DARWIN CANDIDATE, WINDSHIELD HITS CROSSING GATE! ANOTHER FIRE IN WICHITA, MOW PARADE, VIA RAIL

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  • @BNSFrailfan01
    @BNSFrailfan01 6 місяців тому +37

    Your smile will never sag when there’s a new Grab Bag.

    • @bowlinerailfan
      @bowlinerailfan 6 місяців тому +3

      Good way to describe it.👍

    • @joepeach997
      @joepeach997 6 місяців тому +3

      Brought a chuckle out of me.

    • @bowlinerailfan
      @bowlinerailfan 6 місяців тому +2

      @@joepeach997 as a long time Coca Cola fan, I like your new profile picture.

  • @EdKrebs-jb7vo
    @EdKrebs-jb7vo 6 місяців тому +4

    Nice piece of music at the end.😍

  • @louGriggs1944
    @louGriggs1944 6 місяців тому +4

    Love the MOW parade. I counted 28 pieces of equipment being moved, one less than the 29 that the Grab Bag showed being brought in on the train a week or two ago. The Spacex launch was beautiful and the music pretty cool too. Thank you.

  • @vickie7490
    @vickie7490 6 місяців тому +6

    The pics of the rocket are fabulous!

  • @KT4RAM
    @KT4RAM 6 місяців тому +5

    Wow! That was Hella Close for that Darwin Candidate.
    Every time I see the mow crew parade, reminds me of a few scenes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Especially the scenes where he's lost in Muncie Indiana at a rail crossing looking at a map.

  • @the-terrible63
    @the-terrible63 6 місяців тому +8

    Wow! Excellent catching all the trains in multiple locations, especially the Heritage Units, Via Rail Canada in Rochelle, Illinois, and so much more, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much and have a nice day.

  • @J3scribe
    @J3scribe 6 місяців тому +4

    I like the editing of the work train at Ashland. Some of the critters looked like they came through from a different dimension. 🤣

  • @mstrawn69
    @mstrawn69 6 місяців тому +13

    I always get The Main Street Electrical Parade theme stuck in my head when I see MOW parades.

  • @donnaj9964
    @donnaj9964 6 місяців тому +1

    I really did a double-take at the giraffe! The baby birds that were cheeping behind the Ashland cam must have fledged and flown away; I miss them but loved the MOW parade there. It was good to see 4822 again, and of course the launch and its music were beautiful. Thank you for another wonderful one!

  • @TheEDFLegacy
    @TheEDFLegacy 6 місяців тому +14

    9:47 Yay! A brand new VIA rail rolling stock and power unit combo! If you're unaware, VIA rail is modernizing many of its trains for the Eastern corridor, and these units are being brought up using freight engines towing them from the manufacturer to Eastern Canada.

  • @lisabehe4546
    @lisabehe4546 6 місяців тому +5

    Hooray, a great MOW parade in Ashland! I love how the editing makes some of the MOW equipment look like they're Apparating onto the tracks a block or two away.
    I bet Darwin had to go home and change his boxers.

    • @jamesmckenzie3532
      @jamesmckenzie3532 6 місяців тому

      MoW train was missing the most important piece: The Blue Box.

  • @jean-louisbarbier2677
    @jean-louisbarbier2677 6 місяців тому +3

    Beautiful captation !👍😎❤️

  • @benchedthatpiece
    @benchedthatpiece 6 місяців тому +2

    Great video as usual, I enjoyed every minute of it!

  • @donaldfaris4798
    @donaldfaris4798 6 місяців тому +2

    Interesting lengths of rail on the Weld Rail Train

  • @JacobWheeler-xr4ed
    @JacobWheeler-xr4ed 6 місяців тому +3

    Wow great Grabs bags as always and end was always awesome

  • @vickie7490
    @vickie7490 6 місяців тому +10

    If the drivers eyes were open AT ALL he would've seen that train!! That's just crazy!

  • @poowg2657
    @poowg2657 6 місяців тому +16

    9:13. "Missed him by THAT much!".

