Sometimes, the best form of entertainment that don't cost ya 20 bucks minimum is sitting on your porch, or at a crossing and watching these massive amounts of rolling tonnage fly across the desert. It's bloody awesome
Wooh, those trains were close together. You could see the second train in the distance coming in the first shot... Thats what I love about Railfanning in Desert areas, you can see the train coming for miles... Great shot!!!
It's a pleasure to see freight trains that really get up and move. Here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains freights mostly creep along at very low speeds. Thanks!
I work for a company that's contracted out by both Union Pacific RR and Burlington Northern Santa Fe RR I climb on those well cars to unlock the IBC twist locks that keeps those containers from falling off
Fellows just some suggestions on your framing. Take a look at your crossing shot, the signal box is right in the middle of the picture. If you could have safely and legally crossed the road and either set up next to the box or even zoomed past it the signal becomes your right frame and the train then blocks most of the factory in the background. Also check yourself for shadows and don't stop trying.
Thanks Guys for this fantastic BNSF Intermodal Container video this is what you call a real credit to the person who made this BNSF Intermodal Container video I hope you might be interested into Memphis Intermodal Container Terminal if you could get a camera in side the cab off the BNSF Container Gantry Crane this would be just be awesome this would make my day week months and my year I hope we can have a video call sometime if you can get time to call I be really delighted if you can get this video made in the cab off the BNSF Memphis Intermodal Container Gantry Crane this will be a very big challenge for you Guys thanks again for this fantastic BNSF Intermodal Container video well done
So cool to see a piggy back train! I remember seeing them as a kid. I didn't think Railroad's did piggy backs any more. I'm used to seeing inter-modals but not piggy backs.
In western Canada the railroads (railways) are in poor condition, trains travel typically at 65 kph (40 mph) maximum, don't want to derail, lots of trains travel at very slow speeds on branch lines.
Fun Fact: One fully loaded tractor trailer causes almost as much damage to a road as 10,000 cars! This is where the trailers should be, on the railroads! Where the taxpayers don't subsidize that maintenance cost.
@@Therosko21, actually, the comment isn't all that far off. The nation's economy depends on trucking, but that method of shipment comes with a price. Engineers estimate that a fully loaded truck--a five-axle rig weighing 80,000 pounds, the interstate maximum--causes more damage to a highway than 5,000 cars. Some road planners say that the toll is even higher, that it would take close to 10,000 cars to equal the damage caused by one heavy truck. When the trucks are overloaded, as quite a few of them are, the damage is exponentially worse. Increasing a truck's weight to 90,000 pounds results in a 42 percent increase in road wear. Pavement designed to last 20 years wears out in seven. Source: Too Big for The Road [www(dot)governing(dot)com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/Too-Big-The-Road(dot)html]
I see the same trains in Los Angeles, where they typically have three units pulling and two pushing. Where does BNSF drop off the pushing engines? Somewhere east of Williams?
What you're seeing is two idle sidings that look extremely compressed due to the telephoto zoom effect. The orange items are simply the wheelstop deadends of the two tracks, the yellow switchstand in the foreground is where the one siding splits into two. It's a lot clearer if you use Google map satellite view or Google Earth. The sidings are on the north side of the double mainline.
With all the success of BNSF's high speed intermodal trains, the railroad needs more all-trailer trains to compete successfully with highways and trucks in light of trade wars between us USA and China. Same with Union Pacific and all other railroads doing mostly international business instead of more hard ass domestic intermodal business.
Good video. First train is not going faster than 60 MPH. Double stack is close to 70..maybe 68 MPH and the last one about 65. Very few run right at 70.
how many tons can one power unit pull or push? if you have two or more power unit in on train are all the power unit pulling at the same power all the time?Thank for a very. fine video. Thanks for a very fine video.
Love the videos guy's,keep up the good work. Will love them even more if you can install wind guards on your microphones one day, just a thought.! Love hearing those engines roar when they power-up.
Thank you sharing this video. Quite interesting your shots in the distance and then bringing it forward for the close up. Nice work!I would like to know exactly where was this? (State)Thank you!!
The first train was going about 55MPH. I figured out with lap timer function on my cell phone, and knowing that a standard length semi trailer is 48 ft. Basically, hit the lap button every time one of the full size trailers passes the edge of the screen, then average all the laps together. I got 0.634s per semi trailer. (I even slowed the video down by 1/2, did the measurement, and multiplied my average by 2, and got nearly the same: 0.640s per semi trailer). Add 4 feet for the average space between the semi trailers, and some simple arithmetic gives me 55.9mph, so actually closer 56mph.
