NO BOSS, INTERMODAL WOULDN’T TAKE IT! AMTRAK 103 & 104 TOGETHER, MOWS ON THE BRIDGE, MONARCH BOXCAR

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  • Опубліковано 14 бер 2024
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  • @johnwalters1341
    @johnwalters1341 Місяць тому +13

    Looks like another batch of American Kestrels will soon be on the way!

  • @Gwenny0612
    @Gwenny0612 Місяць тому +25

    Hey, private moment, there!!! But the rimshot finish was about right...LOL!

  • @barfeedbob
    @barfeedbob Місяць тому +60

    Y'all realize the falcons weren't doing a circus trick, right? LOL!

  • @dobdoa3691
    @dobdoa3691 Місяць тому +5

    A little cloacal kiss at the end. toot toot!

  • @lightitrun5209
    @lightitrun5209 Місяць тому +7

    It's Springtime. Nuggie time.

  • @coreypeters4170
    @coreypeters4170 Місяць тому +10

    16:21, Rim shot!

    • @joepeach997
      @joepeach997 Місяць тому +1

      I was going to play the song, "Sweet mystery of life....

    • @donnaj9964
      @donnaj9964 Місяць тому

      @@joepeach997 LOL!

  • @donnaj9964
    @donnaj9964 Місяць тому +4

    I really liked seeing the USA/Canada veterans commemorative unit; I didn't even know it existed. There were some beautiful storm sequences in this one--hope everyone stayed safe--and any day when I see the monarch car is a happy one. That bridge at Burlington is just so gorgeous!!! And I loved the Loram at Fort Madison. Another terrific one--thanks!

  • @SMichaelDeHart
    @SMichaelDeHart Місяць тому +7

    Like most men...it was a quickie!! 😂😂😂😂

  • @stephenhudson8739
    @stephenhudson8739 Місяць тому +7

    It looks like that lightning strike was right next to that watertower at Galesburg illinois

  • @jerrysinclair3771
    @jerrysinclair3771 Місяць тому +11

    the kastrels at 16:00 was sooooooo funny! The drum shot was a nice touch.

    • @Gwenny0612
      @Gwenny0612 Місяць тому +2

      Falcons.

    • @jollyjohnthepirate3168
      @jollyjohnthepirate3168 Місяць тому +5

      Spring is in the air..........and that's where little falcons come from.😊

    • @sramsey0307
      @sramsey0307 Місяць тому +2

      Kestrels .. those were Kestrels :)

    • @donnaj9964
      @donnaj9964 Місяць тому +1

      Kestrels. New ones coming soon to a nest near you!

  • @TrainTrackTrav
    @TrainTrackTrav Місяць тому +11

    Learning from birds about the birds and the bees. Seems legit, but I'd assume they would've liked some privacy. LOL! XD

  • @user-do2rm7bu3k
    @user-do2rm7bu3k Місяць тому +6

    Very good video love the Butterfly, Military and rest

  • @bowlinerailfan
    @bowlinerailfan Місяць тому +17

    I didn't know that there's a boxcar devoted to saving the monarch butterfly. That's cool! My favorite butterfly no less.

    • @robchit1
      @robchit1 Місяць тому +2

      CP and KCS displayed it at Kansas City Union Station about 2 years ago for the save the manarchs program when the box car was new (clean)

    • @donnaj9964
      @donnaj9964 Місяць тому +1

      It always makes me happy to see it because it means that somebody cares, and there's hope.

  • @gusjones9388
    @gusjones9388 Місяць тому +8

    If the falcons have a baby, are we having a naming contest?

    • @Retireddriver
      @Retireddriver Місяць тому +3

      Good idea

    • @jeffpierce725
      @jeffpierce725 Місяць тому

      @@Retireddriver Good idea? That's a funny name for a bird!

  • @roxxma
    @roxxma Місяць тому +1

    That little dude's smile at 9:27 made me smile 😎😎

  • @Vermmont_rail_fan2234
    @Vermmont_rail_fan2234 Місяць тому +13

    Butterfly 🦋

  • @ren-uz2mz
    @ren-uz2mz Місяць тому +4

    I actually saw that ton of MOW sitting at Tinker Creek

  • @-Cece
    @-Cece Місяць тому +1

    Nice!....@13:05....first time i have seen this. Means a lot to me bc I have French-Can ancestors and family serving in our US Military.
    ❤ from Buffalo.