  • @Retired88M
    @Retired88M 6 місяців тому +4

    I like that sharp paint scheme on Amtrak 164

  • @TheEDFLegacy
    @TheEDFLegacy 6 місяців тому +10

    3:52 I see what the train engineer did there with the horn. 😅

  • @vickie7490
    @vickie7490 6 місяців тому +1

    Good videos! Thank you.

  • @lynsmith
    @lynsmith 6 місяців тому +1

    Nice Grab Bag ! Well Thomasville ? That goof runs through the gate And NS was almost gone Fishing!

  • @gp3829
    @gp3829 6 місяців тому +3

    Thanks VRF. Please 'train' the Cameras to keep a lookout for that light-blue WV Caboose again, the one at Ft. Worth Tower.

  • @Yormsane
    @Yormsane 6 місяців тому +19

    4:06 A giraffe hitching a ride on a bicycle... is this what acid trips are like?

  • @ChainsawNW1218
    @ChainsawNW1218 6 місяців тому

    People in Thomasville NC are lucky they didn't meet there maker,close call, great video and lots of great trains and power!🛤🚂

  • @randydobson1863
    @randydobson1863 6 місяців тому +6

    Hi Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Virtual Railfan & Friends Randy

  • @bowlinerailfan
    @bowlinerailfan 6 місяців тому +5

    At Tower 55, three transformers and a blue caboose! That's got to be the prettiest caboose I've ever seen to date. 😁 Plus, I've heard of getting a monkey off your back, but a giraffe?

  • @ttvdevildog0326
    @ttvdevildog0326 6 місяців тому +4

    Welcome back NS 8102

  • @Mcdaffodilhill
    @Mcdaffodilhill 6 місяців тому +10

    The number of engines with a lot of smoke is amazing, but somehow NS seldom has an issue, until this weekend in Pa, two engines with substantial flames and halted on the tracks in anemergency. Our heat index quite awful. The one engine started a grass fire by the tracks, some rail fans doing a video became firefighters, successfully thank heavens.

  • @MrBnsftrain
    @MrBnsftrain 5 місяців тому +1

    0:07 CSX 1852 leading (again at 3:18)
    0:23 special train for large machinery
    2:15 P42s 50 and 25 and ALC42s 361 and 359!
    3:02 ALC42s 343 and 336, P40s 837 and 832, and the Pacific Bend sleeper on the Auto Train
    3:50 CMQ 9017 BAR heritage unit again
    4:21 NS 8102 leading a mixed freight with john Deere tractors while the Capitol Limited stops at the station
    4:46 P42s 207 and 164
    5:30 wind turbine head train
    5:45 Dash 8 515 and P42 190
    5:53 NS 4004 leading
    6:18 I&O units trailing
    6:40 neat 10-unit lash-up
    7:41 NS 1065 leading
    8:17 four geeps pulling four freight cars
    8:50 this car almost got slammed by a fast freight train
    9:33 BN green SD40-2 with a nose logo instead of stripes
    9:48 VIA Rail bright yellow train being delivered! This train led by 2218 is called "Lumi" and is the only one that will be painted in bright yellow, similar to the UAC Turbotrains in the 1970s. The cab car is numbered 2317
    10:55 GEVO 6269 has a replacement nose door from a warbonnet dash 9
    11:16 CN welded rail train
    11:37 NS 4822 leading
    12:03 K&O local job passes a UP freight
    12:53 BNSF welded rail train, followed by another at the same location in the next clip
    13:52 NS 8101 leading
    14:22 another fire in Wichita!
    15:20 CSX MOW vehicles
    17:47 CSX welded rail train, I guess it's new rail season!
    18:12 NS 1066 and 1819
    18:30 BNSF 9277 and NS 8114 at the same location
    18:46 CSX 1875 leading also at the same location

  • @davidhibbs6989
    @davidhibbs6989 6 місяців тому +4

    Darwins R's us! Kinda wish they had cameras on the gates to read license plates.

  • @whydoibother1632
    @whydoibother1632 6 місяців тому +2

    17:00 must be so much fun to be in a MOW parade. Do they ever lose the funness after many years on the job though?

    • @donnaj9964
      @donnaj9964 6 місяців тому +2

      I was just wondering that too. But it *looked* like fun!

