@@davidurban6813 I'm not 100% sure but, I think they can go anywhere bikes can go. I think they're mostly harmless, the person in charge of steering probably just made a traffic timing miscalculation.
Trains have a way of getting your attention! I live in Butler and we have a track that crosses a street that gets used maybe once a year! I was on my way to work and as I passed over the track the guys in the engine flipped on the headlight (it was about 5 a.m. and still dark out) and I thought I wold have a heart attack! He was about 15 feet away sandwiched between two buildings! They must have enjoyed a good chuckle at my expense!
nice vid... i worked for the cnw and worked this assignment a FEW times YEARS ago... YMI57 "the marsh job"... back when i hired on in 1993, the foreman on this job had a seniority date of 1956 (john hartmanstorfer), so no way was i ever holding this job... i was able to briefly hold this job on fridays as the helper had fri-sat off so i bid the job on fridays... what a NICE assignment... back then it had a caboose (cnw 11186) because a majority of the switches were facing point so we'd spend ALL day working the job from the caboose... there's an ice box in the caboose and we would "ice up" at the yard office before departing for jones island... also in the winter fuel oil was added to the caboose for the stove, gotta have heat in the winter and they would leave the stove run even off duty so when you got in it the next morning it was all nice and toasty inside... pretty fun times
UP 1024 ... 30 years ago she would have been on the point of stack trains or climbing Tehachapi or running chemical trains to Houston as SSW 9662, the last of the 4-axle road power purchased by SP. Now she's relegated to switcher service.
@@doubleutubefan5 That's not a cooling fan, that's a traction motor... you can hear it on the reverse move kinda taking in gear lash as it moves from power to coasting onto the street. I take that back... that's the gear drive in the turbo! That needs to be in the shop pronto before it takes out the overrunning clutch or the drive and she shuts down completely.
Those pedal things are a menace here in Spokane. They have blocked traffic, People from those things seem to get quite hostile and the more they drink, The more they turn into Perry Mason
We have those damned things here in Bend, Oregon, as well. They hold up traffic, which in this town is a pretty bad situation, and from what I can tell, they're really not limited in where they can go throughout the congested downtown area. They're the last thing we need cluttering up out streets, but hey, the folks running the city have to cater to the drunk tourist crowd.
Saw a UA-cam about a passenger train in Florida where it reverses in a triangle before setting back into the terminal station. The conductor rides on the last carriage going into the station. He has a length of tubing about six foot which attaches to the brake hose and on the other end is a whistle which he activates with a spring loaded valve and gives him the means to alert anyone who might be on the tracks.
Interesting that those are CP tracks. I’m not sure how long they had track rights with each other. They have to do some back and forth since some of those tracks down there no longer join each other so they have to go thru the CP yard to join their own tracks.
As a railroader I'll just say please always assume all tracks are in use. I often run tracks that haven't been run in years to go grab stored cars, hide away something, inspections, work a very infrequent industry, do special contract work, etc. There's a lot of money in rail scrap because it's high quality metal, so if the tracks are still there at all chances are good there's plans to use them again someday.
@@zackbobby5550 That’s exactly on target. Just because an 80mph AMTRAK doesn’t run on those tracks, that doesn’t mean they won’t be used at times. That could be any time of the day. Just like driving past a fire station. You never know when those doors are going to open and the apparatus roars out.
Sure, let's permit a bunch of inebriated wanna-be-yuppies to go pedaling around city streets indiscriminately in a ridiculous contraption with no regard for traffic, or what's happening around them. Great idea! 🤦🏻♂ Good camerawork. Very nice video 👍🏿
I am late to your video but I have been down there biking great catch! Is it still active? I plan on filming this spring around Milwaukee this is is one area I will check out. 🤠
@@insylem the conductor riding on the last railcar was probably saying, "Are these idiots blind or do they not know about safety? Trains cannot stop on a dime you know" Luckily for those clowns it was going slow.
I’ll never undesrstand those pedal taverns (they have em in my city too) put a bunch of people on a bike and give them liquor, yeah that’ll work out fine.
Nice capture. Street runners have a tedious job. Especially when idiots jump in front of them. Turbo sounds a little rough on the Geep, but hey it works👍
Normally (but not always), the railroad track was put down there first, then, officials decided to put a street there afterwards. Of course, "street running" trains is becoming less and less as time progresses forward. It was not really a problem back then as it tends to be nowadays.