  • @agonecrescent6189
    @agonecrescent6189 Місяць тому +26

    sad seeing that awesome monarch butterfly car covered in graffiti

  • @BMgirl-mx1xh
    @BMgirl-mx1xh Місяць тому +12

    That was a great way to end the video. 😅 love the butterfly 🦋

  • @nsrailfangaming5888
    @nsrailfangaming5888 Місяць тому +4

    5:00 is that the CSX chessie heritage unit, a 3 way meet and 2 ex NYC cars

  • @eliteslender1035
    @eliteslender1035 Місяць тому +3

    The lightning was crazy last night.

  • @JacobWheeler-xr4ed
    @JacobWheeler-xr4ed Місяць тому +3

    Great video lots of Tinker and cool thunderstorm bolts

  • @Dreamworld986
    @Dreamworld986 Місяць тому +1

    Kestrels doing the "nasty", LOL.

  • @deejaytee5481
    @deejaytee5481 Місяць тому +1

    Whenever I see speeded-up video of individual MOW units zipping along, it always reminds me of Wacky Races 🤣

  • @Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan
    @Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan Місяць тому +2

    *Nice Catches*

  • @michellemcdaniel209
    @michellemcdaniel209 Місяць тому +3

    Thumbs up🎉

  • @4emcarthur
    @4emcarthur Місяць тому

    It's hilarious that the video ends with some classic "train going through the tunnel" action. The future of that bird species is insured.

  • @railfanboi9905
    @railfanboi9905 Місяць тому +4

    Per Usual, another great video from Virtual Railfan!

  • @ren-uz2mz
    @ren-uz2mz Місяць тому +4

    Monarch boxcar again!

  • @ChainsawNW1218
    @ChainsawNW1218 Місяць тому +2

    Like seeing those Loram rail grinders working at night, nice catch with manifest on other main in Ft Madison, nice meets, power and loads!🛤🚂

  • @richardbause2453
    @richardbause2453 Місяць тому +1

    The "Lovebirds",😮caught in the "Do"...🦅

  • @joshthetrainfan
    @joshthetrainfan Місяць тому +1

    4:10 I saw that very DOTX car in Barstow a few weeks ago with my best friend. Man does that bring back memories.

  • @davidbrown4823
    @davidbrown4823 Місяць тому

    The birds are probably looking for a privacy suit..lol

  • @Retireddriver
    @Retireddriver Місяць тому +4

    Falcons gonna Falcon

  • @Oi-Oi-Oi-420
    @Oi-Oi-Oi-420 Місяць тому

    I'm a fan of the railfan's fans familily xD

  • @ClarissaPacker
    @ClarissaPacker Місяць тому +10

    & that's how birds are made

  • @jamesmckenzie3532
    @jamesmckenzie3532 Місяць тому +3

    Nice opening JP.

    • @joepeach997
      @joepeach997 Місяць тому +2

      Thanks! Open with a Butterfly, close with birds, lol.

    • @jamesmckenzie3532
      @jamesmckenzie3532 Місяць тому

      @@joepeach997 You do great work and try to balance all of the VRF cameras and reports. BTW, a few of the recent ones were "found" by me just watching trains roll along.

    • @donnaj9964
      @donnaj9964 Місяць тому

      @@joepeach997 And sting like a bee?

  • @gp3829
    @gp3829 Місяць тому +2

    Two beautiful Ladies wearing Grinstein Green colour tonight, thanks VRF

  • @philsellers6003
    @philsellers6003 Місяць тому

    That's all folks!

  • @michaelpiatkowskijr1045
    @michaelpiatkowskijr1045 Місяць тому +1

    I can tell you exactly what happened to the semi trailer. Brakes caught on fire. It looks like it damaged the axles as well as those are too wide for the trailer. The wrecker was there as an escort and to keep an eye on the back of the trailer. Either he was empty or pretty empty when it happened or they did a great job of limiting the fire to the rear. With the frame buckled, I'd say it was probably the first thing.

