as someone who lives in LA i see stack trains from BNSF and Union Pacific but i bet you have seen a train from ever class I replied tuesday july 23rd 2024 1:42 - 1:45 pm PDT (pacific daylight time)
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@@jacobt1731Wayzata can take double stacks. BNSF is in a budget this year and is not planning to hire more crews, despite running out of people nearly everyday. There were no crews in Willmar to get these trains, so they were sent this route as Superior had a surplus of crews. Amtrak and a few other Z trains were rerouted on the Wayzata/Morris/Moorhead, leaving the terminal depleted of crews for the trains shown in this video.
I regularly see double stacks on the Albert Lea sub in manifests, but full intermodal trains are also rare! Seeing them on the Hinckley tickled my brain
I was planning on seeing one of these trains until the cops were called on me and the 911 dispatcher contacted the railway and told them to stop the train, the sad thing is the train was in sight when it stopped.
Also, for the second train I realized that the signals on your route are just like mine (where they turn red when a train is coming and turn green after until another train comes)
Those are called block signals, they are dark until something enters the block. Electronic signals are the worst in my opinion, as they’re always on no matter what. Interlocking signals (located at busy junctions) are the same
I can see why these are marked as high priority. They have a combination of Amazon, FedEx, and UPS trailers on them; all of which are time sensitive cargo.
When the merger happened, all the sudden there were full intermodal and mixed freight with intermodal trains in front of my house (cpkc Davenport sub), sometimes, even the incredibly rare coal train, every year the christmas train goes by, and more recently, cp 2816.
Brother this is how I felt when anything came on my neck of the woods (The Yates City Subdivision in Central IL). I wish your videos would've been around during those times, I was so young and it was the early days of UA-cam (2010-12). Watching these gives me such a nostalgia back to those times, I even still use the same camcorder i used back then for my current videos on this channel I'm commenting with, you are the goat!
I can't log into the account anymore, but this is it; youtube.com/@perfectpitch999?feature=shared They eventually closed the power plant and stop using the line aside for storing different railcars. I feel lucky for have taken the time to be one of the few to catalogue the small line, as I'm sure many of us also feel with our own.
What is absolutely insane to think about for me and the BNSF derailment that happened is that it could have possibly been a lot worse. Very few if any people have noticed this but that day's eastbound Empire Builder was running about 3 hours late, the only reason it was late was because of a freight train that had mechanical issues in Chester, Montana. What's insane is that if you do the math, if the Empire Builder was running on time it would have been in a 10-mile proximity to where the derailment happened, it could have been the Amtrak instead of that intermodal, I thank god and his angles, because I do not think this is a coincidence.
That kinda reminds me of the time BNSF had to send their Z Trains through the Union Pacific Spokane Trackage due to heavy track maintenance in Sandpoint Idaho. It was very interesting to see!
Nice! Although it's a daily run csx i146 (north Baltimore ohio to Columbus ohio bulk intermodel) Which heads to ridgeway on one amongst the many lines to toledo. South from ridgeway is the scottslawn sub named so due to connecting to the fertilizer plant. Beforehand I had next to never seen anything on these lines despite there up to ten trains per day due to most of these being early morning or later night runs. However one day I was heading back west from Columbus noticing a headlight on the high Iron visible from interstate route 33 near the cemetery at oakdale apon getting to the crossing the gates drop down to guard for i146. The leading unit isn't great just another es44ac however I never thought I'd see anything in that area let alone a high priority intermodel
No one is safe from the intermodal invasion now. thats all I see. To the point where I foam over a manifest or a grain train LOL. But hey, a train is a train.
Oh, wow...I've used that crossing in Big Lake many times over the years (172nd St. a couple miles east of town). Not the best sight lines, but it's pretty quiet, which is a rarity on Staples
i'm not a railfan so tell me if this is rare but i saw a train with about 3 cars, stopped on a freight train only line right by the historic, no longer functioning train station in my city, that said "Federal Railroad Administration Office of Safety" and "Gate Restraint Measurement Vehicle" on it. i also asked the guy that was standing on the side of the train (he had a green vest on and looked important) and he said that the train comes by every 4 or so years. what did i just witness, and was i lucky?
