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.
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.
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!
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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 ??!!
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!
Westbounds into Barstow sometimes may be held out online due to the yard congestion therefore the dispatcher tries to hold them hold them back at a location that won't get a log jam going. It happens quiet often especially during heavy traffic and when a yard has to work the train on arrival so they run other priority trains around that do not have yard work at the crew change yards. Also the destination of the train may be having mechanical or congestion problems so they hold em back.
Hell, It's like giant worms crossing the dessert.. Brilliant quality, scenery, video'ing and compilation.. The best.. Thanks so much for sharing. Makes our UK trains look like toys and I love then too.
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!!!!
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.
I was just looking at the google map "satellite" view for this immediate area.............. I don't know man, can someone explain to me where the "sitting trains" are. The one @ 2:08 looks longer than the siding that it can fit into.
You mean the War Bonnet with BNSF on the side? I have seen several around the Denver area, and it might be that since they had trouble getting the crews to strip the Bonnets and paint them, they figured to just put BNSF on there and get them on the road. I talked to a guy at the shops several years ago who grinned and told me they just never seem to find time to paint them.
Is that Interstate 40 in the background???? Sure looks like it since I have traveled on it many times in this area. And watch your step when filming in this area since it is mojave green rattlesnake country and that snake is one of the most venomous in this country.
Yes it's I-40. I passed through Ludlow in September 1992 and saw allot of train action. I had never seen such wide open spaces and desolation as I did then. The temperature was 110 deg that day.
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.
Awesome video! It’s pretty cool too see that much train traffic on just two sets tracks! Very cool!
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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.
This really is a show .By golly never been so excited watching so many trains in such an amazing location .
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
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!
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.
One of the best train videos I've ever seen. Unbelievable amount of cargo.
Great long shots showing several trains moving at the same time. Very impressive. Thanks.
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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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!🥴🍻
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.
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.
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
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!
Awesome train video! I love to see trains rolling through the desert scenery.
Outstanding video. I could watch this all day!
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Artistic and almost ballet-like! Absolutely stunning! Great job, Trains232!!!
This is an AWESOME place for watching trains. You are so lucky. I'm JEALOUS
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
Disfruto mucho con estos largos trenes que me hacen recordar cuando yo viajaba. Excelente vídeo.
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!!!!!
This video has got to have the most containers I have ever seen, stack trains rule... thanks for posting.....
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.
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Hands down the best train video I've ever seen!
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.
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 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
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?
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.
Отличное видео, смотрел много раз. Как на другой планете...) Спасибо автору...,
Very nice video train, love from Vietnam.
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.
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.
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!
Busy Busy Busy Transcon Route. Too many meets to count. Great Video!!
Great job getting such a cool video of all these trains passing by.
Am I the only one who thinks 11:30 looks like a model train set? Amazing footage!
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
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.
Wow!!!! Amazing video!!!!! I´ve fallen from de chair!!! That´s something impossible at Spain.
Greetings from hundreds of kilometres!
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.
Great video, one of the best I have seen.
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.
Great camera work. Thanks for sharing.....
Thank you for sharing....Absolute great video
Awesome! Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Another great video!
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
if I would see this in person, I would need a box of tissues, this is so cool!!!!
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
Wow, what amazing shots! I definitely haven't seen this many trains in one place before...awesome video!
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
Absolutely awesome video and even better ending as you listen to and watch the train go into the distance. A*
Great video!!! I counted at least 10 meets. Fantastic shots!
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 ??!!
Aweosme bro! I remember watching this as a young kid!
You guys are great, thanks again.
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!
I love the welded rail. So smooth!
Gracias compa por tus videos y tiempos de esa época .....super bueno .
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!!! 😎👍👍👍
Great video! That is one incredible area!
Nice video, probably one of the best I've seen on here!
That is how goods should be moved around a country.Viva American railways.
i drove past this yesterday coming home from bakersfield its cool too see!
Westbounds into Barstow sometimes may be held out online due to the yard congestion therefore the dispatcher tries to hold them hold them back at a location that won't get a log jam going. It happens quiet often especially
during heavy traffic and when a yard has to work the train on arrival so they run other priority trains around that do not have yard work at the crew change yards. Also the destination of the train may be having mechanical
or congestion problems so they hold em back.
Excellent Video,man what i would give for a day like that!! Thanks
Hell, It's like giant worms crossing the dessert.. Brilliant quality, scenery, video'ing and compilation.. The best.. Thanks so much for sharing. Makes our UK trains look like toys and I love then too.
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 Non stop!
LOL! Not one Amtrak...All day? Great views; Landscape, Trains, Wildlife. Awesome show! Thanks.
It's just wonderful!!!
Great work!! I love the lighting.
Immer wieder schoen anzusehen.
Wohl das beste Video bei YT :)
Einfach ein Volltreffer!
Loving it,,,From Pakistan.
Robert i don't know how you do it but your videos are the BEST on youtube. This action at ludlow proves it!
super video,,,İstanbul, Türkiye..., thanx...
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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Wow this is really amazing There’s a lot of train’s
Fantastic Video ! ! Look forward to seeing more...
I wish i could get shots like that around where i live. You have an execillent view of it all. Great video for sure
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.
Now that's alot of traffic! Excellent video!!!!
also love those B40-8W's!!
WOW! Thats one busy stretch of track...lol. Great catch..too many trains to count:-D
That's the transcontinental route from Los Angeles to Chicago
I was just looking at the google map "satellite" view for this immediate area..............
I don't know man, can someone explain to me where the "sitting trains" are. The one @ 2:08 looks longer than the siding that it can fit into.
I remember seeing 1:25 a long time ago and being amazed of how many trains there was
Very nice video.
Good vantage point to film from
Wow what a show this video awesome and one of the best.
Heck with counting meets. I couldn't count the trains without noting the lead unit numbers.
Holy crap. What's with the 2 tank cars with the power move and gp60?
Superb events. Another great video.
You mean the War Bonnet with BNSF on the side? I have seen several around the Denver area, and it might be that since they had trouble getting the crews to strip the Bonnets and paint them, they figured to just put BNSF on there and get them on the road. I talked to a guy at the shops several years ago who grinned and told me they just never seem to find time to paint them.
Im not hard to please! I think you did a great job! Thanks for sharing! Is Ludlow near the Ship container port coming out of San Diego?
Total awesome video!Great!Thumbs Up
That was a busy afternoon. I've been to this location quite a bit and posted many video's I've taken from there .
FANTASTIC, VERY GOOD.
This is one of the best videos ive seen in a while. GOOD JOB!
Great camera work! Excellent Video!
Is that Interstate 40 in the background???? Sure looks like it since I have traveled on it many times in this area. And watch your step when filming in this area since it is mojave green rattlesnake country and that snake is one of the most venomous in this country.
Yes it's I-40. I passed through Ludlow in September 1992 and saw allot of train action. I had never seen such wide open spaces and desolation as I did then. The temperature was 110 deg that day.
T232, awesome catch. Lots of trains in a short time.