I'm the local history buff railfan, more in the way of knowing what used to be where and what trains used to run. There's a lot of history to see out there if you look for it. All the way from depots to whistle posts and old rail (I found one near me rolled in 1950). It can be a good way to stay occupied between trains. I think there's two groups of good stuff, one is what you actively seek out (HUs, etc), the other being stuff that you see and think "that was nice," then forget about until you edit.
Great video! One that type that we frequently see is the car foamer, he just sits in his car reading the newspaper and pulls up as close to the tracks as possible, but never gets out of his car. We've encountered this type all over - Jenny
I was just about to head off for the night but I saw the thumbnail at the last second and I just had to watch it just before 1AM. Totally worth it to catch another installation in this great series.
I call every modern engine that is made by GE (the dashes included) a Gevo because I don’t care and respect them enough to call them by their real name.
"I though everything was a GEVO at one point..." I went through a phase like that with the first locomotive I learned the name of, the General Electric U23C, it was somewhere around 2004 and 6 yo me had just learned the name of one of the most prolific locomotives in the area I lived from the first rail modelling magazine I had ever bought, so everything was a "U23C", some 3 months later I'd learn what was a SD40-2 and it all went down hill from there, so much so that now 17 years later I am the "encyclopedia" type railfan...
One I can sort of think of is the railfan who will wait an eternity for a stopped train in their line of sight to move. But I think that’s sort of all of us to an extent. I think you got most of the good examples at this point.
nice vid! tho im missing the "visitor-railfan", its basicly a railfan from another country/ far away state that either goes nuts or just always wants the best shot because he/she has never seen the equipment on the train
Pardon me indeed for being so blunt, but I do believe the "vest railfan" is one of the few that my coworkers talk about often on the job and sadly, rightfully so, part of the reason why a few of them hate railfans or "foams" as we call them.
When I was younger, I was 100% a noob, so I live near CSX Territory, when whenever i'd see one, id called YN2 the "little bit of blue" and the YN3 "full blue" then about 2 years ago i found out what they actually are lol
Great video! There are ES44s in Heritage 2 colors, running on BNSF. These are the oldest gevos on the roster (built between 2002-2005). Also we have a good mix of 4 axle EMDs running on the Thayer Subdivision, although most have been rebuilt into GP25s (this includes GP50, GP40X, and a handful GP40 car bodies), plus there's still a few GP39E (former GP30s and GP35s) that show up every once in a while too. So we still have a fairly decent selection of motive power here.
The same thing happened to me with GEVOs. 2 or 3 years ago when I first got into real trains, GEVOs were my favorite locomotive and I hated EMDs. Dash 9s, AC44s, everything that looked like a GEVO was a GEVO. I literally would call an ET44 a "broken ES44AC".
Oh man! I can relate to the safety vest fans so much! I really had no idea there was such a thing until this video hahaha because I encountered one in Folsom California back in September of 2020 when I was wearing *real* PPE (acronym for orange reflective gear for those who may not know) with a hardhat doing *real WORK* (directional drilling) next to an old rail line that the city and many other bureaucratic entity's told us very clearly wasn't active because believe me we DONT want to get hit by trains LoL. Soooo the first day around 1pm, out of nowhere, this Railfudd comes up in shorts and white Tshirt with a beer gut -wearing a small orange vest he must have got at Lowes telling us we need to move away from the track because of safety and all this other bullsht. He had a phone to his ear the whole time but was literally talking to no one, we were pretty sure he was just using it as a security blanket; probably wanted to look like he was talking to his supervisor or someone but most people know what a person really acts like when they're really talking to someone on a phone. It was the moment after we asked a little further from our end about his credentials that he got to the part of his fudding around where he said _"I'ma..a volunteer"_ we all just looked at each other like Oooo000HHH *F_CK* So after a mild/short confrontation he walked back to his truck that had amber lights on for some reason and said he'd be back later. *_We never saw him again in that entire year long job lmao._* This all went down at the T section next to a raillroad crossing on White Rock Rd and Placerville Road, theres a small road connected called Payen Road. I was just taking a moment standing in the shade being cast by that solar panel when he came out of nowhere with that Railfudd crap LoL! Oh man good times. 🤣
2:52 would be “always caught off guard” i used this guy because i used to live literally a 5 minute walk from the tracks and the closest signal and my scanner gets the DD aswell so id wrangle up all my gear in a hurry to get out there but always missed the leaders by 30 seconds
I am guilty of being a fallen flag rolling stock foamer, especially when it comes to Burlington Northern Equipment However, I my defense, I live east of the Mississippi River so seeing a singular piece of BN equipment is very rare for me.
