ANOTHER BITES THE RAIL IN ASHLAND! TWO 3-WAYS, TWO TRICLOPS TOGETHER, RARE RED MANE NS ENGINE!
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- Опубліковано 22 бер 2024
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Anybody else just get all excited when they see people boarding a train??? ❤❤❤❤❤
Boarding or disembarking, they all have stories/experiences/memories of their trip. I too enjoy it. Looking at the live counts when Amtrak comes thru a few of our locations, many other viewers do too.
@@joepeach997 Especially those lucky, lucky guys in Chattanooga!! They'll remember that forever I'll bet.
Yep. And I have traveled twice by Amtrak in the last year, for a total of nine trains. (All between Harrisburg, PA and Miami, FL; I live somewhere in between). Before I watched in vicarious excitement; now I watch in remembrance and looking forward to travelling again.
Yes, I think it's awesome😊I hope one day it's me & waving back at you all🤭
The spike puller was fascinating, great camera work catching that.
Why every other one? And what happens next? Please can someone explain? Thanks!
@@donnaj9964 There's usually two of them and the second will get the rest
@@robchit1 Ahhhh, now it makes sense. Thanks so much!
Even my cat watched the spike puller.
Great Grab Bag!
Glad to see that our Railfan meetup group made it on the VRF in Austell, GA! I was in the crowd aswell. @ 24:24
Indeed. This is the 4th time I've appeared in a grab bag.
I appreciate the attention to detail when it comes to the rolling stock, as well as pointing out to those who can’t make it out, what it is!
I used to watch the engines go by and then not pay much attention at all to the rolling stock, but those days are gone and now I closely examine every single car that goes by. Except maybe an intermodal. But the mixed manifests, you never know what you’ll see.
Some good Freight Roster Rarities thanks VRF. Good to see UP GP60s 1168 & 1176 at Russellville, looking and sounding very smart. Also, NS GP38-2 5192 at Elkhart. Nice to to see Tennessee Valley Railroad Alco 630 in steam, ready for Easter and the Summer Tourist Season.
Soon as I saw those up geep 60's the volume immediately went up.
I love trains!
15:45 Heck of a catch there, VRF's forensic experts spotted another rare one!
That Penn Central Heritage unit is about as dirty-looking as the original ones were! Just needs a couple open doors and a trail of black smoke.😂😂
So many rare and interesting catches, yet the port-a-potty gets a standing O.
hello Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks Virtual Railfan & Friends Randy
Wow! Excellent catching all the trains, especially the military trains, a car stalled on the train tracks in Ashland, Virginia, Heritage Units, and so much more, I like them, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much.
At 6:37 the lead loco is UP 8520 and the trailing NS is also 8520. For whatever little that's worth. Thanks again VRF for another interesting compilation, and another SMH Ashland HiRail conversion.
What did they mean in the beginning (03:00) Triclops? I don't know what means. Thanks
Those locos have 3 windows ("eyes") hence triclops. There's also not very many of them so it's a bit of a treat to see one, even rarer to see two together. I think newer versions of that model eventually changed to 2 large windows as you see on most other locos.
I see that you sneaked The Doors into one of these after all (well, sort of): bravo! Loved the 3-ways and the two triclops, and of course I always love the Golden Swoosh (I wonder if they try to schedule it as lead whenever possible). And the machine in Wichita *was* fascinating to watch--but why was it pulling spikes, and why just every other one? Thanks for another great one!
There's usually two of the m and the second will get the rest. This gang is changing ties so the spikes have to come out
@@robchit1 That gives me what I need to understand what I just saw. Thank you!
Love the clip of the spike puller machine…great catch! 19:21
Love those high hoods!
”Riders In The Shove" very clever!
Look how cool all these trains coming in ftom different directions..
Another day, another "Carwin" in Ashland...
I can understand that at night, in the rain, it might be hard to see, but in broad daylight?
First I heard Carwin; perfect!
