Looking at those cars parked along the tracks; if the wrong type of train comes along they could be badly damaged … But, people never learn until they are affected by their own bad decisions …
You're on familiar ground never knew Elwood had a street runner. I've been threw there thousands of times on 13. Nothing came threw Alexandria? Seen you had a Noblesville street runner video haven't seen it yet.
@@greenvilla7 late '70s there was a Coca Cola truck parked along the south side of the street that got sideswiped by a train. At that time South "C" Street was still connected to Anderson Street, the main north/south street through Elwood which is also Indiana State Road 13.
Whoever lives in these kinds of neighborhoods with a train running through on a day-to-day basis are for sure slow pokes who are asking to get killed lmao.
Hey jawtooth that was a good way you told your viewers to look up "sundown towns". It surprised me that some folks didn't know that at one time during segregation and jim crow that i would not have been able to work as an engineer or conductor, i was proud to know that my late grandfather was one of the first crop of black men that were in the train crew ( he worked for Chicago,Burlington, and Quincy and when they became Burlington Northern, he retired 12 years before the merger) Just glad i was never raised to hate anyone. As always this BNSF conductor enjoyed the video!!
Most of today's white population ancestors came from western Europe after the Civil War had concluded. Blacks were always viewed with suspicion as heathen uneducated jungle dwellers. Long before Jamestown Virginia, Spanish tried starting a colony with slaves in 1525 in what's today's Georgia. Many of them escaped to Indian tribes in the area. Many early slaves including Jamestown were the results of British privateers "pirating" slaves from French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese slave ships going to the Caribbean Islands and South America. Most of the northern states population was early German and Polish and Scandinavian settlements. Why do you think "employed" colored people had the lowly jobs. Glad you enjoyed being a conductor. Not a job many white men fought to get, along with janitors maids housekeepers and other "grunt" job positions likely held by Blacks. Sundown towns are still around here in Wisconsin where demographics have Blacks at
Thank you for sharing! As an NS employee at corporate in Atlanta, I never knew “Street Running” was even a thing. Yes, the first train was a grain train or unit train. The second one is what we call a mixed freight train, and because it was so short, it was probably a local train, instead of a road train, but it could have been a road train. Again, good stuff and thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing!! I filmed street running trains on the NS line in Augusta, Georgia back in February. Thats pretty cool that you work for NS. I like your trains. Thanks for watching !
You’re welcome! I’ve been with NS almost 11 years, and I learn something new almost everyday, this being one of them. I will check out the Atlanta and Augusta videos and will definitely visit those areas so I can see it for myself.
@@Afrodeshia Some of the people who work for NS need to know more about the rails they operate, I commend you for actually taking time to learn new things about NS. Quite a few stories of dispatchers putting together trains with not enough power or asking engineers to tie down on a steep grade because they didn't know the territory they were dispatching.
I spent a summer in Elwood living with some cousins until we finally moved to Portland IN. When us kids heard a train coming we'd be out there putting stacks of dimes, pennies and nickels together for the train to run over. I still have some mashed together amalgams of those stacks 45 years later. They had a 20 MPH speed limit for trains back then and some of us would race along side on our 10 speeds or Stingrays and grab onto tankers or other cars that had something to grab onto and roll along with them for kicks. I was back there about 10 years ago doing a job in the area and visiting my cousin and rarely saw a kid outside doing anything. They all stay in the house now gaming or on social media rather clinging onto a train for a quick joy ride.
I once saw a NKP Berkshire on that line around 1956, I was 6 years old...never will forget it. It was at night, whistle screaming, orange glow from fire box, loud combo sound of pounding and swishing steam from the locomotive. A memory I wish I could relive.
We just found our steam engine from 1954 we know how you feel but this film video is awesome talk about humans and animals coexisting humans and trains coexisting we love this
Each time I watch street running, it's like the first time I discovered it. You could be out mowing or edging your grass, and a train that is just feet away from you is something that is unreal. Boy I tell you, you better get your car nice and close to curb, or you're going to have one messed up car! Great job brian! Thank you for all your hard work. Meow meow meow and bark bark to Norfie and Jesse!