Cassandra Glowacki on this section of track in the Mojave Desert yes summertime sees many speed restrictions for safety purposes. Sun kink caused derailments have taken place on this line before.
Thanks for this. As a UK citizen, what would you consider to be the best book I could get to introduce me to US railways? I find all the different companies bewildering!
+redhouseguitar That's a tough question. The US is a massive country with a vast railroad network. There is so much information out there, both historic and present, about all the railroad lines and companies, that it would be practically impossible to write a single book that provides a large enough umbrella to encompass all of the information. My best advice would be to focus on a specific aspect of railroads that interests you and look for literature in that genre.
Okay, will do, thanks. I have been interested lately in the railways of the Virginias, thanks to the River Falls & Eastern model railroad. I am trying to get my head around the mergers and acquisitions that make up the present Class 1 lines as well.
+redhouseguitar there's a website called american-rails that has tons of information on railroads, including ones not in operation and mergers.just google it and you should be able to find it easily
Conceptually, it may be easiest to start with the modern classification of railroads into classes 1, 2, and 3, and the distinctions between them. From a historical point of view consider that a great many distinct railways were established in the US during the 19th century, and the long term trend is one of amalgamation while shedding less profitable or lower volume sections of line. Google "bnsf subdivisions map" for an informative PDF. Union Pacific has a similar PDF, and I imagine CN, CP, Norfolk Southern, and CSX do too.
I can see why truck trailers are shipped by rail. My daughter and her hubby are OTR truckers. They say the California rules/regs on trucks/truckers are punishing. They stay out of that state!
I don't think the needles sub has Ats equipment next to signals and you need act or Ats to run above 79 mph for passenger trains years ago the Santa Fe super c tofc trailer train could do 90 from 1967 to 1975 it's too bad BNSF can't allow freight trains that haul trailers and containers at 80 to 90 bummer
The bigger the object, the slower the visually apparent motion. Imagine a truck attached to one of those trailers as it moves by and compare to the objects on the ground. It's doing 70.
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Sometimes, the best form of entertainment that don't cost ya 20 bucks minimum is sitting on your porch, or at a crossing and watching these massive amounts of rolling tonnage fly across the desert. It's bloody awesome
This was my favorite video when I was about 8-9 years old
Wooh, those trains were close together. You could see the second train in the distance coming in the first shot... Thats what I love about Railfanning in Desert areas, you can see the train coming for miles... Great shot!!!
The scores of people who couldn't stand this video--what did they expect? A big wreck or something? Excellent!
The speed of these behemoths is very deceiving at a distance. They are absolutely mesmerizing to watch.
the lighting for the last train was really nice! great time of early evening to film!
Sure was nice seeing all of those semi trailers off of the roadways!
It's a pleasure to see freight trains that really get up and move. Here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains freights mostly creep along at very low speeds. Thanks!
I work for a company that's contracted out by both Union Pacific RR and Burlington Northern Santa Fe RR I climb on those well cars to unlock the IBC twist locks that keeps those containers from falling off
The opening shots were great. The framing on the second shots were ... The final shots from right to left, visual delight!
Nicely done. Man those trains were booking it.
My favorite of this bunch starts at 4:18. Nice catch of landscape and train.
If you select '2x' in the speed settings, it looks even more impressive ! ;-)
Indeed.
Fellows just some suggestions on your framing. Take a look at your crossing shot, the signal box is right in the middle of the picture. If you could have safely and legally crossed the road and either set up next to the box or even zoomed past it the signal becomes your right frame and the train then blocks most of the factory in the background. Also check yourself for shadows and don't stop trying.
Loved those high speed trains. Thanks for the video.
If only we could get more trains going this fast.
Unbelivieble. Unglaublich. Grüße aus Deutschland😉
I like train videos on UA-cam 😁
Super videos
Thanks Guys for this fantastic BNSF Intermodal Container video this is what you call a real credit to the person who made this BNSF Intermodal Container video I hope you might be interested into Memphis Intermodal Container Terminal if you could get a camera in side the cab off the BNSF Container Gantry Crane this would be just be awesome this would make my day week months and my year I hope we can have a video call sometime if you can get time to call I be really delighted if you can get this video made in the cab off the BNSF Memphis Intermodal Container Gantry Crane this will be a very big challenge for you Guys thanks again for this fantastic BNSF Intermodal Container video well done
Helluva zoom lens you have there! thanks for sharing!!