Has anyone ever heard of the railroad track running down the middle of W19th Street in Erie, PA? It had been there for about 110 years. As of around 2003 it is no more! Since the current operator of that track wanted to haul more trains (than the supposed daily maximum number imposed by the city of Erie), the Norfolk Southern Railroad had no other choice but to construct a detour route around this street running section and, remove the rails and all of the signals out of the city's street. (I visited this back in September of 1996. It was kind of excitingto see. I even asked a couple of residents about the passing trains on their street. They thoughti t was kind of crazy to want to see street running trains!)
Don't see too many of these industrial street running operations anymore. Getting that bulk freight moved through the city all in one shot as opposed to many trucks snaking through. And I drive semis.
@@patrickwamsley3284 I thought I read the turbo is gear driven for low speeds, then exhaust takes over at a certain throttle notch and an over running clutch allows the gear feature to decouple itself from the turbo. But what do I know 🤔
Interesting. I’ll have to check that area out. Not everybody who rides a bike is a jerk but I’m convinced that every jerk rides a bike or one of those pedal power buses. Not too smart.
That's why i want that freight service has a speed increase so that in case of accidents its not the drivers fault it's the morons fault who dosent care about regulations near railway lines especially those that run in normal roads as well as railway crossings
Because it's a facing point switch in the industry. The locomotive would get stuck in the industry's track with no way out so....kinda have to shove. Take a look at LA Junction Railway. Almost every move is a facing point move so they are always shoving their trains which are much longer than the one in this video.
Yeahhh looks like 1024 is an old unit, a little seach and it looks like it's an ex B&O/CSX GP40 loco rebuilt by UP into a GP38-2 seems kinda scratch built and unloved lol
Next time I see a dead critter on the track I'm taking its picture & saying see this is what stupidity gets ya. Oh & we have those stupid 🍺🚲 in grand rapids michigan to
I'm sure the pedal tavern was x surprised there was a train running down the street. In all fairness I'd say nobody knew there were active "unused rail lines " in frigging Walkers point. Old C&NW been gone since 67. Nearly 60 yrs ago.
There's a boom or "gentrification"; for all the democrats who may read this,, in the third ward/warehouse district and the northern most point to the south side; (Oregon,Florida, Virginia etc)in the area of V.Marchese & Usingers. So a lot of people and drinking goes on in those areas which were old railroad, warehouses & the ports.
2:26 “you could die like this…”
“YEAH RIGHT!”
Stupid people smh
Lucky they were taking it slow!
I think those folks folks are riding one of those pedal tavern things, feeling pretty loose apparently, lol!
Run them "Pedophiles" over.
@@blocksmithforge7841 oh that's what that contraption was. Don't they have a set area they have to stick to? Just wondering. Have a great day everyone
@@davidurban6813 I'm not 100% sure but, I think they can go anywhere bikes can go. I think they're mostly harmless, the person in charge of steering probably just made a traffic timing miscalculation.
Trains have a way of getting your attention! I live in Butler and we have a track that crosses a street that gets used maybe once a year! I was on my way to work and as I passed over the track the guys in the engine flipped on the headlight (it was about 5 a.m. and still dark out) and I thought I wold have a heart attack! He was about 15 feet away sandwiched between two buildings! They must have enjoyed a good chuckle at my expense!
It’s always neat seeing some rare but unexpected train sightings!!
@@illinoistrains7808 Trust me, at that time of the morning, it’s quite the wake up call! Lol!
nice vid... i worked for the cnw and worked this assignment a FEW times YEARS ago... YMI57 "the marsh job"... back when i hired on in 1993, the foreman on this job had a seniority date of 1956 (john hartmanstorfer), so no way was i ever holding this job... i was able to briefly hold this job on fridays as the helper had fri-sat off so i bid the job on fridays... what a NICE assignment... back then it had a caboose (cnw 11186) because a majority of the switches were facing point so we'd spend ALL day working the job from the caboose... there's an ice box in the caboose and we would "ice up" at the yard office before departing for jones island... also in the winter fuel oil was added to the caboose for the stove, gotta have heat in the winter and they would leave the stove run even off duty so when you got in it the next morning it was all nice and toasty inside... pretty fun times
Very cool!! I’m sure the area looked a lot different then, would be cool to see a caboose on the line now
Back in the days when you could get on and off moving equipment. This guy only did it once.
