Oregon's Willamette Valley Trains (4K) | 5 Railroads | Feb. 2021 | DJI Inspire 2
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- This video is a compilation of footage that I captured around the month of February in 2021 of different trains and railroad lines in Oregon's Willamette Valley.
Since I live in Eugene at the South end of the Willamette Valley this is kind of like my front yard. All of these scenes are within a couple hours or closer.
This video features trains from the Union Pacific, Portland & Western, Albany & Eastern, Amtrak, and Coos Bay Rail Line. It also includes a BNSF train and some Canadian foreign power.
These scenes were filmed with the professional DJI Inspire 2 drone and the DJI Osmo Action.
Music is used from Soundstripe
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14:15 and 16:38 - I get a good laugh at the lift span of the old bridge. Originally intended for tall boats and ships to be able to navigate under the bridge when raised, it is now spanning an island in the middle of the river.
Thanks for these wonderful virtual trips into Oregon's countryside.
You're welcome!
@@TheRailfanDan the O.T.C. loves you ;-)
Dan
Thanks as we are
Always looking forward to seeing your videos
Well thanks I'm glad to hear it! Much appreciated.
What a treat! I'm in coos county and we call our one and only train between coquille and coos bay the Wabash.
Sweet
Excellent Oregonian footage Mr. Dan!
Well done footage of our beautiful state. I am a native Oregonian myself. I have lived here for almost 57 years. Keep up the good work.
Great work as usual. Thanks!
These days I'm kinda trapped on the Oregon coast. The only catches I get are the local tourist trains. And the one good thing there is the rare/ancient power. I come here to see great videos of normal trains. :)
Thanks! I'm actually planning to get over to the Oregon Coast Scenic in a few weeks to film that GN F7!
@@TheRailfanDan Great! Only thing is after this weekend they close down until later in May. Which is fine, but I think they might be getting the steam locomotive back out at thst point. Which is also fun but also gets old after the 20th time seeing it.
I live a ways south of there but maybe we can say hi when you're here.
Great vid, beautiful location, good music, thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
I lived in the Rouge River Valley when I was a kid but I'm on the East Coast now. I really enjoy your tours around the Northwest.
In a few videos now I'll be putting a couple on here from the Siskiyou Line between Cow Creek Canyon near Glendale and Medford.
@@TheRailfanDan Great, Dan. I'll look forward to that. Back in the 1920s my Great Grandparents lived in Leland, which used to be a stop on the SP.
@@snchilders Oh cool! I got a lot of locations near there including the Grave Creek Trestle just North of Leland.
Excellent. I really enjoy your content and fully appreciate the effort it takes to maintain the production quality and variety
Thanks a lot Phill!
Fantastic!! Beautiful scenery and great shortline locomotives. Thanks much!!
Thanks Lloyd!
Hello everyone on UA-cam and thank you Dan for another great video, have a great weekend
Thanks!
I thoroughly enjoyed this. A lot of familiar places, I've lived in the Portland/Willamette Valley area for 50 years. I look forward to more of your videos.
It seems that Genesee & Wyoming are on a buying spree on power units. This past weekend Apr. 3th while on HWY 20 between Sugar Town aka Sweet Home and Lebanon, looked like Albany and Eastern had a ex CSX unit at one of the sawmills for switching.
Many greetings from the Netherlands,love your content.
Greetings and thanks a lot Jonny!
Dan, thanks for putting this video of your February 2021 recordings in the Willamette River Valley. The trains and the scenery were beautiful. It looked like one of the Union Pacific trains had a number of scale test cars on the end of its train. Keep the videos coming!
Thanks Thomas! Sometimes working on editing these videos is difficult because the editing isn't my favorite part and this one was particularly hard to work through because the material isn't so exciting to me personally but I knew in the end it would all be well received and so I stuck with it with that in mind.
@@TheRailfanDan I am glad that you worked through the editing of this video. Your hard work was worth it as far as I am concerned. Thanks again for everything that you do in flying the drone and taking the ground views of the trains and then editing the drone and ground footage to present to us!!
Those look to be a new style of lid on coil steel cars. (With one older car in the middle.)
These videos are extremely outstanding. Absolutely beautiful. Can't get any better. Beautiful scenery! Awesome videos of trains! Thank you for your hard work.
Well thank you very much! What a nice compliment!
@@TheRailfanDan you are absolutely welcome. I've always loved Oregon and someday I hope to visit it. I'm getting older so I better hurry up lol. Just absolutely fabulous!.
@@chrisrobichaud9368 It's pretty great here! So much diversity in topography throughout the whole state. I'm in Eugene.
Dang! 22:48 seems like a really good model railroad scene, a little wet with glue, but still!