Awesome trains and videos !. Subbed :)
awesome train video
So cool to see a piggy back train! I remember seeing them as a kid. I didn't think Railroad's did piggy backs any more. I'm used to seeing inter-modals but not piggy backs.
Yes, TOFC is still big business for domestic (interstate and intrastate) traffic. UPS is a big customer.
Great job thx for sharing
In western Canada the railroads (railways) are in poor condition, trains travel typically at 65 kph (40 mph) maximum, don't want to derail, lots of trains travel at very slow speeds on branch lines.
Awesome train video! I love the old Santa Fe lines! I subscribed and look forward to more videos.
....wow....these are trains for adults.......greeting from germany......
Awesome video!!
Fun Fact: One fully loaded tractor trailer causes almost as much damage to a road as 10,000 cars! This is where the trailers should be, on the railroads! Where the taxpayers don't subsidize that maintenance cost.
xygomorphic44 hands down the most stupid comment I've ever read.
@@Therosko21, actually, the comment isn't all that far off.
The nation's economy depends on trucking, but that method of shipment comes with a price. Engineers estimate that a fully loaded truck--a five-axle rig weighing 80,000 pounds, the interstate maximum--causes more damage to a highway than 5,000 cars. Some road planners say that the toll is even higher, that it would take close to 10,000 cars to equal the damage caused by one heavy truck. When the trucks are overloaded, as quite a few of them are, the damage is exponentially worse. Increasing a truck's weight to 90,000 pounds results in a 42 percent increase in road wear. Pavement designed to last 20 years wears out in seven.
Source: Too Big for The Road [www(dot)governing(dot)com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/Too-Big-The-Road(dot)html]
Truck pay the highest road tax period they pay on monthly basis, every six months, or yearly, so they pay for the roads too
Carry shit in your car plus trains dont go to the grocey store
I see the same trains in Los Angeles, where they typically have three units pulling and two pushing. Where does BNSF drop off the pushing engines? Somewhere east of Williams?
What are all of the tracks, switchstand, and derails at the 3:05 mark in the video. NONE seem to be connected to anything.
What you're seeing is two idle sidings that look extremely compressed due to the telephoto zoom effect. The orange items are simply the wheelstop deadends of the two tracks, the yellow switchstand in the foreground is where the one siding splits into two. It's a lot clearer if you use Google map satellite view or Google Earth. The sidings are on the north side of the double mainline.
0:38 Is that another train in the distance?
With all the success of BNSF's high speed intermodal trains, the railroad needs more all-trailer trains to compete successfully with highways and trucks in light of trade wars between us USA and China. Same with Union Pacific and all other railroads doing mostly international business instead of more hard ass domestic intermodal business.
Good video. First train is not going faster than 60 MPH. Double stack is close to 70..maybe 68 MPH and the last one about 65. Very few run right at 70.
Makes me wonder what the fastest stretch of tracks for freight is.
Cue Doobie Brothers and 'Long Train Runnin'!
Nice!
nice video
That third train -lots of speed and air turbulence around the containers...
That crossing sounded like Anderson street in Austin the line was for Austin capital metro rail
how many tons can one power unit pull or push? if you have two or more power unit in on train are all the power unit pulling at the same power all the time?Thank for a very. fine video. Thanks for a very fine video.
Awesome vid - but I just don't see any of these trains going over 40 as pictured here - maybe in other sections.
The one at 4:30 looks to be doing about 45.
Love the videos guy's,keep up the good work. Will love them even more if you can install wind guards on your microphones one day, just a thought.! Love hearing those engines roar when they power-up.
owen kerry Glad you enjoy the videos. I have since bought an external microphone with a wind cover and I am using it with all new videos.
Locomotive450 i like the k5hl horn
Looks like the trucking industry saved the rail roads.
Great example of the doppler effect...
Nice video !!!
Nice location!
Thank you sharing this video. Quite interesting your shots in the distance and then bringing it forward for the close up. Nice work!I would like to know exactly where was this? (State)Thank you!!
Luke D Newberry Springs, CA just east of Barstow.
GREAT !!!!!!!!!
Well shot. The trailer train was fastest at just over 63 mph. The stack trains were between 53-59 mph. Nothing here was going 70.
mkmcclure please don't take this as an insult on your intelligence.....i honestly don't know...but how could u tell the speed?
