This is why I admire BNSF. First thing you notice is the road bed. It’s immaculate. In the middle of no where too. No other railroad has roadbed like that. Secondly, the volume of trains and how fast they are moved and how closely together they follow behind one another just shows the proficiency and hard work of the railroad and it’s crews. BNSF is just awesome.
I spent 18 hours in a crappy little motel waiting out a sand storm in Ludlow 43 years ago. I was on my motorcycle heading to Little Rock, Arkansas. Crappy little town but great video. Love railfanning!!
Watching for the umpteenth time under my new YT name. This is the very first video that got me hooked on railfanning. And this one is still the gold standard. A work of art.
Awesome video. You found some great POV's to shoot from, and also encountered some friendly crews who greeted you with some horn action. Ludlow is one of the best places in CA to railfan if you can put up with the extremes in the weather. It can get damn hot out there, as well as pretty cold. Good job all around!
As a Brit watching this it just blows my mind! Mind you, tip to tip England is only 603 miles as the crow flies. Somewhat different to the States! Fantastic vid - thanks for sharing. (p.s. Had some fab holidays in the States, very hospitable people!)
Your 603 miles includes Scotland. England, tip to tip is much less. This is why the English view Scottish independence as a disaster: they see "England" as much diminished.
Wow, thats incredible dispatching. And a very well presented video. Love the location and sound too. Big thumbs up. Lost count of how many times I watched this now.
I like the Distant Signal channel. He often tapes the defect detector reports and replays them, so you get the axle count and train length down to the feet.
Holy Toledo. This is the coolest awesome video I've seen in a long time. Great work on this u did. Wish I was out there seeing all of this nonstop movement and recording them myself. Glad I watched this because I sure enjoyed very much.
It is not fanciful to compare your use of the camera lens with the use of the paintbrush and oils by the great masters of the art world. The sequence at 11:00 of two trains moving left to right on the screen, but heading in opposite directions is superb. The concluding sequence is stunning with the rear of the train rounding the curve in the dying rays of the sunset leading your eye to the front of the train - so far in front. While the operation of the railway is an essential part of the whole, it was a poor second to the images captured by your camera work. My appreciation of your art knows no bounds.
i love this videos fo lots of large freighters trhough deserts or similar places. in spain is difficult to see this, because of the lenght of the trains and the places where they pass
That's how you run a railroad! 4:00 minutes into the video and I can tell this is a hell of a video Great light, great actions and great shots, Robert!
Spectacular. Great job! The BNSF separates the south 40 from the north 40 at MP 231.6, but not like that. I see trains all the time, yet here I am on a very cold blustery day in central Texas watching trains. Go figure. Again, great job!!!!!
They use signalling, high red, high green, let's them know what sidetrack they should wait on and what train has priority over the other. Sometimes they wait for hours on a sidetrack until the other train passes, clearing the way until the next time.
This is awesome. On Google Earth I found the exact hillock you were perched on. I've never seen this kind of action outside of a train yard. I had no idea there were consecutive passing sidings out in the boondocks like this.
That's a great spot, and you captured what we on the rail call a "cluster." Railfans love them, but railroaders hate them. What you have is a bunch of trains held for 2 Z's. It's what the customer pays for, but challenging to dispatch.
Not to mention the fact that if you want to do business in Communist China, you must have a Chinese partner who owns 51% of the company, as well as giving up all the secrets a foreign company has spent millions in r&d thus saving and catapulting the Communists into the fast lane.
@@davidbarnett9312 I own since 2010 3 companies in Mainland China and all of them are held 100% by foreign companies. What you describe is not the reality...
It’s disgusting. As a teenager in the 90’s. I watched the Baby Boomer generation absolutely DESTROY the manufacturing economy in the states and ship everything over seas all in the name of some yuppie on wall streets stock portfolio.
This is the best railfan I've seen yet. Wonder how he was able top hop to place to place to video all of this. That dispatcher really had his hands full. Sincgranazation is the key. Just like air traffic controler.
The Z trains are Highest priority and they have the JB Hunt containers and UPS trailers. The customers pay a premium to get their goods across the country faster than regular S train customers so, yeah, the lower priority trains wait. I'm an engineer on a commuter train and sometimes I wait for a Z.