Im in the same boat (Kinda). I railfan on the UP Cosastline, which by itself barley gets any freight traffic, And we NEVER get intermodles, only thing we get are baretables. (Also nice luck on getting double stacks on your line)
We see these northern transcon high priority intermodal trains in the Chicago area not long after they depart or just before they arrive at Cicero. Nice angles of capturing these trains. Of all the different types of trains intermodals are our favorite
I’m proud of you bro! You have worked with the local trains and trying to catch rare locomotives and now you finally catch the big guns! Nice job! 👍 😎🫡
I was in Michigan and I saw a CSX ES44AH at the station 15 feet away from me, I’m from an area that gets no freight traffic and no Amtrash trains either so that was cool
Brainered getting intermodal is a sight to see. Brainered gets 2 coal trains per day and thats about it. I heard in the future BNSF would start shipping intermodal to the twin ports…
I live on the BNSF San Bernardino Sub Division and UP LA Sub Division double stacked Z, Q, and S trains are vary common with a few daly mix freight trains aka 2-4 for both subs. So I in joy seeing the different variety of trains that are not just double stacked trains.
Nice video man! Im in a place where every single type of train passes on my sub and almost everyday! Glad you could see something you wouldnt see usually!
I never have a shortage of intermodal traffic here in Reading, PA. Plenty of domestic and marine containers. Plenty of very high priority traffic to and from the NYC area as well as some traffic to and from the Philly area.
I'm curious where you got the 14 years since the last stack train. I live on the Brainerd Sub and I have seen stack trains about every 2 to 3 years usually due to an incident or track work on the Staples Sub. It definitely became more unusual after the double tracking was restored between Big Lake and St Cloud. You are correct the southern detour is by far the preferred route but even the Empire Builder made an appearance or two on the northern detour (last time about 2002). I doubt we'll ever see that again with the Brainerd Sub being dark territory except at the passing sidings and Amtrak's reluctance to running through a no PTC area.
I got to see some of these trains coming through Duluth! I am heading to Fargo next weekend for an airshow. I will likely upload some railfanning videos!
Not sure if these reroutes will be happening next week, I’ll definitely make a look over there if they still are but I doubt it, mainly going up to Duluth for the iron range etc
It is interesting as something I see all the time as a daily occurrence And something I don't take much interest in, something other people don't get a see.
bro i remember seeing a intermodal along the Thayer North sub (where i live is southwest mo), and the whole train only had jb hunt containers, so get ready with all jb hunt all the time. 😐 (as long as it keeps up)
Surprisingly, I never knew you didn’t get intermodal trains on your subdivision until now.
Same lol
Duluth doesn't have an intermodal terminal.
@@Rickybnsf everyone knows that 💀
@@Rickybnsfyes they do.
@@ConrailQuality775where? (Not being a pain in the a$$ im genuinely curious and not from there)
This is great footage. Like the combo of drone and ground. Also your timing of switching angles is impeccable. Excellent job.
As someone who lives in Chicagoland and sees double stack intermodal trains every time I go railfanning, I am glad you got to see them too.
as someone who lives in LA i see stack trains from BNSF and Union Pacific but i bet you have seen a train from ever class I
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I agree. In my area we have daily intermodal trains too, never thought much of em
@@ConrailQuality4121 "feel My pain
Chesterton Indiana is great for Trainspotting in that area
There is no longer any doubt in my mind that you are my favorite railfan/foamer of all time. Your drone shots are always good, sometimes great, and a few select ones are truly stunning...works of art even. All of your camera work and the angles you shoot are so good and fun to watch. And as an added bonus, your narration is both humorous and interesting. Keep it up!!
So BNSF had to use a longer detour route because of a lack of crews! Imagine that!💀 Seriously though, nice catch, man!
inaccurate
@@ConrailQuality775 he literally just said it at the beginning of the video!
