I was thinking the same thing. At first I was thinking that riding around on them day in and day out you probably learn a lot about their operations, but it seems to me like he knows more than just that. Possibly like he may have even worked for a railroad at one point in time? Either way, always interesting to listen and learn more from him
These videos are very entertaining to me. Don’t know if it’s how frightening train hopping is or just the fact of seeing the world in a way no one else really gets to see it. Keep up the good work!
I'm a former railroader off the IC, from southern Illinois and I have to say I love watching your videos, you know your stuff and I wish you all the luck in the world! Stay Safe out there.
I live about 20 miles West of the CN yard Mark is at in this video.He came right by my house and everytime i cross those tracks i think of hobo shoestring heading West bound to Chicago. RIP God bless you Mark,rhanks for all your gifts of life and experience's.. see you on rhe West bound!👑🙏🗽🇺🇸🫡
Mr. Shoestring, I’ve watched at least 95% of all your videos. I’ve noticed that you are treated better by many people you meet on the rails than many people are treated in their own neighborhoods. Stay well. 09/24/2020
Men of the Iron road, paid and unpaid generally have a good understanding of life, and of death. It counts for a great deal more than average joe understands.
Love your videos and love what you do man! I’m right by the CN/CSX train yard over here in port Huron. It’s great to see you catching out of Michigan! Not many videos of people catching out in Michigan. Wishing you many more safe travels, and good health!
Hello, just discovered your channel!!! I watch the Elkhart video, that was really cool seeing my old hood.Across the from the RR museum is a tavern in my younger days was our spot.One night playing pool in a snowstorm we looked out the window because a locomotive derailed on that curve and slid sideways with his lite shing right in window... what a trip..Thanks for great videos..
This is my second video that I've watched. I'm now a fan . I love trains and I like your videos. My father rest in peace, worked in the railroad laying out tracks back in the forty's . Many years later I remember him telling his story's to us kids. Keep the videos rolling..I enjoy them very much.
I think you're an incredible person I think you have courage and a passion for life and I've learned so much about the railroad and you're pretty darn funny thank you
I’m a lifelong Battle Creek resident and I know all those spots you showed in your video, so cool to see familiar spots like that! Awesome that you passed through here. I used to work just up the road from the grain elevator. Stay safe and happy travels!
Hey Shoestring, from Google Maps Satellite view, you can see the outlines of a roundhouse directly across the tracks from the three grain bins. The roundhouse is gone, but the outline is still there.
Thank you for teaching the world about trains Shoestring! You’re awesome and I like that you are so knowledgeable and safe! Happy New Year! Adding some “Cadillac Grainers” to my model railroad just for you!
Great video. I always enjoy the longer narrated versions. It looks like the eyepiece to your binoculars was glued on to the body, and the glue is what separated at impact. You ought to be able to repair it fairly easily. Put the eyepiece up to the body and turn it until it is flush to determine the break pattern. This is critical in ensuring your binoculars focus properly once repaired. Once you know how to orient the eyepiece, apply a very small amount of Loctite Super Glue gel or your favorite plastics glue to the facing joint circumference on both the eyepiece and body. Gels are great because they set fast but not too fast. You’ll appreciate they extra few seconds they afford you to get things perfectly aligned. But you don’t want a glue that will set so slowly that things might come apart if you are not holding them. Hold the pieces together firmly until you are sure the glue sets. Try to avoid knocking the binoculars around as much as possible - easier said than done on a train, I'm sure - over the next several hours, and you should be good to go. That joint should be stronger than the original. Happy bull-er-bird watching.
Very good video Shoestring! Thanks man. Most the years of my life I was a ‘biker’, not a 1%er but I was independently pretty serious. Anywho, by n by I discovered a great legit revenue stream is t-shirts. Your cool shirt reminded me, I bet you could generate some nice little income with a personalized tee with maybe a cool color picture of an F series locomotive or like that. There’s a great small screen print company in Portland Maine we used to use, buy the shirts by the gross... I’ll buy at least one. Pete😎
Shoestring you are. A wealth of information. We really enjoy watching your channel. You have all of our best wishes and prayers. Have a good one. 👍👍👍❤️
I had a model trainset as a kid. This video showed me what it's like to be onboard one of the freight trains, traveling as freight! Thanks for the view of the train rolling out of the yard and picking up speed. It looks like you traveled in that perch stretched out like first class!
