I like how you professionally used the background trees to accent the smoke from the first engine. It's also neat how this railroad can take larger railroad castoffs (the engines) and what appears to be an ex-Duke pickup and the rail lines abandoned by CSX or NS and make it all work, serve the customers and still make money. Plus they put the people who work for them in a money paying job. Then they gave you and me some railroading to watch. That's the American way!
Take this train and shove it! I've watched this one 3 or 4 times now, I like that you are close enough to the tracks, as well as there not being trees blocking your view, that you can catch all the action each time they switch, you can see EVERYTHING that happens, that was cool, and when they made a mistake somebody said, "You know they're filming you."
Hello nice video it really shows the amount of effort it takes to switch cars locally or kicking cars in the yard. This job is not always easy and can kill you if safety procedures aren't followed. Have a nice day and keep up the good work.
Great video of the task of fluffing out the needed cars. Very enjoyable. As the party album from 2011 told listeners & this crew you filmed, "Every day I'm Shufflin' ". Thanks for taking on the damp spring air. I feel like I should have Ubered you a cup of coffee from Speedway.
One day someone will be asking how railroads worked in 2019, and your video will still be a source of knowledge. And me personally, I like to see the variety of cars, as too many videos end once the locomotives go past. Soo Line, Rio Grande, Delaware & Hudson, and Union Pacific stood out, so a 2019 era modeller can include these cars with patches. I even saw a full B&M blue car in Chicago two years ago...
Hi Brian: Yes I enjoyed the video, my only experience with switching was in the early fifties in Douglas Az, all gone now. I remember laying bed in the early morning and hearing the SP switchers, steam, shunting cars making trains for transit to El Paso or points west. Great sounds. Thanks for this video, good one. Edward
Yet another superb video Brian -the weathering boys will have a field day with those older cars -multiple owners -all painted or faded out -what a treat! I don't know what was ticking on the Gp -maybe the air compressor??? Your on a roll at the minute -one after another superb filming job! Keep them coming please!!
Those ole Alaskan GP39s are really neat, it’s a shame the railroad won’t repaint their engines in its own livery. Also the B36 has a perfect horn, the new engines don’t sound to good because they don’t have a manual valve.
Great video showing the delivery process via rail. They do that here at the Purina Dog food plant, the trains and dispatcher say on the radio Ok to go feed the dogs!
@Wide World Of Trains: It’s funny you say “via rail” in which I know what you meant but here in Canada our passenger train service company is called,”VIA Rail” in which i’m sure you’ve heard of & obviously in the States you have “AM/Trak”. ~ Cheers from Canada.
@@sudsysutherland359 Oh yea LOL yes Ive known about VIA Rail passenger service in Canada for many years. I have watched Canadian TV and some news since the 70's since we get those channels here near Buffalo and used to get them w a rooftop antenna before cable was around
@@sudsysutherland359 My favorite TV sports show was on Global TV I think it was called sportsline w hosts Jim Tatti and Mark Hebshire, they were on every weeknight at 11:30 this was during the 80's
My bonafides: worked the local on the Hearne sub [SP] for years. The following is NOT meant as criticism, but only as an observation. For the purposes of identification, we will denote pickup guy, since he arrived in a pickup, and switch guy. I was taught when the train is backing up, you mount the stirrup with your right foot. When the train is moving forward, you mount with the left. Pickup guy takes a couple of running steps and mounts with his left foot when the train is backing up. He swings his right leg out when mounting. PUG also runs behind the train moving forward to open the knuckle. PUG makes the wrong cut in the siding thus initiating a repeat move. Some of PUG's instructions to the engineer results in jarring coupling of cars. Switch guy makes one wrong move that I could see and that's trying to catch the cutlever to open the knuckle as the train is moving by him. While the moves can be considered unsafe, and I suspect there's some old railroad video about safety, everyone does it their own way. As for me, I made a few wrongs moves as a newbie, but that's another story.
