was gonna say this lol kyle and his hoodlum friends made out like bandits with the advance knowledge actually kyle kind of on the ball since they were just getting knocked down anyhow
I absolutely love how extensive Wonderhussy's vocabulary is. Always using the right word in the right context at the right time and that is not something one typically gets to hear from a UA-camr.
Warren Buffet was Obama's economic advisor when Obama killed Keystone XL. The company that was transporting shale oil from the Dakotas to Texas was BNSF. I wonder how much Obama and later Biden got for those decisions?
My engineering company designed the new bridge that will replace the steel girder bridge on North First Ave. The new bridge will base out 545 track switches . The largest track switch building in the world making the H Base in Moscow second place.
When I was in Moscow in 1968, "largest in the world" was a favorite phrase in the Intourist tour script. I wonder if Donald Trump will suddenly pipe up attacking rail development in the US?!?!
This place is soon to become a mini Metropolitan of Los Angeles, same crime same homeless situation more people less police that’s the future of Barstow
The problem in LA is that there isn’t enough room so many loaded cars are in remote and obscured sidings that are surrounded by buildings and earth and more. Proper security isn’t possible. The Barstow yard will be very easy to watch and control .
Kyle and his family moved to Phoenix. When he turned 18 he moved to Detroit where he still lives (and skates) He still has the Vans that came in that box.
Progress.😢 This happened to my family about 60 years ago to make way for the Hollywood Freeway. Ours was one of the last homes to go. Being 8 or 9 years old at the time, it was great fun going through those abandoned houses. Finding discarded playboy magazines and playing army were some top memories. The good old days. Thank you, Sara Jane, for the walkies.😮😊🎉🙏
Your family must have come out all right, financially. Mine, in San Francisco, were bitter for the rest of their lives, "condemned" for "redevelopment" on a hilltop in the center of the City, next to Twin Peaks. The idealistic "redevelopment" law was supposed to remediate slums, but the developers went right for prime view open space, (with the house) and the law hadn't yet caught up with the principle of "fair market value" compensation. Piled up with view condos, what do you think my grandfather's two acres; yes, TWO ACRES is worth by the square foot now?
Last time I was in Barstow it was a beautiful day. I commented to the desk clerk at my hotel how nice it was there. She looked at me like I was nuts, shook her head and said: "This place is just an arm pit in the desert. I've lived here most of my life so trust me when I say that Barstow sucks!"
In the late '40s my Grandparents bought that property that the lake was on. My mother grew up there, I spent a lot of time there visiting my Grandparents. Our family reunions were held there every year for over forty years. I have many good memories on that property. It's sad to see this.
I think it’s really cool you were able to go out there and look at the abandoned homes before they’re gone. They’re not holding the cargo from the port of LA up the mountain just to bring it back down the mountain. I’m a real estate agent in Apple Valley, close to Barstow, and the reason they’re building the railway isn’t to stop people from LA from stealing shipping cargo 😂 we just had someone from the BNSF railway company come by and give a talk about the project. I guess logistics managers figured out it’s silly to process all of the cargo that comes in to LA, that’s going out east anyway, and decided to off load the duties to people out in the desert, where it will ultimately have pass through anyway to go east and north. Additionally, the i15 freeway through the Cajon Pass is unbelievably congested. It’s a main choke point where a lot of trucks get alien down. Also, Barstow is a pretty depressed town and could do with the money. The only reason why I make the correction is because it makes the reason for the project being built sound kind of dumb if the only reason is to stop thieving LA people.
"That's the Treehouse where Kyle goes to smoke dope!" 😂😂 I snorted and spit out my beer.. you're one of my all time favorite people! Someday I owe you Chipotle!
There's this crazy agency called Railroad Police. Been around since the inception of the railroad. Made famous by two guys you may have heard of: Bat Masterson and Allen Pinkerton. If you don't know them, you should. Use google.
I think looters have taken any copper or brass plumbing pieces out of the walls from the looks of things….. so very sad for the folks forced to sell😢…..
