I still say vote for a cam in Watts Oklahoma! there is a place where the old depot used to be, across from the mill. the platform has a mast signal, and when real long trains go by, high rail trucks watch for anything wrong. but its easy to get to and its not trespassing. I have seen over the last 25 yrs, or so almost every time I go through Watts, I noticed rail fans with there video, and cam gear on that platform. its a great place to railfan. there is a 8 track flat yard just west of the depot platform. ....and lots of Southern Belles grey ghost, and now and then you might get to see a white sd40.
Seaboard Coast Line too! I grew up a kid in rural Georgia who watched them traverse some of the lines in middle and eastern portions of Georgia. My grandparents lived across the street from one of their rail lines and I always enjoyed spending holidays and some weekends with them, running to the other side of the road and getting the engineer to honk the horn, lol. I would love to see an SCL again.
0:14 UP 2002 (Salt Lake Olympic Unit) leading 0:32 clever signs, you two! 1:08 Chessie System boxcar 1:26 fresh untreated ties on flatcars hauled by two H2 dash 9s 1:55 UP new livery with engine room door left open 3:07 another chessie boxcar 3:24 new blue and white CSX coil cars. CSX has recently stopped using the boxcar brackets on their logo. 4:56 empty nuclear cars. 6:07 CSX trailing with cab light left on with loaded nuclear cars of the same type in the previous clip. 6:27 I've never seen UniOcean containers before. They company has existed since 2014 and is based in the UK 6:39 BNSF OCS of 14 cars pulled by two GEVOs 7:44 8-unit lash-up on a UP train 8:50 CSX welded rail train 9:58 BNSF 3-car inspection train 10:33 KCS, CN, NS, CN, and OmniTRAX through Ft. Madison 11:16 ex-Citirail unit on a UP train 12:22 Seaboard System boxcar 13:03 BNSF 6017 still has nose graffiti 13:13 knuckle couplers fail to engage 13:38 lovely lighting on this shot of a CP snowplow train with only half the snow-clearing cars 13:59 BNSF 25h Anniversary GEVO 6179 14:55 25th anniversary GEVO 6111 15:23 the flashbang that made the thumbnail (more noticeable when slowed down at 15:50) 18:52 same BNSF OCS but with only one GEVO 20:10 NS 38
13:22 Don't believe that was the proper safe way, stepping in front of moving car, that the crewman used to apply the handbrake on that gon!?! Actually probably should be a Darwin Award winner/looser.
Yeah, looks like an employee from the business there.... had he tripped it could have been bad. It was sped up, so kinda hard to tell how fast they were really going, but stuff can change in a hurry.
@@ihavenoideadanny Not sure what railroads you have worked on but there were probably several standard safety and operational rules violations here. Every rail operation I have worked on required you clear the ends of cars you walked around by at least 20+ feet, and that is for equipment STANDING STILL. Being in front of even slow moving equipment not allowed. Note in addition to the common tripping hazards such as rails, ballast, ties, you had the addition of slippery snow compromising his footing. And by the way do you have any idea how many tons that car weighs even when it is empty? At worst the move would have been to cross BEHIND car to other side and board car on side step/grabiron on "B" end of car to apply hand brake from side not end. When the initial coupling failed, probably the result of couplers not being aligned, the gon was set in motion. When car was left while other cars were worked the handbrake probably should have been set, tho not required if track layout favorable, but not doing so led to this problem. As stated the speed up of the action does complicate the analysis, so hard to tell if they were even using "3 Step Protection" in their moves but sad experiences have shown even at slow speed accidents do happen. It is common truism in rail safety training that every rule has "been written in blood".
@@kennethhanks6712 I've never worked on a railroad, but I have got a brain in my head and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that guy do that. Thank you for your long, informative comments.
Legends stays that Chessie still traveles the railway and if u listen you can here Chessie meow to us railfans letting us know that he/she is still with us
In the '60's, when I was in little league, all the teams in our area would take the Chessie passenger train from Grand Rapids to Detroit to see the Tigers play on "sand lot" day. Coolest thing ever for a kid.
@@MatthewMelloActually at 13:22. Switching without air not totally a problem IF done safely and carefully. Any rail worker properly trained is always to allow at least 20ft or more when going around cars that are SITTING STILL. Gon should probably have been spotted, stopped and brake applied before other cars in string were handled-looks like they were attempting coupling with couplers not properly aligned. Even going around to other side of gon and getting on side step of "B End" to apply brake while car moving not generally allowed these days.
@@kennethhanks6712 we switch without air all the time in Framingham Ma. But that is a pretty controlled environment with a bowl type yard. But some of our C&D customers like to switch with no air and leave the cars inches from the end of the track.