I lived off that street. Cool but weird little town. It’s literally split into north and south sections with each street starting with the abc’s and 123’s. Easy town to walk around in, very hard to get lost. I never even knew trains could still go down those tracks I swear they were closed for years. So as a former resident, this is a double rare find😂
As far as I know, they've never been closed, other than some street work and maintenance. You can no longer get onto C street from 13 (Anderson st I think?).
Thank you for this! I live in Elwood, about 3 blocks from the tracks in-town, close to our City building. My family and I love hearing the trains come through all day and night, you can almost set your watch by them. My kid likes to walk down to watch when the train comes. We've only lived here for a year and that first victorian house you showed always makes us laugh when we drive by, but we hope they fix it up because it's looking rough from the outside. That spooky house, we wonder about that one a lot. I wonder if it was a hospital of some sort or a school maybe when it was originally used. Very odd place for sure hahaha.
I coulda swore that specific street was always closed cause you never knew if a train would come down the middle of the road😂 I was born 2000 and lived in Elwood till about 9th grade. Miss it a lot.
Why would anyone want to build next to a railroad? Your children couldn't play outside safely, there was other traffic going through, the train noise was deafening, the vibrations from the running trains put cracks in walls and foundations. The smell was nauseating, and the horns were loud. If there was a derailing, your home could be wiped out, perhaps with you and your family in it.
I used to go to Elwood every summer to visit my grandparents from the early 1950s to the mid 1960s. There were train tracks that crossed their street, down by the old Continental Can plant. Trains coming through were really exciting for a small boy.
This is so crazy that a train blasts it's way through that neighborhood. Whoever decided a residential street should be built on a train line definitely didn't live there. Hopefully they only run that trains during the day. That train whistle is LOUD!!!
Yeah, that building looked sketchy. Who knows what it was used for and if it’s still being used. But that Victorian style house was just beautiful! I love those types of houses. Great train video as always, JT!
My first impression of the structure looked as if it were a bank or some other business. I was kind of expecting to see something that appeared Victorian, having a Mansard type of roof it. (That "spooky" structure appears again in your concluding stillshots, just after the 15:14 mark. Seems kind of odd that it has a loudspeaker outside so to inform persons nearby of it to move along.)
That train is going really fast for a residential area let alone down the middle of a street. I grew up in Modesto CA where a train went two miles down the center of 9th street. They were required to go 5 mph.
If School Students Live Here. Teacher: why were you late to my class? Students: there was a slow and long freight train passing by in my neighborhood causing it to block my driveway.
Unbelievable to see a quiet family street like that with fast freights on them. Surprised it actually exists. Thanks for posting it. Elwood (name)...reminds me of the late Neil Peart drummer of Rush. He would always use the name Ellwood Peart when travelling with his family or alone for booking hotels, restaurants, etc. Thought that might interest you Jawtooth since you are a fellow musician as well. The blue open boxcar in Muncie was cool. Cheers.
Hello from the UK. Brilliant to see another street running location. I love the different locations that you show us, and I especially like the street running. A fellow Brit pointed out that there is now only one location in the UK where there is a very short piece of street running. Keep up the good work Mr Jaw Tooth.
Awesome, thank you! I saw that one piece of track in the UK on Google Maps. I forget where it was but there is also a video of a train on it on RU-vid. There are a few more towns in America with street running tracks that I plan on filming
There are two in Ireland. One's in Dublin Port. I think that the only trains on it are the aluminium ore trains from Tara Mines. Dublin Port has a lot of container traffic and also a fair few foot passengers on ferries to Wales and France, but there are no passenger trains and I think no intermodal trains. The other is in Wexford Town. Trains from Dublin to Rosslaire Harbour run right along Wexford Harbour in the middle of town. That line is mostly DMU passenger trains. I know that there used to be intermodal trains out of Rosslaire Harbour (and Waterford Harbour nearby), but I don't think there are any more.
The North-central Indiana towns around Elwood, back in the early 20th century and especially during the 1920s, were often referred to as Sunset or Sundown Communities. This vicinity of Indiana was the 'hotbed' of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). African Americans, by law, were not allowed to be seen within the town limits after sunset or before dawn the next day. There you go, Brian, I stated it for you.