Progress comes to Barstow once again. Wonderhussy documents the ever changing demands of people on the eternal lands of the Mojave. Keep an eye on all this innovation, Sarah... We all wanna know. 😅😢❤
toilet cover can be a good way to tell when a house was built. Usually a toilet has a manufactured within a few years of installation. and toilets are so reliable, no one usually replaces them. so under the tank cover, there should be a date. This can give you an idea of how old a house is. If the toilet was not replaced during a remodeling.
They probably did well. Maybe even bought out at a premium if the private rail developers were the agency. Even government eminent domain requires "fair market value" nowadays.
I was just there a few months ago .. had lunch with Desert Deb and then I stayed the night at the FamCamp at the Marine Corps base. Interesting to see how the railroad can move stuff. Grew up in Northern MN and my town was moved by the mines a couple of times. 🤠
Imagine that not so long ago, people worked hard to build those houses, then worked even harder to upkeep them, pay the mortgages, live their lives etc only to have them end up going under the plow. The real take away from this is life is short and that we, along with most everything else we prioritize, is only temporary. Nothing lasts forever and all will eventually be gone and forgotten. Sounds a little grim yes but still is true if you think about it. All the more reason to live life to the fullest and enjoy our time while taking our turn to be alive. Cheers!
Based on the one house with roofing tiles still stacked, it's not clear these folks were long-established, even though that one place was quite a mansion. They might even have thrown a "we hit the lotto" party over the big check they got.
That was an interesting video, Sarah. You should post a monthly video once construction starts to keep us updated. Also, I hope you do the Route 66 trip. You should get a lot of great videos from that trip.
As far as grandma and Cierra, for those who’ve experienced it, grandma watches Cierra while mom worked and would frequently spend the night. There’d be a lot of time for the two of them to make crafts together so they would accumulate. Later, as grandma grew older and Cierra started working the things just sat there until grandma had to enter a nursing home and had no room to keep everything. Finally, passed on and there was no one to appreciate the memories of what once was. So nearly everything was trashed and thrown away except for a few things that relatives would connect to. I guess all one can do is appreciate and live and love in the moment for we don’t know how things may end up. The love was what made the memories special. Wishing you love Sarah.❤️🙏🫶🏻🫂😎
I seen a place here in sentral Missouri, that was a farm and the family got bought out took what they wanted and moved away. Leaving all the family pictures and things . And now its an industry park, with gas. Stations and fast food put in.
Cool modern day ghost town!...we get to see it before the railyard is put in. Remember to fan thru the books for money too. Little Cierra Knevada came west in a box car from Chicago, hopping the train as a five year old to go live w grandma and grandpa, she loved fishin' w her grandpa in the lake. She wanted to work on their ranch, the Į ♡ Ų bar ranch and tend the chickens and feed store. But it never came to fruition, as the railroad had dreams of protecting their transportation wares. Modern progress. Way back in the 40's, up in Emigrant Gap, CA, my late mom and her siblings, gathered ice thrown from the trains. Blocks of ice. The ice was used to keep produce and fruit cold, as it was shipped back east...but the crew 'passed out' ice for the folks😊
Palmdale and Lancaster California used to be a sleepy desert town. The only reason it was there because the Air Force Base used have a base there. Once upon a time the only ones living out there were off duty police officers from Los Angeles and the surrounding areas so they can live out there comfortably mostly crime free, then here comes the county of Los Angeles deciding to build that huge county jail which all the families from the Los Angeles and surrounding crime areas moved out there so they could be close to their family members locked up. Lancaster and Palmdale is now seriously crime ridden.
Are you referring to the Mcd that has old train cars? This area of the proposed railyard is much closer to the lenwood Mcd (along with nearly every kind of fast food eatery, (lenwood is fast food paradise, especially the best del taco)
April, come she will When streams are ripe and swelled with rain May, she will stay Resting in my arms again June, she'll change her tune In restless walks, she'll prowl the night July, she will fly And give no warning to her flight August, die she must The autumn winds blow chilly and cold September, I remember A love once new has now grown old.