Glad to see that the spaghetti works building sign replaced some of its blown out light bulbs. UP has some big power pulls. BNSF has many excursion trains and maybe private cars out and about. NS has a super hammer head engine with a matching train car. That explosion and flash appeared to not be train car produced. I know historically extreme right peoples have sabotaged railways and it's trains. Super long Convoy in KC. The gentleman in on Wisconsin is a brave man, stopping a loaded rolling Car. Almost superman! Thanks
The gentleman in Wisconsin was breaking numerous basic railway safety and operating rules. If he were a regular railway employee, rather than an industrial plant crewman, he would be lucky not to be immediately fired. As it is if he keeps up that kind of behavior the odds are he will eventually be terminated, one way or the other.
They are fresh, untreated ties. I would guess they are headed for Koppers tie plant just south of Galesburg BNSF yard along Illinois Route 41. But they could go anywhere for treatment.
@@larrylawson5172 Oh okay. I've never seen those kind of cars before. Usually I see ties being transported in gondolas whether they're new or rotted. Thank you.
I am curious about rolling stock and what it's used for. What are the cars at 3:44 used for? The NS ones are more square which is what stirred my curiosity. They look like large rolling batteries.
@@ozgirl45 Basically a train they use for events,company outings and promotions.Some of the cars are used separately or in conjunction with other cars for track inspection.There is also a "power car" to supply functions for the passenger cars as modern freight engines are not equipped to do so.Edit:In the next clip the red "engine" with the single passenger car behind the NS engine is also a power car built into an old loco shell (No fans or exhaust on roof)
The NYC reporting marks are own by CSX. After the Conrail split up in 1999, CSX used the NYC reporting marks on all the freight cars they acquired from Conrail.
@@Southwest_923WR Most freight cars only have hand brake on one end ("B End" designation). In this case the lesser of the evils would have been to go behind the car movement, go to the B End, mount the side grab iron/foot stirrup and apply brake from side but most industry practice has been to discourage mounting moving equipment. Car should have been spotted w/hand brake on while other cars were worked then come back for coupling.
7:00 The Silver Service Amtrak trains from NYC to Miami only have four coach cars, a diner, two sleepers, and a baggage car in that order. Apparently there are not many people traveling that route who want to take the train. The autotrain, on the other hand is a different story. 12:25 That train running down the middle of the street looks dangerous, not to mention inconvenient for the people parked there. I wonder if the drivers get any warning to get off the street when the train approaches 17:40 More military equipment, this time tanks. Warms my heart every time I see them. I hope these are staying here and going to Zelinski, who bought and paid for Biden's support. .
If you consider the NE Corridor to FL is currently supporting 3 trains per day each way (Silver Meteor, Silver Star and Auto-Train) that seems to indicate a fairly good passenger count for basically one route.
@@kennethhanks6712If you read my post again, you will see that I said the opposite was true for the autotrain, It is packed. The last time I rode one of the Silver service trains, it was more than half empty.
@@wayneyadams Well, not exactly sure about your sample size but looking at the ridership figures for the Silver Meteor, Silver Star, and Auto-Train in 2019 (the last full year before COVID) the ridership figures were 343,000, 377,000 and 236,000 respectively. If you check the counts for the 5 years previous the figures were comparable. In FY 22 the Meteor 80,000, but it had been annulled Jan-Oct due to Covid Amtrak staffing issues etc, Star 434,000 (garnering some of Meteor traffic while it was not running) and Auto-Train 279,000. With Covid restrictions, etc now all but gone ridership should mostly once again reflect pre-19 levels baring equipment, crewing etc problems. It is to be noted ALL Auto-Train passengers ride full route while many Meteor and Star passengers only do partial run. These figures can be found several sources.
Chessie Cat still roams the rails.
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1:11 nice to see more Chessie boxcars!
Always a good day seeing Chessie.
Back in the 1960's the Chessie (C&O) passenger trains were my favorite when I was in the US Navy. Always clean, bright, and comfortable.
I love how some of the conductor know were the VRF cam are and get the Railfans hype.
Another awesome grab bag! Always a treat to see.
You can keep your Tony /Emmy /Oscar's red carpets your grammys red carpets ... You haven't made until you are on the VRF cams... Yes? ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Indubitably so!
I still say vote for a cam in Watts Oklahoma! there is a place where the old depot used to be, across from the mill. the platform has a mast signal, and when real long trains go by, high rail trucks watch for anything wrong. but its easy to get to and its not trespassing. I have seen over the last 25 yrs, or so almost every time I go through Watts, I noticed rail fans with there video, and cam gear on that platform. its a great place to railfan. there is a 8 track flat yard just west of the depot platform.