The drone really came into its own in this video Dan - a very pretty part of the world. Is Oregon always this wet? Some of the paddocks looked well and truly water logged. At 7.30 the umbrellas & tents I'm assuming belong to homeless people but hardly the ideal spot to pitch camp - the noise must be deafening in the middle of the night. At 19.45 how would a BNSF loco come to be the lead on a UP Sub and manifest train? I can only imagine they are the fiercest of competitors. Thoroughly enjoyed!
I was thinking of you when I saw that GP60 on the Springfield local a few days ago. I see you caught it on the road.
I actually caught it a number of times and the next video will be just on that unit!
Magnificent
Impressive drone shots.
Beautiful !
I like the videos from the mountains, beautiful valleys and great landscapes more. I find the flatlands a bit boring, there is just the same thing to see ...
I would say the Willamette Valley is a beautiful valley. I enjoy mountains and canyon's more as well but the perks of this are the multitude and variety of trains. Plus I've got to have variety to my channel you know?
You want boring flat lands. Go to Central Valley in California OMG. Willamette Valley is great it's so green! 💚
@@DesertTOON Oh yeah that's definitely true. That is definitely NOT a place on my bucket list haha!
Amazing footage!! Its so nice seeing the short lines with all of their colors. Something that is sadly lacking on most of the bigger railroads. Keep up the awesome work, we love watching your videos!
Very impressive drone footage!
I enjoy watching your videos Dan! I especially like the patched Southern Pacific SD60!
Subbed to your channel!
love this channel.
Thanks a lot!
Nicely done
You do have a beautiful front yard, me too. SC
Always interesting that W&P became P&W Western and Pacific to Portland and Western. I have Google mapped the tracks on satellite view interesting where they go. The Brooklyn sub starts at the Brooklyn Yard in Portland to Eugene Yard. Then CORP down the Siskiyou Sub and UPSP the Cascade Sub.
Well done Dan. You earned yourself extra cameraman pay with all those cameos...
Thanks Michael!
@@TheRailfanDan 👍 the inspire have a steep learning curve? You handle it like a total pro.
@@click4mrh Thanks! It can be steep if you don't have any experience flying. My now years of flying drones definitely helps.
@@TheRailfanDan you can tell, your transitions are off the charts
@@click4mrh Thanks Michael! Much appreciated!
Rain Country!
No kidding! I live in the valley so I know all about it.
Absolutely incredible production!! We moved out if Portland to Amity (best decision ever). We lived near a train line in Portland and I was sad to leave the sounds of train horns. Turns out, there's a line that runs right through Amity and I can still hear trains!! That made this rail fan very happy. Do you happen to know what line goes through Amity?
Yes that line is part of the Portland & Western Railroad system and is referred to as the Westside branch.
is the brooklyn speed restricted, or is yupee playing
psr? is the pnw & pw class Ii or III, awful slow?, no helpers
thru EUG?, btw another tour de force, the O.T.C. thanks you for your due diligence ;-)
KEEP EM' COMING
I'm not sure about speed restrictions on Brooklyn. Maybe in some locations. Portland & Western is a class II railroad and a whole lot of their trackage is 10mph. Manned helpers have been happening up Pengra Pass out of Oakridge these days. Thanks Mel!
Really cool seeing all the P&W west side main stuff! How frequently do they run that side of things? I'm headed to the area in June and would love to catch some action in the west side main. Particularly that Wilamina local looks like a great chase!
Jobs on that line run 5 days a week no weekends. The Westsider train runs North to Whiteson in the early morning and usually arrives at Whiteson around 0900 if it's on time so there's chance to get it South of there in the light quite a ways. The Willamina crew is on duty around 1100 if they're on time so they're usually heading out of Whiteson toward Willamina around noon. All subject to change if things are off schedule of course but I've had success with those times when I've chased them.
@@TheRailfanDan thanks for thr info, much appreciated!
I'm a little curious how you plan these encounters with trains? I see some of these tracks all the time but I rarely ever see a train on them. Do you just pick a place and wait all day? Is there some sort of schedule you can follow? Or is my train caching luck just lower than average?
Well actually most of the trains on the smaller railroads are predictable in the times that they run if you have the info. Amtrak train schedules are also public knowledge. I usually have some kind of inside info when I'm out chasing trains anyway. It helps to know people!
What's the deal with those BNSF grain trains? I saw one southbound through Eugene in January, almost identical to the one you caught minus the H1 second out. Do they originate somewhere in the Willamette Valley? If not, why don't they take the Oregon Trunk? How frequent are they? How long have they been a thing?
They are actually pretty common. Even more so so far in 2021 since grain is booming. Those trains come off the CN north of Seattle and run through the UP down to Bakersfield. I believe them running down the UP has to do with the destination point in Bakersfield.
What happens to 2310s bell