Another great video! I admire your knowledge shoestring!! You have taught me so much about the railroad and life on the road and i can't thank you enough!! I hope you make it to Pa one of these trips...would b a honor and priveledge to meet you!! Thanks for all you do for us!! B safe
Years ago my Dad went up to Battle Creek from here in Georgia... He was up there for training on Forklift maintenance... I forget which company... Thanks for sharing the ride... Stay safe Brother ✌️
Hello Shoestring. Good to see you are rolling again. I really enjoy your videos. I saw a lot of America in my 34 years driving a truck, but I always liked the gritty trackside view that most people never get to see. I have hauled cereal out of Battle Creek. all the way to Georgia. Be safe and take care.
@@GeorgeJansen The new Samsung Galaxy S20 is my ultimate dream camera. The specs on the camera are absolutely amazing! 100X zoom lens and 8K studio quality videoing and I just learned how to use a editing app for making much better videos.
This is one of the first videos i caught of shoestring's adventures! alway so fascinated with the stories and things he had to talk about and show! I think of hom Everytime I see a train roll by! RIP shoestring! hate that your gone but you are not forgotten!
These short films are fascinating adventures to me. I grew up right beside the old L&N line and always wondered what it would be like to jump on a train. Now I get a firsthand glimpse.
You did pretty well dissecting and explaining that chemical mumbo-jumbo stuff contained in that tanker. Actually, hexamethylenediamine is a chemical that is used in the manufacturing of nylon plastic polymer.
Shoestring is enjoying life out there! This virus and everything makes me wanna train hop even more. Mad respect to that guy who found you in the autorack, people say hobos are bad. In my honest opinion, the only true friend I would want to have is a hobo. One that doesnt care about who they are, what they are, and ones that have a very interesting experience.
B&O roundhouse. Passenger station. Former coal loading dock and the ore dock. Nickel Plate west of Ashland Ave. was also one of our playgrounds. Parked cabooses, etc. Had wood water elevated tank for filling steam locomotive tenders.
hexamethylenediamine is used in the production of nylon and some epoxy resins apparently. the diamine is referring to an amine at either end of the molecule. :)
Same here buddy. You find yourself in the Cincinnati/Dayton corridor again, you ping me. My 15 year old grandson and I have been railfanning since he was a year old. Both of us love your video's! We'll be glad to help you with some resupplies.
Hey brother, anytime you need a shower at the Loves or Pilot or Flying J truck stops, you call or email me, I'll give you my rewards card# or phone number, and you can shower for free. My email address is derrinredfeather@gmail.com. I can give you my phone number via email. I just discovered your videos. I'm a truck driver and I travel the country like you do. I never know where I'm going to go from one load to the next, but I've been doing it for 37 years. Goin' on 65 years old this spring and still goin' strong. I wish I had the freedom you do, but at least I can travel with you on the rails via your videos. The free showers are my way of sayin' thanks.
That's my hometown, my dad and grandpa worked at the GT yard, Recognize the bridge location in the beginning. Great video. Like to see the whole route to Chicago.
love your knowledge of train travel if anyone gets in a bind and needs to get somewhere bad gust watch old shoestring videos and get were you need to go .
Don't know how I missed this one. 😂😂😂😂😂Sam Elliot,John Wayne and Clint Eastwood use to come and have a drink with you, that was a good one. You know your train yards as well as train direction and what rails they'll be on. Mark your knowledge is amazing. To bad they don't have train yard tours, you would be perfect to give it.
"I'm saving up for a Samsung 20A with the 8K camera" LMAO. Only in America in 2020 can a "hobo" have a Smartphone, Paypal Account & UA-cam channel!! And I mean that in no way as a slight buddy. I think it shows just how much people take for granted just how good they have it in this country. If you're willing to put forth the effort, you can do pretty much anything you want, including riding the rails! Keep on entertaining us amigo, and stay safe out there.