There just beautiful🚂
The last time I saw a triclop was in Memphis around 6 or 7 years ago!!!!!!!!
As usual ASHLAND never disappoint us.
Pretty neat how that thing was pulling the spikes out
Thanks for your videos and sound
9:46 I've never seen an articulated gondola set like that before.
How about the Sante Fe engine in the background.
It's called a 'Slot Train' used for picking up or distributing track material.
I think places like Ashland need to start putting up those white PVC posts with reflective stickers at crossings (like they did where my parents live) to help indicate to people NOT to drive on the track. Depending on how far apart the tracks are from each other, you put one or two in the middle of the two tracks and then one on either edge. People would have to drive through those posts to get on the tracks.
*Nice Catches*
I really enjoy watching these trains here traveling on the tracks
around the country and an occasional Darwin being caught on
camera doing silly things Thanks.🇺🇲🇨🇦🤠🇨🇦🇺🇲
🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇲🇨🇦💨💨
Fantastic videos love see the caboose at the end and a lit of on some of the Double Stack
Someone should mention for the uninitiated that a "triclops" in this context is just a three-panel-windshield locomotive. I had to do quite a bit of searching to find that out.
13:55 Natural camouflage. It's so good, that it took me until around 14:23 to see through it.
There's the answer to the age-old question: If a PC unit runs between two NS units, does anybody notice? Apparently, the answer is - NO!!!
I think the NS locos are offering some privacy to the PC mating worms (logo). I spotted it, but I grew up next to a PRR freight section. PRR to PC to Conrail. I think it's NS now.
Update: Yes, now NS. From electrified 4 tracks to 2 tracks.
I almost think they should have painted it teal like the rolling stock was.
@@WaffleDragonWhat color would that be? Most PC was black, from what I have seen and read. I lived next to an electrified PRR freight line when PRR became PC. We saw some green PC, which I assumed was relabel of New York Central without a full paint job (I had never seen. New York Central), but most of the PC I saw was black. The GG1s that prevailed in my area repainted black with the PC logo. Most PC stock that I saw was black, except for the cabooses, which were that same green and of the bay window style, supplanting the PRR cupola style.
I still remeber meeting you at the train show in Cleve
9:38, That's one very cool boxcar! GATX 101919!
3:24, A BN Caboose!
Great to see a STEAM loco!! Loved that 8-loco hauled freight at La Plata! Gorgeous sunset at Roanoke and a lot of great action from there and Fort Madison and a lot of other places!!! But if it's not La Grange, it's Ashland ...And sorry I didn't get the ending; what was the excitement about? Anyway, another great vid! 😁😁😁😁
“Pardon me boys, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?”
“Carwin ” 😂😂😂
Those street lights are so bright
3:43 (missed this one) & 4:14 Golden Swoosh - two of one of a kind
Sorry, I was told about the 3:43 one and I dropped the ball.
The towing company in Ashland, VA must be a big fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
They sure are making some coin off these...people who keep ending up stuck on the tracks!
3:40 Ready for the Golden Swoosh loco...
Hey Joe, I think the plural of tryclops is tryclopi🙂
There was a Ns gp38 high hood that went through decatur Alabama. It also had a ferromex and a bnsf sd70mac phase 2!
Wow a new paint scheme for BNSF 5:00 5:04
I think in Ashland the railroad needs to have additional crossing gates across the tracks to stop the cars from driving onto them that would always be down until a train approaches
It makes get cost s few bucks but I think it would be worth it
Or people can drive using common sense.
@@J3scribe I think people with common sense are few and far now a days. Maybe if the cars had seats in them where you had to sit like n a classroom to be up high enough to see where the car is going might help
Are you telling me that Monongahela doesn't use Baldwin "Sharknoses" anymore???!!! Where has the time gone??? 😂😂😂
Its probably safe to say now that MRL has been acquired by BNSF, where ever BNSF run through power can potentially go that those MRL Aces can go too!
@14:49 A Northeast Regional car seems a bit off the reservation.
