This is just insane. If I were strolling through the woods and came across these tracks, and someone said to me "...careful, the three o'clock train will be along shortly..." I would have thought it was a joke. The fact a loco can even pass through that is an amazing fact unto itself.
And here you see the wild locomotive stalking its prey in his natural habitat......literally looks like a train just randomly emerged from the woods lol
Will-i-am95 "And here you see the wild locomotive...." I'm imagining David Attenborough's whispering voice in my head like he's on safari and I nearly peed myself from laughing so hard!
There was a train line like this behind us in Pennsylvania. Every once in a while a train would go buy carrying three cars or so. Sometimes it derailed.
3:00 .. "We're here in the treacherous jungles of Ohio, tracking down the elusive CNUR 5! Crikey! Here comes one naow! It sees us.. see how it's creeping up all slow like! It's a fearsome beast, ain't he??"
The railroading equivalent of off-roading. Glad to see that the new owners are putting some money into the old Wabash line. You have a great series of videos documenting the changes over the last few years.
Until you have ridden in the cab. They don’t sway nice and easy, it’s jerky. Put a quart of cream on the control panel, and you have butter at the end of the trip!
I'd seen footage of this line before but this is the most beautiful, and thanks for taking the time to explain how this came about in the description. Fascinating.
Love to see a new video showing the improvements that have been done. I’ve driven down US 24 the past couple of years and the tracks look a lot better. Looks like they put down ballast and replaced many ties
I remember a railroad like that in Clearfield Ky. I got to ride in the locomotive one time when they were pulling three boxcars to the lumber mill. They had to stop at a crossing and use a steel bar to open the flangeways due to rocks. You couldnt see the tracks because of weeds. Its all gone now except two short isolated sidings.
+Jaw Tooth no there you are lololol Guess what I railfanned and caught 2 NS trains on the same track going opposite ways the second one came down and switched tracks at the xing
Great video! It reminds me of how the Wabash used to cross the family property, just outside the UP rail yard, in Council Bluffs Iowa. towards the end, the track was overgrown with brush, and the small trees formed a tunnel of green foliage. At least your Ohio track is still running, albeit rugged. My Wabash track got pulled out in the 1980's, and the portion across our land never even got the "honor" of being part of the new trail. Again, great video - Keep 'em coming!
Just watched it again and it still a pretty spectacular video. Technically perfect and aesteically composed in an artistic manner. A quality video, through and through....!
I think this is my new favorite railroad!!!! I love when a train runs on tracks that you can't even see in the weeds!!!! Woooooo!!!!! I think the 5 on the locomotive is for it's maximum speed! Wow, I can't believe they don't protect their crossings. The cars totally dis-respected this train at the crossing!
The faster you set this video's playback speed at, the more unsettling this gets. This rail line needs better maintenance if it hasn't received it already.
Back in 1982 I took Amtrak from NYC to Detroit via Toledo. The track from Toledo to Detroit was owned by the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (part of CN). The track condition was so bad they train was restricted to 10 MPH and was rolling from side to side. I was amazed the line was still open, let alone being used for passenger traffic.
Very dangerous for people just walking in the woods and cars at the railroad crossings. Most people wouldn't have a clue a train is coming maybe until it's too late.
Believe me, they do. The reason I didn't get more footage was because of a derailed box car blocking the track. They had to rerail the car before the train could proceed to Defiance. However, it took all day and by the time I returned to Napoleon, the locomotive was all shut down.
You do a nice job with your rail videos. Nice steady shots and well framed. Pretty time of the year to have taken this video. Those GP7-U's were nice locomotives for shortline operation. A little light but nice electrical rebuild.
Darn, that's one brave engineer! Also, how weird would it be for me to say that I somehow find it a bit creepy, but also cute seeing a train slowly creep along the buckled rails?
Agreed Boss302fan. People forget that this is a business. Railroads don't run to please railfans. Sure is a nice way to talk about a railroad company like this. These are men and women working hard to make a living and support families.
Very entertaining video from a train buff's point of view,I must say.The views of the locos ,seemingly emerging from a sea of grass and trees is quite surreal.
this would be so fucking awesome juat to have like a train on old ass tracks. just imagine, one day your stopped at a light right by old ass train tracks that havent been used to like 15 years. and all of a sudden you just see a big ass locomotive emerge from an old ass track. it be fuckin cool.
