150 Trains a Day-Union Pacific's Triple Track Mainline

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If you like mainline freight railroading, you can't find a busier line than Union Pacific's incredible triple track line across Nebraska.
With OVER 150 trains a day traversing this stretch of track, you never have to wait longer than a few minutes for a train to go by.
In this program, you'll travel from O' Fallons to Grand Island, and see a multitude of trains. As a special treat, go inside North Platte's Bailey Yard, which is the largest railroad yard in the world. An no visit to Bailey Yard is complete without going to the top of the Golden Spike Tower for a panoramic view of the huge yard.
You'll also visit "Buttermilk Curve", Cozad, Gibbon Junction and many more places along the triple track, as train after train goes by!

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@tomheadington4762 18 дней назад

As a british railfan i find this fascinating. Thank you for all the information. I thought 150 trains a day wasnt a lot till i remembered they're a lot bigger over the pond!!

@feraxks 24 дня назад

My son and I sat at O'Fallons back in the late 90s one day and had 6 straight hours of at least one headlight in view. That was a great day for railfanning!

@kolejnakolej.1437 5 дней назад

Excellent video and many interesting trains. Good work. Greetings from Poland. 👍

@CoenOinkeyTrains Месяц назад

Only about 40 trains a day as of 2024, nice stuff.

@harrisonofcolorado8886 Месяц назад

That really sucks. Curse you PSR.

@southernNMRail-Refuse18 Месяц назад

@@CoenOinkeyTrainsI was told by multiple UP Employees and terminal Manager that on the sunset sunset route their Ending PSR and going back to the 8,500 feet limit. “Allegedly” June 1st 2024 is the official start date of all this but I don’t know if it’s gonna happen.

@CoenOinkeyTrains Месяц назад

@@southernNMRail-Refuse18 That would be incredible; I do have quite a few doubts about that though, since I'd say UP is the most PSR-driven, but I'm hoping that's true...

@southernNMRail-Refuse18 Месяц назад

@@CoenOinkeyTrains Union Pacific has Embraced PSR heavily than any other class one out there (correct me if I’m wrong) but the one thing I do see that proves that statement that they are going to get rid of that practice is that UP is hiring like crazy out in Colton, Yuma,Tucson and El Paso by the hundreds. Hopefully it does happen.

@CoenOinkeyTrains Месяц назад

@@southernNMRail-Refuse18 Oh nice, will certainly be hoping for the end of it. I'm planning to be in AZ/CA the first week in June, partly Sunset and partly BNSF, but if they do end it would certainly make for some nice railfanning. Maybe they'll reactivate some older power as well...

@chelewharton1364 7 дней назад

Great video with lots of info!

@curlyfries5095 7 дней назад

I ran on this Kearney Subdivision and the Marysville Subdivision from 1978 to 2019 and saw lots of changes, from hand lining to and from center sidings to triple track on the Kearney Sub and single track with sidings to double track on the Marysville Sub. Mid to late 90’s saw so much traffic on these tracks that some days you would only make it 20-30 miles out of your home terminal before you used up your Hours of Service, and then you still had to van up to your Away From Home or Home Terminal. Made for some long days and nights.

@RailwayProductions 7 дней назад

I believe it! It was one busy place when I visited!

@PaulCashman 22 дня назад

Thankfully that trackside horn in Kearney is a thing of the past. Yech. I remember hearing it on VRF's Kearney cam and thinking "Was that the best they could do?"

@tkdtrain2004 13 дней назад

No town at OFallon's 😢, that's right by Sutherland tho, where I am based out of. I love the UP Mainline. Lots of cool stuff that goes through

@AhmearClayIombo-dj6di Месяц назад

Nice Video I Like Union Pacific 150 Trains

@WeenyBeanyHere 24 дня назад

I remember watching this on DVD as a kid, nice to see it in full HD! Thanks!

@matthewpowell2429 18 дней назад

Amazing! I was very surprised to see many former Southern Pacific engines on the mainline!

@jacksonpugh6423 5 дней назад

I stood on that challenger, on account of...I had an entire payload of knowledge of that locomotive.

@Mark-cq4xr 25 дней назад

I remember seeing SD90s, SP bloody noses, and CNWs on the Overland Route here in Iowa in the mid-late 00s. Brings back good memories.

@anb7408 Месяц назад

I visited that triple track main three times in 2010, 2017 and 2019. And on none of those visits did I witness anything close to 150 trains a day. Even with the Powder River trains in full swing. The quad track main in Cheyenne on the other hand was easily hitting 120+ a day. Multiple 2 and 3 train meets all day long. It was epic!