@@kelton7337 Well. all of those communities were like no Blacks after sunset. But there were other Indiana cities and towns as well. Even in the Northeastern part of the state, such as Adams County, I.E., Decatur, the County Seat had sunset laws back then.
I knew what Norfie was doing too. I also knew what a sundown town was. Although they were know as sunset towns down here. But I have never know of any town that was one. I might Google that. I Googled Sunset Towns in Louisiana and it listed 8 small towns. One was in central Louisiana across the Red River from the town I was born in.
Another great video JT. Quite an education watching this one, street running at speed, tomato washing plant, an a creepy house too! Made me think of a song from my younger days "The Railroad Runs Through The Middle Of The House". (1950s I think!). They sure aren't hanging around going down that street.
Those freights running down a street like that in a little country community like that is the wildest thing I've ever seen ! He sure was bookin' indeed ("plantin' no seed") ! That's kinda like having a cargo ship sail through a babbling Brook in your back yard.😱 - Steve G.
I didn't find the "creepy house" with the Ring speaker not as weird as the house at 15:12. What's up with the larger than life picture of the couple in that full length window? That is just plain strange!. Great location, JT. The train speeds seem a bit much so close to those homes and the owner's parked cars; but I guess that fight by the homeowners vs the railroad was lost a long time ago. Imagine the stress cracking on the walls & ceilings inside these homes.......and the cost of homeowners and car insurance!
I remember putting pennie’s on tracks running right by my Grandpas house in San Diego. I think I still have them some where in my files…this was back in the late forties. Tracks are still there. Great memories!
I lived in a house on a railroad track only a few feet from our side porch. Trains carried coke, iron ore and scrap steel to mill down the street. It was just part of our life.
Who's the genius that allows street parking with the bonus of no train speed restrictions. What happens when it's garbage day and the truck and train meet? That town has a weird vibe to it.
I grew up in Elwood. The street used to go to S.R. 13 but they cut that last 200 feet out a few years back. The "spooky house" used to be a church. I was told that they had problems with people thinking it was still abandoned. There are dozens of those old Victorian style houses all over town. There was a natural gas boom in the 1800's, so there was a lot of factories and money in Elwood, until the gas ran out. And Elwood was originally named Quincy, not Duck Creek,
Hi i am Brazilian. The possibility of travelling to USA and seeing all these marvelous places is minimal. So, thank you for this. The USA must be the most underrated geographical wonder in this world. I know that Brazil is known as having natural beautiful places , but the more I see the more I disagree. I actually have been in Houston in 2002, I had to stop in Dallas, so I saw it from the high above and seemed as a land of wonder. I would treasure the natural beauty and culture that is today the American land, if i were you before travelling abroad.
Yes, I agree. I love travelling around the USA and filming trains. I have a list of places that I would love to see. I would also like to see Brazil and film your trains. Texas is a huge state with a lot of good trains. I was in Fort Worth for a week a long time ago and a couple years ago I was in Houston and filmed their airport train. Thanks for watching my videos! I look for the interesting areas
@@JawTooth thanks. I will be following your videos now. I love trains. However, most trains in Brazil are to transport cargo, but I think only small lines exist that transport people. I used to live in Jaguariúna where they have some steamy machines from early 1900s running around 20 km . 30 years ago you could travel by train, but today sadly not.
I watch your videos everyday Jawtooth they're amazing....I'm not so sure if you got my last comment but my birthday is on the 17th this month....it'll be awesome hearing a birthday shout out from you hopefully some DPUs too🙂
I live in Hummelstown Pennsylvania and we have here the Hummelstown Middletown Railroad which currently gives tourist rides but back in the day also transferred freight to the former Reading lines which are now Norfolk Southern. One part of the track goes across Route 322 and goes through both towns. Love trains since I was a youngster!! 🚂 🚃
I know what a sundown town is, my grandparents and Others in my family experienced them. I still think you should do a calendar your still shots are so nice. Thank you as always for posting. Norfie is funny and always here comes Jessie.😁😁😁
Looks as though Elwood has more passive railroad crossings than active Railroad crossing signals. The trains run at a decent clip through there. I like street runners! Diamonds are cool as well, especially ones that are both active!