Warren Buffett paid an estimated 26 billion dollars for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe would be in a Cell so I wish them good luck it's a very beautiful railroad to watch operate the backbone of America along with the Union Pacific CSX and I hope this helps our economy rebound
Ludlow is about 52 rail miles east of Barstow, CA on the BNSF Needles Subdivision. It is accessible from I-40, and has a small motel that caters to railfans. The reason it is so busy is because this is BNSF's mainline between Barstow and Chicago. Barstow hosts BNSF trains to and from the Bay Area via the San Joaquin valley/Mojave line, as well as Los Angeles and the ports of San Pedro, San Diego and Long Beach. This guarantees a steady stream of trains day and night.
The scenery is starkly awesome. The length of the trains defies the imagination. The railroading knowledge and skill needed to make sense and safety of all of this is amazing.
Stunning !! Only the Americans can put on a show like this !! And why have I got the line from that old song " little boxes, little boxes made of ticky - tacky " going round in my head ??!!
I live in Midland TX and we have these container train going and coming. From Allen Tx to Long Beach, CA and back. Pushers and middle helpers, art deco on the cars, 1 or 2 hobos!!!!
Sometimes one just has to have a little luck, and WOW! Did you hit the jackpot! What a traffic jam, and what luck to be there when it happened. Superb video, well done!
This is why I admire BNSF. First thing you notice is the road bed. It’s immaculate. In the middle of no where too. No other railroad has roadbed like that. Secondly, the volume of trains and how fast they are moved and how closely together they follow behind one another just shows the proficiency and hard work of the railroad and it’s crews. BNSF is just awesome.
Imagine each one of those cans being transported on our highways. Rail transport is the best!
We need it all.
How do you think those containers get to and from the railhead?
Same, cheaper, safer and more weight
It's just wonderful!!!
Awesome video! It’s pretty cool too see that much train traffic on just two sets tracks! Very cool!
Muito legal estes vídeos
Ja andei de trem mais esse e magnífico 😂
All of those "BEEP BEEP , CLICK CLICK" shows that he is a multi tasked rail fanner. Shows respect of both video and pictures. Nice video again! lol
One of the best train videos I've ever seen. Unbelievable amount of cargo.
I spent 18 hours in a crappy little motel waiting out a sand storm in Ludlow 43 years ago. I was on my motorcycle heading to Little Rock, Arkansas. Crappy little town but great video. Love railfanning!!
Nothing has changed in Ludlow!🥴🍻
This really is a show .By golly never been so excited watching so many trains in such an amazing location .
Just stumbled on this epic video - mesmerizing! Now I wanna find that spot and watch the real thing. Thanks for sharing!
Watching for the umpteenth time under my new YT name. This is the very first video that got me hooked on railfanning. And this one is still the gold standard. A work of art.
Awesome video. You found some great POV's to shoot from, and also encountered some friendly crews who greeted you with some horn action. Ludlow is one of the best places in CA to railfan if you can put up with the extremes in the weather. It can get damn hot out there, as well as pretty cold. Good job all around!
Outstanding video. I could watch this all day!
,sbhi
As a Brit watching this it just blows my mind! Mind you, tip to tip England is only 603 miles as the crow flies. Somewhat different to the States! Fantastic vid - thanks for sharing. (p.s. Had some fab holidays in the States, very hospitable people!)
Same for the UK. I travel there whenever I can.
Your 603 miles includes Scotland. England, tip to tip is much less. This is why the English view Scottish independence as a disaster: they see "England" as much diminished.
This is why we don’t have high speed train because the land is massive here, they rather to take airplane.
butthurt8 and the turns you can’t go fast on turns
I can't believe there were so many trains in one place. Thanks for sharing and for outstanding filming. Hope to see more from you.
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Wow, thats incredible dispatching. And a very well presented video. Love the location and sound too. Big thumbs up. Lost count of how many times I watched this now.
Hands down the best train video I've ever seen!
Отличное видео, смотрел много раз. Как на другой планете...) Спасибо автору...,
This is one long train. It's amazing how two locomotives are able to move all those cars. It look like a mile long
Just amagine what the axel count would've been?
I like the Distant Signal channel. He often tapes the defect detector reports and replays them, so you get the axle count and train length down to the feet.
This is an AWESOME place for watching trains. You are so lucky. I'm JEALOUS
Great long shots showing several trains moving at the same time. Very impressive. Thanks.
Awesome train video! I love to see trains rolling through the desert scenery.
This video has got to have the most containers I have ever seen, stack trains rule... thanks for posting.....