@@ConrailQuality775 is correct
There is a clearance restriction on the Wayzata that doesn't allow double stacks
@@jacobt1731Wayzata can take double stacks. BNSF is in a budget this year and is not planning to hire more crews, despite running out of people nearly everyday. There were no crews in Willmar to get these trains, so they were sent this route as Superior had a surplus of crews. Amtrak and a few other Z trains were rerouted on the Wayzata/Morris/Moorhead, leaving the terminal depleted of crews for the trains shown in this video.
@rapidsrailfan3604 ah gotcha
I was told there was a height restriction on the line. That also sounds like typical big orange 🤣
Well that sucks when that BNSF intermodal train derailed
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I regularly see double stacks on the Albert Lea sub in manifests, but full intermodal trains are also rare! Seeing them on the Hinckley tickled my brain
I was planning on seeing one of these trains until the cops were called on me and the 911 dispatcher contacted the railway and told them to stop the train, the sad thing is the train was in sight when it stopped.
When the BNSF Mendota sub floods the UP Line Near me gains like 15 trains and amtrak.
oi the messed up white balance looks very very very good
That first Z passes me in Pasco everyday
Very cool coverage, always sweet to see unusual train movements, on a certain segment!
Pretty solid catches made there. Glad you had the opportunity to see something so rare in your neck of the woods.
While derailments are never fun to hear about
It’s really cool that your line was chosen for the detour
Also, for the second train I realized that the signals on your route are just like mine (where they turn red when a train is coming and turn green after until another train comes)
Those are called block signals, they are dark until something enters the block. Electronic signals are the worst in my opinion, as they’re always on no matter what. Interlocking signals (located at busy junctions) are the same
@@BNSFrailfan01 my route has electronic signals though
@@UnstoppableRailfan Oh you have the ones where they are green in both directions until something enters the block?
@@BNSFrailfan01 yes
@@UnstoppableRailfan I saw some of those up on the CN iron range, they were kind of annoying
I can see why these are marked as high priority. They have a combination of Amazon, FedEx, and UPS trailers on them; all of which are time sensitive cargo.
When the merger happened, all the sudden there were full intermodal and mixed freight with intermodal trains in front of my house (cpkc Davenport sub), sometimes, even the incredibly rare coal train, every year the christmas train goes by, and more recently, cp 2816.
Brother this is how I felt when anything came on my neck of the woods (The Yates City Subdivision in Central IL). I wish your videos would've been around during those times, I was so young and it was the early days of UA-cam (2010-12). Watching these gives me such a nostalgia back to those times, I even still use the same camcorder i used back then for my current videos on this channel I'm commenting with, you are the goat!
I can't log into the account anymore, but this is it;
youtube.com/@perfectpitch999?feature=shared
They eventually closed the power plant and stop using the line aside for storing different railcars. I feel lucky for have taken the time to be one of the few to catalogue the small line, as I'm sure many of us also feel with our own.
5:17 I could listen to this horn all day
What is absolutely insane to think about for me and the BNSF derailment that happened is that it could have possibly been a lot worse. Very few if any people have noticed this but that day's eastbound Empire Builder was running about 3 hours late, the only reason it was late was because of a freight train that had mechanical issues in Chester, Montana. What's insane is that if you do the math, if the Empire Builder was running on time it would have been in a 10-mile proximity to where the derailment happened, it could have been the Amtrak instead of that intermodal, I thank god and his angles, because I do not think this is a coincidence.
And I just noticed I was actually reading the schedule wrong, however, it would have still been a lot closer than it was.
Depends on the cause of the derailment. Was it an equipment related derailment? If so, it wouldn't have caused an amtrak derailment.
I wish my line still had intermodal, we lost ours back in 2014
BNSF must have used both detours, I caught Amtrak 8, Z-CHCSSE, and an eastbound gas train on the Wayzata sub.
Same here
It's not unusual to see oil trains on the wayzata sub you can't ship everything on the high line.
@@maxrshelltrack7443 Tanker traffic on the Wayzata sub is basically exclusively ethanol traffic
That kinda reminds me of the time BNSF had to send their Z Trains through the Union Pacific Spokane Trackage due to heavy track maintenance in Sandpoint Idaho. It was very interesting to see!