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Wow!!! I first saw it in 1990 when I got hired at the prison there in Mich, City. I was taken back by a train going down a residential street.
The house with all the cameras used to be a church. I have went there many times and had girl scout meetings in the basement. I remember when it sold and they renovated it into a home. Very odd. The old victorian home used to once be so beautiful. It used to be a multi family home, then someone bought it and fixed it up & I babysat for a family there. They also hired my friend and I to clean all the wood work there. Then they sold it and moved and the person that lives there now has just let it go. Probably will be beyond repair soon. The balcony on the side of the house is falling. Its very sad.
It seems to have basically the same result as a Amazon truck driving through my neighborhood at 30 mph and not stopping for anything, except the train blows its horn to warn people.
Those houses must've been cheap to own when they were built. Maybe there's an ordinance where they can't sound their horn as much at night. I'm not railfan enough to be directly next to very active tracks like that.
Man, for street running trains, they were Really booking, man what’s the hurry .That strange house would make a perfect backdrop for a Halloween block party. Noticed two of these trains weren’t very long by today’s standards, wonder why. Nice work JT, interesting to hear a little history about Elwood, Indiana.👍🏼🙏🏻🚂
Quaint maybe... your demographic might determine the % of accuracy, however (I did not know the term 'Sundown' and when i wiki'd it, sadly Elwood will remain one of the places NOT to visit (I'm sure the feelings mutual)... what i found curious, RR related was the LACK of Powered Crossings (i guess that's a Indiana thing more than anything else) in the rural areas and seemingly NO signals anywhere along the route in Elwood...
@@tehpw7574 There are several black families that make Elwood home these days. Sadly, at one time many small towns throughout the midwest were sundown towns but that all ended with the civil rights act.
@@jimnaden5594 ...I don't think the phrase "that all ended" is correct (but i'm going on instinct, discussing of race with fellow sailors and what i perceive as a middle-aged Gen-X Veteran (your personal milage will, of course, vary)... but it was 'educational' to learn the term...
Hi Jawtooth! For a street-running train, that first one moved through at a pretty good clip. The 2nd one was no slouch, either. That spooky house either has an old curmudgeon that wants everyone off the property, or it's truly haunted.
When I worked for Florida DOT back in the 70’s crossing rights were a major issue. The courts essentially ruled that who was there first had a majority of the rights. When costs associated with a railroad crossing came into play, if the railroad was there first then they only paid 10% of the costs and DOT or the local municipality paid 90% of the cost. The reverse applied as well. Major crossings costs could easily go into six figures or more if the the crossing was large and/or complex. Hearings sometimes got pretty heated.
Can you picture a guy calling his insurance company telling them a train came down the street and hit his parked car? lol ..I drive by the "creepy house" off A street often.. I think it's kinda cool :o)
I love how you can still find 1995-2010 Pontiac Grand Ams, Grand Prix ,G6 & Bonnevilles everywhere even though its been 12 years since the last 2010 Models rolled out. They're proving to be as durable as those multi-generational box cars, especially the old rail box boxcars.
I bought a 99 Grand Am back in 2013. After owning a 97 Sonoma S 15. Which ironically a similar truck is behind the Grand Am. But yeah their were thousands of them around at the time.
Those are the fastest street running trains I ever seen. There are still a lot of sundown towns around America, and especially Texas. Glad to see you back.
@@JawTooth go out there by about 25 minutes out of Dubuque Iowa sometime. The town on the Mississippi River called Bellevue Iowa has Street running Canadian Pacific trains coming thru North and South.
I am in my sixties now and I was thinking the same thing. I remember playing "street baseball". I bet selling a house on that street is a hard sell. You sure don't want to let you kids play in the front yard. How does it work if you need an ambulance when a train is passing by? I wonder if a train comes by at two in the morning blowing that horn?
Waited along this street several times. I don't live far from there, I also lived along the Frankfort District for over 20 years so this is very familiar territory. The Frankfort usually doesn't get more than 4-5 trains a day so I'd say you got pretty lucky on the timing!
who builds train tracks on a neighborhood street? the wildest and most inappropriate piece of infrastructure I've ever seen..feel bad for the residence