UP 1024 ... 30 years ago she would have been on the point of stack trains or climbing Tehachapi or running chemical trains to Houston as SSW 9662, the last of the 4-axle road power purchased by SP. Now she's relegated to switcher service.
UP 1024 is a Road Switcher - this right up its alley, but maybe she misses the "high rail" 😊
1024 doesn't around too healthy either, something at idle is grinding too much.
@@AbelG8781 It's just a bad cooling fan
@@doubleutubefan5 oh ok gotcha
@@doubleutubefan5 That's not a cooling fan, that's a traction motor... you can hear it on the reverse move kinda taking in gear lash as it moves from power to coasting onto the street. I take that back... that's the gear drive in the turbo! That needs to be in the shop pronto before it takes out the overrunning clutch or the drive and she shuts down completely.
Awesome! I love street running.
Jaw Tooth! Thanks for stopping by!
You didn't say "cool" for a change.
Those pedal things are a menace here in Spokane. They have blocked traffic, People from those things seem to get quite hostile and the more they drink, The more they turn into Perry Mason
We have those damned things here in Bend, Oregon, as well. They hold up traffic, which in this town is a pretty bad situation, and from what I can tell, they're really not limited in where they can go throughout the congested downtown area.
They're the last thing we need cluttering up out streets, but hey, the folks running the city have to cater to the drunk tourist crowd.
those “pedal things” are called bars on wheels
@@NGH99999 what about cars? you guys have those downtown too?
@@benfryback9878 Nope. Our standard method of transport is levitating jet propulsion pods.
These things infest Fort Collins, CO in the summer.
Saw a UA-cam about a passenger train in Florida where it reverses in a triangle before setting back into the terminal station. The conductor rides on the last carriage going into the station. He has a length of tubing about six foot which attaches to the brake hose and on the other end is a whistle which he activates with a spring loaded valve and gives him the means to alert anyone who might be on the tracks.
Distant Signal
I drive over those rails almost every work day since I can bypass traffic. Never knew those tracks were still in use
I’ve caught this train in the afternoon a few times! But before that I thought the same thing
Interesting that those are CP tracks. I’m not sure how long they had track rights with each other. They have to do some back and forth since some of those tracks down there no longer join each other so they have to go thru the CP yard to join their own tracks.
As a railroader I'll just say please always assume all tracks are in use. I often run tracks that haven't been run in years to go grab stored cars, hide away something, inspections, work a very infrequent industry, do special contract work, etc. There's a lot of money in rail scrap because it's high quality metal, so if the tracks are still there at all chances are good there's plans to use them again someday.
@@zackbobby5550 That’s exactly on target. Just because an 80mph AMTRAK doesn’t run on those tracks, that doesn’t mean they won’t be used at times. That could be any time of the day. Just like driving past a fire station. You never know when those doors are going to open and the apparatus roars out.
Those pedal taverns have always been a menace down there and all over Walker's Point.
We have them in Cedar Rapids, Iowa too and they do the same thing in the entire downtown area including the train tracks
Maybe someone needs to torch those things wanna get drunk go sit at a regular bar.
@@maxrshelltrack7443 😂
Any gimmick to get people to drink
@@Reitz86 I would like to drink and watch trains, but this cuts it a little too close!
Sure, let's permit a bunch of inebriated wanna-be-yuppies to go pedaling around city streets indiscriminately in a ridiculous contraption with no regard for traffic, or what's happening around them. Great idea! 🤦🏻♂
Good camerawork. Very nice video 👍🏿
I couldn’t believe when I heard the cart of screaming people, I’m glad the UP crew was doing their job safely! Thanks!!
@@illinoistrains7808 what exactly did they say? I can't quite make it out
@@AbelG8781 the UP crew member pretty much just said, “You could die like this”, and someone on the pedal tavern yelled, “Yeah, right!” back
@@illinoistrains7808 typical youngster lol
@Oubrioko Ha ha yeah that's a good point. Those types of people are just asking to die.