You my dear are I Gifted Storyteller I watch several desert adventures But yours are the only ones that I come back to subscribe to and like Keep it up girl
I'm a car gal. Beautiful cars!. At least those people got paid for their land. Seems to me like they been blowing up places on the news. No money. Or poisoning whole towns. Scary! I had a experience today that was the opposite. They turned my old factory into a big fancy distillery. With a strange WONDERFUL restaurant and bar an beautiful store to buy all the cool stuff they make! Every kind of strange drink an even liquor in the food! I'm real sick so i couldn't walk around which bummed me out! I should have asked for a wheel chair. All my friends wanted to go to lunch with me so i had my friend rig it up so we could all go to lunch together. Thank goodness because im to weak to go to that many lunches. Thank you great video!
Most disconcerting of it all. How quickly, and closely, it is coming towards us here in NYE County, Pahrump, specifically. Kinda makes an impact when you consider what is currently happening in growth right around the community of Pahrump.
As a trucker I’ve been to a few big city railyards many years ago - mainly in Chicago and Houston. It’s funny to think of a large railyard being associated with gentrification, since historically they’re almost always located in the poorest neighborhoods around (e.g., the one I went to on Chicago’s south side was in the shadow of huge and notorious tenements that have since been razed). As for Barstow, I haven't been there in years, but I suppose this new project could have a revitalizing effect on the city. Time will tell. Please do another video showing your host’s car collection. Looked like some great gems there.
@@robertalcorn9591 it's been a few years. I used to have friends there and in Van Nuys and up in San Francisco but they've all moved away over the last few years.
The Santa Fe built the community of Barstow. And it's the intersection of the main line for the Santa Fe that runs up through the Central Valley, on to Oakland and Richmond in the San Francisco Bay area, and the main line to Los Angeles and San Diego and from Barstow, eastwards towards Texas and Chicago. The railroad at Barstow had been modernized once in about 1973- 1976, and that's the current facility still in use today. I cannot imagine more expansion. But hey, if it creates jobs...
Hi Sarah, as a huge railfan , and a modeller of US railroads since I was a kid, I visited the US in 2015 to see my trains! The biggest rail yard atm is in North Platte , Nebraska , which I visited on my trip, which was amazing , but I guess its about to be overtaken? It will be a good boost to Barstow, which I also went through on the way to Tehachapi...another great railfan spot! Great video again. Cheers Gregg.
Another bit of Barstow trivia: at one time there was a big water theme park out there. It's hard to imagine in one of the driest places in California, having one of the biggest water parks there at one time.
As someone who lives next to the country’s biggest rail yard… it’s a freaking nightmare. It’s so loud, alarms at all times of the night. Crashing cars hooking up all night long. The SQUIUIIEEEEREEEELLING OF THE BRAKES… I feel bad for anyone who lives near by.
With all the open land out in the Mojave and they wanted the one small piece that people were living on. Very, very sad! Sorry to those families who were forced to move.
Burlington Northern, /SanFransisco Line. The railway was never abandoned...wasn't even vacated. Adjacencies are subject to rail access... until abandoned by the railroad. Vacated is a 75 years of non use specification.
Worked on the RR and visited with many rails. The ones from Barstow talked how much money they made and how much skin cancer they had; the more you made the more square centimeters you had taken off.
The BNSF railroad,makes $1 million an hour, or more,if a train is sitting stopped on the rail line, 150.000 per train per hour, ,you add it up, they are building a container rail road yard near Mojave too, it supposed to be the largest container JB hunt yard in California,,,thanks beautiful lady , thanks BigAl California..
Who would have ever thought inner city theft and crime would impact folks living in the middle of nowhere? World has gone to hell and frankly it ain't coming back. Great video, more on the cars please.