No worries. FRA track speeds + lots of time along this route + BNSF operating rules for different trains.
The first train was going about 55MPH. I figured out with lap timer function on my cell phone, and knowing that a standard length semi trailer is 48 ft. Basically, hit the lap button every time one of the full size trailers passes the edge of the screen, then average all the laps together. I got 0.634s per semi trailer. (I even slowed the video down by 1/2, did the measurement, and multiplied my average by 2, and got nearly the same: 0.640s per semi trailer). Add 4 feet for the average space between the semi trailers, and some simple arithmetic gives me 55.9mph, so actually closer 56mph.
ant this right here is why I leave this all up to you guys
and
how fun.
70 miles per hour???? Man oh man, I do not believe.
I wish you could have done something with that annoying wind noise... I had to stop half way through... Try investing in a wind sock...
Really nice vid. I so need to get out west some time. Subbed to your ch.
You know that moment when the high railer hits 104 mph.
Only sensible way the shift freight, trains
Do they ever get that heat advisory thing where they have to go slower?
It can happen occasionally.
Cassandra Glowacki on this section of track in the Mojave Desert yes summertime sees many speed restrictions for safety purposes. Sun kink caused derailments have taken place on this line before.
Do see it 0:32
Thanks for this. As a UK citizen, what would you consider to be the best book I could get to introduce me to US railways? I find all the different companies bewildering!
+redhouseguitar That's a tough question. The US is a massive country with a vast railroad network. There is so much information out there, both historic and present, about all the railroad lines and companies, that it would be practically impossible to write a single book that provides a large enough umbrella to encompass all of the information. My best advice would be to focus on a specific aspect of railroads that interests you and look for literature in that genre.
Okay, will do, thanks. I have been interested lately in the railways of the Virginias, thanks to the River Falls & Eastern model railroad. I am trying to get my head around the mergers and acquisitions that make up the present Class 1 lines as well.
+redhouseguitar there's a website called american-rails that has tons of information on railroads, including ones not in operation and mergers.just google it and you should be able to find it easily
Conceptually, it may be easiest to start with the modern classification of railroads into classes 1, 2, and 3, and the distinctions between them. From a historical point of view consider that a great many distinct railways were established in the US during the 19th century, and the long term trend is one of amalgamation while shedding less profitable or lower volume sections of line.
Google "bnsf subdivisions map" for an informative PDF. Union Pacific has a similar PDF, and I imagine CN, CP, Norfolk Southern, and CSX do too.
Meanwhile in the UK,
The taxpayer complain "that's not ok",
"The roads are clogged up with many HGV",
The fatcats retort "shut up its all about me".
Don't judge me, but whats a Z-train?
caliroadgeek What BNSF calls their high priority trains that have a lot of truck trailers like UPS for example on one Train
Nice FRA loading violation @ 3:55. A/B end platforms have to be covered if it's not the tail end of the train.
thats bnsf" weez bringin it,,
vamos
loved the video but that mic is so distracting
Do you see it 0.32
see what?
You mean the 2nd train in the distance?
oh btw newberry is a safe place to live
Shave and a haircut two bits
Amtrak right?
SANTA FE.!!! ALL THE WAY.!!!
What's the big hurry? ;-)
polyrhythmia As with most things in life these days,time is money.
WICH GAUGE ? MITER GAUGE, BROD GAUGE , NARROW GAUGE ? ? ?
This is standard gauge which is 4 ft 8.5 in (1435 mm).
+Locomotive450 THANKS BROTHER
Walmart or bust ?
I can see why truck trailers are shipped by rail. My daughter and her hubby are OTR truckers. They say the California rules/regs on trucks/truckers are punishing. They stay out of that state!
not very many tracks can handle a 70mph train a very limited few short streches in the whole united statea
Except for the desert Southwest.
mic noise .. wow.
More Walmart?
With four power plants they should be doing 90.
I don't think the needles sub has Ats equipment next to signals and you need act or Ats to run above 79 mph for passenger trains years ago the Santa Fe super c tofc trailer train could do 90 from 1967 to 1975 it's too bad BNSF can't allow freight trains that haul trailers and containers at 80 to 90 bummer
Ruling grade determines the needed locos for the load.
70 isn't what is used to be I guess.
The bigger the object, the slower the visually apparent motion. Imagine a truck attached to one of those trailers as it moves by and compare to the objects on the ground. It's doing 70.
No way that train was doing 70
Highball....
you need a new radar gun, lmmfao