Are they attempting to put more modern signalling on that subdivision? I see what appears to be modern signal heads on a straight mast (with protective caging for climbers) on the left side (as the camera faces the crossing) and on the far side of the tracks. Also visible at times are the older position-style signal head (seen off to the distant right), as well as a very tall twin-headed mast with lots of rust on it to the extreme left on the close side of the tracks.
Reminds me of when I worked down at P&G for RailServe. The cars we needed were always mixed around and had to do this type of back and fourth switching. Was fun though.
I have one video of Railserve. I always wonder how the cars get mixed up so much. Whenever I watch long mixed freight trains I wonder how the cars got all mixed up. Someone has to unmix them at some point. That would have been a cool job working for Railserve. I have a few of their locos in my videos as intros and outros.
@@JawTooth I always wondered how the cars get mixed up as well. I recall watching long coal drags on L&N CC Line back in the 1970s. Almost all hoppers had the L&N reporting mark but somehow an odd Monon or Clinchfield hopper would get into the mix. I always wondered how that happened.
@1:25 ? Why neglect the moisture valves like that ? That ticking sound reminds me of the Penn Central & early Conrail years. Not totally neccessary maintenance work ? True. Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine, 'cause most times it's just a simple fix. If not, a simple replacement....😳
27:35 anyone notice the Rio Grande hopper? Incredible! Jaw Tooth, great work. I switch rail cars for a living, and I barely come across anything worth while. Good to see some live action!
Great video Brian! Early in the video that old pole to the left of the road that has the double pointed ends on top looks like it used to have semaphore signals. The old Monon over here has semaphores on those same kind of pointed poles. I'm surprised we didn't get to see how shiny those rails got after all that switching :)
Jaw Tooth, speaking of NORFOLK SOUTHERN, when I was in the service, during the 1980s, I used to take the train home from Philadelphia to Chicago. Back then, it was Amtrak's "Broadway Limited". It ran on CONRAIL's tracks, now owned by NS. I remember our train, "Broadway..", ran on Horseshoe Curve, in Pennsylvania, kind of scary. But unfortunately, the "Broadway.." train was discontinued in the 1990s. 😒 I also rode the, "Capitol Limited", from Chicago to Washington DC. That train took a similar route like the "Broadway Limited", however it bypassed Horseshoe Curve, if I remember correctly.
I don't go there very often. I was filming the yard from a road bridge and a couple people followed me after I left. I went in to a restaurant and they followed me inside but never said anything. I think they were NS police. I like Portsmouth but you have to watch what you do there.
What this tells me, is that individual car owners have different lease arrangements within the pool. I was not aware that was permitted. I thought that uniform lease arrangements and rates were the beauty of the railcar pool system. I guess DJ just wants more than their share!!
Brian, If you are ever in sacramento, look me up, we have a great train museum and lots of train spotting. Oh, not to mention a fair share of farming. Plus, I will show you what a steak is supposed to tatse like
Nice Video Every Saturday I Try To Catch This Action In Los Angeles But This Was Amazing Because I Never Seen This Action Take Such A Long Time But Good Video
Awesome Video Question JT If ever Find out Why they Stopped Using DJJ Cars Could You Please Let me Know Just Wondering being Nosey LOL Thank You Again AWESOME Video.
I use to see them all over Cincinnati but seems not so much any more. Their websites don't work so I have to wonder if there bought out. Bloomberg says they are still around. They are owned by NUCOR Steel though that might have changed.
Back in the day, most railroad crewed at least 2 brakemen (front and rear) for their industrial and local moves. All sorts of hand and lantern signaling got the job done back then. A lost art to most of today's crews because many present rules require the use of radio during switching. Safety first. High ball!
Sometimes, I wonder if the individual that hops on the retuning cars gets a real kick out of doing that. The DJJ cars are left behind because...? 39:15-if those two were to collide...I was counting on that truck to cross before the train got there
That's a good hogger ... gentle couplings, very little slack action "banging'. Some deft train control. I had a sphincter moment when that truck came up to the crossing in the end .. does he hear the horn? I was thinking.
