Love occasionally getting lucky and seeing all the shiny new refurbished Power Units coming out of Alliance and passing through OKC to their new recycled lives. Thanks for putting a few on here.
I love seeing on the videos with meteors crossing the skies. It is just as good as the lightning and, of course, the train actions. Great videos. Robert 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
That was not a meteor caught on the Plant City cam. That was a SpaceX Crew Drsgon capsule bringing astronauts from the ISS back down to the surface. The trajectory was for a splashdown off of Jacksonville.
23:50 Not only does Darwin Candidate go between cars of stopped train but THEN DELIBERATELY steps on TOP of every rail of every track he crosses--exactly what you are trained NOT to do (slipping hazard) on a railroad!
We see rocket launches regularly on the Cocoa, Plant City, Folkston, Barstow, & Cajon Pass cams. Rarely do we see astronauts returning home. In the case of the Plant City Segment, SpaceX Crew 6 coming down to splash down outside of Jacksonville FL. Plant City was in the reentry path.
I agree the trains keep derailing there, and that they might be just putting the lighter ones in front of the heavier ones which could be causing the derailments. This Gondola car looks like it's been pushed off the tracks.
This actually might not be a problem with the tracks but the trains themselves. Not mechanically but in just the way they are put together. PSR is making trains longer therefore making then much heavier and you can see where this goes wrong. A train going around to tight of a curve with to much weight behind if is going to fall over. And the tracks here were built when the curve radius was only designed for trains around a mile or so. (before PSR)
That parallel meet and pass in Big Sandy was spectacular! With both horns going at the same time in the middle of the night, I doubt anyone slept through that. 😀
Does anyone know what's on the DODX flatcar at 16:57? It's not nuclear material, otherwise there would be a command post caboose attached and no other freight.
It is, indeed, nuclear material. Canisters like that are usually tacked onto the front of a manifest train, the caboose only comes along if it’s a dedicated nuclear waste train
At every train meet, I keep waiting and hoping for 2 engines to pull up alongside one another and match speeds. Then have the crews pass something from one to another like "Pass the Grey Poupon, please."
I often watch these at 2x speed for my own amusement. Amtrak, 150 mph through town, no problem. Imagine my sheer delight when the derailment was shown at 6x speed....😂😂😂😂😂
That Missouri Pacific (MP) Gondola is Over 40+ years Old and would be Due to Retire before the End of the Decade. It’s going to be Scrapped a few years earlier. 😬👍🙏
Sounded like the rear axle finally popped out from the truck after it dropped down from the service road grade-crossing, and then pulled apart the air hose (triggering the brakes) as it freely rolled out from underneath the gondola and then under the front of the autorack car. Glad it didn't get to the next switch before stopping, but the should really check the frog of the first switch where it presumably derailed at since this isn't the first time.
Yes. They're pedal-powered railcarts. Each cart can operate independently or can be linked with others via a small drawbar. They're apparently being towed either to or from their storage location all together. In this case, I think they're used on the same line the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad uses for its passenger train, so maybe used whenever no excursion is scheduled, and cleared off the line the rest of the time.
I wish you had a location in ashland,ky where I live that way I can always watch the trains go by without being there. Our old C&O freight depot was turned into a bus station and amtrak station so its right by the tracks for some great shots
Hi! I'm new to learning about trains. Love these clips! At about 26 minutes into this video, there's focus on a large piece of equipment. I've seen them before. Can someone please tell me what it is? Or where I can find more information. Thank you!
The tower itself was demolished a few years ago. Camera location is southwest of the I35/30 interchange. Best viewed from Vickery Blvd. That particular area of Ft Worth is NOT family friendly.
Been wanting to ask you this. How are the people seeing you. Are you actually at all these locations or is it drone footage I'm intrigued to know. This is cool
Too slow for a meteor, it may have been the 4-person space station crew returning to Earth in the Space X Dragon vehicle named Endeavour. They splashed down off the Florida coast about 16 minutes after that video.
Track sensor and evaluation unit which is ballasted to a precise weight and, in combination w/the instrumentation in the following car detects track structure defects.
How embarrassing for Jim Vena lol! With Hulcher right there in Fort Worth, TX. They couldn’t just kick that gon out with the side winders and couple the rest of the train back together and carry on. Poor leadership on SVP Brian Barr’s part.
Liked the Benny Hill style skit at the end with all the passengers! Great grab bag, thanks again VRF!
I was thinking Benny Hill also before I even read any of the comments.
Love occasionally getting lucky and seeing all the shiny new refurbished Power Units coming out of Alliance and passing through OKC to their new recycled lives. Thanks for putting a few on here.
1:40 SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule re-entry, nice catch!
Wow! Great catching all the trains, @Virtual Railfan, thank you.
Loved the comedy at the end. Made my day. Thanks 😊
@27:37 really cracked me up, keep up the great work VRF!!!
I love seeing on the videos with meteors crossing the skies. It is just as good as the lightning and, of course, the train actions. Great videos. Robert 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
That was not a meteor caught on the Plant City cam. That was a SpaceX Crew Drsgon capsule bringing astronauts from the ISS back down to the surface. The trajectory was for a splashdown off of Jacksonville.