Holy Toledo. This is the coolest awesome video I've seen in a long time. Great work on this u did. Wish I was out there seeing all of this nonstop movement and recording them myself. Glad I watched this because I sure enjoyed very much.
It is not fanciful to compare your use of the camera lens with the use of the paintbrush and oils by the great masters of the art world. The sequence at 11:00 of two trains moving left to right on the screen, but heading in opposite directions is superb. The concluding sequence is stunning with the rear of the train rounding the curve in the dying rays of the sunset leading your eye to the front of the train - so far in front. While the operation of the railway is an essential part of the whole, it was a poor second to the images captured by your camera work. My appreciation of your art knows no bounds.
Who needs signals when you can see the train you'll be meeting! :) Awesome scenery and video! GREAT JOB! I love that part of the country.
i drove past this yesterday coming home from bakersfield its cool too see!
You have some of the best train videos on youtube! Great locations to and I cant believe the amount of trains in one area at a time!
This video gives new meaning to the term " wild wild west " wish I could have been there!
Peaceful Mind Only this time it's BNSF and not notorious outlaws like Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with a six gun
Artistic and almost ballet-like! Absolutely stunning! Great job, Trains232!!!
Busy Busy Busy Transcon Route. Too many meets to count. Great Video!!
i love this videos fo lots of large freighters trhough deserts or similar places. in spain is difficult to see this, because of the lenght of the trains and the places where they pass
if I would see this in person, I would need a box of tissues, this is so cool!!!!
Wow!!!! Amazing video!!!!! I´ve fallen from de chair!!! That´s something impossible at Spain.
Greetings from hundreds of kilometres!
That's how you run a railroad! 4:00 minutes into the video and I can tell this is a hell of a video Great light, great actions and great shots, Robert!
Spectacular. Great job! The BNSF separates the south 40 from the north 40 at MP 231.6, but not like that. I see trains all the time, yet here I am on a very cold blustery day in central Texas watching trains. Go figure. Again, great job!!!!!
They use signalling, high red, high green, let's them know what sidetrack they should wait on and what train has priority over the other. Sometimes they wait for hours on a sidetrack until the other train passes, clearing the way until the next time.
Dean Propps lomba telanjang
now i want to go here just to sit there for a day and watch the trains seems like they get a good flow through here
Right place at the right time!!! 😎👍👍👍
Disfruto mucho con estos largos trenes que me hacen recordar cuando yo viajaba. Excelente vídeo.
I spent a few night in Ludlow.
I was driving truck.
I would like to take a vacation one year and spend some actual time here checking out the town.
This is awesome. On Google Earth I found the exact hillock you were perched on. I've never seen this kind of action outside of a train yard. I had no idea there were consecutive passing sidings out in the boondocks like this.
can you point it out. i can't seem to locate it?
Wow, what amazing shots! I definitely haven't seen this many trains in one place before...awesome video!
Wow Non stop!
LOL! Not one Amtrak...All day? Great views; Landscape, Trains, Wildlife. Awesome show! Thanks.
Great camera work. Thanks for sharing.....
Awesome! Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Another great video!
That's a great spot, and you captured what we on the rail call a "cluster." Railfans love them, but railroaders hate them. What you have is a bunch of trains held for 2 Z's. It's what the customer pays for, but challenging to dispatch.
A good example to illustrate the massive amounts of China imports coming into this country and to consider how many US manufacturing jobs are exiting.
Cast Away not for long. MAGA
Not to mention the fact that if you want to do business in Communist China, you must have a Chinese partner who owns 51% of the company, as well as giving up all the secrets a foreign company has spent millions in r&d thus saving and catapulting the Communists into the fast lane.
Cast Away - Thats not how economics work you dumb fuck
@@davidbarnett9312 I own since 2010 3 companies in Mainland China and all of them are held 100% by foreign companies. What you describe is not the reality...
It’s disgusting. As a teenager in the 90’s. I watched the Baby Boomer generation absolutely DESTROY the manufacturing economy in the states and ship everything over seas all in the name of some yuppie on wall streets stock portfolio.
Great job getting such a cool video of all these trains passing by.
You guys are great, thanks again.
I love the welded rail. So smooth!
That is how goods should be moved around a country.Viva American railways.
Ah!!Si nous avions de tels trains de fret en France!!!
This is the best railfan I've seen yet. Wonder how he was able top hop to place to place to video all of this. That dispatcher really had his hands full. Sincgranazation is the key. Just like air traffic controler.