Another great video, I wear a saftey vest because I'm out at night sometimes where there's no light at all,for my personal saftey,I don't trespass unless I'm unaware of private property
Fun fact when I was a noob. A while ago I couldn’t remember unit names so if they had 4 wheel trucks I called them babies. I remember more but throughout my group they still call them babies because it was just something that stuck 😅 I have many other hobbies I put time into so I still don’t know them all
"I thought everything that wasn't an EMD was a GEVO." lmao same. I have a railfanning friend (shoutout to him even though he probably doesn't know my channel) so he got me into trains. I learned anything that says ES is a GEVO, not every single GE one. I thought GEVO was just another way of saying a GE Locomotive. (it's not) I also named almost every single GE locomotive an AC4400C6M and every EMD an SD40-2. After a brief episode of Train Talk, I manage to identify them to some extent. Still can't identify GPs or some SDs so yay 🎉
I am an absolute noob 😂 I cannot identify any locomotive except for an SD40-2. For the next one you should do the steam train nerd, as what I am you can pretty much name any steam locomotive and talk about it for hours but can’t make a single diesel to save his/hers life.
New subscriber here. I don't know how you feel about Thomas fans, but here I am. Not much of a filming railfan, but I do like to watch the Union Pacific and BNSF trains go by. Usually what we get down here in Texas. Occasionally I'll catch an old, rusty bay window caboose on the freight trains that go by. Lots of oil trains too. I recommend you come to the Galveston Railroad Museum. There's a Santa Fe streamliner there, and sometimes it's put to use for touring. Don't know what specific unit it is though. Love your vids man! Keep up the great work!
I am guilty of all of these: Forgetting gear (forgot my battery which made the car drive a whole hour longer) False identifying locomotives (i still can’t identify standard cabs besides a few emds)
I remimber when the es44ac radiator boxes used to throw me off because of how it looks 😂😂good times, love the new BN unit for your profile has alot of detail
Museum Railfan here. Been volunteering at IRM for three years now, definitely enjoying it. I mean, how else can you be in charge of a steam-hauled Pullman train? I mean, I still like the modern railroads, but they don't have enough electric locomotives or cabooses.
@BNSF1458 For the next video: The type of Railfan that doesn’t cut the video until the train does an entire crossing sequence for the crossing behind him.
I recently got certified with personal track safety with metrolinx and there’s def a whole whack of stuff while working near the track then just a safety vest. If we are working within 30ft from the tracks (aka right of way or ROW), it’s not just safety vest but also full body hi vis clothing. Also mandatory safety steel toe boots and hard hat. A track safety foreman must also be present in some job sites to warn us if a train is coming. Also any vehicles that are also present within the ROW must have flashing amber beacon. So those who just wore a safety vest for “authority” is kinda just showing off and not actually used for safety as they claim. Tho I will understand if your parked on the road tho. The rules also differ too depending on which rail company you are working with.
I wouldn't really consider myself to be a museum railfan, while I do prefer steam engines over diesel and electric engines, if I see a diesel I like then I just take put my phone and take a picture of it. I only take photos of the engines, I don’t record videos of the entire train.
Back in the day when I was a total noob, I had heard of the huge BN SD40-2 fleet, but I didn’t actually know what an SD40-2 looked like. It took me forever to realize that a triclops SD60M was not an SD40-2…….
i say be happy you live close to any rails. from my home i must drive 60 miles to find live rails. sure about 50 is s seldom used branch line serving one customer. a cannery.
So you said this series is done of course, however what about the kind of railfan that expresses their commentary in videos with a talking/moving locomotive?