@Brianrockrailfan Месяц назад

Awesome video 🚅🚅👍

@TimsHobbiesOnRail 12 дней назад

Great Film 🎥

@jimg6476 Месяц назад

Nice to see an old SP unit in the consist😊

@deaneparker9469 12 дней назад

Very good video

@thebops4180 Месяц назад

This was AWESOME. Well Done!!!

@bob-bf3ru 23 дня назад

lot's of action, thank you

@workinghardusa Месяц назад

Great video well done!

@kens.3729 Месяц назад

Thanks for the Very Detailed video. 👍🙏

@Hopen111YT 28 дней назад

Epic

@Heather-qr4wm Месяц назад

i am beyond loving this as a railroad fan

@viscount757 16 дней назад

Would be useful if the date of this video was included in the description. The quality isn't quite as good as I would expect from today's video equipment. And there are many comments saying that the 150 trains a day number is much too high, so how old is this? It's a bit misleading to imply that it's new if it's actually some years old.

@RailwayProductions 16 дней назад

This was shot in 2008. We’ve been putting our older programs on RU-vid.Never meant to imply it’s new. Just that so many of our long time customers have been begging for these things on RU-vid I didn’t even think about new viewers not knowing.

@jonathanchester5916 Месяц назад

Impressive! Way to make a day out of it.

@derrickwong5337 Месяц назад

I love Union Pacific 150 trains a day

@donaldguthals9266 Месяц назад

I live near this line. Now, 45 to 50 a day. Nothing like it used to be.

@nathanielcoleman5694 26 дней назад

@@donaldguthals9266Again, it’s more than that. No offense but maybe you just aren’t paying too much attention because it sees at least 60 a day I know that

@CoenOinkeyTrains 25 дней назад

@@nathanielcoleman5694 It’s not.

@jamesburnside3023 Месяц назад

Fantastic will have to look into making a trip

@BNSFrailfan01 Месяц назад

Not really worth it anymore, now down to 50 or less per day

@AustinWesternRailfan Месяц назад

great video! too bad this line has seen a huge drop in traffic due to PSR and the decrease of coal demands, still a decently busy line with about 40-50 a day but it ain't what it used to be.

@The_friendly_railfanner Месяц назад

you probably got all these clips way back then there is only one southern pacific paint i mean everything is true but multible of sp paints people will not belive you but your videos are good and clear.

@ethanarmitage5611 Месяц назад

❤

@billyrueckert5113 Месяц назад

They still get 150 a day there!? I've watched Kearney on RU-vid and it doesn't seem like they get 100.

@BalloonBugle88 Месяц назад

It’s now 40-50 :/

@coleallen3895 Месяц назад

No wonder they didn’t keep the California Zephyr on this line back when Amtrak was established in 1971 - very high freight congestion

@katherinec2759 Месяц назад

California Zephyr never ran on this line. City of San Fransisco would have run on that line, because that was a UP train. But the California Zephyr ran on Burlington, Rio Grande, and Western Pacific track, several miles South of this line.

@r.scottmacleod4564 15 дней назад

Distributed power also provides more even braking pressure throughout the train but it never gets mentioned.

@TempoDrift1480 Месяц назад

I thought about getting into that yard but then I recall 107 degree summers and 42 below winters. I'm not so sure about that.

@tobylou8 24 дня назад

At 54:36, what is the purpose of the blinking "X"?? I've seen them at Kearney, NE before but nowhere else. Thanks, cool video!

@J3scribe 18 дней назад

The grade crossing is protected by an electronic locomotive horn because of the curve. The speakers for the horn are aimed up and down the street as to be heard better. The blinking X lets the train crew know that the horn is functional.

@tobylou8 18 дней назад

@@J3scribe Thank you so much for that information. I've asked on chats and never gotten an answer!!!

@user-rs1dz8co2s Месяц назад

I have this on Blu Ray with no Blu ray player for me to watch it on.

@blackbirdgaming8147 Месяц назад

If you have a PlayStation you can use that as a Blu ray player

@dutchbakery2195 22 дня назад

Can some one help me understand the difference between a district, division, branch, rail line, rail corridor and a subdivision is in America? Is a subdivision the same as what we in Europe would call a "rail line" running specifically from one point to another? Such as: Bahnstrecke Rosenheim-Salzburg in Germany Sørlandsbanen in Norway Or do you have Rail lines that are just named "xxx" followed by -line? I've found some in the US named "xxx" -line. Like the. Norfolk Soutern S- and R-line Or the UP's: Colorado Joint Line

@LeeDfined 13 дней назад

Typically the line reflects the actual length(such as a former B&O mainline, which runs from Chicago to Baltimore.) Thats the line. Then the subdivision, such as New Castle subdivision reflects points of control. It runs from New Castle Pennsylvania and turns into the Williard Subdivision, which runs that portion of it from a centralized control point. So a line may consist of multiple subdivisions. As far as districts, they are basically the same as a subdivision. Each railroad uses different terms.