This reminds me a scene in the film Wrongfully Accused, staring Leslie Nielsen. It's mostly a spoof of The Fugitive, with references to other movies thrown in. Just like the prison bus is hit by a train in The Fugitive, so does the prison bus in Wrongfully Accused...except the locomotive also leaves the track and chases Nielsen through the woods, at one point hiding behind a tree.
Another nice vid! For those complaining about the weeds and maintenance, isn't it better that it's still operating instead of abandoned and simply turned into a trail? Depending upon how many carloads a year they pulled through the weeds, upgrading the track and spraying for weeds probably didn't make a lot of sense. Used to travel alongside this on US24 long ago and will have to check out the state of things after upgrades, etc. Love that old rebuilt Santa Fe geep!
For me it was neat to get to see a cool old ex Santa Fe switcher! I was very fortunate to work for the BNSF (2002 ~ 2003) back when those were the standard fair for power in the yards and on the road switchers.
That's what I don't get, 0:28 looks like the train would just slip right between the tracks that were spreading apart or something. Anyway, despite the truth behind this video, I find it absolutely gorgeous to watch. Glad you taped it before they cleaned it up!
If you can hear the chatter from the engineer, you may be able to determine what crossing they are approaching so you can plan your next shot. On Class 1 railroads they have detectors that broadcast when a train crosses them and this will let you know if a train is approaching.
Wow at first i thought it was a train riding thru the woods and thinking: thats amazing. I never knew a train could just do thru the woods without a track
And THIS is in the US?! :D I hardly believed such a railroad could work at all in the first minute. And the speed gives the impression a man could easily run along, if not walk along at the slowest places.
And I thought we had problems with what's referred to as Tier 3 lines in Western Australia. Tier 1 is lines like the Indian Pacific, Tier 2 is the not-so busy lines, and Tier 3 is the category of seasonal lines, mostly used for grain harvest. The lines are still technically government owned, but they would rather patch up inadequate roads so road trains (2 trailer trucks) can take the place of rail lines that need some repairs. One locomotive can do the job of 60 road trains in one go
The vast majority of all rail accidents over the last 20 -30 years are cleaned up. In particular when a hazmat spill (diesel) is involved. It was common practice in past decades to not force a railroad to clean up an accident on their own property, but in general those days are long gone.
I have seen worse. The INER when it was still HCRC back in the 1980s had some very bad track south of Angola and between P Lake and Steubenville (it traverses swap land and a few low spots) that permitted only 5 MPH running. When the INER was formed in 1992 they rebuilt the tracks.
lol, Don't people who always have to put in their "two cents" , SUPER annoying. Great Video, Trains have always interested me. My grandfather used to work at N&S in Portsmouth, OH. When I was young, we rode the 611 Steam Engine to Williamsport, I believe.
If this was in Australia, DOTARS would be shutting down the track, and prosecuting the CEO for Health and Safety breaches. Why aren't these idiots in prison?
In the US, Canada and Mexico the governments give individuals a chance to buy lines in an effort to save them. This line and the service it provides the shippers over this short branch is still in service. The product is off the highway and moving by rail where it should be. What you see here is far, far, far less dangerous than the monster trucks that move in Australia at high speeds burning incredible amounts of fuel and polluting the atmosphere.
It's been done in Michigan and other locations. The stipulation of course is that it is considered community service, on projects that contribute to the good of the community. Railroads, being infrastructure, would qualify as something that contributes to the good of the community.
Afraid not. This is a GP7 that went through an ATSF upgrade. I bought about 20 of these. I didn't keep track of where they all went, but hell. This could be one of them. They do look like the CF7 rebuilds, but they are definitely of different vintage.
Do you know? ... that editing the video by using current sound and then save, youtube will reprocess the video, and afterwards(a few minutes) the video can be viewed at various speeds, by clicking the GEAR ICON and clicking NORMAL and then the speed selection.
1:42 is that the speed recorder cable ripped off and hanging down? You'd think with track conditions like this, keeping an eye on the speed would be paramount.
Presumably the Engineer knows when he has derailed because the ride gets smoother...
Lol
This is just insane. If I were strolling through the woods and came across these tracks, and someone said to me "...careful, the three o'clock train will be along shortly..." I would have thought it was a joke. The fact a loco can even pass through that is an amazing fact unto itself.
Usually smaller companies own these short lines. they don't go very fast on them they are cut offs to another yard or line for a hand off.