....and lots of Southern Belles
grey ghost, and now and then you might get to see a white sd40.
CSX really needs to do a Chessie heritage unit. Or two. Or five.
Or 50
Seaboard Coast Line too! I grew up a kid in rural Georgia who watched them traverse some of the lines in middle and eastern portions of Georgia. My grandparents lived across the street from one of their rail lines and I always enjoyed spending holidays and some weekends with them, running to the other side of the road and getting the engineer to honk the horn, lol. I would love to see an SCL again.
@@Destin65 I honestly forgot about that SCL how bout seaboard system
Amazing number of inspection trains
The Fort Madison cam is getting more and more interesting things.
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Another entertaining grab bag video. Thanks Virtual Railfan
Nice! I like seeing Ashland Depot activity especially Amtrak trains.
18:14 underground water injection directional boring for utility lines.
Darwin award nominee at 1323.
Very Nice Grab Bag
0:14 UP 2002 (Salt Lake Olympic Unit) leading
0:32 clever signs, you two!
1:08 Chessie System boxcar
1:26 fresh untreated ties on flatcars hauled by two H2 dash 9s
1:55 UP new livery with engine room door left open
3:07 another chessie boxcar
3:24 new blue and white CSX coil cars. CSX has recently stopped using the boxcar brackets on their logo.
4:56 empty nuclear cars.
6:07 CSX trailing with cab light left on with loaded nuclear cars of the same type in the previous clip.
6:27 I've never seen UniOcean containers before. They company has existed since 2014 and is based in the UK
6:39 BNSF OCS of 14 cars pulled by two GEVOs
7:44 8-unit lash-up on a UP train
8:50 CSX welded rail train
9:58 BNSF 3-car inspection train
10:33 KCS, CN, NS, CN, and OmniTRAX through Ft. Madison
11:16 ex-Citirail unit on a UP train
12:22 Seaboard System boxcar
13:03 BNSF 6017 still has nose graffiti
13:13 knuckle couplers fail to engage
13:38 lovely lighting on this shot of a CP snowplow train with only half the snow-clearing cars
13:59 BNSF 25h Anniversary GEVO 6179
14:55 25th anniversary GEVO 6111
15:23 the flashbang that made the thumbnail (more noticeable when slowed down at 15:50)
18:52 same BNSF OCS but with only one GEVO
20:10 NS 38
Its not owned by CN. Its owned by Norfolk Southern.
They company?
Awesome Grab Bag Video
That FRA car must be really heavy since it takes 3 engines to pull it!
Depends on the number of AMTRAK cars in the consist.
This is a good grab bag
That was quite a traction motor failure!
All rise for the happy honker of horseshoe curve
Love the wink! 😉
We need more porch trains Mike!!
13:22 Don't believe that was the proper safe way, stepping in front of moving car, that the crewman used to apply the handbrake on that gon!?! Actually probably should be a Darwin Award winner/looser.
Yeah, looks like an employee from the business there.... had he tripped it could have been bad. It was sped up, so kinda hard to tell how fast they were really going, but stuff can change in a hurry.
The video was sped up, the railcar wouldn't have enough speed to be fatal.
@@ihavenoideadanny Not sure what railroads you have worked on but there were probably several standard safety and operational rules violations here.
Every rail operation I have worked on required you clear the ends of cars you walked around by at least 20+ feet, and that is for equipment STANDING STILL. Being in front of even slow moving equipment not allowed. Note in addition to the common tripping hazards such as rails, ballast, ties, you had the addition of slippery snow compromising his footing. And by the way do you have any idea how many tons that car weighs even when it is empty?
At worst the move would have been to cross BEHIND car to other side and board car on side step/grabiron on "B" end of car to apply hand brake from side not end.
When the initial coupling failed, probably the result of couplers not being aligned, the gon was set in motion. When car was left while other cars were worked the handbrake probably should have been set, tho not required if track layout favorable, but not doing so led to this problem.
As stated the speed up of the action does complicate the analysis, so hard to tell if they were even using "3 Step Protection" in their moves but sad experiences have shown even at slow speed accidents do happen. It is common truism in rail safety training that every rule has "been written in blood".
@@kennethhanks6712 I've never worked on a railroad, but I have got a brain in my head and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that guy do that. Thank you for your long, informative comments.
I could not believe wgat i saw,and had to play back!
That was simply crazy to run in front of that moving gondola!
Any slip, .....🤯
Legends stays that Chessie still traveles the railway and if u listen you can here Chessie meow to us railfans letting us know that he/she is still with us
Chessie's husband, Peake went to serve during WWII and came home to their kittens Nip and Tuck.