Have you covered the crashing railfan? Basically the crashing railfan loves railroad related tragedies. And probably wish's to catch a loaded tanker truck get hit by a train one day and kill 5000 people in the area. And they will talk about trains crashes forever and ever and ever. My cousin is this type of railfan... His railroad knowledge is kinda... Well it has room for improvement. Bro he didn't know southern pacific 4449 had sisters. Btw I love railroad museums.
even tho its over i still git from other ones that one railfan that railfans all over the state. pretty much just goes every where. in the state even if its near a 2 mile long shoreline that one railfan that goes to the same spot everyday because their parnets cant take them somewhere. pretty much goes to the same spot everyday cause their parnets are tired of going to different spots. (Edit) the speed foamer only goes to spots that go 60 and more doesnt care if its 1 train a day just cares about speed
I wear a high vis vest because people called the cops on me even though I had permission to be on the property I was because people thought I wanted to kill myself because it happened a lot around me
The only train that runs through here is a two engine lashup containing of two weird sd59 locomotives. Only train I’ve ever caught, only train I ever will catch, sad. Gevos are hella rare here.
I saw SD40-2 on the title and clicked instantly I remember when I was 7 watching unstoppable on Netflix and I was so damn stupid I thought all American diesels were SD40-2s or SD40-3s cuz my dumbass thought that 777 and 767 were SD40-3s
I am a safety vest railfan and the heritage hopper foamer, although the safety vest one is not true for me, I don't trespass even if I am wearing a safety vest.
Thanks for 6,000 subscribers guys! Really appreciate it
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no problem
Your welcome! Your channel is awesome and you are awesome! 😎 👍
Yessir! Keep up the great work bro.
Np dude!
Your welcome
I'm the local history buff railfan, more in the way of knowing what used to be where and what trains used to run. There's a lot of history to see out there if you look for it. All the way from depots to whistle posts and old rail (I found one near me rolled in 1950). It can be a good way to stay occupied between trains.
I think there's two groups of good stuff, one is what you actively seek out (HUs, etc), the other being stuff that you see and think "that was nice," then forget about until you edit.
Great video! One that type that we frequently see is the car foamer, he just sits in his car reading the newspaper and pulls up as close to the tracks as possible, but never gets out of his car. We've encountered this type all over - Jenny
Your railcar numbers are 867 and 5309.
I was just about to head off for the night but I saw the thumbnail at the last second and I just had to watch it just before 1AM. Totally worth it to catch another installation in this great series.
Haha, thank you!
I call every modern engine that is made by GE (the dashes included) a Gevo because I don’t care and respect them enough to call them by their real name.
LOL
@@BNSF1458 😆
You should make a video of your least favorite to most favorite EMD locomotives because of your love for EMD. This was a GREAT video by the way!
OH! Wait you already made EMD tier list! My bad!
@@SPRailfan4449 I would like to make more of a discussion style video sometime though, I like the idea!
@@BNSF1458 Yeah! I think it would be great!
"I though everything was a GEVO at one point..."
I went through a phase like that with the first locomotive I learned the name of, the General Electric U23C, it was somewhere around 2004 and 6 yo me had just learned the name of one of the most prolific locomotives in the area I lived from the first rail modelling magazine I had ever bought, so everything was a "U23C", some 3 months later I'd learn what was a SD40-2 and it all went down hill from there, so much so that now 17 years later I am the "encyclopedia" type railfan...
The “sd40-2” one used to be me soooo much lmfao I miss those days of not really caring what was on a train, it was just fun to watch.
Lol I’m with you on the Gevo part. Ended up doing my own research to learn I was wrong on so many levels on so many things 💀
One I can sort of think of is the railfan who will wait an eternity for a stopped train in their line of sight to move. But I think that’s sort of all of us to an extent. I think you got most of the good examples at this point.
nice vid! tho im missing the "visitor-railfan", its basicly a railfan from another country/ far away state that either goes nuts or just always wants the best shot because he/she has never seen the equipment on the train
The way that the scanner interrupted you lol😂
Pardon me indeed for being so blunt, but I do believe the "vest railfan" is one of the few that my coworkers talk about often on the job and sadly, rightfully so, part of the reason why a few of them hate railfans or "foams" as we call them.
When I was younger, I was 100% a noob, so I live near CSX Territory, when whenever i'd see one, id called YN2 the "little bit of blue" and the YN3 "full blue" then about 2 years ago i found out what they actually are lol
Great work once again! I’m not really a museum type of railfan, don’t go to them that often either, maybe one day.