Have I worked out correctly, those random loose ties lying on the sides of the ballast indicate "blank files" for spacing as the switching continues. 🤔😎👍😸
If I'm not mistaking I think trains have to have their railcars put in a specific order instead of just having any of their railcars being put anywhere on the train.
Depends very much on what the train is doing. In this case, all the cars are going to the same place (Winchester AG) to be loaded with the same commodity, so it usually doesn't matter what order they're in. However, some customers do require the cars in a specific order, e.g., tank cars that need to be unloaded in specific places. If a train is serving multiple customers or destinations, then all the cars for each customer typically need to be next to each other, and these blocks need to be in the right order in the train to be dropped off one by one.
No, those signals replaced older N&W ones back 20 years ago. All the signals were deactivated around 2005. Those signals look new but they are about 20 years old.
Does this Beautiful railway have their own car inspection?? To fix and clean cars. 😊😅😮😢🎉😂❤❤❤❤ I would worry if i was spotted a dirty Grain hopper car ...like in your last video We watched. You commented that the hopper car going by smelled. 😊😅😮😢 ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I never run out of Jaw Tooth videos to watch. Why? Because there's more! There always is.
I like how you professionally used the background trees to accent the smoke from the first engine. It's also neat how this railroad can take larger railroad castoffs (the engines) and what appears to be an ex-Duke pickup and the rail lines abandoned by CSX or NS and make it all work, serve the customers and still make money. Plus they put the people who work for them in a money paying job. Then they gave you and me some railroading to watch. That's the American way!
Take this train and shove it! I've watched this one 3 or 4 times now, I like that you are close enough to the tracks, as well as there not being trees blocking your view, that you can catch all the action each time they switch, you can see EVERYTHING that happens, that was cool, and when they made a mistake somebody said, "You know they're filming you."
Hello nice video it really shows the amount of effort it takes to switch cars locally or kicking cars in the yard. This job is not always easy and can kill you if safety procedures aren't followed. Have a nice day and keep up the good work.
It's great to see those old Locomotives still earning their keep. Great catch
Some of that rolling stock should stop by the paint shop.😎👌👍
Technology a plus using radios back before my time they did that with lanterns. Good filming!
Love the old Delaware and Hudson hopper car! Nice!!!
Great video of the task of fluffing out the needed cars. Very enjoyable. As the party album from 2011 told listeners & this crew you filmed, "Every day I'm Shufflin' ". Thanks for taking on the damp spring air. I feel like I should have Ubered you a cup of coffee from Speedway.
Great video sir, nice to see the old road names still peeking through the rust. Thanks for taking the time to do this!!!
One day someone will be asking how railroads worked in 2019, and your video will still be a source of knowledge. And me personally, I like to see the variety of cars, as too many videos end once the locomotives go past. Soo Line, Rio Grande, Delaware & Hudson, and Union Pacific stood out, so a 2019 era modeller can include these cars with patches. I even saw a full B&M blue car in Chicago two years ago...
Nice to see they left old light tower
Hi Brian: Yes I enjoyed the video, my only experience with switching was in the early fifties in Douglas Az, all gone now. I remember laying bed in the early morning and hearing the SP switchers, steam, shunting cars making trains for transit to El Paso or points west. Great sounds. Thanks for this video, good one. Edward
Yet another superb video Brian -the weathering boys will have a field day with those older cars -multiple owners -all painted or faded out -what a treat! I don't know what was ticking on the Gp -maybe the air compressor??? Your on a roll at the minute -one after another superb filming job! Keep them coming please!!
Excellent video JT! Glad to see that Ex. Seaboard engine getting a second chance.
This is the best old train action I have ever seen yet, get'er done boys
Excellent video - no annoying music!!! It was a pleasure to watch ...