    • @whydoibother1632
      @whydoibother1632 6 місяців тому

      @@donnaj9964 I never knew they had so many different types of vehicles like that. Being in one of the regular truck types, in reverse, has got to be interesting.

  • @Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan
    @Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan 6 місяців тому +4

    *Awesome*

  • @ren-uz2mz
    @ren-uz2mz 6 місяців тому +3

    LOL spell check sign! TG no appointments that way for a bit..

  • @kcsthebetterway
    @kcsthebetterway 6 місяців тому +4

    Yes, Wichita is the firecam😊

  • @williamlavelle7786
    @williamlavelle7786 6 місяців тому +2

    That sure looked like the same train in Fort Madison going one way on the 24th and heading the other way 5 hrs later on the 26th. with no change unless it was the power

  • @beverlyalton432
    @beverlyalton432 6 місяців тому +3

    🚀Sweet

  • @Linda_Eskin
    @Linda_Eskin 6 місяців тому

    Virtual Spacefan! ;-)
    Nice video. Thanks!

  • @davidmaust1415
    @davidmaust1415 6 місяців тому +3

    1852 WM and RF&P heritage units needs to run on the Cumberland sub, preferably the Old B&O mainline

  • @MiguelNavarreteCruz
    @MiguelNavarreteCruz 6 місяців тому +1

    Me gusta que ustedes se preocupan por los durmientes del tren 🚂🚂🚂🚄🚄🚄

  • @filmer765
    @filmer765 6 місяців тому +4

    Now that’s what I call a Darwin candidate. I will be in North Carolina for the 4th of July weekend, so I wonder how much craziness I’ll witness.

  • @ssweeps
    @ssweeps 6 місяців тому +11

    Why risk your life? That train engineer has to live with it too.

    • @kenm3245
      @kenm3245 6 місяців тому +2

      You assume that one, people actually think, and two, that they give a rip about others.

  • @zacharycalgher3978
    @zacharycalgher3978 6 місяців тому +2

    Canyon Dreamscape by Lennon Hutton

  • @KyleSmith-d3u
    @KyleSmith-d3u 6 місяців тому +3

    darwin canididate is AKA natural selection

  • @VincentTheSirenChaser
    @VincentTheSirenChaser 6 місяців тому +2

    That's a big long train

  • @michellemcdaniel209
    @michellemcdaniel209 6 місяців тому +3

    🎉🎉

  • @srrrb5953
    @srrrb5953 6 місяців тому +1

    when the amfleets executive car will be replaced w/ the siemens one?

  • @PowerlinePlanet109
    @PowerlinePlanet109 6 місяців тому +9

    What that car did that hit the crossing arm was very dumb.

  • @The_goofy_railfanner
    @The_goofy_railfanner 6 місяців тому +9

    8:53 that car couldn’t wait for a single train to pass, instead just cross the tracks thinking there’s nothing. What world are we living in 🤦‍♂️

    • @jamesghiorzoe107
      @jamesghiorzoe107 6 місяців тому +1

      Must have been on their phone.

    • @The_goofy_railfanner
      @The_goofy_railfanner 6 місяців тому +2

      @@jamesghiorzoe107 could be but we’re not sure about that (I could be right or wrong idk)

  • @ronwatkins5775
    @ronwatkins5775 6 місяців тому

    Off topic... I did a google search regarding horn loudness, and according to google a Semi Truck, Train and Cruise Ship horn are all around 140db. It doesn't make sense to me that they would all be the same loudness.

    • @colorado1088
      @colorado1088 6 місяців тому

      The train horns are a nuisance and should only be needed for unlighted/un crossing arm protected crossings. My town spent mucho bucks to have no horn crossings.