Great video! There are ES44s in Heritage 2 colors, running on BNSF. These are the oldest gevos on the roster (built between 2002-2005). Also we have a good mix of 4 axle EMDs running on the Thayer Subdivision, although most have been rebuilt into GP25s (this includes GP50, GP40X, and a handful GP40 car bodies), plus there's still a few GP39E (former GP30s and GP35s) that show up every once in a while too. So we still have a fairly decent selection of motive power here.
i knew we needed a part 4 lol, also like the new PFP!
I love how you just heard the scanner and mid video just went to catch a train😂
I wouldnt mind sd40-2s if their horns werent so damn loud 😭 Amazing video!
The louder the better...unless you're a crew member on one lol
The same thing happened to me with GEVOs. 2 or 3 years ago when I first got into real trains, GEVOs were my favorite locomotive and I hated EMDs. Dash 9s, AC44s, everything that looked like a GEVO was a GEVO. I literally would call an ET44 a "broken ES44AC".
I love the new pfp! You did a great job (just the cowcatcher going out of the circle kinda messes with my mind a bit)
Same I need to fix it lol
lmao i was just like that thinking every emd standard cab was an sd40-2
Good video. I'm a big fan of old classic rolling stock. Some of those freight cars are as much as 40 years old.
To be fair, the older trains have a lot more charm than the modern trains in my opinion.
Hey wearing a railroad vest is goated well as long as you don't trespass. And dude that railfaninng part the most relatable thing in this video😂
I'm the signal guy, history guy, horn guy, the scanner guy, and the know-it-all
“Anything other than EMD is a Gevo” 4014 IS A GEVO
!!!!!!!
I love that you just cut away and almost missed videoing a train, and then came back on like nothing happened! lol 😂
Thought some people might like that little addition lol
@@BNSF1458 Yep! That was very funny! Lol 😂
The railfan that doesn't have a tripod camera and just records using their phone.
It's me. I'm that railfan.
When I was a noob, to find the difference between a gp and a sd, I would look at the distance from the end of the long hood to the hand rails
Another Great Video Man! I see you got your logo in more detail! I think it looks Great! Keep Up the Great Work! 👍👍👍
Bro that train that came by midway through the video really did say "Speaking of H2 AC44s."
Oh man! I can relate to the safety vest fans so much! I really had no idea there was such a thing until this video hahaha because I encountered one in Folsom California back in September of 2020 when I was wearing *real* PPE (acronym for orange reflective gear for those who may not know) with a hardhat doing *real WORK* (directional drilling) next to an old rail line that the city and many other bureaucratic entity's told us very clearly wasn't active because believe me we DONT want to get hit by trains LoL. Soooo the first day around 1pm, out of nowhere, this Railfudd comes up in shorts and white Tshirt with a beer gut -wearing a small orange vest he must have got at Lowes telling us we need to move away from the track because of safety and all this other bullsht. He had a phone to his ear the whole time but was literally talking to no one, we were pretty sure he was just using it as a security blanket; probably wanted to look like he was talking to his supervisor or someone but most people know what a person really acts like when they're really talking to someone on a phone. It was the moment after we asked a little further from our end about his credentials that he got to the part of his fudding around where he said _"I'ma..a volunteer"_ we all just looked at each other like Oooo000HHH *F_CK* So after a mild/short confrontation he walked back to his truck that had amber lights on for some reason and said he'd be back later. *_We never saw him again in that entire year long job lmao._*
This all went down at the T section next to a raillroad crossing on White Rock Rd and Placerville Road, theres a small road connected called Payen Road. I was just taking a moment standing in the shade being cast by that solar panel when he came out of nowhere with that Railfudd crap LoL! Oh man good times. 🤣
2:52 would be “always caught off guard” i used this guy because i used to live literally a 5 minute walk from the tracks and the closest signal and my scanner gets the DD aswell so id wrangle up all my gear in a hurry to get out there but always missed the leaders by 30 seconds
I’ve got one. The desperate railfan. Will take video of a train in the car in a McDonalds drive through
Good to see the new 1458 already in use
Railfan scene! BNSF1458 is a good railfanner! Next time dont miss the train mate. Subscribed! Also heres the timestamp for the scene: 2:52
I am guilty of being a fallen flag rolling stock foamer, especially when it comes to Burlington Northern Equipment
However, I my defense, I live east of the Mississippi River so seeing a singular piece of BN equipment is very rare for me.