Technology has enabled alot of people to have a better quality of life. Now days a homeless person or a hobo can utilize youtube to earn a living just making videos of their daily lives. Stuff like this would have been a fantasy just 20 years ago. Now it's reality.
@@yt-xe8ws It is fascinating. To your point, not only was it fantasy 20 years ago... it amazes me that some people video document illegal and quasi illegal activities (not saying our buddy Mr. Shoestring here is doing or ever has done anything illegal) apparently without consequence and it has such a huge audience! To a certain extent, we can live vicariously through these simple experiences each of us post on line. I have always wanted to take a ride on a freight train, but the threat of injury, violence, getting arrested, getting lost and waisting too much time have always deterred me. Shoestring makes me realize..."what else do we have?" I may change my mind after watching more, but this morning? I wish I had a little more of whatever it is that Shoestring has.
@@YankeeinSC1 the first thing that was popular on youtube was bum fights. There is always interest in what is outside of what is acceptable in the mainstream. What that is just changes over the years.
I've probably got this wrong, but that chem in the tanker might be the precursor they used to make meth in Breaking Bad. Loved the video fella, nice one.
I look forward to every video he has on the way to be watched. I got laughing when you said those vines were getting wrapped around your feet. You then said "Dang it, Shit" it just struck me funny my friend. I have to say you lead an adventurous life hopping trains. Its definitely a way to see the country and you have several friends who admire what you're doing. God Bless You my friend and I personally keep you in my prayers daily for safe travels!
I find it interesting how many abandoned truck trailers you see around these abandoned industrial buildings. One day they are useful and have a resale value and then one day they don't. I always assume the reefer broke and someone intended to fix it and then it was simply left to rot.
Enjoyed this one shoestring! I rode that line once on a diverted Amtrak train 49/48 by way of the Porter Branch to Chicago. Nothing like train travel! Be safe!
Those are the same tracks. The problem is when the only time a westbound train will stop by the zoo, is when it has to wait for another train going eastbound, goes by and clears the line. There are two tracks all the way through town, but they only use one, from Ceader Street, out to Mt. Hope, most of the time. In other words, trains don't stop in Lansing enough for a hobo to get on. All the trains have to stop in Battle Creek to at least fuel up the diesel engines.
Good video thanks again , In Sanford North Carolina heading backup to Winchester Virginia Another night I'll be sleeping at the flying J in ruther Glen I'll watch your video again
Goodspeed Mr. Nichols, Thank you for all you gave, And all you have given.. R.I.P. Shoestring You are greatly missed.. ✌
I wonder how many train engineers go by and say, "Oh look, it's Hobo Shoestring!"
Everyone 😂
I’m a retired engineer and I must say you know your stuff Mr Shoestring.🇳🇿👍
PLEASED TO MEET YOU CHRIS........
I'm a retired carpeck and I've heard him get a few things wrong but he's generally pretty good
Of course wherever you retired from may have different terminology that only railroaders understand
We've definitely heard it all
Do you still have those engine ears?
Your Knowledge about Railroads, Railroad Related Equipment and Cities could fill a Book.🤔🧐👍
Good idea Ken. Could be very educational, interesting and entertaining.
Actually several books!
@@marcbyrnes293 he should write a book, i would love to read it
I was thinking the same thing. At first I was thinking that riding around on them day in and day out you probably learn a lot about their operations, but it seems to me like he knows more than just that. Possibly like he may have even worked for a railroad at one point in time? Either way, always interesting to listen and learn more from him
@@Ron4885 or UA-cam videos
These videos are very entertaining to me. Don’t know if it’s how frightening train hopping is or just the fact of seeing the world in a way no one else really gets to see it. Keep up the good work!
For me it would be seeing the backroads country and seeing just how big it is. I love it
That man was a welth of knowledge.
Watching this guy is like going on vacation, love it!
I'm a former railroader off the IC, from southern Illinois and I have to say I love watching your videos, you know your stuff and I wish you all the luck in the world! Stay Safe out there.
My dad worked for IC, started in 59 retired 43 years later, worked out of E. St. Louis area.