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And here you see the wild locomotive stalking its prey in his natural habitat......literally looks like a train just randomly emerged from the woods lol
Lmao
I thought. that to
Will-i-am95 "And here you see the wild locomotive...." I'm imagining David Attenborough's whispering voice in my head like he's on safari and I nearly peed myself from laughing so hard!
+Will-i-am95 Ah, I'm not the only one who saw that! You said it, man!
+War Horse 14269 and it has HUGE TEETH.. but fortunately.. very slow!!
There was a train line like this behind us in Pennsylvania. Every once in a while a train would go buy carrying three cars or so. Sometimes it derailed.
+Alan Fox Sometimes
And here we see the train in its natural Forrest habitat...
Nick Dawson
it would suck hiking through that forest and not realize you're walking on tracks that are still used
Surreal sight--a locomotive tiptoeing through the tulips.
Conductor must have been happy to cross the road... its the only flat spot in the line.
3:00 .. "We're here in the treacherous jungles of Ohio, tracking down the elusive CNUR 5! Crikey! Here comes one naow! It sees us.. see how it's creeping up all slow like! It's a fearsome beast, ain't he??"
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Haha.... who else heard steve irwin's voice reading that?
I think ill hit it with a stick!
Lol omg dude!
The railroading equivalent of off-roading. Glad to see that the new owners are putting some money into the old Wabash line. You have a great series of videos documenting the changes over the last few years.
Thumbs up just for the detailed description!
This kind of railroading appeals to me greatly, granted I was a former engineer on Amtrak and ran 79mph, but this slow pace is nice and relaxing.
Until you have ridden in the cab.
They don’t sway nice and easy, it’s jerky.
Put a quart of cream on the control panel, and you have butter at the end of the trip!
I'd seen footage of this line before but this is the most beautiful, and thanks for taking the time to explain how this came about in the description. Fascinating.
Love to see a new video showing the improvements that have been done. I’ve driven down US 24 the past couple of years and the tracks look a lot better. Looks like they put down ballast and replaced many ties
You're right! I didn't notice that! Very cool, indeed! Thanks for watching!
All your videos are great! The only problem with such a big audience is that there are always going to be a few haters who hit the dislike button.
Haha, yep! Unfortunately! Thanks for watching!
Someone help a dislikeing
Lazy past of haters you!
That still feeds the unfathomable UA-cam Algorithm!
This train is really a giant lawnmower.
My lawn mower goes faster.
If only they could build a railroad lawn mower to clear the overgrowth on the tracks.
I remember a railroad like that in Clearfield Ky. I got to ride in the locomotive one time when they were pulling three boxcars to the lumber mill. They had to stop at a crossing and use a steel bar to open the flangeways due to rocks. You couldnt see the tracks because of weeds. Its all gone now except two short isolated sidings.
You found me again!!?!? Lol
Yup! There you are! Lol
+Jaw Tooth no there you are lololol
Guess what I railfanned and caught 2 NS trains on the same track going opposite ways the second one came down and switched tracks at the xing
Are they using Engine # 5 because 1-4 did not make it through?
Great video! It reminds me of how the Wabash used to cross the family property, just outside the UP rail yard, in Council Bluffs Iowa. towards the end, the track was overgrown with brush, and the small trees formed a tunnel of green foliage. At least your Ohio track is still running, albeit rugged. My Wabash track got pulled out in the 1980's, and the portion across our land never even got the "honor" of being part of the new trail. Again, great video - Keep 'em coming!
Just watched it again and it still a pretty spectacular video. Technically perfect and aesteically composed in an artistic manner. A quality video, through and through....!
3:10 Imagine just chilling in the woods and you hear that train coming towards you slowly.
I think this is my new favorite railroad!!!! I love when a train runs on tracks that you can't even see in the weeds!!!! Woooooo!!!!! I think the 5 on the locomotive is for it's maximum speed! Wow, I can't believe they don't protect their crossings. The cars totally dis-respected this train at the crossing!
The faster you set this video's playback speed at, the more unsettling this gets. This rail line needs better maintenance if it hasn't received it already.
Back in 1982 I took Amtrak from NYC to Detroit via Toledo. The track from Toledo to Detroit was owned by the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (part of CN). The track condition was so bad they train was restricted to 10 MPH and was rolling from side to side. I was amazed the line was still open, let alone being used for passenger traffic.
Wow. Never in a million years would I think some of these rail lines weren't abandoned for good 40+ years ago! Crazy footage!
At least he,s not gonna get a flat tyre.