Those ole Alaskan GP39s are really neat, it’s a shame the railroad won’t repaint their engines in its own livery. Also the B36 has a perfect horn, the new engines don’t sound to good because they don’t have a manual valve.
I love hearing that B36 horn. When I hear that I always head to the railroad as long as it is heading east since that is when it is leading.
GP49
BEST SWITCHING VIDEO EVER!
man, that was a ton of switching cars.
Great video showing the delivery process via rail. They do that here at the Purina Dog food plant, the trains and dispatcher say on the radio Ok to go feed the dogs!
@Wide World Of Trains: It’s funny you say “via rail” in which I know what you meant but here in Canada our passenger train service company is called,”VIA Rail” in which i’m sure you’ve heard of & obviously in the States you have “AM/Trak”. ~ Cheers from Canada.
@@sudsysutherland359 Oh yea LOL yes Ive known about VIA Rail passenger service in Canada for many years. I have watched Canadian TV and some news since the 70's since we get those channels here near Buffalo and used to get them w a rooftop antenna before cable was around
@@sudsysutherland359 My favorite TV sports show was on Global TV I think it was called sportsline w hosts Jim Tatti and Mark Hebshire, they were on every weeknight at 11:30 this was during the 80's
That GP49 was retired from the Alaska Railroad sometime in 2004-2005, and was owned by a leasing company before the CCET purchased it.
Oh okay. Thanks!
Love local action, switching, shunting. Thank you!
I just LOVE it when u say "But wait there is more!"
My bonafides: worked the local on the Hearne sub [SP] for years. The following is NOT meant as criticism, but only as an observation. For the purposes of identification, we will denote pickup guy, since he arrived in a pickup, and switch guy. I was taught when the train is backing up, you mount the stirrup with your right foot. When the train is moving forward, you mount with the left. Pickup guy takes a couple of running steps and mounts with his left foot when the train is backing up. He swings his right leg out when mounting. PUG also runs behind the train moving forward to open the knuckle. PUG makes the wrong cut in the siding thus initiating a repeat move. Some of PUG's instructions to the engineer results in jarring coupling of cars.
Switch guy makes one wrong move that I could see and that's trying to catch the cutlever to open the knuckle as the train is moving by him.
While the moves can be considered unsafe, and I suspect there's some old railroad video about safety, everyone does it their own way. As for me, I made a few wrongs moves as a newbie, but that's another story.
Are they attempting to put more modern signalling on that subdivision? I see what appears to be modern signal heads on a straight mast (with protective caging for climbers) on the left side (as the camera faces the crossing) and on the far side of the tracks. Also visible at times are the older position-style signal head (seen off to the distant right), as well as a very tall twin-headed mast with lots of rust on it to the extreme left on the close side of the tracks.
That was a lot of switching. Good job!
Reminds me of when I worked down at P&G for RailServe. The cars we needed were always mixed around and had to do this type of back and fourth switching. Was fun though.
I have one video of Railserve. I always wonder how the cars get mixed up so much. Whenever I watch long mixed freight trains I wonder how the cars got all mixed up. Someone has to unmix them at some point. That would have been a cool job working for Railserve. I have a few of their locos in my videos as intros and outros.
@@JawTooth I always wondered how the cars get mixed up as well. I recall watching long coal drags on L&N CC Line back in the 1970s. Almost all hoppers had the L&N reporting mark but somehow an odd Monon or Clinchfield hopper would get into the mix. I always wondered how that happened.
Nice to see what it is that causes those clang-bang sounds that I hear coming from my local classification yard day in and day out.
You took some interesting footage. Drinking my coffee and enjoying some trains. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 🚂 Thanks for the share.
Nice Delaware & Hudson hopper, got a smile from this Schenectady man!
Glad to hear it!
@1:25 ? Why neglect the moisture valves like that ? That ticking sound reminds me of the Penn Central & early Conrail years. Not totally neccessary maintenance work ? True.
Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine, 'cause most times it's just a simple fix. If not, a simple replacement....😳
Its nice to see old railroad cars with old names on them. Great video
27:35 anyone notice the Rio Grande hopper? Incredible! Jaw Tooth, great work. I switch rail cars for a living, and I barely come across anything worth while. Good to see some live action!
There was also an ex-Delaware and Hudson hopper that visited the line quite often around this time.
Lots of shuffling.Thanks for sharing.
Great video Brian! Early in the video that old pole to the left of the road that has the double pointed ends on top looks like it used to have semaphore signals. The old Monon over here has semaphores on those same kind of pointed poles. I'm surprised we didn't get to see how shiny those rails got after all that switching :)
Great patience and time well spent.
Many thanks!
Another great video.....enjoyed it very much. Thank you!
Wheeeeww! Some really good live switching action!!
26:41 that noise when they coupled the other hoppers sounded cool
Hay Jawtooth finally got Sardena crossing fixed😁👍
Great video. Thanks for showing the whole switching process
Glad it was helpful!
another awesome video. Thanks for sharing!!
a awesome catch Jawtooth, I sent you Facebook friends request your awesome you rock!!!
Awesome! I will look for it when I get on Facebook.
Great action out in the country. I would be out there with a pre-packed hot lunch.
Very interesting Mr JT. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Very interesting how they do this work. Thanks for this good video
Jaw Tooth I enjoy your train videos a lot I am a huge railfan.
Great vedios I come from a long line of railway workers and I'm also a ham operator an a retired firefighter
Awesome! I was a volunteer fire department on a station in Ohio and paid by the run volunteer on a station in Kentucky.
Ahhh, Delaware and Hudson goes to the times of my youth. That huge yard in Mechanicsville is now gone and just intermodal now.
Great vid!! SOO Line and Delaware and Hudson cars were nice to see.
Love the old RR and the old signals
Interesting y they would leave all the dj cars unless they are used for a different commodity then the others
Great job jaw tooth love your show
Hey John to thanks for doing that is really good especially when you said Paris Kentucky that I read in the description
Nice Video Well Done Thank You For Sharing
Great catch. Did anyone count the total moves to get all the DJ cars separated?
Jaw Tooth, speaking of NORFOLK SOUTHERN, when I was in the service, during the 1980s, I used to take the train home from Philadelphia to Chicago. Back then, it was Amtrak's "Broadway Limited". It ran on CONRAIL's tracks, now owned by NS. I remember our train, "Broadway..", ran on Horseshoe Curve, in Pennsylvania, kind of scary.
But unfortunately, the "Broadway.." train was discontinued in the 1990s. 😒
I also rode the, "Capitol Limited", from Chicago to Washington DC. That train took a similar route like the "Broadway Limited", however it bypassed Horseshoe Curve, if I remember correctly.
I would love to ride a train around Horseshoe Curve. I have filmed Amtrak going around it. 90s were some good days
@@JawTooth
Sorry Jaw Tooth, when you replied, I was still typing more words, revising my comments. I added more.
Great Video Jaw Tooth
Just got some new surround sound system and just say damn was it loud.. lol.. just say I might have some pissed off neighbors now.. but we'll worth it
Excellent video. Thanks JawTooth
Always can count on you for great videos. Do you ever go over to Portsmouth. Like to see how much of the yard they still use
I don't go there very often. I was filming the yard from a road bridge and a couple people followed me after I left. I went in to a restaurant and they followed me inside but never said anything. I think they were NS police. I like Portsmouth but you have to watch what you do there.
What this tells me, is that individual car owners have different lease arrangements within the pool. I was not aware that was permitted. I thought that uniform lease arrangements and rates were the beauty of the railcar pool system. I guess DJ just wants more than their share!!
Brian, If you are ever in sacramento, look me up, we have a great train museum and lots of train spotting. Oh, not to mention a fair share of farming. Plus, I will show you what a steak is supposed to tatse like
Nice Video Every Saturday I Try To Catch This Action In Los Angeles But This Was Amazing Because I Never Seen This Action Take Such A Long Time But Good Video
Awesome switching!!!