  • @Trainman-611
    @Trainman-611 6 місяців тому +2

    0:12 THE TEXAS UNIT 😂

  • @Railfaning_With_Brantley
    @Railfaning_With_Brantley 6 місяців тому +10

    YES IM ON A GRAB BAG IN THOMASVILLE

    • @jimmyehlschlaeger3624
      @jimmyehlschlaeger3624 6 місяців тому +2

      Read this comment after seeing the Darwin Candidate. Didn't see the other Thomasville one until later.😂

    • @Railfaning_With_Brantley
      @Railfaning_With_Brantley 6 місяців тому +2

      @@jimmyehlschlaeger3624 lol yes after I posted it I thought about it and said to myself well no one would take it that way right??? Lol

  • @frankfreeman1444
    @frankfreeman1444 3 місяці тому

    Did the fire trucks ever even arrive at that Wichita fire?

  • @andyolin3988
    @andyolin3988 6 місяців тому +4

    All that for a possible cracked windshield? Is it really worth it?

  • @lancomedic
    @lancomedic 6 місяців тому +2

    Tell me fellow railfan photographers what is the purpose of standing 5 feet away from the rails 04:22 to photograph a 72 foot long locomotive? From my vantage point he could have stood behind the crossing arm and got a much better shot. I like that unit also but I’m not risking my life to get a blurry picture of it.

  • @GodsloveJesushugs
    @GodsloveJesushugs 6 місяців тому +4

    Rocket launch
    Heavy loader today 6/25 5:15 pm

  • @Lemoncake_X260X
    @Lemoncake_X260X 6 місяців тому

    1:30 aint no way im in here 💀

  • @CHICKENRAN34
    @CHICKENRAN34 6 місяців тому +4

    8:49 for those who want to see the car almost get hit by the train

  • @WeenyBeanyHere
    @WeenyBeanyHere 6 місяців тому +2

    9:49 Banana Train

  • @texastrainfan56
    @texastrainfan56 6 місяців тому +2

    All I see whenever I look at videos or photos of CSXT 1852 is the Texas flag.

  • @Santafe_edits
    @Santafe_edits 6 місяців тому +8

    Hello

  • @TheEDFLegacy
    @TheEDFLegacy 6 місяців тому +4

    4:23 You should _never_ stand that close to a moving train. A railfan of all people should especially know the dangers of kicked up debris, or - if particularly unlucky - a mechanical failure that has metal debris being flung at you. Or even a sudden derailment.
    I even know a guy who caught an amazing action shot of the tail car on a freight train suddenly failing and flipping on its side, only about a quarter kilometer away from the crossing he was filming from. He was using a tripod thankfully, and had that happened even just a few seconds later, that car could have landed on his tripod.
    If you want footage like that, get a tripod and step back. Don't be that guy.

  • @hunterwolfscar2287
    @hunterwolfscar2287 6 місяців тому +4

    Ok!?
    Who's Set a Junk Yard on Fire at Night!?

  • @Warthunder1749
    @Warthunder1749 6 місяців тому +5

    Bust a whistle

    • @donnaj9964
      @donnaj9964 6 місяців тому +1

      The Happy Honkers of Dalton, GA...well, they were honkers anyway.

  • @SCAXRailfan
    @SCAXRailfan 6 місяців тому +2

    Look Guys I Can See Via Rail Again With His New Paint Scheme

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy 6 місяців тому +2

      Not just a new scheme, but a whole new unit! That freight engine is towing the new unit to Canada to be brought into service for the Eastern corridor.

  • @IGuessIDoThings
    @IGuessIDoThings 6 місяців тому +2

    9:54 anyone have any idea what’s going on with this trainset

    • @kennethhanks6712
      @kennethhanks6712 6 місяців тому +4

      Brand new VIA trainset, for their eastern services, being delivered from Siemans plant in CA to Canada.

  • @mtalongisland7523
    @mtalongisland7523 6 місяців тому

    isn't that the same crossing where the ns intermodal train hit a car causing the car to hit the crossing gate

  • @CSXFANRAILWAY
    @CSXFANRAILWAY 6 місяців тому +3

    Norfolk Southern Almost Hit car

  • @rogertemple7193
    @rogertemple7193 6 місяців тому +4

    Grab Bag on a Tuesday afternoon with the best trains on the tracks
    thanks Virtual Railfan Grab Bag.🇺🇲🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇲

  • @user-vh1uc6in7b
    @user-vh1uc6in7b 6 місяців тому +6

    Grab Gag time.🇺🇸🇺🇸🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇸🇺🇸