Very dangerous for people just walking in the woods and cars at the railroad crossings. Most people wouldn't have a clue a train is coming maybe until it's too late.
Can't believe that train is running on those rails. Love to run something across the west on an old rail line. Great Sightseeing for a Photographer...
One of the best videos I've seen from a rail fan . Thanks =)
Napoleon, Defiance & Western is the new railroad. Seems to me that they're doing a good job rehabilitating the track!
Man, It's creepy watching that thing come through the woods!
Exactly!
What a fantastic visual image - well done, you!!
Love this video! The more weeds and overgrowth, the better! Thanks for posting.
At 5:15 "And here we see the endangered CF-7 in its natural habitat as it slowly stalks it's prey."
Believe me, they do. The reason I didn't get more footage was because of a derailed box car blocking the track. They had to rerail the car before the train could proceed to Defiance. However, it took all day and by the time I returned to Napoleon, the locomotive was all shut down.
Congrats on catching the MAW.
What is the loco actually used for ? As a lawnmover ? That's incredible.
The undergrowth is like an elephant kicking a feather.
nice fall colors
Superb trains and videos !
If this was at night, it would look ceepy. It could form the basis for a Steven King movie. Call it TrainStalker.
It would have to be set in Castle Rock, Maine, though.
Wait, waitwaitwaitwaitwaaaait.
That's a Santa Fe "Alligator" locomotive.
Well, out of the swamp and out of the murk, here it comes.
Just so you know, Santa Fe did run ALCO RSD 12 and 15, which were dubbed 'alligators' due to how far the cab was ftom the front coupler
You do a nice job with your rail videos. Nice steady shots and well framed. Pretty time of the year to have taken this video. Those GP7-U's were nice locomotives for shortline operation. A little light but nice electrical rebuild.
Darn, that's one brave engineer!
Also, how weird would it be for me to say that I somehow find it a bit creepy, but also cute seeing a train slowly creep along the buckled rails?
Michigan Southern Railroad Company has purchased the rail line formerly known as the Maumee & Western Railroad Corporation
Man, these are some beautiful shots!
INTRESTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOD CATCH!
Thanks!
love it ! what a good catch!
Agreed Boss302fan. People forget that this is a business. Railroads don't run to please railfans. Sure is a nice way to talk about a railroad company like this. These are men and women working hard to make a living and support families.
Thanks for the nice comment! Were you an engineer?
Very entertaining video from a train buff's point of view,I must say.The views of the locos ,seemingly emerging from a sea of grass and trees is quite surreal.
Fantastic video !
I wouldn't have even noticed if there was a track.
3:00 Wait, there's a track in there?!
Lol
Josh's Train Videos that's what I thought when I first watched this lol
this would be so fucking awesome juat to have like a train on old ass tracks. just imagine, one day your stopped at a light right by old ass train tracks that havent been used to like 15 years. and all of a sudden you just see a big ass locomotive emerge from an old ass track. it be fuckin cool.
Nice video footage
This was the very first UA-cam video I ever watched, it was back in early 2014. Funny how it shows up in my suggestions in 2022.
My first was in 2012
This reminds me a scene in the film Wrongfully Accused, staring Leslie Nielsen. It's mostly a spoof of The Fugitive, with references to other movies thrown in. Just like the prison bus is hit by a train in The Fugitive, so does the prison bus in Wrongfully Accused...except the locomotive also leaves the track and chases Nielsen through the woods, at one point hiding behind a tree.
Another nice vid! For those complaining about the weeds and maintenance, isn't it better that it's still operating instead of abandoned and simply turned into a trail? Depending upon how many carloads a year they pulled through the weeds, upgrading the track and spraying for weeds probably didn't make a lot of sense. Used to travel alongside this on US24 long ago and will have to check out the state of things after upgrades, etc. Love that old rebuilt Santa Fe geep!
Indeed they are! It was much needed work...
Oh man that's certainly terrifying for the engineer who's operating the train
Probably the most fun day he had all year
For me it was neat to get to see a cool old ex Santa Fe switcher! I was very fortunate to work for the BNSF (2002 ~ 2003) back when those were the standard fair for power in the yards and on the road switchers.
woo hoo! the track goes through my town :D
That's what I don't get, 0:28 looks like the train would just slip right between the tracks that were spreading apart or something. Anyway, despite the truth behind this video, I find it absolutely gorgeous to watch. Glad you taped it before they cleaned it up!
I've heard of "making a train take a dirt road", but lurching through the woods?