  • @pierpaolopensa310
    @pierpaolopensa310 Місяць тому +2

    Primo belle catture👍💪

  • @the-terrible63
    @the-terrible63 Місяць тому +8

    Wow! Excellent catching all the trains, especially the Heritage Units, military trains, a lightning strike in Deshler, Ohio, and so much more, I like them, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much.

  • @MrBnsftrain
    @MrBnsftrain 21 день тому

    0:09 CPKC Monarch Butterfly boxcar
    0:27 quite some exhaust being out of this trailing executive MAC
    1:37 CSX 1897 trailing
    2:42 NS 8098 leading
    4:30 something stuck on the front of the Amtrak
    4:51 two gray private cars on the Lake Shore Limited (on the Pennsylvanian at 15:57)
    5:34 a heavy-duty low-center flatcar being carried on a heavy-duty flatbed!
    6:10 lightning strike pretty close to the Galesburg camera
    6:54 CSX 1982 (again at 12:44)
    8:23 hi-rail truck pulling three different ballast hoppers
    8:53 more old hoppers
    10:14 damaged truck trailer
    10:50 Loram grinder working at Ft Madison at night
    13:03 CN veterans unit 3233 leading an all-CN lash-up in Georgia
    13:20 P42s 103 and 104 on the Lake Shore Limited
    14:50 Surfliner on the Southwest Chief

  • @toddaustin449
    @toddaustin449 Місяць тому +5

    I wonder whats the story of that extra-crispy semi-trailer

    • @maynardcarmer3148
      @maynardcarmer3148 Місяць тому +1

      Probably a brake failing to release. They can generate enough heat to set the tires on fire. I've seen it happen before.

    • @richardreid6377
      @richardreid6377 Місяць тому

      @@maynardcarmer3148 Could have been a bad wheel bearing or flat tire instead.

    • @maynardcarmer3148
      @maynardcarmer3148 Місяць тому +1

      Yep, it could have been, but I was a heavy equipment mechanic for more than 40 years, and have seen tons more fires from overheated brakes than the other two causes. I'm just going by probabilities.

    • @spinalobifida
      @spinalobifida Місяць тому

      The tow truck behind it was like an ambulance chaser. I think it was going to chew more than he can handle

    • @donnaj9964
      @donnaj9964 Місяць тому

      @@maynardcarmer3148 Thanks for the explanation. I kept wondering what could do that kind of damage to a semi trailer, and all I could think of was...a train. This is better--still not cool, but better!

  • @DougCeleste
    @DougCeleste Місяць тому +2

    Were those Atlanta Falcons at the end? Just wondering..........

  • @spinalobifida
    @spinalobifida Місяць тому +3

    The tow truck behind that messed up trailer reminded me of an ambulance chaser. Why does the rail grinder have so many lights?

    • @John-cg8hb
      @John-cg8hb Місяць тому

      Wreckers don't chase ambulances, lawyers chase ambulances lol

    • @spinalobifida
      @spinalobifida Місяць тому

      The lawyer wants the patient and the tow truck wants the semi

  • @davidcrook5511
    @davidcrook5511 Місяць тому

    Got round to this one at last! And what's not to like? Nothing! All good! Locomotive No. 1982, Wacky Races at Roanoke and in slow motion at Burlington, that train with the lights at Fort Madison and the long freight that followed it, lightning at Galesburg and s/where else and er WHAT were those birds doing??? 😮

  • @JanetBlake2010
    @JanetBlake2010 Місяць тому +4

    Same clip twice. About 2:30 and 8:00. Waycross.

    • @joepeach997
      @joepeach997 Місяць тому

      I really must have liked that one, lol. Good catch.

  • @musclecarmitch908
    @musclecarmitch908 Місяць тому +3

    😊👍

  • @ridgeridge9659
    @ridgeridge9659 Місяць тому +1

    Wonder if the falcon called the next day?

  • @blarol21
    @blarol21 Місяць тому +1

    Averting one's eyes, what!

  • @billhennessy1927
    @billhennessy1927 Місяць тому +2

    Amazing video!