@ChadSimplicio oh. Really cool. Thanks Robert
13:50 Rest in peace Missouri Pacific Gondola. You have served the rail industry very well.
Bout time. Time to get cars that were around in the Era of steam off the rails
@@parkerjon29what’s wrong with them
23:50 Not only does Darwin Candidate go between cars of stopped train but THEN DELIBERATELY steps on TOP of every rail of every track he crosses--exactly what you are trained NOT to do (slipping hazard) on a railroad!
We see rocket launches regularly on the Cocoa, Plant City, Folkston, Barstow, & Cajon Pass cams. Rarely do we see astronauts returning home. In the case of the Plant City Segment, SpaceX Crew 6 coming down to splash down outside of Jacksonville FL. Plant City was in the reentry path.
Oh! I thought that was a meteor. Better still
@@byronharano2391 Yeah, man. Me too. But to see a ship burning in was CLASSIC!
Im glad plant city is finally in the grab bags again
I wonder if anyone called to report a UFO or if they're used to that sort of thing in Plant City?
Very cool to see the Jersey lines 1071 at big 10 curve! 😊
Excellent on and off track action. Thank you😊
That thing streaking through the sky was the Dragon Six Crew Capsule coming back from space.
Fort Worth might want to consider checking their track design and safety practices, just to be safe.
I’m 8 at every weekend and Fridays and Thursdays which tracks are safe, so no train derails so I will be a good expert on that
Not necessarily the design, but the Rails themselves because of the heat. The DFW Area has averaged about 104F every day for about the last month.
@@Wolf-rk6jqThis Section is Problematic on this Union Pacific (UP) Sub according to Internal Data. 👎
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I agree the trains keep derailing there, and that they might be just putting the lighter ones in front of the heavier ones which could be causing the derailments. This Gondola car looks like it's been pushed off the tracks.
The stars have got to be perfectly aligned to get a race at Big Sandy.
Truth!
Another great Grab Bag! Love to see what is happening on the railcams.
Ha that comedy was hilarious. Great grab bag as always.
COOL Dragon re-entry capture!
It seems the Fort Worth camera is starting to have more of a reputation for catching derails😅
LOL 😂 The ending was hilarious!!! Thanks for the belly laugh!!
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This actually might not be a problem with the tracks but the trains themselves. Not mechanically but in just the way they are put together. PSR is making trains longer therefore making then much heavier and you can see where this goes wrong. A train going around to tight of a curve with to much weight behind if is going to fall over. And the tracks here were built when the curve radius was only designed for trains around a mile or so. (before PSR)
the boxcar at 6:05 isnt a former Amtrak boxcar, its a TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, AND EASTERN boxcar. they have their own livery
That parallel meet and pass in Big Sandy was spectacular! With both horns going at the same time in the middle of the night, I doubt anyone slept through that. 😀
hello virtual railfan it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy
Captured another UFO this is slowly becoming a virtual alien railroad channel.
That's was some nicest BNSF Crew waves at the VRF Cam.
I like the speed up of the Arvada Curve Section. Makes it more interesting.
Does anyone know what's on the DODX flatcar at 16:57? It's not nuclear material, otherwise there would be a command post caboose attached and no other freight.
It is, indeed, nuclear material. Canisters like that are usually tacked onto the front of a manifest train, the caboose only comes along if it’s a dedicated nuclear waste train
At 6x spd, that loco hooked up to an auto carrier like at HO train! 😂🎉
6:22 Interesting fact about that articulated well car. It can fit a 48' container on top.
I'm so happy I got to hang out at TOWER 55 when it still existed.
At every train meet, I keep waiting and hoping for 2 engines to pull up alongside one another and match speeds. Then have the crews pass something from one to another like "Pass the Grey Poupon, please."
When the 2 Amtrak's met, I was hoping the Crews would hop out and have an "Anchorman" brawl...
“But of course!”
Oh no btw amazing video and caught a UP train
I often watch these at 2x speed for my own amusement. Amtrak, 150 mph through town, no problem. Imagine my sheer delight when the derailment was shown at 6x speed....😂😂😂😂😂
Keep these going as always
Regarding the MoPac gondola - ive heard of "setting out bad order cars" but not in that way!
0:49 5340, the lead engine that was involved in the 2002 Placentia, CA head-on collision.
23:17for crossing in front of the locomotive or for the pickup in general?
👌😁WELL DONE VR👍😃
Fort worth might become the new Santa Fe jct.
Cumberland MD should be a cam viewing the yard
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Amazing Vid
*Wow Nice Catches 👌*
Nice video of that meteor.
It was a spaceship.
@@TinkerTailor4303 Thank you. I this on another post here. Appreciated.
11:45 The rear truck of the gondola is holding on for dear life!
How many times there had been derail in Fort Worth?
On that SAME track!
Re. Arvada: "Doggone skunk birds!"