I worked at IC starting with CC in 1994....
Your knowledge of all things related to railroad operations is amazing. Stay safe out there!
Thanks
I live about 20 miles West of the CN yard Mark is at in this video.He came right by my house and everytime i cross those tracks i think of hobo shoestring heading West bound to Chicago. RIP God bless you Mark,rhanks for all your gifts of life and experience's.. see you on rhe West bound!👑🙏🗽🇺🇸🫡
Mr. Shoestring, I’ve watched at least 95% of all your videos. I’ve noticed that you are treated better by many people you meet on the rails than many people are treated in their own neighborhoods. Stay well. 09/24/2020
Men of the Iron road, paid and unpaid generally have a good understanding of life, and of death. It counts for a great deal more than average joe understands.
I learn a lot about trains from your videos Shoestring, thank you.
Your knowledge of the rails is awesome. Thanks
Love your videos and love what you do man! I’m right by the CN/CSX train yard over here in port Huron. It’s great to see you catching out of Michigan! Not many videos of people catching out in Michigan. Wishing you many more safe travels, and good health!
I have a fan by my bed to help me sleep, Shoestring has a locomotive lol!
You always do a great job of illustrating your story Mark.
You are so full of train knowledge every video I learn something new.
I wonder if alot of these engineers watch your videos and when they see you standing beside the tracks they're like " well we have a VIP aboard!" lol.
I'm from Battle Creek. Don't live there anymore, but was there myself yesterday. I know exactly where you were filming from. Love your channel!
do you know airsoft fatty?
From battle creek as well
2 years ago...... It's brilliant, and fascinating how you chose not to ride on a train with those Toxic cars. You earned my respect. !
Did you ever have the pleasure of meeting Stobe? Sure miss seeing him. You stay safe, Brother. Watch your top notch.
Couple of times before he was making videos.
Hello, just discovered your channel!!! I watch the Elkhart video, that was really cool seeing my old hood.Across the from the RR museum is a tavern in my younger days was our spot.One night playing pool in a snowstorm we looked out the window because a locomotive derailed on that curve and slid sideways with his lite shing right in window... what a trip..Thanks for great videos..
Hello Shoestring, love what you do, by Gods Grace keep them coming
This is my second video that I've watched. I'm now a fan . I love trains and I like your videos. My father rest in peace, worked in the railroad laying out tracks back in the forty's . Many years later I remember him telling his story's to us kids. Keep the videos rolling..I enjoy them very much.
I think you're an incredible person I think you have courage and a passion for life and I've learned so much about the railroad and you're pretty darn funny thank you
I’m a lifelong Battle Creek resident and I know all those spots you showed in your video, so cool to see familiar spots like that! Awesome that you passed through here. I used to work just up the road from the grain elevator. Stay safe and happy travels!
I learn so much from you Shoestring. Thank you.
Hey Shoestring, from Google Maps Satellite view, you can see the outlines of a roundhouse directly across the tracks from the three grain bins. The roundhouse is gone, but the outline is still there.
I seen that....neat
Thank you for teaching the world about trains Shoestring! You’re awesome and I like that you are so knowledgeable and safe! Happy New Year! Adding some “Cadillac Grainers” to my model railroad just for you!
I live literally a stones throw away from that yard. You are always welcome to a hot meal, shower and cot if you happen in Battle Creek again!
Great video. I always enjoy the longer narrated versions.
It looks like the eyepiece to your binoculars was glued on to the body, and the glue is what separated at impact. You ought to be able to repair it fairly easily.
Put the eyepiece up to the body and turn it until it is flush to determine the break pattern. This is critical in ensuring your binoculars focus properly once repaired. Once you know how to orient the eyepiece, apply a very small amount of Loctite Super Glue gel or your favorite plastics glue to the facing joint circumference on both the eyepiece and body. Gels are great because they set fast but not too fast. You’ll appreciate they extra few seconds they afford you to get things perfectly aligned. But you don’t want a glue that will set so slowly that things might come apart if you are not holding them. Hold the pieces together firmly until you are sure the glue sets. Try to avoid knocking the binoculars around as much as possible - easier said than done on a train, I'm sure - over the next several hours, and you should be good to go. That joint should be stronger than the original.
