If you love trains-this is the channel for you. Many NS trains on the NS 3 track mainline near The Station Inn in Cresson PA . "Around Our Neighborhood" is a 10 part series centered around The Station Inn. Where to eat, sleep, and watch trains Enjoy, Doug
don't know why they needed a whole rail section for a tiny gap? couldn't they size it, drop in a wedge like filler, then do their weld melting on it? also like how there's always five six guys and 1 or 2 actually working. I worked as a lineman for ConRail 50 years ago and remember the same thing. couple guys working, the rest telling stories and hanging out. I would like to use the hammer and drive high spikes down and separate ahead to actually make the day go quicker. It was summer and on the rails it must of been 120 degrees. Plus at the jersey shore, the night life was happening,.
Hey, it's that place MotorWeek used to test on (up to roughly a whole eight years after this video was uploaded)! You can still see its remnants on Google Maps. 💀
Gday mate this is paul from Adelaide Australia !! How are you fine i hope. just watched your video of a guy that Almost got hit by a freight train !! What & the Hell was he thinking. So lucky he moved at the last minute or his goose would been cooked ?? i don't understand pepole these days why stand so close near the train tracks ?? no wonder pepole get killed by trains. Don't worry mate we have Alot of Dickheads here in Australia !! please take care all the Best , REGARDS paul brown 🤠🤠
I've spent several decades as a locomotive engineer and instructor. You just can't legislate common sense or situational awareness. I wish that I had a dollar for every near miss that I've witnessed.
Been to Harper's Ferry more than a few times. Last time was with my wife snd her in-laws. My father-in-law was a huge Civil War buff, and knew how the town figured strategically in the war. As for the couple on the tracks, peripheral vision ain't their forte! 😒
I was a conductor for BNSF for many years. During that time I got to work “The Bowl” in Barstow CA. You can’t hear the cars being kicked your way. If you’re a fool and foul the tracks you won’t live to talk about it.
Hey that’s me! I’m John! Lol. Won’t ever forget the tour of the area from you Doug. Must say I miss the motive power from back then, blast of nostalgia right here.
One of the first things I was taught when railfanning was always expect a train on the other track! Always watch both ways, your camera picks up the way you aren’t watching!
Just saw this video and man did it bring back memories. Used to help out on a SS car called Dr.Oldsmobile. Saturdays we ran class but ran brackets on Wednesdays. Lots of good memories. Later in the years, was there every Friday for outlaw pro Street. Fridays this place was packed. Must have been the place to be in Frederick Co. On Friday night. Sorry to see it close, it was a nice family friendly track.
Over the years of lockdown and wotnot, I've been watching copious YT videos of trains hitting animals and I now know something of the results of all that accumulated energy... if that train had hit him - which I think it would of - he'd have been one severely splatted up and split into pieces ex granpop
Just goes to show the true power of the noise trains make. As one train goes by, the clickety-clack drowns out the noise and you can't hear or feel the other one. This is why you don't stand near or on the tracks, especially when more than 1 track is present.
An astute person would have seen the green signal down the eastbound track and thought to himself: "Hmmm, there is an eastbound somewhere to the west of us and it's headed this way right now. I'd better watch in both directions." Railroad signals, like birds' reactions in a forest, tell us much if we'll shut our mouths and watch and listen...