Nice! Although it's a daily run csx i146 (north Baltimore ohio to Columbus ohio bulk intermodel)
Which heads to ridgeway on one amongst the many lines to toledo. South from ridgeway is the scottslawn sub named so due to connecting to the fertilizer plant. Beforehand I had next to never seen anything on these lines despite there up to ten trains per day due to most of these being early morning or later night runs. However one day I was heading back west from Columbus noticing a headlight on the high Iron visible from interstate route 33 near the cemetery at oakdale apon getting to the crossing the gates drop down to guard for i146. The leading unit isn't great just another es44ac however I never thought I'd see anything in that area let alone a high priority intermodel
No one is safe from the intermodal invasion now. thats all I see. To the point where I foam over a manifest or a grain train LOL. But hey, a train is a train.
Oh, wow...I've used that crossing in Big Lake many times over the years (172nd St. a couple miles east of town). Not the best sight lines, but it's pretty quiet, which is a rarity on Staples
i'm not a railfan so tell me if this is rare but i saw a train with about 3 cars, stopped on a freight train only line right by the historic, no longer functioning train station in my city, that said "Federal Railroad Administration Office of Safety" and "Gate Restraint Measurement Vehicle" on it. i also asked the guy that was standing on the side of the train (he had a green vest on and looked important) and he said that the train comes by every 4 or so years.
what did i just witness, and was i lucky?
I started filming trains on the Wayzata sub a few days ago, no wonder every time I went there, a train came by.
I have these every day down here on the NS Pittsburgh line, I’m honestly surprised it’s been so long for an IM to pass that place. Great catch man!
Im in the same boat (Kinda). I railfan on the UP Cosastline, which by itself barley gets any freight traffic, And we NEVER get intermodles, only thing we get are baretables.
(Also nice luck on getting double stacks on your line)
On my subdivision I only have GO Trains running on it and only one CN local and my subdivision is the Oakville subdivision in Canada.
We see these northern transcon high priority intermodal trains in the Chicago area not long after they depart or just before they arrive at Cicero. Nice angles of capturing these trains. Of all the different types of trains intermodals are our favorite
When the MRL trestle collapsed in Montana we were taking trains different directions on our sub too.
We in new england got that single stack NS thingy that goes 10 mph, so I guess we built like that.
I see stack trains in edmonds all the time. I caught a SD75M with a stack train, but luckily there’s a lot of SD75M‘s at Edmonds
I’m proud of you bro! You have worked with the local trains and trying to catch rare locomotives and now you finally catch the big guns! Nice job! 👍 😎🫡
I remember the first time seeying an intermodal train passing thru at high speed, it was amazing
Imagine your chilling then a fricking train goes flying by when there is barely anything (I think)
Same thing happened on the same day down here on the Emporia Sub in Ottawa, KS when a grain train derailed, forcing all traffic onto the Topeka Sub.
5:20 The horn sounds nice
crazy cuz stack trains is all i see in my subdivision, Manifests are considered rare
Saw my first stacks on the Morris Sub aswell during Grant County fair weekend! Was the only train at all through there on the 20th though.
I was in Michigan and I saw a CSX ES44AH at the station 15 feet away from me, I’m from an area that gets no freight traffic and no Amtrash trains either so that was cool
I saw Amtrak running the Moorhead at 6AM on a Monday💀 was cool to see.
Weird to think that in some parts of the country double stacking is a rare occurrence.
Brainered getting intermodal is a sight to see. Brainered gets 2 coal trains per day and thats about it. I heard in the future BNSF would start shipping intermodal to the twin ports…
That guy thinks he's a locomotive
Man why can’t they just borrow some crews from northtown and give me some good trains for once man
I live on the BNSF San Bernardino Sub Division and UP LA Sub Division double stacked Z, Q, and S trains are vary common with a few daly mix freight trains aka 2-4 for both subs. So I in joy seeing the different variety of trains that are not just double stacked trains.
As someone who lives along the Morris sub...
