rest, she was always looking sharp. Even a touch of makeup. Had I been 40 years younger...
I hope she is still as happy at her craft today as she was then.
Well I'll be...
That my friend is how you build a society. You take the time to entertain and make a child happy. One child at a time.
awesome - those kids are going to remember that for the rest of their lives. Thanks for the vid.
THIS is exactly how my love of trains began. Uh, a "few years" ago my grandparents took me to a grade crossing where a switcher came by every afternoon. The second day, the engineer stopped the locomotive and asked if I wanted to visit the cab. I don't think I've ever run faster than that day!
It's too bad kids these days just tag trains instead of riding them.
And yeah, this was back in 62-63'... just a few years ago!
Train announcer " sorry, we are facing delays as the driver is talking to a small boy"
"We are happy to announce our Engineer has promoted family wellness on the road"
Oh yeah, I’m sure that’s why he was stopped!
The year was 1970/71. I was 9 years old in Mexico. My Grandma's house was right next to the rail switching section at the end of the tracks, where the train operators had to move forward and then back into a "Y" pattern to reverse direction. One day, my little sister and I stood watching the train when it stopped, and the operator invited us to get on to ride with him in the cabin. These were the days when rules and regulations did not interfere much with common sense and spontaneity. Certainly something special that I treasure and will never forget. The train station is now just a piece of history still standing there, but the rail lines are gone since a new terminal was built farther away from the town.
Was fortunate enough to ride the trains in the 1950's and early 60's. Sleeping in those Pullmans were a dreamscape.
Back in time... In the middle 60s we used to come with my Dad close to the tracks to watch the trains and... to count cars, especially cargo trains.
Since that time I got ability to recognize loaded/unloaded cargo train by ear. Good memories!
...30 years have passed. One day, we were coming back from the woods with our three kids on the country road alongside the rail road . Approaching cargo train slowed down on the curve.
Our two boys and daughter stopped and glued to it, fascinated as all children do.
- Wave it, don't be shy, - I said.
Three tiny hands raised up in friendly greeting.
Long-long powerful honk awarded them. This lovely episode shorten our way home and was put into treasure of children memory.
When I was eight years old we lived by a Denver and Rio grand spur. We would run on the road along the track and the crew would throw a candy bar or a pack of gum out of the cab to us. They have families and miss them while working and are great people. We thought they were the coolest guys in town.
The DRGW was one heck of a railroad with some great people behind it.
Show a little kindness, it goes a long, long way ❤️🇷🇴👏🏼
When I was 8 my dad had an office in an old warehouse in downtown Charleston. The warehouse had a siding and when the train would bring a rail car in id help the guys unload it quickly while the engine would wait.
The engineer saw me helping and how fascinated I was with the locomotive. He asked if I wanted to jump in the cab to see how it worked.
Then we got to switch the empty box car to another track. Wow.
That engineer has no idea what an impact that has on this now 58 year old man. I can still hear the woom woom woom sound of that EMD as he let me give it a little throttle.
Probably was against every rule in the book at old seaboard coastline railway but damn I'm glad to have had men like that engineer in my life. Will never forget that day
Just don't mention the RR name. You always want to protect people who did you a big favor. It'll make you feel good.
That’s a smile that I needed, and a meeting that little digger will never forget. Outstanding!
Thank you - just made my day 🥰
The engineer should've put his full grocery order in as well, not just for icecream, 🤣🤣🤣
The real issue is we should hope this happens more often. Today, fewer and fewer younguns like trains. If it is not on their smart phone there is no interest. I am part of a group of Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec that are writing histories, operations, etc. that will be edited down to the 10 year old level in hopes that such material will help to feed the younguns. I know for a fact that the bug bit me on the posterior while sitting on my Uncle's knee as a two year old. He was a high seniority engineer on the L&N and worked such trains as the Pan AMerian, South Wind, & others. And guys, now almost 86 years of age I know that IT IS A TERMINAL BITE.
64 years ago my son and his grandpa would go see the trains Sat.andSun he was only 3 or 4 at the time place San Bernardino CA he still talks about it
This is awesome.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! It’s an honor having you in my comments section 🫡
@@railfanningwithatrackhawk Always happy to support a fellow Michigan railfan.
Great video ! 👍
I remember this. That was amazing
Interesting,
don't you all enjoy railroad
trams, trains etc are just so cool
take a ride in my ''transportation'' folder, (folder 2 in playlists) :)
He maybe small now but one day he might be a big engineer 😊
Was the train stopped bec. of time schedule or a train up ahead?
I also wondered why the train stopped. Does not appear to be a signal on that stretch.
My son also had a memorable time in the cab of a engine shunting wheat cars in a small town in Western NSW (Australia).