Does my heart good to see Chessie still plying thr rails!
That is just so sweet.....
@@christinatweet6580 thank you
Amazing!
The bnsf inspection train came through kansas city that evening
Those nuclear cars are for hauling new spent fuel casks to the nuclear power plants.
For on sight storage of spent fuel nuclear fuel assemblies
hello virtual railfan its is randy and i like video is cool thanks friends randy
Hi Randy...👍👍👍🚂🚃🚃🐱
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I'm guessing it's pretty hard to run a filtered air pressurized hood with the doors open.....
Chessie Cat. 👍 Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty. 😬
I wish the Chessie system was still around.
Same!
Count me in as well. It would be nice if CSX did a heritage unit in honor of the Chessie System.
In the '60's, when I was in little league, all the teams in our area would take the Chessie passenger train from Grand Rapids to Detroit to see the Tigers play on "sand lot" day.
Coolest thing ever for a kid.
chessie is still here thats what csx stands for chessie system express csx
@rob iscrupe actually it stands for Chessie Seaboard and the X has no meaning
3:30 I never seen CSX had their own coil before
No VR Railfan video is complete without the presence of the Happy Honker....
I knew that second clip would make it at some point
CHESSIE CAT LOOKING FOR ROUND HOUSE MOUSE.🐁
Another great video VRF .
@ 8:55 how do they LOAD the ribbon rail on to the rail cars ?
Thank you professor.... 😑🤔
That crewman at 13:50, must think he got a pair. wonder how many times he’s done that w/o getting hurt or reprimanded
He looked like a plant worker to me. They were using a trackmobile. Industries like to switch without air for some reason
@@MatthewMelloActually at 13:22. Switching without air not totally a problem IF done safely and carefully. Any rail worker properly trained is always to allow at least 20ft or more when going around cars that are SITTING STILL. Gon should probably have been spotted, stopped and brake applied before other cars in string were handled-looks like they were attempting coupling with couplers not properly aligned. Even going around to other side of gon and getting on side step of "B End" to apply brake while car moving not generally allowed these days.
@@kennethhanks6712 we switch without air all the time in Framingham Ma. But that is a pretty controlled environment with a bowl type yard. But some of our C&D customers like to switch with no air and leave the cars inches from the end of the track.
@@MatthewMello is that the same way in Worcester?
@@kendufresne P&W may switch in their bowl without air but we switch with air in Worcester Yard. Just the type of switching we do there.
Glad to see that the spaghetti works building sign replaced some of its blown out light bulbs.
UP has some big power pulls.
BNSF has many excursion trains and maybe private cars out and about.
NS has a super hammer head engine with a matching train car.
That explosion and flash appeared to not be train car produced. I know historically extreme right peoples have sabotaged railways and it's trains.
Super long Convoy in KC.
The gentleman in on Wisconsin is a brave man, stopping a loaded rolling Car. Almost superman!
Thanks
The gentleman in Wisconsin was breaking numerous basic railway safety and operating rules. If he were a regular railway employee, rather than an industrial plant crewman, he would be lucky not to be immediately fired. As it is if he keeps up that kind of behavior the odds are he will eventually be terminated, one way or the other.
@@kennethhanks6712 Yes, I am sure. It looked super risky for sure. Thanks
Thank you, Ms. Gogo ....
Took me a while to get the sleeping cat. Thought it was a big letter C 😅
Actually it was meant to be both.
Well that is the Chess-C
Engineer be like play my song while I dance
What kind of a unit train was that passing through La Plata at 1:28? They look like fresh wood ties to me.
They are fresh, untreated ties. I would guess they are headed for Koppers tie plant just south of Galesburg BNSF yard along Illinois Route 41. But they could go anywhere for treatment.
@@larrylawson5172 Oh okay. I've never seen those kind of cars before. Usually I see ties being transported in gondolas whether they're new or rotted. Thank you.
That was a big violation jumping in front of a moving railcar.
I am curious about rolling stock and what it's used for. What are the cars at 3:44 used for? The NS ones are more square which is what stirred my curiosity. They look like large rolling batteries.
Those are coil steel cars. They transport coiled steel from the steel mills.
@@parailfan Thank you.
@@ThePhotoDog7 You're welcome 🤗.
Will the Pulaski cam not be returning?
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What was that train at Skykomish at 18:52? 14 cars seems a lot for some sort of track assessment.
I assume that's BNSF's Office Car Special.
What is that?