Wow…that is great news for more jobs. They need to expand the railroad. hopefully it is far enough away from the toxic underground Hinkley plume from PG&E. What the movie Aaron Brockovich was based on. There were reports it was spreading.
Once construction is complete, maybe 10 more people will have jobs. Most of the switching will be done by automated locomotives. Barstow won't change; it will still have high unemployment and the gang members will have more stuff to steal.
There's a video here on UA-cam called "Working on the Santa Fe" that covers a lot of the railroad history of Barstow, and footage from the first time they expanded the facilities there. It packs a lot of information about the Santa Fe and its history of the area. 24:37
Looks like the cooper snaggers have been there.
Copper rats too.
was gonna say this lol
kyle and his hoodlum friends made out like bandits with the advance knowledge
actually kyle kind of on the ball since they were just getting knocked down anyhow
Darn Coopers!
Theft of private property.@@russellzauner
@@gordbaker896I see what you've done here. Think he'll get it?
I absolutely love how extensive Wonderhussy's vocabulary is.
Always using the right word in the right context at the right time and that is not something one typically gets to hear from a UA-camr.
Lots of drug talk
Finally got to catch up on my videos alot of nice cars👍
Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway own the BNSF R/R. More of the big fish eating the little fish.
Warren Buffet was Obama's economic advisor when Obama killed Keystone XL. The company that was transporting shale oil from the Dakotas to Texas was BNSF. I wonder how much Obama and later Biden got for those decisions?
My engineering company designed the new bridge that will replace the steel girder bridge on North First Ave.
The new bridge will base out 545 track switches .
The largest track switch building in the world making the H Base in Moscow second place.
Awesome Post!
When I was in Moscow in 1968, "largest in the world" was a favorite phrase in the Intourist tour script. I wonder if Donald Trump will suddenly pipe up attacking rail development in the US?!?!
🤔 Hmmm... There is a lot of wood for recycling to fix the Baghdad Cafe...☕
YES ❣️
I guess the tweeker/scrapper dudes busted up the walls looking for wires and copper pipes. What fun!!
This place is soon to become a mini Metropolitan of Los Angeles, same crime same homeless situation more people less police that’s the future of Barstow
That's what the people of California want.
thats what i was thinking, criminals follow the loot
The problem in LA is that there isn’t enough room so many loaded cars are in remote and obscured sidings that are surrounded by buildings and earth and more. Proper security isn’t possible. The Barstow yard will be very easy to watch and control .
Kyle and his family moved to Phoenix. When he turned 18 he moved to Detroit where he still lives (and skates) He still has the Vans that came in that box.
Progress.😢 This happened to my family about 60 years ago to make way for the Hollywood Freeway. Ours was one of the last homes to go. Being 8 or 9 years old at the time, it was great fun going through those abandoned houses. Finding discarded playboy magazines and playing army were some top memories. The good old days. Thank you, Sara Jane, for the walkies.😮😊🎉🙏
And what did you do with the Playboy magazines..??
Weird question...He said he was 8 or 9.
Your family must have come out all right, financially. Mine, in San Francisco, were bitter for the rest of their lives, "condemned" for "redevelopment" on a hilltop in the center of the City, next to Twin Peaks. The idealistic "redevelopment" law was supposed to remediate slums, but the developers went right for prime view open space, (with the house) and the law hadn't yet caught up with the principle of "fair market value" compensation. Piled up with view condos, what do you think my grandfather's two acres; yes, TWO ACRES is worth by the square foot now?
Its sad that Barstow will never be the same.....more people, more crime, more rules.
Last time I was in Barstow it was a beautiful day. I commented to the desk clerk at my hotel how nice it was there. She looked at me like I was nuts, shook her head and said: "This place is just an arm pit in the desert. I've lived here most of my life so trust me when I say that Barstow sucks!"
In the late '40s my Grandparents bought that property that the lake was on. My mother grew up there, I spent a lot of time there visiting my Grandparents. Our family reunions were held there every year for over forty years. I have many good memories on that property. It's sad to see this.