Thats a Magpie
So many grabs..
Todays Darwin's are tomorrow's headlines.
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Nice Video
That Missouri Pacific (MP) Gondola is Over 40+ years Old and would be Due to Retire before the End of the Decade. It’s going to be Scrapped a few years earlier. 😬👍🙏
How do you know it is going to be scrapped?
11:40 Derailment
The recipients of the Darwin Awards must be the strongest because they usually survive.
Nice bolide!
In Fort Worth, yet another OLD gondola that needs scrapped!!!
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3:43 dang since when did train sim world 3 get that realistic?
1:00 great....more problem causers...
Sounded like the rear axle finally popped out from the truck after it dropped down from the service road grade-crossing, and then pulled apart the air hose (triggering the brakes) as it freely rolled out from underneath the gondola and then under the front of the autorack car. Glad it didn't get to the next switch before stopping, but the should really check the frog of the first switch where it presumably derailed at since this isn't the first time.
What was that rail contraption at 3:46? Tourist ride?
Yes. They're pedal-powered railcarts. Each cart can operate independently or can be linked with others via a small drawbar. They're apparently being towed either to or from their storage location all together. In this case, I think they're used on the same line the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad uses for its passenger train, so maybe used whenever no excursion is scheduled, and cleared off the line the rest of the time.
@ 22:20 it looks like a trainmaster switching over after a crew training run...Tim
I wish you had a location in ashland,ky where I live that way I can always watch the trains go by without being there. Our old C&O freight depot was turned into a bus station and amtrak station so its right by the tracks for some great shots
19:20. Also available in orange......
Wanna be Norfolk Southern loco
19:24 I believe this is the unit involved in a grade crossing collision. And the vehicle caught fire. Just can't remember where I saw it.
Hi! I'm new to learning about trains. Love these clips! At about 26 minutes into this video, there's focus on a large piece of equipment. I've seen them before. Can someone please tell me what it is? Or where I can find more information. Thank you!
I’d like to know this too. They make it into the grab bag but I have no idea what they are. Any of these items that are similar.
@@andrewlaverghetta715 The one at 26:05 that the camera zoomed in on, was a pair of Department of Defense (DODX) flatcars with a DODX escort caboose.
Maintenance-of-way needs the truck that truck on a regular basis and prevent more the real ones for the record I love watching trains❤❤❤❤❤❤
Precision Scheduled Derailment
The guy in Rochelle with another unreadable sign. Folks, make your signs simple and big. Please.
Is there something about being coupled to an autorack that makes dissimilar cars more inclined to derail on sharp curves?
That must be the Mighty Mississippi River in the background in Fort Madison.
Yep!
11:44 Oooh Dear Another Derail At Fort Worth Well Luckily No One Was Hurt But The Gondola Car Wheel Have Come Off
What is that at 16:58?
23:15. Those wheels were a dead giveaway.
23:25 Crispy critter.
14:01 FLIRTy boi zooms by.
1:26 was that on the news? It seemed to move very slowly so it may have been falling satellite debris?
Possibly the Crew-6 Dragon capsule return to Earth.
It was the crew capsule
very likely the spacex dragon capsule returning to earth from orbit
Doing the zipper at big sandy!. I'm sure that is rare.
9:15, man, that was the biggest S curve I've ever seen!
Im just here to see what armchair railroader extraordinaire Kenneth Hanks has to say.
Where exactly in Fort Worth is the infamous Tower 55?
The tower itself was demolished a few years ago. Camera location is southwest of the I35/30 interchange. Best viewed from Vickery Blvd. That particular area of Ft Worth is NOT family friendly.
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Been wanting to ask you this. How are the people seeing you. Are you actually at all these locations or is it drone footage I'm intrigued to know. This is cool
Virtual Railfan has cameras loacated all over America & one in Canada. I urge you to join as a WR member!!
23:23 that thing getting old
What, the ad??!
1:33 is that a comet?
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Was Galesburg music a version of Benny Hills Yakkitti Saks?
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"Wash me" or "Paint me"? Looks like he face-tanked a fire...
wonder what century they are gonna realize that curve in TX is to sharp?
Why do those train cars always seem to derail in almost the same location?
What Is That In 1:25 ?
Too slow for a meteor, it may have been the 4-person space station crew returning to Earth in the Space X Dragon vehicle named Endeavour. They splashed down off the Florida coast about 16 minutes after that video.
SpaceX crew 6 capsule and crew heading for splashdown.
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25:52 What IS that monstrosity in the middle of that lashup??
Track sensor and evaluation unit which is ballasted to a precise weight and, in combination w/the instrumentation in the following car detects track structure defects.
@@kennethhanks6712 It just looks like an oddly deranged vision of a locomotive.
Not Amtrak, TOE
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Broken axle???
How embarrassing for Jim Vena lol! With Hulcher right there in Fort Worth, TX. They couldn’t just kick that gon out with the side winders and couple the rest of the train back together and carry on. Poor leadership on SVP Brian Barr’s part.
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Durango and Silverton Narrow Guage Railroad Cam