We lived on 2 acres and a train track ran parallel to our property. Engineer was working on pushing cars onto the secondary track he stopped and asked me if I wanted to ride on the train needless to say my eyes huge, I road on that train while he worked on the secondary track dropping cars off spent probably two hours even let me run the control for speed a great memory
Excellent Video! LIKE
So cool! Love these guys!
Great video!
When I was little the people in the caboose would always wave at us.
Yeah, now the little light blinks at them.
@@ramblerdave1339🥺
That was the greatest Thank you 🙏 😂❤
That was far cooler than anything from Thomas TTE.
Fat Controller: Why are you late?
This goes to show how great people can be 😊😊😊😊😊
At which station was this film made? My spouse's brother and wife are members of MARP (Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers) they might recognize this area. 😀
Royal Oak, Michigan
That's the cleanest Amtrak train I've ever seen.
Great. Good people 👍
Joe
God damn this video blew up! Awesome to see man
Really nice video ! Thanks !
That's an awesome looking new engine !!!
There’s something about a train that’s magic…
I drove a Tour Bus for 30yrs, whilst sitting somewhere killing time a parent might walk by with a kid, they'd wave so I would say to the the parent to bring them on and sit them on the drivers seat and take a photo of them at the steering wheel, its nice to be nice.
AWESOME work 👏
When I was kindergarten the train past , the engineer would always gave a big wave with the horn and bell 1949………..
The engine is mighty and magnificent. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Nice video❤❤train locomotif ❤
Rail travel, 3X the cost and 3X the time compared to air. So worth it.
Expected sth like that: you have bad day? Watch man who has worse, but instead it is just some kind man, who brought some joy to kids. Cool. Wish him all the best.
Horn is so good
Yep....
Yea awsome catch with nice horn action as well as a engineer chatt with hime as well
So there are brand new passenger coaches and an old AMFLEET1 snack car? How much longer will those old cars run? Why didn't the order for coaches include snack cars?
Love this Bideo ❤❤😊
making a joyful noise unto the people and the land!...splendid sounds, eh
I don't know why, but that did make my day!
The Engineer made little boy’s day
I can tell you from a guy who drives trains for a living.
That little guy probably made the engineers day too.
I love seeing the look of joy on a little kids face when you give them a toot and a wave.
It Makes you feel pretty good.
Love trains❤!!!!!!
Great video, nice shot! Thumbs Up & Subscribe
Greetings from Romania
Andrew
Those negative comments totally miss the whole point of the video.
Not many negative comments
Awww how cuteee
Did he stop at a Station or just in the middle of the tracks? BTW Great video
they were stopped at the station
To all guys n gals out there acknowledge the little tykes there our future.
I live in Europe 🇪🇺 and it's so weird to me that somebody can stop a passenger train in totally random place 😮 but I admire americans due to your flexibility and laid-backness 🙃 weren't there any delays or traffic interruptions then?
Amtrak has small stations in some towns, that don't have anything but a ticket office. The train stops, and you walk over to the track and climb on. I don't know if they are taking on passengers here, or waiting for a freight train to clear the track, but Amtrak uses track owned by the freight railroads and they have priority over passenger service. Sixty + years ago, it was the opposite, but then the railroads owned the passenger service, now it's owned by the federal government. If it wasn't for the government, we wouldn't have passenger service, because it doesn't make money here, except in the northeast corridor, between Washington and Boston, where all the population is jammed together.
@@ramblerdave1339 oh, thank you! But it's still a little weird. Passenger services in europe are much more paying off than the freight trains, and a lot better than driving a car. Many people prefer a train to a plane as well. That's why rails in Europe have to be competitive and reliable
@@JohnDoe-fl3mrin-reality, the population density of the US is much lower than Europe. Maybe in 100 years if the population triples, trains may become practical.
The train has stopped at the station, but the locomotive is at the front, beyond the station. Also the second car is the food car (with no passengers boarding or alighting), so there is an extra distance beyond the station to stop. It looks totally random, but it isn't. The passenger car doors are aligned with the stop
@@VTconductorchris Thanks. I see that now.
Amtrak finally has sexy loco. Find Norway Slow TV, it's predecessor doing 70 through 3 feet of snow up over the Arctic Circle.
And they blame delays on the freight. 😂
Could you translate into Polish what that was about ? I would be grateful
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@falconseyeaerialservicesll8176
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Ponieważ ten film nie ma napisów dla osób niedosłyszących, a ja jestem niedosłyszący, nie mogłem zrozumieć, o czym rozmawiały te dwie osoby. Czy ktoś może mnie wypełnić? Dzięki!
Odpowiedź
@michiganrailfanfilms353
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Inżynier (osoba stojąca na lokomotywie), mały chłopiec i jego mama rozmawiali o kilku sprawach. Mały chłopiec idzie zobaczyć Thomasa z lokomotywą czołgową w Greenfield Village w Detroit, jak opowiada o tym inżynierze swoim nauczycielom i kolegom z klasy, dostał fajną koszulkę z pociągiem, a przed wyjazdem chciał kupić trochę lodu krem i jakie były jego ulubione lody.