I think it’s really cool you were able to go out there and look at the abandoned homes before they’re gone. They’re not holding the cargo from the port of LA up the mountain just to bring it back down the mountain. I’m a real estate agent in Apple Valley, close to Barstow, and the reason they’re building the railway isn’t to stop people from LA from stealing shipping cargo 😂 we just had someone from the BNSF railway company come by and give a talk about the project.
I guess logistics managers figured out it’s silly to process all of the cargo that comes in to LA, that’s going out east anyway, and decided to off load the duties to people out in the desert, where it will ultimately have pass through anyway to go east and north.
Additionally, the i15 freeway through the Cajon Pass is unbelievably congested. It’s a main choke point where a lot of trucks get alien down. Also, Barstow is a pretty depressed town and could do with the money.
The only reason why I make the correction is because it makes the reason for the project being built sound kind of dumb if the only reason is to stop thieving LA people.
Love that Riviera at 1:54, had a 1972 one for a while in the early 1980s. Actually many nice vehicles there.
My dream item if I had a house - a BUILT IN PANTRY. Heaven!!!!!
"That's the Treehouse where Kyle goes to smoke dope!" 😂😂 I snorted and spit out my beer.. you're one of my all time favorite people! Someday I owe you Chipotle!
The thieves will just follow them out to the desert and then they'll be the problem of a wildly overwhelmed police department in Barstow.
That's fine...sand digs easy😂
There's this crazy agency called Railroad Police. Been around since the inception of the railroad. Made famous by two guys you may have heard of: Bat Masterson and Allen Pinkerton. If you don't know them, you should. Use google.
Well she did say over 20,000 jobs there. Maybe a lot of security is part of that
Barstow already has a big gang problem.
You loot. We shoot! 🤠@@Rarebond11th-ze5lw
I think looters have taken any copper or brass plumbing pieces out of the walls from the looks of things….. so very sad for the folks forced to sell😢…..
Not really, the previous owners got paid for whole house, and the buyers don't care about salvaging materials from the property.
It was a huge yard at the turn of the century! Just saying, about time it was expanded 👍🇺🇲
Progress comes to Barstow once again. Wonderhussy documents the ever changing demands of people on the eternal lands of the Mojave. Keep an eye on all this innovation, Sarah... We all wanna know. 😅😢❤
toilet cover can be a good way to tell when a house was built. Usually a toilet has a manufactured within a few years of installation. and toilets are so reliable, no one usually replaces them. so under the tank cover, there should be a date. This can give you an idea of how old a house is. If the toilet was not replaced during a remodeling.
The demolition crew who left the toilet intact has a good sense of humor.
Hi SJ, thank you, some of your videos make a person think about how quickly life can change!! Excellent as always-best wishes, gg
How sad for those homeowners.. I’d love to hear from anyone that lived there and find out how they made out financially, and where they went !
They probably did well. Maybe even bought out at a premium if the private rail developers were the agency. Even government eminent domain requires "fair market value" nowadays.
I was just there a few months ago .. had lunch with Desert Deb and then I stayed the night at the FamCamp at the Marine Corps base. Interesting to see how the railroad can move stuff. Grew up in Northern MN and my town was moved by the mines a couple of times. 🤠
Me too!! Near hibbing..
Ahh! Good Sumolinen Tute .. I was Eveleth and one of the Croatians
I want Kyle's life!!! Bike riddin and smoken dope sounds fun.
Went to Apple Valley High from ‘68 -70. Colorado after that👍
Did ya ever wear Apple bottom jeans at Apple Valley High? 🤣🤣
omg apologies, I could NOT help myself lol
Good thing you got out of meth capitol
I love trains!
Worked at the California State Railroad Museum fur three seasons!
That place is rad. Love it.
That was interesting... albeit a little sad. You have honed your craft well. Good Job. May that desert wind be at your back!