Happy bull-er-bird watching.
There’s always been something seductive about a train horn that’s made me wanna climb on
I can't wait for your next one. Looks like you're having a good trip.
Very good video Shoestring! Thanks man.
Most the years of my life I was a ‘biker’, not a 1%er but I was independently pretty serious. Anywho, by n by I discovered a great legit revenue stream is t-shirts. Your cool shirt reminded me, I bet you could generate some nice little income with a personalized tee with maybe a cool color picture of an F series locomotive or like that.
There’s a great small screen print company in Portland Maine we used to use, buy the shirts by the gross...
I’ll buy at least one.
Pete😎
Shoestring you are. A wealth of information. We really enjoy watching your channel. You have all of our best wishes and prayers. Have a good one. 👍👍👍❤️
Shoestring you been through my neck of the woods! Not a surprise based on how far you've traveled this great land! God bless you out on the line!
Yucca plant. I have them in my yard. You can eat the flowers. Happy Railing Shoestring! March 9 2021.
I had a model trainset as a kid. This video showed me what it's like to be onboard one of the freight trains, traveling as freight! Thanks for the view of the train rolling out of the yard and picking up speed. It looks like you traveled in that perch stretched out like first class!
Thanks for the view of Kellogg's. A cousin of mine with the same last name was CEO there back in the 50s.
Another great video! I admire your knowledge shoestring!! You have taught me so much about the railroad and life on the road and i can't thank you enough!! I hope you make it to Pa one of these trips...would b a honor and priveledge to meet you!! Thanks for all you do for us!! B safe
Great episode shoestring. Tons of knowledge gained, thank you.
Stay safe and warm out there on the rails Shoestring!! HIGHBALL!!🚦🚂🇺🇸
Years ago my Dad went up to Battle Creek from here in Georgia...
He was up there for training on Forklift maintenance...
I forget which company...
Thanks for sharing the ride...
Stay safe Brother ✌️
Hello Shoestring. Good to see you are rolling again. I really enjoy your videos. I saw a lot of America in my 34 years driving a truck, but I always liked the gritty trackside view that most people never get to see. I have hauled cereal out of Battle Creek. all the way to Georgia. Be safe and take care.
we need to start a page to get you that galaxy s20 man! who else is in?
My dream camera... Specs are remarkable on the camera
Im in!!
I’m in !
Count me in also. Give us a wish list hobo, when you get a chance. 📃📃📃❤️
@@GeorgeJansen
The new Samsung Galaxy S20 is my ultimate dream camera. The specs on the camera are absolutely amazing!
100X zoom lens and 8K studio quality videoing and I just learned how to use a editing app for making much better videos.
You really have a lot of knowledge on trains sir. I just started watching and I'm hooked
Pineapples growing the bushes of train yard , you had me laughing hard on that 1.
I figured out exactly where this is. So cool.
I’ve been at the livestock auction at the corner.
Very cool shoestring
This is one of the first videos i caught of shoestring's adventures! alway so fascinated with the stories and things he had to talk about and show! I think of hom Everytime I see a train roll by! RIP shoestring! hate that your gone but you are not forgotten!
Really enjoy these videos. Very inspiring and interesting and also relaxing to watch.
These short films are fascinating adventures to me. I grew up right beside the old L&N line and always wondered what it would be like to jump on a train. Now I get a firsthand glimpse.
Mr. shoestring your knowledge of the railway system is amazing.
You did pretty well dissecting and explaining that chemical mumbo-jumbo stuff contained in that tanker. Actually, hexamethylenediamine is a chemical that is used in the manufacturing of nylon plastic polymer.
So not the precursor they used in Breaking Bad then?
@@Peasmouldia Don't think so.
@@MrVosh-nj2lc Apparently it's methylamine in BB. And they got it wrong in the show, according to the Washington post. Thanks.
@@Peasmouldia Yep, methyl amine could be a precursor for the synthesis of methamphetamines (Meth).