20 seconds ago is crazy
Wow. It’s almost always Ashland it seems
The Canyons are the best looking mid size truck!
6:50 NS had some problems with their red flamethrower engine and sold it off to another railroad.
23:48 Lotsa Dings! You Bet, Even More When You Get, To The Junction... @ 25:05 Who knew?
If you don`t know the answer, to some of the railroad terms used on VR, look it up on wikipedia. You will find a basic answer.
When I saw the filthy engines in Witchita, I knew they had to be from the K & O. 🤢
I wonder if it will come to a head the both Ashland and LaGrange, that they try and get the railroads to relocate?
18:23 would that be a slug shove? or a shove slug?
24:05 when did 630 get white walls or has that been a thing for a while and I just haven’t been paying attention
Must be replacement for Hum- vees
3:43
In case y'all missed it there was a gold swoosh
2:08 what is this new locomotives on the flat cars? To me they look like they were inspired by the cab forwards steam locomotives from the Southern Pacific
EMD SD70ACe/LW for Mongolia’s Tavantolgoi-Gashuunsukhait Railway.
@@T_Hoog thank you
Apparently central Virginians can't tell the difference between asphalt and steel tracks!! Wow, that's a toughy!!😂😂
Is NS doing any re-paints on their heritage units? The Penn Central was looking a little rough.
A filthy Penn Central is more authentic. I found it ironic that Penn Central black was dirtier than the PRR Tuscan Red (and occasional Brunswick Green) it replaced where I lived, especially when coal was a dominant load.
Score card for ASHLAND: 6
Is there something in the water 💧?
Maybe 👀 moving the track to Street level could be the answer 🤔 😮😂.
Perhaps there's something about the tracks in Ashland that makes the cars "Amtrak"ed to them.
Daytime lighting conditions and they still drive off the road? Does the vision of people stop at the end of their nose when they drive, now?
At 3:15 that is the golden swoosh leading
Domestic use of those MIL vehicles -
8:50 Guess the ol' Hummer is on its way out. What are these units?
They are Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) built by Oshkosh -- partial Humvee replacements with a bigger payload capacity and greater survivability.
Was Amtrak holding boarding because there was a moving train on an adjacent track?
@10:24 What the heck was going on there? Was that Ashland from another camera?
Why cant ashland stay off the tracks with their cars,they think their car can magically turn into a train and it goes bad
Most people who blindly rely on gps aren't on a monitored cam, we get to laugh as long an no one is hurt,,
They don’t go onto the tracks on purpose.
@@lindaterrell5535 i know but 9/10 time i see cars stuck on tracks,its in ashland
Having a camera for Virtual Railfan right at Ashland means we get to see all of the incidents that happen there. I am certain there are other goof ups we don't see. But it does make you wonder. In the 80s, a crossing in Mechanicsburg, PA was refurbished and included a very smooth rubbery surface. Very smooth for driving and quiet for the nearby residents. But the crossing was oblique to the tracks, while the road ran parallel, so there was a curve on each side of the crossing, too. In wet weather, and especially if the tracks were icy cold, automobiles crossing with more speed than sense often slid sideways until they went off the sides of the crossing surface roadway. If the driver continued trying to drive, the situation and vehicle location just got worse.
It's poor roads design and the apparent lack of signs.
1:58 export EMD units
2:20 triclops SD60Ms doubleheading a train of boxcars with a caboose
4:10 BNSF 7695 leading a 8-unit lash-up
6:05 Ferrosafe weedkiller train
6:20 quite the exhaust from this GP40-2W
6:45 ex-NS 8520, the only AC44C6F. It is now owned by KLWX
7:00 CSX 1897 as mid-train DPU
7:33 HZRX SD45 rebuild unit again
9:40 cool GATX boxcar
10:27 this car drove onto the tracks and got stuck sitting on the rail with no wheels touching the ground!