  • @paulsmith5398
    @paulsmith5398 Місяць тому +3

    I have been saying all along that NS is already part of BNSF.............😱those birds in the tree at the end😈🤔🙄😨😱❗

  • @kaliberimaging5579
    @kaliberimaging5579 Місяць тому +1

    Goodness. I didn't think a flat car could handle 140 tons (Two tank retrievers)

    • @yyzedd
      @yyzedd Місяць тому

      They were DODX flat cars - six axles each.

  • @Santafe_guy2000
    @Santafe_guy2000 Місяць тому +3

    🚂

  • @randydobson1863
    @randydobson1863 Місяць тому +2

    hello Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks Virtual Railfan & Friends Randy

  • @FishKepr
    @FishKepr Місяць тому +8

    Um, this is a family show, right?🤣

    • @robchit1
      @robchit1 Місяць тому +6

      Is learning about nature not family oriented?

    • @FishKepr
      @FishKepr Місяць тому +4

      @@robchit1 Just making a joke…

    • @TrainTrackTrav
      @TrainTrackTrav Місяць тому +2

      Yes, but the birds are growing their family so the next generation of birds can enjoy VRF. 😂

  • @kendufresne
    @kendufresne Місяць тому +1

    What did that train hit at 4:44?

  • @Elliottblancher
    @Elliottblancher Місяць тому

    0:22 Shame on whoever graffitied that Monarch Butterfly boxcar

  • @MikeG_HATE
    @MikeG_HATE Місяць тому +2

    Not bad

  • @OnlyTheEd
    @OnlyTheEd Місяць тому

    @16:16; were them kestrels in Fort Madison?

  • @davidkreider942
    @davidkreider942 Місяць тому

    Almost every video lately I see military equipment on trains. It makes me wonder……. what’s going on? Is this a sign of what’s to come?

    • @J3scribe
      @J3scribe Місяць тому

      No. Military equipment is always on the move. To and from refurbishment. To and from heavy repair. To and from Fort Irwin for regular training. It's not a big deal. it's been common for many years.

  • @NS1221Productions
    @NS1221Productions Місяць тому

    I thought this was a friendly channel
    The last clip of the birds 💀💀💀
    Bro was doing things that are illegal on camera 💀

  • @101southsideboy
    @101southsideboy Місяць тому

    at 5:58 what kind of engine is 1051 ?

  • @alanosilva886
    @alanosilva886 Місяць тому +3

    11:33 Someone explain to me, what does this mean?

    • @scottfw7169
      @scottfw7169 Місяць тому +7

      I'm guessing the question is about the rail machine which is creating the sparks? Geometry, is what it means. Railroad car and locomotive wheels have a tread part which rides on the railhead and a flange around the wheel which goes inside the railhead. All 3 components, the wheel tread, the wheel flange, and the transition between wheel tread and wheel flange are shaped to specific geometry. So is the top of the rail, the railhead. The least friction is generated when all those shapes, geometries, are correct. Machines like the one in that clip periodically grind worn railheads back to the proper geometry. Wheels can be either reshaped or junked and replaced. Eventually the rail will wear enough to need to be replaced.

    • @coconutmall333
      @coconutmall333 Місяць тому +6

      (Help to describe)
      LORAM is a maintenance right-of-way equipment service. Their jobs is to inspect any railroad tracks and needed to require maintain, repair, and replace with smooth steel of rails.

    • @coconutmall333
      @coconutmall333 Місяць тому +2

      @@scottfw7169
      True. (Point)👍

    • @Gwenny0612
      @Gwenny0612 Місяць тому +6

      Smoothing out the rails, hence, the sparks.

    • @robchit1
      @robchit1 Місяць тому +4

      @@scottfw7169 And each part of the grinder focuses on a different part of the railhead

  • @peterp1158
    @peterp1158 Місяць тому +7

    16:05 Did he smoke a cigarette?

  • @davidpayne4310
    @davidpayne4310 Місяць тому +1

    2:15 and 7:57 - same clip...

    • @joepeach997
      @joepeach997 Місяць тому

      Yep, and no extra charge!

  • @sweynforkbeardtraindude
    @sweynforkbeardtraindude Місяць тому +2

    That Waycross PTZ is the most worthless camera. No one wants to see a roof!