Another great video, I wear a saftey vest because I'm out at night sometimes where there's no light at all,for my personal saftey,I don't trespass unless I'm unaware of private property
His Minnesotan accent is the best thing ever “flayg” I was there at one point, still am
Fun fact when I was a noob. A while ago I couldn’t remember unit names so if they had 4 wheel trucks I called them babies. I remember more but throughout my group they still call them babies because it was just something that stuck 😅 I have many other hobbies I put time into so I still don’t know them all
"I thought everything that wasn't an EMD was a GEVO."
lmao same. I have a railfanning friend (shoutout to him even though he probably doesn't know my channel) so he got me into trains. I learned anything that says ES is a GEVO, not every single GE one. I thought GEVO was just another way of saying a GE Locomotive. (it's not)
I also named almost every single GE locomotive an AC4400C6M and every EMD an SD40-2. After a brief episode of Train Talk, I manage to identify them to some extent. Still can't identify GPs or some SDs so yay 🎉
An orange vest A hard hat and a clipboard or toolbox will get you a lot of places
I am an absolute noob 😂 I cannot identify any locomotive except for an SD40-2. For the next one you should do the steam train nerd, as what I am you can pretty much name any steam locomotive and talk about it for hours but can’t make a single diesel to save his/hers life.
That was I nice video! I would classify myself as a noob😂 great video!
For this one I am probably the history buff also congrats on 6k subs
Please do different types of railroad employees. Please
New subscriber here. I don't know how you feel about Thomas fans, but here I am. Not much of a filming railfan, but I do like to watch the Union Pacific and BNSF trains go by. Usually what we get down here in Texas. Occasionally I'll catch an old, rusty bay window caboose on the freight trains that go by. Lots of oil trains too.
I recommend you come to the Galveston Railroad Museum. There's a Santa Fe streamliner there, and sometimes it's put to use for touring. Don't know what specific unit it is though.
Love your vids man! Keep up the great work!
I am guilty of all of these:
Forgetting gear (forgot my battery which made the car drive a whole hour longer)
False identifying locomotives (i still can’t identify standard cabs besides a few emds)
My favorite series in the world! lol
Thanks 😂
Looks like your locomotive got a glow up!
It sure did
I remimber when the es44ac radiator boxes used to throw me off because of how it looks 😂😂good times, love the new BN unit for your profile has alot of detail
1:11 Oooo, I've seen a train wrapped in that Kansas City Sothern heritage livery before in California
Museum Railfan here. Been volunteering at IRM for three years now, definitely enjoying it. I mean, how else can you be in charge of a steam-hauled Pullman train? I mean, I still like the modern railroads, but they don't have enough electric locomotives or cabooses.
Hey you finished drawing out the BN locomotive you use in your videos!
Great vid! Those BNSFs are awesome!
What about that type of rail fan that doesn’t even get out of the house and just watches other peoples videos for the fun of it
@BNSF1458 For the next video: The type of Railfan that doesn’t cut the video until the train does an entire crossing sequence for the crossing behind him.
Great video!
As a safety vest railfan. I only wear mine when I'm next to the road
Yeah that's understandable
I'm here to watch heavy machines at work. If a mcdonalds worker can wear a hair net for 8 hours, I can wear a safety vest for 2, 3, or 4 hours
I recently got certified with personal track safety with metrolinx and there’s def a whole whack of stuff while working near the track then just a safety vest.
If we are working within 30ft from the tracks (aka right of way or ROW), it’s not just safety vest but also full body hi vis clothing. Also mandatory safety steel toe boots and hard hat. A track safety foreman must also be present in some job sites to warn us if a train is coming. Also any vehicles that are also present within the ROW must have flashing amber beacon.
So those who just wore a safety vest for “authority” is kinda just showing off and not actually used for safety as they claim. Tho I will understand if your parked on the road tho. The rules also differ too depending on which rail company you are working with.