13:09 MRL SD70ACe 4306 in Ohio
13:43 Grand Trunk autorack
15:07 MOW train with the R-1 Rail Gang box car
16:25 Illinois Central gray boxcar
16:49 closeup of an MOW machine pull up spikes on marked ties
18:38 reversing move in Russellville
20:00 hopper on a flatbed
20:10 Family Lines hopper
21:39 NS high hood trailing
23:02 CSX 1972 leading
23:53 Southern steam loco 630 on the TVRM
24:36 autorack derails in Waycross, seems like no major damage was done and only one or two cars actually got derailed.
11:10 - why? 😯
It might cost
Nice cathces as always
NS 4000 SOINC
Do the cops keep scissors in the car to cut up the driver's license of these people on the spot?
AKO PENN CENTER 1073 🇺🇸
why no platform? too expensive for the rail company?
I don't get it. Is there really not enough room to put something small between the two sets of tracks at each crossing in Ashland? What about a set of the breakaway tubular markers used to prevent going around the gates. Except white, instead of orange, because they are indicating the shoulder. And that way, if a train passes with something too wide or dragging that hits it, it could be easily and cheaply replaced.
FeroMex?
FerroMex is Mexico's largest class 1 railroad.
@@J3scribe They don't stop the video to see Ferro Mex engines. He did for a BNSF...which is odd.
@@413TomaccoRoad VRF is obsessed with the golden swoosh locomotive. I don't know why.
I missed something somewhere, or because the heart attack had starved my brain for oxygen and my memory is sometimes like Swiss Cheese, so I have to ask, What is a Triclops?
any stunt devils about
How is “Monon” pronounced? Is the accent on the first or second syllable?
On one of their long-ago videos, Trains magazine pronounced it "Mo-non"...
@@johnpinckney4979 Ok, Thanks.
Moe-non
@@tbh791 Ok, Thanks.
...as in Monongahela?
This Ashland, KY, RX Crossing should be Part of the Extended Testing at the Department of Motor Vehicle Offices in and around the Ashland, KY, Area. 🤪👎
VA!! That is Ashland, Virginia with the car on the ex RF & P tracks at 11:15!
Operation Lifesaver should be headquartered there. Right on that street.
How do these people keep driving onto tracks? Even during the day.
They are sheeple at the wheel.
Ashland: It's not the people, it's the town-why are there not signs posted? Why is there even traffic allowed right there? It cold be a walking district. Car traffic only crosses over the street. Those poor people have to fork out repair money. What if they were visitors, and didn't know?
I’ve been saying that for decade. But city leaders don’t care.
Except for the fact it’s a major east/west state road.
FIRST
A couple of questions. What is a triclops? The top of the screen gives the location, PTZ and date, time and time zone. What does PTZ mean?
It means the camera can Pan Tilt and Zoom. For a given site there's usually only 1 of those; the other(s) will be fixed view. Triclops = 3 windows ("eyes").
There has to be a drug/ Alcohol problem in Ashland.
First! Please pin me!
Who cares
More weapons for Ukraine Built in the USA
Hopefully
If you're referring to the trucks, they're not for Ukraine.
And we’re supposed to know what a triclops is? Get real VR.
In January 1989, Union Pacific received its first order of SD60Ms including twenty-five units numbered as UP 6085-6109. With a distinctive three-pane front windshield, these units were soon dubbed by fans as “Triclops"
Part of the experience is to "look it up". The Grab Bags were never meant to be an instructional video, but we might start a series of just that, thanks. (Can anyone let Freddie know what a "Triclops Engine" is?)
I happily admit when I don't know and I either ask or do research instead of whinging
And everyone else is supposed to do your thinking for you? Get real Fred.
@@joepeach997 I for one would LOVE an instructional series!!! I am always seeing things on here that I don't know about and can't find on Google. I do succeed in finding a lot of things--"Triclops" was one--so I recommend that Fred try it sometime...😏
Nice video, the export locomotives in Roanoke are probably headed to Norfolk, around Lamberts Point!🛤🚂