If you can hear the chatter from the engineer, you may be able to determine what crossing they are approaching so you can plan your next shot. On Class 1 railroads they have detectors that broadcast when a train crosses them and this will let you know if a train is approaching.
It's amazing they still operate on rails in as bad condition as those. Nice video!
Wow at first i thought it was a train riding thru the woods and thinking: thats amazing. I never knew a train could just do thru the woods without a track
love the feeling of this, the train come out of the colorful forest
Cool video I love the blue and yellow Santa Fe locomotives!
So is this like 4-wheelin, only with trains?
And THIS is in the US?! :D I hardly believed such a railroad could work at all in the first minute. And the speed gives the impression a man could easily run along, if not walk along at the slowest places.
Ah nice man glad to see that it is getting the time and money it needs to get working again.
And I thought we had problems with what's referred to as Tier 3 lines in Western Australia. Tier 1 is lines like the Indian Pacific, Tier 2 is the not-so busy lines, and Tier 3 is the category of seasonal lines, mostly used for grain harvest. The lines are still technically government owned, but they would rather patch up inadequate roads so road trains (2 trailer trucks) can take the place of rail lines that need some repairs. One locomotive can do the job of 60 road trains in one go
That would make an awesome hayride!
Wow! Thanks for uploading
and i thought we had bad railroads here in the UK!
The vast majority of all rail accidents over the last 20 -30 years are cleaned up. In particular when a hazmat spill (diesel) is involved. It was common practice in past decades to not force a railroad to clean up an accident on their own property, but in general those days are long gone.
Thank god he gets paid by the hour!
lol.
I have seen worse. The INER when it was still HCRC back in the 1980s had some very bad track south of Angola and between P Lake and Steubenville (it traverses swap land and a few low spots) that permitted only 5 MPH running. When the INER was formed in 1992 they rebuilt the tracks.
lol, Don't people who always have to put in their "two cents" , SUPER annoying. Great Video, Trains have always interested me. My grandfather used to work at N&S in Portsmouth, OH. When I was young, we rode the 611 Steam Engine to Williamsport, I believe.
I don't know what's worse, the terrible track or the people crossing RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE ENGINE.
Im glad to hear improvments to this line are underway. Ive seen abandoned lines in better shape.
If this was in Australia, DOTARS would be shutting down the track, and prosecuting the CEO for Health and Safety breaches.
Why aren't these idiots in prison?
In the US, Canada and Mexico the governments give individuals a chance to buy lines in an effort to save them. This line and the service it provides the shippers over this short branch is still in service. The product is off the highway and moving by rail where it should be. What you see here is far, far, far less dangerous than the monster trucks that move in Australia at high speeds burning incredible amounts of fuel and polluting the atmosphere.
It's like "Off-Roading" with a railroad locomotive!
Read the description, it's there for a reason.....
Well done, as someone else said, well framed and steady! Subscribed for more!
That's the way God intended short lines to look.
Dang, they need to replace those tracks.
I would have thought these tracks were abandoned.
Love the colour of the trees.
it is a very nice video. This train is nice too.
It's been done in Michigan and other locations. The stipulation of course is that it is considered community service, on projects that contribute to the good of the community. Railroads, being infrastructure, would qualify as something that contributes to the good of the community.
I never knew they got locomotives from capturing them in the wild !
Imagine you were having a picnic at that spot !....... 'Mammy.....what's that rumbling sound ?....'
The grade crossing: the straightest piece of track on the entire line
AWSOME VIDEO! Looks super weird seeing a trian come out of over grown grass/woods
Bonito video, saludos desde Espaňa
Afraid not. This is a GP7 that went through an ATSF upgrade. I bought about 20 of these. I didn't keep track of where they all went, but hell. This could be one of them. They do look like the CF7 rebuilds, but they are definitely of different vintage.
Do you know? ... that editing the video by using current sound and then save, youtube will reprocess the video, and afterwards(a few minutes) the video can be viewed at various speeds, by clicking the GEAR ICON and clicking NORMAL and then the speed selection.
Not sure.
1:42 is that the speed recorder cable ripped off and hanging down? You'd think with track conditions like this, keeping an eye on the speed would be paramount.
+Syclone0044 Even an average engineer knows when they are above or below 10mph on a line like this.
The crew lets out a collective sigh of relief as the engine comes to a stop.....
Wow, it's like the train is bouncing along on a dirt trail through the woods!