Imagine that not so long ago, people worked hard to build those houses, then worked even harder to upkeep them, pay the mortgages, live their lives etc only to have them end up going under the plow. The real take away from this is life is short and that we, along with most everything else we prioritize, is only temporary. Nothing lasts forever and all will eventually be gone and forgotten. Sounds a little grim yes but still is true if you think about it. All the more reason to live life to the fullest and enjoy our time while taking our turn to be alive. Cheers!
Or their prayers have been answered and now they can get the hell out of California. 😊😊😊😊😊😊
Wow@@susiek.johnson3923
@@susiek.johnson3923 Yea and verily I say, amen!
Amen to that brother!@@susiek.johnson3923
Based on the one house with roofing tiles still stacked, it's not clear these folks were long-established, even though that one place was quite a mansion. They might even have thrown a "we hit the lotto" party over the big check they got.
That lonely toilet sitting in the middle of all that domestic destruction looks like an accidental art installation to me.
She found the homage to the Porcelain God 😆👍🏻
That was an interesting video, Sarah. You should post a monthly video once construction starts to keep us updated. Also, I hope you do the Route 66 trip. You should get a lot of great videos from that trip.
As far as grandma and Cierra, for those who’ve experienced it, grandma watches Cierra while mom worked and would frequently spend the night. There’d be a lot of time for the two of them to make crafts together so they would accumulate. Later, as grandma grew older and Cierra started working the things just sat there until grandma had to enter a nursing home and had no room to keep everything. Finally, passed on and there was no one to appreciate the memories of what once was. So nearly everything was trashed and thrown away except for a few things that relatives would connect to. I guess all one can do is appreciate and live and love in the moment for we don’t know how things may end up. The love was what made the memories special. Wishing you love Sarah.❤️🙏🫶🏻🫂😎
I seen a place here in sentral Missouri, that was a farm and the family got bought out took what they wanted and moved away.
Leaving all the family pictures and things .
And now its an industry park, with gas. Stations and fast food put in.
@@eugenenelson5398that happens everywhere, all the time
II grew up in Grandview on the north side of the tracks at lenwood I left in 1975
Cool modern day ghost town!...we get to see it before the railyard is put in. Remember to fan thru the books for money too.
Little Cierra Knevada came west in a box car from Chicago, hopping the train as a five year old to go live w grandma and grandpa, she loved fishin' w her grandpa in the lake. She wanted to work on their ranch, the
Į ♡ Ų bar ranch and tend the chickens and feed store. But it never came to fruition, as the railroad had dreams of protecting their transportation wares.
Modern progress.
Way back in the 40's, up in Emigrant Gap, CA, my late mom and her siblings, gathered ice thrown from the trains. Blocks of ice. The ice was used to keep produce and fruit cold, as it was shipped back east...but the crew 'passed out' ice for the folks😊
The reason there are holes in the walls of the abandoned houses is because thieves are stealing the copper wiring.
So Love Your Creativity!!!!❤😂❤
These are the episodes that I miss where you make up stories about abandoned houses
lol, almost forgot about that.
Great vid wonder hussey thanks!😊
Ooooh I have a friend who would *LOVE* for you to come back + do a vid of those cars!!! 🚘
I lived in Barstow in 83-85 Happy I moved!
Id like to see those cars you talk about?
Palmdale and Lancaster California used to be a sleepy desert town. The only reason it was there because the Air Force Base used have a base there. Once upon a time the only ones living out there were off duty police officers from Los Angeles and the surrounding areas so they can live out there comfortably mostly crime free, then here comes the county of Los Angeles deciding to build that huge county jail which all the families from the Los Angeles and surrounding crime areas moved out there so they could be close to their family members locked up. Lancaster and Palmdale is now seriously crime ridden.
I love when you make up stories about “Kyle”! Damn Kyle has been up to again. 😂😂😂
That's exactly what Barstow's McDonald's needs is more customers...😮
Are you referring to the Mcd that has old train cars? This area of the proposed railyard is much closer to the lenwood Mcd (along with nearly every kind of fast food eatery, (lenwood is fast food paradise, especially the best del taco)
April, come she will
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain
May, she will stay
Resting in my arms again
June, she'll change her tune
In restless walks, she'll prowl the night
July, she will fly
And give no warning to her flight
August, die she must
The autumn winds blow chilly and cold
September, I remember
A love once new has now grown old.