Triple XXX Railroad crossing action!! Live Trains on stage! Adults only
Great Video Brain!
i think their lease of these cars has expired, found documents dated this time last year
Awesome Video Question JT If ever Find out Why they Stopped Using DJJ Cars Could You Please Let me Know Just Wondering being Nosey LOL Thank You Again AWESOME Video.
I use to see them all over Cincinnati but seems not so much any more. Their websites don't work so I have to wonder if there bought out. Bloomberg says they are still around. They are owned by NUCOR Steel though that might have changed.
@@eottoe2001 Thank You for Replying to My Question I Really Appreciate it LOTS Again Thank You For He Information.
Excellent commentary from you mate
Before they had radios, that must have been really difficult.
Back in the day, most railroad crewed at least 2 brakemen (front and rear) for their industrial and local moves. All sorts of hand and lantern signaling got the job done back then. A lost art to most of today's crews because many present rules require the use of radio during switching. Safety first. High ball!
It's not easy but sometimes the old way gets it done faster and it can be fun
18:58 That's ok you're on camera
i love the thumbnail and the video jaw tooth
Sometimes, I wonder if the individual that hops on the retuning cars gets a real kick out of doing that. The DJJ cars are left behind because...?
39:15-if those two were to collide...I was counting on that truck to cross before the train got there
Best rail videos on the internet! Im just sayin.
Wow, thanks!
If only those rails from the Norfolk and Western days can tell you stories...
Another good one Son ...
I like train videos on UA-cam jawtooth 👍
It was really funj watch9ng the switching, that is sh0pw i did it on my lay out.
That's a good hogger ... gentle couplings, very little slack action "banging'. Some deft train control. I had a sphincter moment when that truck came up to the crossing in the end .. does he hear the horn? I was thinking.
Good video Jawtooth
Thanks!
Have I worked out correctly, those random loose ties lying on the sides of the ballast indicate "blank files" for spacing as the switching continues.
🤔😎👍😸
Wow! Awesome video my friend!👌🙂
Awesome video!
It's DJ Vous all over again!
Great video!
great video all round😀
Nice video!
really enjoyed
keep those videos rolling
I think the engineer was slammin those cars alil too u should have let him be in the video too his friends were 😂
Nice Video Brian every Saturday In Los Angeles I Catch This Type Of Action And I Love It And My Name Is Also Brian. Amazing Video
✿ Nice video dear friend... .INTERESTING.. .I like it .) Blessings✿
That was cool! Woo!
Great video
If I'm not mistaking I think trains have to have their railcars put in a specific order instead of just having any of their railcars being put anywhere on the train.
Depends very much on what the train is doing. In this case, all the cars are going to the same place (Winchester AG) to be loaded with the same commodity, so it usually doesn't matter what order they're in. However, some customers do require the cars in a specific order, e.g., tank cars that need to be unloaded in specific places. If a train is serving multiple customers or destinations, then all the cars for each customer typically need to be next to each other, and these blocks need to be in the right order in the train to be dropped off one by one.
Hey Jaw tooth at the spot where they are swapping cov hops I see new signals by the hi railer . Are they gonna sigalize the the line?
No, those signals replaced older N&W ones back 20 years ago. All the signals were deactivated around 2005. Those signals look new but they are about 20 years old.
Those old N & W signal masts look to be over 100 years old, amazing that they are still standing. Too bad they took the semaphores off.
Everytime I see that U boat I see some more rust on it and I haven,t seen the other one yet...
The other one has only been test ran one time. I hope I can film it running soon.
Does this Beautiful railway have their own car inspection?? To fix and clean cars. 😊😅😮😢🎉😂❤❤❤❤ I would worry if i was spotted a dirty Grain hopper car ...like in your last video We watched. You commented that the hopper car going by smelled. 😊😅😮😢 ❤❤❤❤❤❤