Best Catches of 2020
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Finally getting this video out...
...halfway through February. But hey, it's finally out. Even with a pandemic screwing up some of the plans I had for this year, I was still able to get out and see a lot of cool stuff, including documenting some nice older crossings on the CSX LCL Subdivision in Louisville, KY, and the entirety of both the Georgia Central on the Birmingham Metro Area.
Also, due to where I spent much of my time railfanning this year, I've included every NS Dash-9 (and many CSX AC44CWs) that I caught leading this year, given how few of them I was able to do so with.
-NS 365 with a pair of Dash-9s leading an ET44AC elephant-style
-CSX autorack train with an AC44CW pair, trailing one being CSX 4
-CSX autorack train with a YN2 AC44CW leading
-NS mixed freight with Dash-9 leading and a yard slug trailing
-NS Dash-9 shoving a rail train
-CSX Local Freight meeting an ABC Coke train.
-CSX mixed freight with an AC44CW pair
-CSX mixed freight with a YN2 AC44CW pair
-CSX M730 with an AC44CW for power
-CSX local freight with an SD40-3 for power
-First time catching an SD70ACC
-NS 355 with a Dash-9 leading and NS 1800 trailing
-Catching the BHRR for the first time in a few years
-CSX M730 with a YN2 AC44CW for power
-BNSF intermodal train with an H2 Dash-9 leading
-NS 362 with a Dash-9 leading
-NS Ballast Train
-CSX mixed freight with a YN2 AC44CW pair
-CSX ethanol train with a KCS engine leading
-NS Ballast Train
-NS 365 with a Mississippi Export GP38-2 trailing
-NS A45 with a nice long lash-up of older EMD units (four SD40-2s and an SD60E)
-NS mixed freight with a Dash-9 leading
-NS A29 with an SD60E for power
-NS 23D with an SD70ACC leading, first SD70ACC I caught leading
-NS 373 with an SD70ACC leading
-NS 201 with the Southern heritage unit leading
-NS 101 with a Dash-9 leading
-NS local freight with an SD60E for power
-Not a train, but I did catch this truck striking a gate in Bessemer
-NS 16T with the Erie heritage unit trailing
-CSX Q026 with the Spirit of Dante trailing
-CSX mixed freight with an ST70AH leading
-CSX Q142 with CSX's first ST70AH leading
-First time catching a street-running train
-CSX freight (not sure if local or mixed) with a nice set of older EMD units for power
-First time catching an RJ Corman train
-CSX work train with an SD40-3 for power
-First time catching the Georgia Central
-First time catching an SD45-2
-GC Y115 with a GP9R leading a GP9
-GC Y115 again, but this time with the GP9 leading
-Rolling meet of NS 265 and NS 16Z, first time catching such a meet
-First time catching a GMD-1
-NS 362 with a Dash-9 leading and NS 4000 trailing
-A CSX caboose on the end of CSX Q521
-Empty coal train with a BNSF AC44CW
-NS mixed freight with an SD70ACu leading
-CSX Q514 with an AC44CW leading an SD40-2
-CSX autorack train with an SD40-3 leading
-NS 101 with an SD70ACC leading
-NS 362 with a Dash-9 leading
-CSX mixed freight with a YN2 AC44CW leading
-NS 329 with UP 1943 leading
-BNSF H-BIRMEM with an H2 ES44DC leading
-BNSF H-MEMBIR with an H2 AC44CW leading
-NS 329 with an SD70ACu leading
-NS 329 with a trio of UP AC4460CWs trailing in a rather long lash-up
-NS local freight with an SD60E pair
-BNSF coal train with an older SD70ACe leading
-NS 329 with another UP AC4460CW trailing 5th out
NS 1800 JUST CAME OUT OF NOWHERE
2020 was not an easy year for all of us, but railfanning was still great in that year! Your catches in 2020 were great, and they will always be for years to come! :)
Thanks!
Great catches David! Also, I hope you're ready to face the icy railroads this year!
Thanks!
7:37 WHOOSH!
Nice video!
Thanks!
Except at 13:43 tho
Awesome compilation. I love the CSX local and the ABC coke train meet!
Thanks!
Hope you had a great one David! I hope railfanning in 2021 will go as much as great for you! :>
Thanks!
13:43 That will buff right out. Nice catches.
Thanks!
nice
Thanks!
@@freebrickproductions when are you going to upload more railroad crossing videos
Fantastic video I heard a mechanical bell at the beginning that sounds like a WRRS mechanical bell I heard two crossings with a general signals ebell early on
Thanks! The mechanical bell at the beginning was a Safetran mechanical bell.
@@freebrickproductions that's what I thought I'm glad I was able to rescue the one I have had for almost a year now
11:27 what street and town (also why did the one NS engine come up right before the crossing gates went down??)
The train was switching right next to the crossing.
It's CR 23 #1 in Roberta, AL.
Nice
Thanks!
3:56 nice horn on CSX 235
25:58 what cars are those? Good catch though.
I am honestly not sure. Thanks!
You’re not sure! Plz tell me
At 20:50 was that fourth engine forwards or backwards?
Forwards, I believe.
Got it
24:35 did they change the railroad crossing?
Yea, the signals there were replaced with the ones seen in that clip in 2020.
👍
0:40 they have to get rid of the second engine to make the train look more cooler!!
BTW, "more cooler" is incorrect grammar. "...make the train look cooler" is all you need to say.
13:43 JESUS CHRIST I'm so confused. what happened there? also it mustve been a pretty loud smash
Truck hit the crossing gate on the left side.
@@trashrabbit69 yeah I know that, but like was he trying to let the ambo through?
@@willpower3544 maybe, personally I think they just thought they could beat the gate and found out the opposite
That’s a problem
17:11 what happened to that crossing gate?
Someone knocked it off.
Ok
0:36 well that’s a fast bell
@ 0:38 that train has to go faster, c’mon, ya got this!
David, when’s your birthday and how old will you be?
What’s street and town at 7:05?
Avenue F #1, Birmingham, AL.
4:36 where is that?
Near Elko Siding in Huntsville.
Street and town at 25:45?
9:22 what horn is that?
K5LA.
Ok
What street and town at 17:04
Beech Grove Road (KY 1494) near Lebanon Junction, KY.
@ 13:43 that did some damage to the truck maybe
7:05 video link?
You can search it on my channel, or look at the page on Mike's Railroad Crossing Website.
23:23 street and town?
12:50 what was that?
NS 201, along with another railfan's privately owned RS3K being blown.
11:27 video link?
ua-cam.com/video/b1AD5Z_Tn7Y/v-deo.html
28:10 horn is it?
I think a K5HA or a K5LA?
22:10 horn?
K3HA, IIRC?
5:12 what horn was that?
K5LA of some kind, probably.
Ok
18:58 what horn is that?
M3.
Ok
What street and town at 0:36
Commissary Road, near Trafford, AL.
Ok
23:13 street and town?
25:47 horn is it?
K5HL.
👍
12:00 what horn is that?
K5LLA.
Ok
What street and town at 9:16
CR 62 #1, near Vincent, AL
What street and town at 24:35
Church Street, Huntsville, AL.
Ok david
What street and town at 13:23
Industrial Boulevard, Bessemer, AL