Thank you.
This is a beautiful poem ❤
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@@unitedstatesdaleSimon and Garfunkel.
@@unitedstatesdaleSong...
I love watching you Sarah Jane!
You my dear are I Gifted Storyteller I watch several desert adventures But yours are the only ones that I come back to subscribe to and like Keep it up girl
When I was trucking we always called Barstow “Barstool!” Thx WH!
That’s what I, a resident of Barstow refer to it as well because people only stop here to use the toilet on their way to Vegas or Los Angeles
You aren't the only one who called it that! I don't even know what 'Barstow' is. I know someone who moved to Barstool.
Hahaha, you made me laugh with all your Kyle references. LOL
THANKS!
I'm a car gal. Beautiful cars!. At least those people got paid for their land. Seems to me like they been blowing up places on the news. No money. Or poisoning whole towns. Scary! I had a experience today that was the opposite. They turned my old factory into a big fancy distillery. With a strange WONDERFUL restaurant and bar an beautiful store to buy all the cool stuff they make! Every kind of strange drink an even liquor in the food! I'm real sick so i couldn't walk around which bummed me out! I should have asked for a wheel chair. All my friends wanted to go to lunch with me so i had my friend rig it up so we could all go to lunch together. Thank goodness because im to weak to go to that many lunches. Thank you great video!
Cool video
That GINORMOUS RAILWAY SHIPPING YARD better hire many extra security personnel to keep things under control.
Mexican crews used to dismantle California Houses, number and mark all of the studs, transport and reassemble in Mexico.
Got a Rugrats commercial..... on a WonderHussy vid .... 😆
another excellent episode luv 🤍
Hi Sarah!!! Boondockin
I don't know if I could handle all those half circles in that purple house. They certainly loved that shape.
Sandman is right ….you are so interesting to watch ….the content is so good…..I didn’t even know I have this kind of interest
I guess when this BIG is done, Union Pacific's Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska won't be the largest rail yard in the world.
Most disconcerting of it all.
How quickly, and closely, it is coming towards us here in NYE County, Pahrump, specifically.
Kinda makes an impact when you consider what is currently happening in growth right around the community of Pahrump.
I've never heard anything good about parump
Looks like old grow houses
The holes are probably from copper being stripped from the houses
Another Wonderful and Informative Video ! Two Lane Blacktop - The Stakes 2:04 (Criterion collection)
As a trucker I’ve been to a few big city railyards many years ago - mainly in Chicago and Houston. It’s funny to think of a large railyard being associated with gentrification, since historically they’re almost always located in the poorest neighborhoods around (e.g., the one I went to on Chicago’s south side was in the shadow of huge and notorious tenements that have since been razed).
As for Barstow, I haven't been there in years, but I suppose this new project could have a revitalizing effect on the city. Time will tell.
Please do another video showing your host’s car collection. Looked like some great gems there.
Hodges was about as poor as it gets... Used to pass through there daily as a trucker...
When they built the interstate highways they had to buy the land. It wasn’t gentrification, it was necessary!
Kyle you get yourself home right now!!!!! Oops he's locked up at folsom
That Kyle was such a dudebro!
Seems to me it would be easier to just address the crime issue in LA.
Makes one wonder what the real reason is (?)
Money, water, realestate.
Have you been to the Los Angeles area lately?
@@robertalcorn9591 it's been a few years. I used to have friends there and in Van Nuys and up in San Francisco but they've all moved away over the last few years.
Well Golly!!!!
Hi Sarah,One of my favorite old car is a 1957 Ford. I loved the black 2dr. Thanks, Sarah.
Next episode, digging up graves and putting a " story" to the remains.