@KonaPine-tc8cn 22 дня назад

2nd gen k5hl

@signalupproductions 29 дней назад

No body calls it "Buttermilk Curve" anymore. All the old heads are long gone, and crews barely reference it as Brady Curve.

@TheNazar123 Месяц назад

This is defiantly a blast from the past. The google maps in the beginning shows 2008, but I imagine it was filmed a bit prior to 2008. Its nice to see plenty of SD90MACs, lots of unpatched SP ac44s, some Dash 9s, the early GEVOs and more Thundercab SD70ACEs than non thundercabs. No UMAX or Hub Group intermodal containers yet. Unfortunately, with PSR and today's current economy I don't know if this part of the overland route even cracks 80 trains a day now. But from the UP-SP merger until the filming of this video (2008) you could easily see +100 trains a day. Great video nonetheless.

@CoenOinkeyTrains Месяц назад

Traffic counts are between 40 and 50 a day as of 2024, continuing to decrease with the continuation of PSR and decrease in coal traffic.

@rttx Месяц назад

It was 2008. UP 7871 at 36:29 looks factory fresh, and it was built 3/2008.

@cpflogsubdivision450 Месяц назад

What year was this video filmed in?

@RailwayProductions Месяц назад

This was shot in 2008 when the line was much busier than it is today .

@UnstoppableRailfan 26 дней назад

Is it okay if I use your intro song for my intro?

@RailwayProductions 26 дней назад

It’s from a music library called Repro file.

@UnstoppableRailfan 26 дней назад

@@RailwayProductions ok thx

@nopama Месяц назад

This is an old video, probably 10-12 years old...

@rttx Месяц назад

2008

@Marcuswelby-nx2te Месяц назад

150?

@RailwayProductions Месяц назад

In 2008, yes

@followthedamntraincj5058 Месяц назад

busiest freight railroad in the world? With "only" 150 trains a day? 6 years ago the double tracked Right Rhine Line in Germany counted 227 freight trains per day, not even counting the passenger trains in between.

@warrencaudle4378 Месяц назад

I go to Germany a lot also. But in the US these freight trains are upwards of 2 miles long. Typical European freight may get to 50 cars.

@followthedamntraincj5058 Месяц назад

@@warrencaudle4378 50 cars are exceptionally long trains in most countries across Europe. Only few operators have trains which have that many or more cars. True, in most of Europe freight trains are rather short, and thatfor go at rather high speed (not really fast, but a good travel speed to blend in with the schedules of both slower and faster passenger trains without holding them up; In Germany freight trains usually go at 75 mph) and at a high frequency, with the next and again the next train following pretty close. In the US trains tend to be slower, but way longer, and thatfor at a lower frequency

@andrewdiesel487 Месяц назад

150 Trains a Day with Union Pacific

@normhughes9777 Месяц назад

more like 50-60 a day

@RailwayProductions Месяц назад

That is the count today. This was shot in 2008 when the train count was that high.

@anb7408 Месяц назад

2008-09 was likely its peak. I first went there in 2010 and was sorely disappointed in the train count, and kept wondering why the hell they still needed three mainlines! They sure don’t now!

@billjacon4527 28 дней назад

That horn speaker is horrible. I'd rather hear the trains horn.

@The_friendly_railfanner Месяц назад

i just got to say there is not even 150 a day in north plate because i watch a railcam i don't even see more than 20 a hole 24 hours there is only like 10 during the daylight these trains are double near triple there is not more than 20 in a day but mabe the hole sub of that many but trains you have to wait nearly hours and hours i dont like it but 150 mabe the hole line but not in a day

@BalloonBugle88 Месяц назад

It used to be 150 in 2008 but now it’s about 40-50

@The_friendly_railfanner 29 дней назад

@@BalloonBugle88 make since because of they are just firing and just not running that much anymore

@fasteddiesgarage5000 Месяц назад

All those run through trains still get an inspection so why do a bunch of cars have loud fukin banging wheels com on

@osmanhossain676 Месяц назад

I always like grocery shopping, shopping and malls.

@nathanielcoleman5694 26 дней назад

Everyone here saying it only sees like 40 or 50 a day is wrong. It’s not 150 anymore but I know it’s at least 60 (and probably higher, like 70-80)

@CoenOinkeyTrains 25 дней назад

Nearly everyone in the comments, some of whom have the railroad estimates themself, is saying 40-50; I would believe that over one person’s opinion. It can hit 60 on a busy day, but that’s not an average.

@osmanhossain676 Месяц назад

I always like grocery shopping, shopping and malls and invitations.