Well im one of those "vest Railfan", but i always keep more than enough distance to the track and never traspassed on forbiden proberty
I wouldn't really consider myself to be a museum railfan, while I do prefer steam engines over diesel and electric engines, if I see a diesel I like then I just take put my phone and take a picture of it. I only take photos of the engines, I don’t record videos of the entire train.
Back in the day when I was a total noob, I had heard of the huge BN SD40-2 fleet, but I didn’t actually know what an SD40-2 looked like. It took me forever to realize that a triclops SD60M was not an SD40-2…….
Great video.
nice video 1458
I was the foamer but I'm definitely the local,the horn guy.
2:53 lol
Welp...
I want all Trains to have ROCKET FUEL AND FRIGGIN NITRO!!!!!
When everyone says the wide cab Locomotives are all C44-9W
I wear a safety vest when I railfan. I don't wear it to trespass,Or to lord it over other railfans. I wear it for safety.
yay new video on my birthday!!!
Happy birthday!
ALREADY 6K TOO!? Nice.
i say be happy you live close to any rails.
from my home i must drive 60 miles to find live rails. sure about 50 is s seldom used branch line serving one customer. a cannery.
That time when bro railfan Was better than me lol
So you said this series is done of course, however what about the kind of railfan that expresses their commentary in videos with a talking/moving locomotive?
Pretty sure that's just me 😂
Have you covered the crashing railfan? Basically the crashing railfan loves railroad related tragedies. And probably wish's to catch a loaded tanker truck get hit by a train one day and kill 5000 people in the area. And they will talk about trains crashes forever and ever and ever.
My cousin is this type of railfan... His railroad knowledge is kinda... Well it has room for improvement. Bro he didn't know southern pacific 4449 had sisters. Btw I love railroad museums.
Well I call them the "crashing railfan"
Forgot "the type that derails trains for clout".
Tbh I'm probably the biggest crossing fan you'll ever meet
I'm so getting one of them uniden scanners and we can railfan everyday in the Minnesota area. The truck will be faster then walking or biking.
Uniden is my favorite scanner brand. I can't wait to drive as well, I keep missing stuff now that I can't ride my bike to the tracks.
@@BNSF1458 for sure, I've been working with cobra and uniden my whole life.
The one who thinks any “special unit” is a heritage unit.
Love the new 1458 art!!
i used to think geeps were only the highhood geeps, anything with 4 wheel trucks that wasnt a highhood was an sd
that "guy who forgets stuff" is 100% targeted at me
0:08 i can very much relate to this
Im the one who constantly forgets gear lol I always forget my tripod
“Fallen Fleg”
i come back
When I was a noob I heard the term SD70 and I thought it was every locomotive so I called a GP15 an SD70 infront of like 5 other railfans
even tho its over i still git from other ones
that one railfan that railfans all over the state. pretty much just goes every where. in the state even if its near a 2 mile long shoreline
that one railfan that goes to the same spot everyday because their parnets cant take them somewhere. pretty much goes to the same spot everyday cause their parnets are tired of going to different spots.
(Edit) the speed foamer only goes to spots that go 60 and more doesnt care if its 1 train a day just cares about speed
Pulled a 1458 in the snow today 💀
What 💀
cool vid!!!!!
1:08 WOW Relatable.
wail fawns
I wear a high vis vest because people called the cops on me even though I had permission to be on the property I was because people thought I wanted to kill myself because it happened a lot around me
1:20 yep. that’s me. i have left my sd card at home AND THE FAULTY SD CARD MAKES ME SO MAD
Yeah that's me I do go to museums and wear a rail safety vest
The only train that runs through here is a two engine lashup containing of two weird sd59 locomotives. Only train I’ve ever caught, only train I ever will catch, sad. Gevos are hella rare here.
You aren't missing much
I saw SD40-2 on the title and clicked instantly I remember when I was 7 watching unstoppable on Netflix and I was so damn stupid I thought all American diesels were SD40-2s or SD40-3s cuz my dumbass thought that 777 and 767 were SD40-3s
I am the noob railfan and like you said, before i watched this video i genuinely thought any dash 8, 9 or any standard cab GE diesel was a GEVO
I am a safety vest railfan and the heritage hopper foamer, although the safety vest one is not true for me, I don't trespass even if I am wearing a safety vest.