Zastanawiałem się nad dodaniem napisów, ale w wielu przypadkach nie rozumiałem, co się mówi. Przepraszam!
(Przetłumaczone przy użyciu Tłumacza Google. Mam nadzieję, że to pomoże!)
Kenny survived!
最高で素敵な運転士さん。
チャンネル登録をしました。😺
ありがとうございます！日本の鉄道はいつも私を魅了していましたので、ぜひ購読させていただきます！
@@railfanningwithatrackhawk よろしくお願いします。😺
How about the man and the kid exchange places. I am sure both will be thrilled. (I would)
Is this in Royal Oak, MI ?
Yes
@@superhawk1k382 Actually the suburbs are very nice.
My grandparents on my mom’s side grew up in Royal Oak. Plus my mom went to school in Royal Oak until 6th Grade when my parents moved out towards Howell.
@@RLTtizME Does the Lakeshore Limited connect with this?
@@RLTtizMEYeah...maybe back in the 1970's & 1980's.🤔
Since this video has no closed caption for the hearing impaired and I am hard of hearing, I couldn’t get what the two individuals were talking about. Can someone please fill me in? Thanks!
The engineer (the person standing on the locomotive), the little kid and his mom were talking about a few things. The little guy going to see thomas the tank engine at Greenfield Village in Detroit, how he talks about that engineer to his teachers and his classmates, a cool train tshirt he got, and before he left, if he wanted to some ice cream and what his favorite Ice Cream was.
I was debating on doing closed captioning, but there were so many times where I couldn’t understand what was being said. My apologies!
@@railfanningwithatrackhawk, I forgive u, there r so many people in this world that r hard of hearing that we can’t see with our own eyes. U can’t tell if that individual is hard of hearing or deaf just by looking at him/her. I just can’t hear the s, st, sch, ch sounds so I depends on lip reading. I can’t speak for others. Even if I hear u talking to me, without those sounds I can’t hear, I can not identify the words, does that help u understand how we miss words? I lost my hearing at the young age of 3yo, when a lady came over to visit my mother, she had brought her sick son with her, he had Measles and gave me an severe measles case, with fever of 107* degrees, and nerve damage to my ears. Lucky to be alive thanks to my mother. So it was not to loud music or guns as to what others say. Thank u so much for responding, I appreciate that.
@@railfanningwithatrackhawkNo need to apologize.My mother was hard of hearing.GOD BLESS YOU.👋😉❤️😅
@@falconseyeaerialservicesll8176 I totally understand, one of my best friends is deaf and uses hearing aids, and your comment about not knowing if someone is deaf is 100% true. I didn't know he was deaf until he told me, and I always thought he could hear without needing anything. There are times when he can't use his hearing aids, and we'll have to talk through text messages or I'll have to mouth (is that the right word?) what I'm saying to him. I'm sorry about what happened and how you lost your hearing. That is absolutely horrible and I can't imagine the pain you went through.
Because of your comment, I realized that I should be more accommodating to my viewers, thus I will be adding closed captions to videos that are narrated or vlog style content.
I am not hard of hearing and I could not get what they were talking about. But I got the deeper meaning.
Mujhe train bahut bahut pasand hai aur railway ke staff me sirf drivers achche hote hai baki sab kaise khud ko sarkari damaad samjhte hain
That was real nice! Don’t the engineers have a uniform though?
That cool locomotive is made by a German Company. Where was it built?
California! Siemens opened a plant there not that long ago.
Which place??
that looks like my Papas train from Mineola
That’s nice ❤
What City?
Wish I were a kid again! YIPPIE
What city/state is this in? Thousands of UA-cam viewers around the world would like to know.
Royal Oak, Michigan
That's awesome 👍
Amazing!
It is a shame a German company is installing U.S. trains. The reverse would not be tolerated.
Right
Actually it was: the Marshall plan paid for the rebuilding of German's rail network - at the time ours was declining.
Is this why the train is typically about 45 minutes late?
LOL - just joking! (but it is late A LOT!)
Talk to the freight rail owners. Passenger trains are supposed to get certain priority, but often do not.
This guy was likely waiting for a signal or was early and could afford a couple of minutes' pause.
@@The_DuMont_Network Good point. I do ride trains regularly and I realize that most of the passenger delays are beyond Amtrak's control. I wondered why a whole train would stop for a 3 year old. Now that you mention that it makes a lot more sense that this train was stopping for another reason and the child just happened to benefit from the pause. The fact that the engineer stopped right in front of the little boy and his mom is almost certainly not a coincidence, but the fact that they stopped at all is, i'm sure, not because they decided to just take a break and say hi.
Why do American locomotives need to make so much noise with bells, whistles horns etc !!!
The train was approaching a crossing, regulations.
Excellent clip