0:32 I'm amazed that Galesburg was able to function at all yesterday, during a heat index of 130°F. Gotta feel for anyone working outdoors in conditions like that.
The guys and gals I feel sorry for are the ones laying asphalt on road jobs They’re right on top of the hot asphalt which is around 200*f and then the heat index plus the hot engines of the machines…whew!!!
Can’t believe you did not show the rest of that Tropicana juice train. Was it a dedicated train? Is it back? How many juice cars? That would be exciting if it was back!!!
I think Virtual Railfan should do a location in Marion Ohio. It's a great place for railfanning the fact that trains average to come every 20 minutes and there are eight diamonds! Also the NS Sandusky District crosses over the CSX Mount Victory Subdivision and the CSX Columbus Subdivision crosses over the CSX Mount Victory Subdivision. So there would be an east camera and a west camera for two viewing points on all eight diamonds. There is also a museum, a caboose, and a watch tower there. Overall, Marion Ohio would be a great place to put Virtual Railfan cameras.
That MOW machine at Skykomish looked interesting and also, I wondered if the Boxcars at Chehalis with their open doors, were making a last journey? I thought that CSX 8137 looked really good with her classic 'this is exactly as I was built' Workhorse appearance. But I loved the slight wheel-slip of No.89 at Paradise. She is a very nice looking Locomotive.
So at ~21:25 I see this thing come into view, and think "They are moving that wreck on the main?" Thin I see it is some type of ballast machine. "Never mind." 😁
0:13 8-unit lash-up 0:38 this ex-CMQ and CEFX units have been sold to NS. CMQ's two AC44CWs came from CEFX and I'm surprised CP didn't retain them (again at 4:30) 1:47 BNSF 3-car inspection train using heavyweights along with two more locomotives at the rear 2:28 8800 Horsepower couldn't move a welded rail train up the Moffatt Tunnel line. the BNSF train waiting has 26,000 horsepower 3:30 Amtrak 100 "midnight" trailing on the Lake Shore Limited 5:00 nice bright red paint on this CP geep 5:18 ex-Pennsy passenger car at the rear of a freight train 5:28 two CSX trains meet at Springfield 6:50 CSX 1827 leading solo 7:14 this super long UP intermodal has 1x2x1 power along with a set of older empty well cars with the end supports 8:58 Sunset Limited terminates in Tuscon due to hurricane system nearing California 9:46 the CanDo rail geep from last time on an Armourdale-Argentine transfer 10:09 this guy wearing headphones goes around the gate and waits for the train to stop to cross between cars. I hope this being a common occurrence in Revelstoke makes the town put in a pedestrian footbridge 10:52 Colorado Rocky Mountaineer 11:14 CSX SD40-2 with welded rail train 12:12 the dumbest Darwin yet. Didn't even wait for the train to completely stop 12:57 NS 4001 as mid-train DPU 13:40 Amtrak 161 "Arrow" leading the Southwest Chief with a Horizon car (again at 18:10) 14:10 15-unit light power move of all Dash 9s 15:07 lovely shot of steam engine CN 89 17:22 passenger car at the end of a freight train 17:34 nice 55 Chevy! 18:02 this Google Street view car does not have a wrap on it like the ones I saw in the past three years! Maybe this one is from another street view map 18:50 KCS SD70ACes doubleheading a BNSF intermodal 19:04 a rare look inside a signal really box 19:15 CSX 3194 leading 19:22 special train for these pressurized tanks 20:12 CSX 1869 trailing on the Tropicana Juice Train (or what's left of it) 21:08 New Orleans Public Belt, MT&W, and N De M boxcars with their doors left opened 21:28 Rhomberg Sersa MOW machine. It has a European-style horn
Is it just my imagination, or does BNSF spend more time than the other major railroads shuffling around blocks of locomotives from one terminal to another?
Many other roads often include dead-in-tow locos being transfered in regular freight trains saving the need for a separate move. BNSF chooses to use a separate move which does not interfere with a regular trains make up and operation.
CSX still with their Half-Arse Heritage paint (B&O, Chessie, L&N) etc the just won't go the whole way they just have to put their Yellow CSX nose etc on them !!! UP and BNSF have the money they should do Heritage units right like "Norfolk Southern" did, they did it Right and they didn't worry about the cost and still repaint them when needed !!! 👍
How many phrases entered the language from railroad talk? Can't make the grade. Slipping my wheels. Off track (well, that may be hunter talk). p.s. I do believe Kingsley Inn lens needs a good polishing.
And the Darwin candidate of the year is 😅 id actually like to see at least one of them caught by the police trying this dangerous stunt! The one with the bicycle got warned by getting hit in the head. Would have been just karma with the train would have left with his bicycle still on the train!
Well the stream Is BEHIND the drivers on the way out. Any moisture on track on back up was probably already dried/evaporated in the heat and in any event that is what sanders are for. The main thing the injector is working to keep your boiler water at the proper safe level, the primary conern.
@@kennethhanks6712 if we had a railroad system on par with America’s standards, that cyclist would have been able to cycle down through an underground tunnel for pedestrians and cyclists.
@kardondo The thing is if you consider the thousands (likely hundreds of thousands) of grade crossings in the US and the cost in multiple (often 100s of millions for a single major crossing elimation) there simply is not funding (hundreds of billions at least) available from any and all sources to remove them all in next many lifetimes. For such minor traffic volumn crossings as this one the general public simply has to exercise a little patience and good judgement (just like at many minor road intersections where stop signs make more economic sense than much more costly stop lights.
Rather than continuing to LA the train was terminated at Tucson and passengers were taken west by bus. Amtrak switched ends for the train to run back to New Orleans as the Sunset #2. There was storm damage to track somewhere between Tucson and LA.
I think your lawyers would be nervous when you do the Darwins... People have gotten lots of $$ for less than these making fun of them... These are strange times we live in VRF. Be careful!!!
People use bad judgement all the time, but we don't call them Darwins. And natural selection, which is what the Darwin Awards (i e. Darwins) refers to, has nothing to do with the gene pool or intelligence. This is a wonderful channel with awesome railroad action but we shouldn't mock people's bad judgement.