Nice video, probably one of the best I've seen on here!
Superb events. Another great video.
Great video!!! I counted at least 10 meets. Fantastic shots!
Great video! That is one incredible area!
The Z trains are Highest priority and they have the JB Hunt containers and UPS trailers. The customers pay a premium to get their goods across the country faster than regular S train customers so, yeah, the lower priority trains wait. I'm an engineer on a commuter train and sometimes I wait for a Z.
Dennis Shogren I would suppose J.B. Hunt does contracts for mail and express like DHL, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service
Aweosme bro! I remember watching this as a young kid!
Excellent Video,man what i would give for a day like that!! Thanks
Warren Buffett paid an estimated 26 billion dollars for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe would be in a Cell so I wish them good luck it's a very beautiful railroad to watch operate the backbone of America along with the Union Pacific CSX and I hope this helps our economy rebound
Ludlow is about 52 rail miles east of Barstow, CA on the BNSF Needles Subdivision. It is accessible from I-40, and has a small motel that caters to railfans. The reason it is so busy is because this is BNSF's mainline between Barstow and Chicago. Barstow hosts BNSF trains to and from the Bay Area via the San Joaquin valley/Mojave line, as well as Los Angeles and the ports of San Pedro, San Diego and Long Beach. This guarantees a steady stream of trains day and night.
we shot 9-10 trains, 3-23-2018 in 75 minutes, standing in one spot east of Ludlow. and missed many more just driving from barstow.
where is the hotel? where were you standing for these video's? thanks amazing.
Looks like my flat screen and toilet paper is on its way.
BUNCHofxs Yea true and I bet you cut the trucker off in traffic who deliver your goods to the stores lol!
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Heck with counting meets. I couldn't count the trains without noting the lead unit numbers.
This is one of the best videos ive seen in a while. GOOD JOB!
The scenery is starkly awesome. The length of the trains defies the imagination. The railroading knowledge and skill needed to make sense and safety of all of this is amazing.
i love driving down i20 watching the meets and the dpus pushing up those hills.
I can't imagine the amount of truck traffic taken off the highway the trains here represent. Fun video!
that's what I wonder sometimes when I am able I always count how many containers are being transferred by train
Stunning !! Only the Americans can put on a show like this !!
And why have I got the line from that old song " little boxes, little boxes made of ticky - tacky "
going round in my head ??!!
super video,,,İstanbul, Türkiye..., thanx...
I love it was fantastic video,
Am I the only one who thinks 11:30 looks like a model train set? Amazing footage!
Did I count 7 trains there? Excellent.
Absolutely awesome video and even better ending as you listen to and watch the train go into the distance. A*
Gracias compa por tus videos y tiempos de esa época .....super bueno .
Fantastic Video ! ! Look forward to seeing more...
THATS THE LONGEST TRAIN I EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE !!!!!!!!!
Thank you for sharing....Absolute great video
Breathtaking!
Wow this is really amazing There’s a lot of train’s
i sure wish i could see for miles like that around here. too many trees! ahh!
Thanks very nice stuff
FANTASTIC, VERY GOOD.
BNSF ALWAYS MAGNIFICENT,LOVE YOU ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL!
wow. cant wait to take a trip out west
id say this meet is biger bigger than all the meets I've experienced
12 crosses - a very lucky and very good scene
I wish i could get shots like that around where i live. You have an execillent view of it all. Great video for sure
I live in Midland TX and we have these container train going and coming. From Allen Tx to Long Beach, CA and back. Pushers and middle helpers, art deco on the cars, 1 or 2 hobos!!!!
wow! Awesome catches!
Loving it,,,From Pakistan.
Looks like this video was captured from a small hill about 1/2 mile west of downtown Ludlow on the north side of the track. Nice vantage point.
Immer wieder schoen anzusehen.
Wohl das beste Video bei YT :)
Einfach ein Volltreffer!
Great video, one of the best I have seen.
Incredible video! You have to wonder why train crews like that last one leave the nose door open. It must cause a total cyclone in the cab at 70 MPH.
Great work!! I love the lighting.
Now that's alot of traffic! Excellent video!!!!
also love those B40-8W's!!
Very nice video.
Good vantage point to film from
Total awesome video!Great!Thumbs Up
Well polished tracks!!
Sometimes one just has to have a little luck, and WOW! Did you hit the jackpot! What a traffic jam, and what luck to be there when it happened. Superb video, well done!
Very nice footage!