@@ozgirl45 Basically a train they use for events,company outings and promotions.Some of the cars are used separately or in conjunction with other cars for track inspection.There is also a "power car" to supply functions for the passenger cars as modern freight engines are not equipped to do so.Edit:In the next clip the red "engine" with the single passenger car behind the NS engine is also a power car built into an old loco shell (No fans or exhaust on roof)
Thank you for all the information!
@@ozgirl45 I made a copy of this for my model railroad.Glad the research helped someone else.
But I half width frame looks like a skeleton car for carrying containers or semi trailer
If you look at the slow motion clip, it's for placing the welded rail in place.
Oh okay but it looked like a skeleton car to me I had one on my HO scale model layout
At the end, the flash, I had to shut down...oh wait 🙃
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You zoom in on lots of things, why not the little girl with the sign?
12:29 Both CSX & Conrail cars have NYC marked on the sides. Cars look too new to be former New York Central cars. Can anyone explain?
The NYC reporting marks are own by CSX. After the Conrail split up in 1999, CSX used the NYC reporting marks on all the freight cars they acquired from Conrail.
Same way you see intermodal and autoracks have the WRWK reporting marks. The Warwick railroad ended before those cars were built.
It looks like the railroads inherit reporting marks through the mergers. That would allow them to use the same number on different cars.
At 5 min 50, the red car is registered BZH. This is the acronym for the Brittany region in France.
0:32 Really? They need to move about 5 feet to their left for that to be so.
What are the odds that someone on that train actually had a flashbang grenade on them?
0:27 Not Darwins
3:21 New coil cars
6:05 Nuclear waste carriers
15:15 Flash and noise
Guy in Fort Madison at 4:23 going , who are you waving to? 😅
Will you please move your video title down so that we can read the camera location !
13:21. Burn that clip... Yikes
I was thinking it woukd have been safer from the end closest instead of running to the far end.
@@Southwest_923WR Most freight cars only have hand brake on one end ("B End" designation). In this case the lesser of the evils would have been to go behind the car movement, go to the B End, mount the side grab iron/foot stirrup and apply brake from side but most industry practice has been to discourage mounting moving equipment.
Car should have been spotted w/hand brake on while other cars were worked then come back for coupling.
Well, it is a graphic demonstration of what NOT to do!
@@kennethhanks6712 thank you
Yo
Hey, What’s up
16:02. Name that honk
Great video. Maybe sometime do a video of just rail fans waving at the different cams.
7 engines on that short double stack wasted fuel
Were the engines running on all of them?
They could have isolated two or three of them.
Railroads have rules on how much power you can have online at one time.
Engines being delivered somewhere
@Fast Eddie's garage FYI just because 7 engines was in the consist doesn't mean they all was on online and running.
7:00 The Silver Service Amtrak trains from NYC to Miami only have four coach cars, a diner, two sleepers, and a baggage car in that order. Apparently there are not many people traveling that route who want to take the train. The autotrain, on the other hand is a different story.
12:25 That train running down the middle of the street looks dangerous, not to mention inconvenient for the people parked there. I wonder if the drivers get any warning to get off the street when the train approaches
17:40 More military equipment, this time tanks. Warms my heart every time I see them. I hope these are staying here and going to Zelinski, who bought and paid for Biden's support. .
If you consider the NE Corridor to FL is currently supporting 3 trains per day each way (Silver Meteor, Silver Star and Auto-Train) that seems to indicate a fairly good passenger count for basically one route.
They hear the locomotive. Also,the guardrails go down and blink.
@@kennethhanks6712If you read my post again, you will see that I said the opposite was true for the autotrain, It is packed.
The last time I rode one of the Silver service trains, it was more than half empty.
@@lindaterrell5535 There are no guardrails and signals ALONG THE ROAD, that is my point.
@@wayneyadams Well, not exactly sure about your sample size but looking at the ridership figures for the Silver Meteor, Silver Star, and Auto-Train in 2019 (the last full year before COVID) the ridership figures were 343,000, 377,000 and 236,000 respectively. If you check the counts for the 5 years previous the figures were comparable.
In FY 22 the Meteor 80,000, but it had been annulled Jan-Oct due to Covid Amtrak staffing issues etc, Star 434,000 (garnering some of Meteor traffic while it was not running) and Auto-Train 279,000.
With Covid restrictions, etc now all but gone ridership should mostly once again reflect pre-19 levels baring equipment, crewing etc problems.
It is to be noted ALL Auto-Train passengers ride full route while many Meteor and Star passengers only do partial run.
These figures can be found several sources.
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So, who's the true WINNER?? 🤔
Seen the NS brick/geometry train in Roanoke on rewind earlier!🛤🚂👍