The Santa Fe built the community of Barstow. And it's the intersection of the main line for the Santa Fe that runs up through the Central Valley, on to Oakland and Richmond in the San Francisco Bay area, and the main line to Los Angeles and San Diego and from Barstow, eastwards towards Texas and Chicago. The railroad at Barstow had been modernized once in about 1973- 1976, and that's the current facility still in use today. I cannot imagine more expansion. But hey, if it creates jobs...
Hi Sarah, as a huge railfan , and a modeller of US railroads since I was a kid, I visited the US in 2015 to see my trains! The biggest rail yard atm is in North Platte , Nebraska , which I visited on my trip, which was amazing , but I guess its about to be overtaken? It will be a good boost to Barstow, which I also went through on the way to Tehachapi...another great railfan spot!
Great video again.
Cheers Gregg.
Another bit of Barstow trivia: at one time there was a big water theme park out there. It's hard to imagine in one of the driest places in California, having one of the biggest water parks there at one time.
Kyle would of liked this video!😂
It’s incredible what this area will look like when completed. Can only guess, a larger more productive area? It will serve its purpose.
I really really think you should have kept the Valentine
they are crazy artist
Nice cars too🍀❤️
They took out the copper and brass for scrap. Hi Sarah😂
I much prefer this Wednesday/Friday schedule. And i love these desert Route 66 videos.
thanks
have fun for sure at amboy for sure wooo
Its the same business model FedX uses. Its a distribution hub. This is a HUGE change for so many people ... really incredible. thanks for sharing..
The reason some of the drywall was torn off the walls was to get to the copper wiring. Copper brings in quite a tidy sum when resold.
Great video!
I wanna show you my thing. Why wouldn't he ? It's not weird, you've shown us yours. Turn about is fair play. Ty for taking us along
As someone who lives next to the country’s biggest rail yard… it’s a freaking nightmare. It’s so loud, alarms at all times of the night. Crashing cars hooking up all night long. The SQUIUIIEEEEREEEELLING OF THE BRAKES… I feel bad for anyone who lives near by.
With all the open land out in the Mojave and they wanted the one small piece that people were living on. Very, very sad! Sorry to those families who were forced to move.
The direct TV house was so beautiful at one time, I'm sure.
I would stay on this chapter
Burlington Northern, /SanFransisco Line.
The railway was never abandoned...wasn't even vacated. Adjacencies are subject to rail access... until abandoned by the railroad. Vacated is a 75 years of non use specification.
BNSF = Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
What?
Great video 😊
That's amazing!
its amazing
Building the biggest railroad yard in the country 😮
Okay.. once again, great video.. My observation for the holes in the walls? someone was scavenging for copper wire or copper pipe
WHY NOT?? I bet property there is cheap as "dirt"! Couldn't find a better place!!
Worked on the RR and visited with many rails. The ones from Barstow talked how much money they made and how much skin cancer they had; the more you made the more square centimeters you had taken off.
The BNSF railroad,makes $1 million an hour, or more,if a train is sitting stopped on the rail line, 150.000 per train per hour, ,you add it up, they are building a container rail road yard near Mojave too, it supposed to be the largest container JB hunt yard in California,,,thanks beautiful lady , thanks BigAl California..
Who would have ever thought inner city theft and crime would impact folks living in the middle of nowhere? World has gone to hell and frankly it ain't coming back. Great video, more on the cars please.
Wow…that is great news for more jobs. They need to expand the railroad. hopefully it is far enough away from the toxic underground Hinkley plume from PG&E. What the movie Aaron Brockovich was based on. There were reports it was spreading.
Once construction is complete, maybe 10 more people will have jobs. Most of the switching will be done by automated locomotives. Barstow won't change; it will still have high unemployment and the gang members will have more stuff to steal.
Erin Brockovich.
There's a video here on UA-cam called "Working on the Santa Fe" that covers a lot of the railroad history of Barstow, and footage from the first time they expanded the facilities there. It packs a lot of information about the Santa Fe and its history of the area. 24:37