Thanks for the yard shoutouts, I work in flint, saginaw, bay city yards. Always watching for one of your tags.
Saginaw I have a tag on south end of the yard but may be washed off now.
Lake State Railway area
Shoestring is enjoying life out there! This virus and everything makes me wanna train hop even more.
Mad respect to that guy who found you in the autorack, people say hobos are bad. In my honest opinion, the only true friend I would want to have is a hobo. One that doesnt care about who they are, what they are, and ones that have a very interesting experience.
100%
I enjoy watching Hobo Shoestring to why pay Rent and other Bills Hobo shoe string's life is a vacation .
Never trust a man who doesn't care about who/what they are :(id imagine that wasn't how you meant it but yea fake people are dangerous
You have been blessed with people who have cared for you.
Good to hear from you
Good to actually see your comment this late early early late? lol
Just found you videos cool ass hell Sir keep safe.if you ever get down to Georgia you have a worm house you can stay at God Bless 🙏
Your videos are soothing to the soul. I love what you're doing shoestring
the current CN logo is one of those that was made on a cocktail napkin on a plane, and it took!
New subscriber from Lorain OH! Been trying to catch up on your videos and I love them! Save travels brother!
Welcome aboard
B&O roundhouse. Passenger station. Former coal loading dock and the ore dock. Nickel Plate west of Ashland Ave. was also one of our playgrounds. Parked cabooses, etc. Had wood water elevated tank for filling steam locomotive tenders.
I remember when the car carriers were open!
It’s like am in school.
Be safe out there! 🚂
I learned a lot today! I’m out of Detroit, have never ridden CN, but you’ve given me done knowledge to go off of. Safe travels!
Long videos hell yeah. Stay safe string.
hexamethylenediamine is used in the production of nylon and some epoxy resins apparently. the diamine is referring to an amine at either end of the molecule. :)
I thought your id picture was an eyebrow on my screen. Lol
Yep, just tried to swipe a hair off my phone
You come to the Dearborn area and I’ll pay you a visit and help you restock
Same here buddy. You find yourself in the Cincinnati/Dayton corridor again, you ping me. My 15 year old grandson and I have been railfanning since he was a year old. Both of us love your video's! We'll be glad to help you with some resupplies.
Hey brother, anytime you need a shower at the Loves or Pilot or Flying J truck stops, you call or email me, I'll give you my rewards card# or phone number, and you can shower for free. My email address is derrinredfeather@gmail.com. I can give you my phone number via email.
I just discovered your videos. I'm a truck driver and I travel the country like you do. I never know where I'm going to go from one load to the next, but I've been doing it for 37 years. Goin' on 65 years old this spring and still goin' strong. I wish I had the freedom you do, but at least I can travel with you on the rails via your videos. The free showers are my way of sayin' thanks.
@@derrinredfeather ..you sir are a good guy offering him your support.
Always enjoy the videos. You're one knowledgeable dude. Bless you and be safe. Later.
Ride the rails in the sky dear Shoestring
Cereal City can be a fun place. Best of luck on your travels!
That's my hometown, my dad and grandpa worked at the GT yard, Recognize the bridge location in the beginning. Great video. Like to see the whole route to Chicago.
love your knowledge of train travel if anyone gets in a bind and needs to get somewhere bad gust watch old shoestring videos and get were you need to go .
If they'll listen.......lol
I would listen for Shure stay safe out there.
Decades of knowledge being shared.... Thank you
May the Great Spirit always protect you and happy trails forever!
"JB Weld it" I don't hear that very often when it comes to fixing things.
I was a small engine mechanic in a smell village. I found JB Weld on many crank cases and everywhere else. Amazing stuff.
My favorite Shoestring video I'm from Battle Creek.
Don't know how I missed this one. 😂😂😂😂😂Sam Elliot,John Wayne and Clint Eastwood use to come and have a drink with you, that was a good one. You know your train yards as well as train direction and what rails they'll be on. Mark your knowledge is amazing. To bad they don't have train yard tours, you would be perfect to give it.
