Amtrak Races Freight Train with Caboose!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2017
- Amtrak train 353 races Norfolk Southern Local Freight B17 which has a caboose! These two trains are both heading west on the old New York Central Michigan Line, and provided a rare meet and race on the double track. This was neat and represented two out of four trains seen in 90 minutes at Beck Road!
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Liked just for the Caboose. I haven't seen one of those in a
looooong time!
Nice to see that they're bringing cabooses back!
A caboose?! Those are my favorite type of train cars.
I miss the days of the caboose!... When I was a kid in Ohio during the '70s, I would ride my bike down to the Penn Central tracks at the end of my street and wait for then trains so I could wave to the dude in the caboose. We also had an Amtrak train that flew through town about 11:30 every night... Later in life we would toast them with our beer as they sped by at our hangout outside of town in our young adult years.... Good memories. Amtrak no longer comes through, one set of rails is long gone, and the rail line is rarely used now.
please tell me they were Chessie System tracks
Long hood forward and a caboose , doesn’t get any better 👍
I wonder who tripped the crossing first? They were almost head-to-head when the crossing activated!
Now that wasn’t much of a race lol, but seeing those ex EJ&E coil cars along with the OLS and NW Caboose is really something! Great video!
Despite them all being obsolete cabooses still have their uses on Main Line Railroads and our used by short lines and tourist railroads
Why do certain trains still have them?
Cool catch with the caboose!
It's a Norfolk Southern Opservation Lifesaver locomotive with an Ex-Norfolk and Western caboose. Nice catch.
Awesome catch man!!! I caught E280 with a warbonnet leading!!!
SD80MAC Railfanning Productions that would have been cool to see
Awesome !!
Nice train race! Nice catches!
Very rare catch! But a sick sounding Nathan P3
Awesome Catches
Great catches, love the caboose. My husbands uncle worked for the RR and was in a caboose when the engineer threw the train into emergency while going slow. Took some time for the whiplash effect got to the caboose, when it did it threw his uncle across the room where he ended up breaking his neck. Thanks for sharing your vid from a new sub :-))
Nice find at frame 3:20.
• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
Awesome catch
They need to bring the cabooses back.
The forest is attractive, especially when it is shot when the train passes. thank you
Nice to see a caboose at the end of a train again!
'Surprised to see NO headlight on when running caboose as the head end!
Well, hmmmmmph!, that was more of a "blow your doors off", than a race! And yes!, the 'boose was cool!
Nice work!
Rejected: not a high-hood unit
Railhead with cask cars ! Nice catch ! 🚂🚂
Good to see the caboose
Way cool catch!
Wow! Old style caboose!
Lightpaws Hird neat
Nice catch!
I take it the freight had to reverse into a Siding. I gather this double track section is fully bidirectionally signalled so trains can pass as did the passenger train. I take it Right Hand running is the convention on this railway. Interesting to see a Caboose. I remember last seeing Brake Vans on UK freight trains about the mid 1980s
Loooove your video.
That was an awesome video!
Thank you!
Like the Old railroad crossing
Found it funny that a Norfolk and Western caboos was being used by the Norfolk and Southern train since both are sorta the same company just a slight name change
Nice!
wow there are mechanical crossing bells left one class 1 railroads.
It is nice to see in today's all digital/solid state electronics world. Also they sound much better!
Wow, that freight train has a caboose at the end. I thought all the cabooses retired from the railroads ever since they now have those end-of-train devices they hook up at the end of the last railcar.
They are shoving platforms now and used when a train has to go backwards for an extensive amount of time and the caboose serves as a safe place for a live person to direct the action.
nice video!!
Why did you put "race" in the title CML? It's a cool video without it. It's always nice to see a caboose these days no matter what it's being used for. Good catch. : )
And the winner is Amtrak the traction is Norfolk Southern SD 40 freight!
Amtrak: 6 cars.
NS: 15+1 cars.
Cool OLS SD40-2 and and Ex N and W Caboose
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Awesome
I could never understand why a loco has to blow it's horn going forward, but no horn (and I'm not referring to those dinky little whistles I sometimes hear) on the caboose in a reverse move? If a car was fouling the xing, by the time the dude in the caboose radioed the head end to stop, well it would be too late.
Wait, trains HAVE to go backwards? Don't they have a place they can go to switch around so they can go forward back the other way?
Where in hell was the RACE? Did I miss it?
theres nothing like the sound of a jet plane when you are watching a switching movement. am i right. ralifans.
The short interval during which road traffic was able to proceed between these two trains makes me wonder whether there is a minimum 'road open time' on American crossings as there is here in the UK. I think I'm correct in saying that ours is 10 seconds, i.e. between the barriers hitting their raised position and lights switching off there must be 10 seconds minimum before a new crossing closure sequence can initiate. To enable this, if a second train "strikes-in" before the previous sequence has finished, the barriers remain in the lowered position and the lights continue to flash while the second train approaches.
Chris Bell correct, except on occasion, the timing lines up perfectly, the freight hadn't triggered the signal until after amtrak had cleared. Otherwise it is triggered by the first train, and only raises after the last train has cleared (2 in, 2 out)
I guess the Caboose was a platform that they can communicate with the power unit as the power unit pushes it down the track people in the Caboose can tell the power unit what to do because of the difference distance between the power unit in the front of the train.
That wasn't much of a race ... 😆
What was the defect detector milepost again?
Amtrak always gonna win ain't no race
Passenger trains are faster then long freight trains
Seems one of the mechanical bells died this crossing got new signals in early 90s
Great.
B17 has a N&W caboose!
Also notable that the NS train had an Operation Lifesaver unit leading
It seems like the Amtrak train only triggers the gates 35 seconds before arriving, while the local train triggers them for about 1:15. Does the switch not account for the extra speed of the Amtrak train?
That is correct the standard circut does not account for the Low speed of the freight train.
No wonder you get so many RC accidents, outside of US barriers close way in advance based on the number of blocks between the train and crossing.
Nice to see the caboose. Would this line be the American side of the Once NYC Caso Sub in Ontario?
I would call that train meet
one should also note that 3473 retains its BNSF low headlight for now. and ALSO is the only unit on the NSroster with one black, and one white number board.
I didnt notice that thanks. All NS units are required to have the high Lights
where are these locations at?
Their is a operation life saver skinned northfolksouther train in Hershey pa
what camera do you use :) nice catch
I use a canon G20 camcorder. Thank you!
wow a ols!!!!
I love amtrak because amtrak goes 145 mph
NS
Nice catch! Also I know it doesn't mean anything but 93rd comment
Tortoise and a hare.
Is that Scanner chatter I hear lol
Yep! They were doing a roll by inspection on the way past each other
I think Amtrak won that race. XD
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Amtraks are faster than freight trains
no shit!
Garbage cars ??
Trains dont and cant 'race' and it is nothing more than a railfan unrealistic wish.
Harold Reardon the term race in railfanning is not used as a mean of “first to a point” but rather two trains running the same direction at the same time in the same spot.
Nice!