My name is Warren Robertson. I photograph and film trains in the Seattle-Tacoma metro area and beyond. This channel is where I post videos documenting my trips to locations around the area. I hope you find my videos entertaining and informative.
I expect to upload at least monthly. You can also check out my photography on my Instagram linked below.
Good for you! When i was a young fellow, i would watch Shay steam engins pull log cars out of Clearco on their way to Meadow River Lumber Company, which at the time was the largest hardwood lumber mill in the world.
Wow! Only two locos and they're pulling 42* cars (i count double decker psgr KAaah as two KAaas but i don't do datto w the Auto parts cars. Mayb i should too bc. they're a bit higher than the psgr KAaas. Thx for ur Xcllnt video, thumb's up n subscribed. Shore (Fur sure, So. Jersey Talk) like to visit Ashland, VA mayb nxt yr Spring ... or better yet, take an Amtrk ride from WashingTown Dead Center. ____________ *Mayb 1/4 of the Khaas were MT? Wonder if those AutoKhaaas hav had passengers' autoKhaaas, nut(not) just the Autocar parts
Nice video of the trains and my home town. Hope you enjoyed your visit. As a side note, CSX recently did a major tie replacement from Richmond northward. This also included several grade crossing upgrades including three in Ashland.
Cool to see footage of those signal peak trains. It’s about 60 miles by rail northeast of laurel Montana. I’m a conductor out of there and I’ve loaded a handful of those trains myself. Always wondered what happened after we handed them off to MRL (now bnsf) crews.
The UP garbage train at 15:25 is the OGLPS. It’s a train that goes from Gilliam Oregon to the PSAP railroad in Chehalis. BNSF crews take it to Centralia from Portland. I work for the Union Pacific as a conductor
As one of the Virtual Station Agent’s for the Chehalis cam, Thank you for the mention. Maybe the next time your at the cam, you could show the cams and mention our trainsheet and talk about it some to let others know about it. You have a new sib from me.
I watch Ashland a lot on virtual railfan live cameras. Interesting for someone from my home area to visit there. did you see any cars drive onto the tracks? it usually happens after dark though.
Awesome to see another railfan in the Puget Pound area frequenting the places I often go to. I wonder if our paths may have inadvertently crossed at some point, lol.
In Sumner, grab brunch and coffee at Electric Coffee. The windows behind the counter are about 20 feet from the tracks. When the Amtrak Cascades goes by it seems like 100mph!
Excellent video and Sub'd up to your channel, I live right up the street from Titlow and can hear the trains from my house! I've been hearing for years that they are going to stop blasting the horns down there, looks like it's finally going to happen, I will def miss hearing the horns from my house, not a huge fan of the speakers, but I get it. I'm kinda shocked that they would replace that old bridge, I heard that the reason the Boat club left that land is because the bridge was too expensive to replace, but not really sure, maybe they need a newer bridge still for service vehicles etc.. I am glad the Boat club left that land because now we have another really cool beach in the area! Love seeing other people catching trains in my area, really well put together video, makes ya feel like you are right there in the adventure! take care -Ken
Nice catches my friend 😀👍. Lots of beautiful train horns 😌👍. Blow the beautiful train horns 😌👍. 5:05 those signals are called Triangle Railroad Wayside Signals. 5:23 green on the top and red on the bottom means a Clear Block that means a train is coming very soon. 6:58 🤣😂🤣😂🤣.
Hello W i really enjoyed this thanks and now I am a subber also m,y sister thinks your very handsome. please keep the videos coming and look forward to them 🙂
Ah my old stomping grounds! I've spent so many afternoons there railfanning. Unfortunately, I moved cross-country a few years ago so I can't railfan there anymore, so thanks for sharing this. Fun fact: The platform you're standing on and the isolated sections of rusty track in the foreground were part of the long-defunct Cowlitz Chehalis and Cascade Railroad, and the Chehalis Centralia Railroad Museum nearby own 2-8-2 number 15 which was operated by the line. The CC&C was abandoned in 1955, so those tracks are pretty old.
I do love your videos. It’s just how professional and how the way you talk through them just like souther plains Railfan. Someday you will because a bigger RU-vidr like me or southern plains railfan
The so-called Point Defiance Bypass route is owned by Sound Transit/WSDOT, not Tacoma Rail. For a long time, Titlow was once the eastern slip for ferries headed to Gig Harbor (not the Olympic Peninsula) and home to Northern Pacific's 'Sixth Avenue' station. The Day Island road bridge is a better place to shoot NB trains in the PM. Hope for high tide and no wind.
Amazing video! The prices of track are from March when they replaced the track under the road. They will eventually make it a no horn zone. They started the project in March but they haven’t finished it yet. With titlow being my local spot I am sad to see the horns go.
Legend has it that the name "Tenino" was derived from an NP loco stationed here; 1090 (Ten-Nine-Oh). Don't forget the old NP sandstone depot, since relocated and now a museum (alongside the caboose). Tenino was the junction of NP's original (1873) Prairie Line to Tacoma, the Port Townsend and Southern narrow gauge to Olympia, and in 1914, NP's Point Defiance Line which used a portion of the PT&S right of way north to Plumb. The southern portion of the Prairie Line is now a bike trail; the Tacoma-Lakewood was rebuilt for Amtrak.
Very well done!! I believe those trash trains terminate in The Dalles, Oregon. Trucks take it the rest of the way to Roosevelt, WA. This is a classic case of NIMBY(not in my back yard)
BNSF trash trains terminate in Roosevelt WA on the north shore of the Columbia. Trucks transport the containers from the railhead up to the dump. UP trash trains terminate at Arlington OR on the south side of the Columbia on a ~10 mile spur south of their mainline.
1:14 How much you want to bet those tracks were removed years ago and left there? Too expensive to move them, not enough money to recycle them, no cost to leave them there...
It was good to see a little more around Chehalis, a neat little town. The film work was good as well as the narration. I love it when people put themselves out there for us to see. Anyone can set up a tripod and sit. Great video!
I watch the VR in chehalis often, since it's the closest camera to my city. This was fun, seeing what happens around town. Chehalis has the best classic car sightings.
This video gives an interesting ground-level POV relative to the above-line VRF cam. Cool bucket-T crossing the tracks(?). This town offers a lot for the model railroader.