Gosh darnit Wilmar
Nice video man! Im in a place where every single type of train passes on my sub and almost everyday! Glad you could see something you wouldnt see usually!
This is kinda the same for the Austin Subdivision. We used to get many more intermodals but unfortunately we only get like 2 everyday now.
Reminds me of when Creston got WAYYY more traffic from the recent flooding.
imagine if this happended to inside out💀
0:09 it goes through Idaho?
I never have a shortage of intermodal traffic here in Reading, PA. Plenty of domestic and marine containers. Plenty of very high priority traffic to and from the NYC area as well as some traffic to and from the Philly area.
I'm curious where you got the 14 years since the last stack train. I live on the Brainerd Sub and I have seen stack trains about every 2 to 3 years usually due to an incident or track work on the Staples Sub. It definitely became more unusual after the double tracking was restored between Big Lake and St Cloud. You are correct the southern detour is by far the preferred route but even the Empire Builder made an appearance or two on the northern detour (last time about 2002). I doubt we'll ever see that again with the Brainerd Sub being dark territory except at the passing sidings and Amtrak's reluctance to running through a no PTC area.
I got to see some of these trains coming through Duluth! I am heading to Fargo next weekend for an airshow. I will likely upload some railfanning videos!
I havent seen a stack train throught Kinder on the DeQuincy sub since 2005😢
Not sure if these reroutes will be happening next week, I’ll definitely make a look over there if they still are but I doubt it, mainly going up to Duluth for the iron range etc
Drone shots look great. Do you ever go directly above the train or cross over the track, or is that a no-no?
Spaceball 1 ahh trains
Nice catch man i almost never see intermodal trains (i only see them in the greater Los Angeles area)
It is interesting as something I see all the time as a daily occurrence
And something I don't take much interest in, something other people don't get a see.
Finally intermodals in the Hinkley!
I like your videos you make and your logo and your drone shots absolutely love them ❤
Great video! Do you have a license part 107 to fly your drone? Or do you just not worry about that stuff?
I wish they had double stacks in Australia
I saw one of those intermodel trains on the line around that time.
Edit: I missed this video when u posted it, sorry 😢
Wow that is incredible ! The third or fourth one had an FXE ace 3rd or 4th out but these are great catches
babe BNSF 1458 uploaded a new video *let* *the* *foaming* *begin*
You know whats also rare? Seeing a single freight train on the Union Pacific coastline 🙃
No need to apologize and video is appreciated
The lack of crews excuse was a line of BS. I sat available all day while they ran trains through. Timeslips
Living near St. Louis I see it all. You name it I’ve seen it on a train.
I don’t even get to see freight trains
the 2nd train was not Q-TACCHC.
Fun to see these through Deerwood
If you want to see more of this in the future, just cause another derailment lol
we get those EVERYDAY here california, im SICK of seeing them…
Good catch. Greetings from Port Saint Lucie, Florida !
Hey, I'm from Switzerland and would also like to take vids in a quality that good. What camera are you using? Thanks!
If these are higher priority trains, doesn’t this mean that the Z trains get max authorized speed rather than just the freight speed?
bro i remember seeing a intermodal along the Thayer North sub (where i live is southwest mo), and the whole train only had jb hunt containers, so get ready with all jb hunt all the time. 😐 (as long as it keeps up)
For me, double stack trains are the norm if I go to New York.
double stacks are a punishment not a treat
I also don’t get intermodal on my subdivision
That's awesome man! What drone did you use for your shots?
Thank you! DJI mini 3
Yeah I saw that I was up in Holyoak and thought wtf!
Tbh were I railfan the stacktrains are the local 😭 there about 3 a day😭😭
What drone are you using?
ARE THERE LONGER TRAINS????!?!?!?!
Nice catches. I never see stack trains
5:18 I wish I could hear that in irl sadly I live in the uk 😢
What’s the best way to find out train symbols
about time ur deadline got some trains running
m i n n a s o d a
I never get manifests I mainly get intermodals autoracks and the typical ACE trains
Did you seriously just call the Amtrak the Amtrash😂😂😂😂😂