"I'm saving up for a Samsung 20A with the 8K camera" LMAO. Only in America in 2020 can a "hobo" have a Smartphone, Paypal Account & UA-cam channel!! And I mean that in no way as a slight buddy. I think it shows just how much people take for granted just how good they have it in this country. If you're willing to put forth the effort, you can do pretty much anything you want, including riding the rails! Keep on entertaining us amigo, and stay safe out there.
Paypal and UA-cam is technically free..... so.....
@@SilmarilS79 I think you missed my point bro.
Technology has enabled alot of people to have a better quality of life. Now days a homeless person or a hobo can utilize youtube to earn a living just making videos of their daily lives. Stuff like this would have been a fantasy just 20 years ago. Now it's reality.
@@yt-xe8ws It is fascinating. To your point, not only was it fantasy 20 years ago... it amazes me that some people video document illegal and quasi illegal activities (not saying our buddy Mr. Shoestring here is doing or ever has done anything illegal) apparently without consequence and it has such a huge audience! To a certain extent, we can live vicariously through these simple experiences each of us post on line. I have always wanted to take a ride on a freight train, but the threat of injury, violence, getting arrested, getting lost and waisting too much time have always deterred me. Shoestring makes me realize..."what else do we have?" I may change my mind after watching more, but this morning? I wish I had a little more of whatever it is that Shoestring has.
@@YankeeinSC1 the first thing that was popular on youtube was bum fights. There is always interest in what is outside of what is acceptable in the mainstream. What that is just changes over the years.
🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃 Shoestring 🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 Wow my home state. now I'm in Corpus Christi TX.
God bless you brother, I would love to take a ride and get away from everything forever. -Brian NY
Hey Shoestring 👋 good video enjoyed this one ...😇✨☕
Absolutely fascinating
I've probably got this wrong, but that chem in the tanker might be the precursor they used to make meth in Breaking Bad.
Loved the video fella, nice one.
I look forward to every video he has on the way to be watched. I got laughing when you said those vines were getting wrapped around your feet. You then said "Dang it, Shit" it just struck me funny my friend. I have to say you lead an adventurous life hopping trains. Its definitely a way to see the country and you have several friends who admire what you're doing. God Bless You my friend and I personally keep you in my prayers daily for safe travels!
Wow that's awesome i live in Battle Creek have for 23 years ..
I find it interesting how many abandoned truck trailers you see around these abandoned industrial buildings. One day they are useful and have a resale value and then one day they don't. I always assume the reefer broke and someone intended to fix it and then it was simply left to rot.
Enjoyed this one shoestring! I rode that line once on a diverted Amtrak train 49/48 by way of the Porter Branch to Chicago. Nothing like train travel!
Be safe!
I love how the closed caption says "music" when the train squeaks or blows it's horn.
Just educational and informative.the railroad community looks after shoestring keep it going.
Love the channel New Subscriber here!! To Many More Brother and safe travels 🍻🍺🍺🍻
Passing through Merrillville IN. Close to home.
The band Grand Funk Railroad was based on the Grand Trunk Railroad in Flint, Michigan...
Love the long videos! I just sent you $25
The pellets are also used in bottles and extrusion. Nice CN power right there as well.
You just answered My question on charging your phone or Video camera ,Thanks . Be Safe .
I live in battle creek Michigan I know exactly where you're talking about
What road is that highway overpass he shows at 0:30
@@johnb8637 Emmett St
Wasn’t expecting to hear a Bay City shout out!
Same I'm from Bay City I randomly stumbled across this channel and wasn't expecting a hometown shout out 😂
there is a also a nice siding for the amtrack service in lansing by potter park coaling tower. its usable both directions and plenty of jungle.
Those are the same tracks. The problem is when the only time a westbound train will stop by the zoo, is when it has to wait for another train going eastbound, goes by and clears the line. There are two tracks all the way through town, but they only use one, from Ceader Street, out to Mt. Hope, most of the time. In other words, trains don't stop in Lansing enough for a hobo to get on. All the trains have to stop in Battle Creek to at least fuel up the diesel engines.
Good video thanks again , In Sanford North Carolina heading backup to Winchester Virginia Another night I'll be sleeping at the flying J in ruther Glen I'll watch your video again
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