Does this train happen on a normal time schedule because I am planing to go up to MIlwaukee
Im not sure if it is adhoc or scheduled, but this was around 12:30 on a Friday
That first clip looked like the train was on a steep grade! Great video
It’s definitely steep! Even more so seemingly in person
Love Street running videos 👍
Thanks for sharing, nice job 👍👍
Thanks Tim!
I'd have the city speak with the operator of that bike thing.
Excellent video! I really enjoyed it ;) You got my thumbs up
Thanks for checking it out!
I am late to your video but I have been down there biking great catch! Is it still active? I plan on filming this spring around Milwaukee this is is one area I will check out. 🤠
Check it out on a Friday afternoon around 12:00-2:00! I caught it biking as well 🚲
grade going downward to street level looks steep.i bet the engineer had use the brakes alot to keep stress of the knuckle couplers
It is pretty steep there, pretty neat to watch!
Those 4-wheel bicycle things crossing over behind that train backing up, smh.
🚲😬
From what I understand its a mobile bar. They were probably drunk
@@insylem the conductor riding on the last railcar was probably saying, "Are these idiots blind or do they not know about safety? Trains cannot stop on a dime you know" Luckily for those clowns it was going slow.
I think I've seen that engine in Racine too.
I’ll never undesrstand those pedal taverns (they have em in my city too) put a bunch of people on a bike and give them liquor, yeah that’ll work out fine.
Nice capture. Street runners have a tedious job. Especially when idiots jump in front of them. Turbo sounds a little rough on the Geep, but hey it works👍
Who's old line was that originally a Chicago northwestern line?
Yes it was!
Great vide and love the street running.
Thanks! It’s probably one of my favorite things to see
What’s street running?
@@dancer1 when trains run though the middle of a street usually with no barrier!
On Ex-Chicago & Northwestern Railway lines. BTW what's that vehicle at 2:17?
That's a bar. 🍻
Only in Wisconsin!
Which locomotive is on the train? Greetings from Germany
UP 1024
How did the old commerical go: "You never win an argument with a train!"
"It's hard to stop a Trane" It was an ad for Trane Heating and Air Conditioning.
@@dsmith9964 No this was a commercial done by actor Michael Gross for Operation Lifesaver as part of a railroad safety campaign years ago.
@@joefriday1586 It seems that I recall that particular ad! 🤔 Thanks for jogging my memory!
I never knew this was still operational, I would ride my bike here all the time during 2020
Is that a gp 35?
Very good video, like
Big thanks!!
Wounder what was delivered or picked up?
Dropped off a few tanks and picked up some others!
Good morning to all from SE Louisiana 18 Apr 22.
Factor by which adding Get Out Of The Way in the title increases views: 10
Thanks for the excellent video Illinois Trains. I hope those people wander into the wrong neighborhood. Its better to stay home and drink anyways.
You ever just drive your train down the street just to flex on car-driving fools?
I wish I had these powers 😂
your car has 123 horsepower? -chuckles- thats cute.
I feel like ppl in cars who aren't familiar with trains could be easily confused about street running
"Woah trains can float now?" -people who didnt know about street running
I'm from Milwaukee. Where is this?
Walker's Point
Me as well
I thought street running meant running to catch a train on the street
It’s when trains “run” through the middle of the street!
Normally (but not always), the railroad track was put down there first, then, officials decided to put a street there afterwards.
Of course, "street running" trains is becoming less and less as time progresses forward. It was not really a problem back then as it tends to be nowadays.
Has anyone ever heard of the railroad track running down the middle of W19th Street in Erie, PA? It had been there for about 110 years.
As of around 2003 it is no more! Since the current operator of that track wanted to haul more trains (than the supposed daily maximum number imposed by the city of Erie), the Norfolk Southern Railroad had no other choice but to construct a detour route around this street running section and, remove the rails and all of the signals out of the city's street.
(I visited this back in September of 1996. It was kind of excitingto see. I even asked a couple of residents about the passing trains on their street. They thoughti t was kind of crazy to want to see street running trains!)
That Yeep-60 sounds horrible when throttling up.
Yeep?
Sounds very horrible, Probably a mechanical problem or something.
@@-watermelonking a very steep grade
@@oregonrailfan7046 Geep lol he's just giving you his accent.
Don't see too many of these industrial street running operations anymore. Getting that bulk freight moved through the city all in one shot as opposed to many trucks snaking through. And I drive semis.
been in the AB Clock tower many a time as a kid.... alas
Great video.
Thank you!
Pedal tavern 😂 I didn’t know that was a thing. I had to look it up after watching this
They are big in drinking cities like MKE and Nashville 😂
Kinda sounds like the turbo geartrain is having issues.
They're mechanically assisted turbos right?
@@patrickwamsley3284 I thought I read the turbo is gear driven for low speeds, then exhaust takes over at a certain throttle notch and an over running clutch allows the gear feature to decouple itself from the turbo. But what do I know 🤔
I wish I knew when this happens because I caught it once in the 11 years that I have lived in Milwaukee.
This was on a Friday about 12!
If I was the one riding the point on that shove, yeah right, would have been the last thing the people on that cart would have said.
im sorry but those girls on the peddle tavern and they bicyclist ignoring the train was pretty funny
Interesting. I’ll have to check that area out. Not everybody who rides a bike is a jerk but I’m convinced that every jerk rides a bike or one of those pedal power buses. Not too smart.
…And they wonder why they’re not allowed to have a drivers license in some countries.
Didn't know Milwaukee had any street runners
I’m not sure of any others, but if people are aware I’ll have to check them out!
Those dunces went the wrong way from the bar area to begin with. Not surprising they would be so oblivious.
Where were they going? Did they just want to go over the tracks and turn around with a train there.
That's why i want that freight service has a speed increase so that in case of accidents its not the drivers fault it's the morons fault who dosent care about regulations near railway lines especially those that run in normal roads as well as railway crossings
Super. 💙 T.E.N.
Omfg I forgot about those stupid pedal pubs til I seen this video those shouldn't be allowed on main street's.
My main question is why is the train shoving and running long hood forwards… that stuff should be forbidden outside of classification yards
Because it's a facing point switch in the industry. The locomotive would get stuck in the industry's track with no way out so....kinda have to shove.
Take a look at LA Junction Railway. Almost every move is a facing point move so they are always shoving their trains which are much longer than the one in this video.
Dumb people see train you lose train wins they can’t stop at a dime slow or not awesome video dude
It’s an honor to have a comment from The Phillip Lee!! Thanks!
@@illinoistrains7808 Yw
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Wow, they jerry-rigged some construction lights to use as ditch lights! 😂🤣😅
I had not noticed 😂
Yeahhh looks like 1024 is an old unit, a little seach and it looks like it's an ex B&O/CSX GP40 loco rebuilt by UP into a GP38-2 seems kinda scratch built and unloved lol
@@ww32 perfect for local servicing!
@@ww32 Not that old, it's a GP60.
Those arent Jerry-rigged. They have magnets and plug into the MU port.
That locomotive doesn't sound too good...
I'm betting the train is going to swarve first.
😂😂
Remind me not to buy a house on this street!
Don't buy a house on this street... Lol
It’s right on the Milwaukee Harbor! Cool views but very busy
Next time I see a dead critter on the track I'm taking its picture & saying see this is what stupidity gets ya. Oh & we have those stupid 🍺🚲 in grand rapids michigan to
Le conducteur du train n’a pas le droit de rouler dans les rues de la ville municipalités de toutes façons
The pedal pushers are always doing stupid things .
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
😂
Typical of the millennial generation. Should be the brain dead generation
I'm sure the pedal tavern was x surprised there was a train running down the street. In all fairness I'd say nobody knew there were active "unused rail lines " in frigging Walkers point. Old C&NW been gone since 67. Nearly 60 yrs ago.
Tandem douchebike at 2:20
No bell...no fusees...wtf? Is this a joke.
Kinda dum never run by train like that get you killed love train horn sound good to from Indiana
She's having some mechanical issues.
There's a boom or "gentrification"; for all the democrats who may read this,, in the third ward/warehouse district and the northern most point to the south side; (Oregon,Florida, Virginia etc)in the area of V.Marchese & Usingers. So a lot of people and drinking goes on in those areas which were old railroad, warehouses & the ports.
???? Had to bring an irrelevant political statement to a train video hu guy?
@@AbelG8781 it never fails. The wind blows too fast or cold, it’s political🙄
This is why I hate street running