Firefighting and Police Trains 

Being both a railfan and an emergency response supporter, these pieces of equipment are well worth celebrating in both these communities. When the tones go out and there's a fire, police, EMT or other search and rescue response needed, these brave and noble heroes answer the call, sirens on and lights ablaze, to HEAD 'EM UP, AND ROLL 'EM OUT!

Being both a railfan and emergency vehicle nerd, it's so cool to see a combo of both topics, I always really liked Norfolk Southern's first responders train, it's awesome. If I ever could I'd love to recreate or see someone recreate a Conrail Police 9C1 Chevy Caprice lol, like I've people rebuild cop cars, and railroad vehicles, but never a railroad police car.

Here in Germany, Austria and some other European Countrys, some Fire Departments for example have also specialised fire Trucks with hi rail gear, most of them are heavy duty rescue trucks and have special Equipment on Board, while others are traditional Tanker.

I'm a firefighter/paramedic and this was definitely an interesting video for me. Thanks for sharing!

This takes the meaning of “fire engine” to a whole new level

Nice to see something different. Hong-Kong has it own rail fire engine, Germany and Switzerland have they own fire trains, some heritage railways are making they own fire trains now

those SP police LW combine cars were neat!

Conrail had a special semi truck trailer (CRZ 204022) designed as a bait for would-be thieves with trap doors. It would get mixed into their intermodal/trailer-on-flatcar consists of high-valve cargo (namely electronics).

As a retired police sergeant and former USAF EMT and model railroader, I very much appreciate this video!

This is excellent.I had no idea how much work goes into keep the trains running and safe.

In Northern Manitoba the RCMP members are rules trained and put there patrol cars/trucks on the Hudson Bay Railway tracks to access certain areas of the province to patrol or deal with situations. The railroad police cabooses are still in use with UP still.

WELL DONE BROTHER, 37 YEAR FIFHTWR HERE PITTSBURGH,PA

Love the NS First Responders EMDs and CSX GEs,filmed a Loram rail grinder in action last year in Christiansburg VA on NS Christiansburg District, pretty neat and a manifest passed it on track 1,neat video and high rails!🛤🚂

As a firefighter and railfan I found this video very interesting. Well done!

Awesome video! I hadn't heard about the NJT Response vehicle, and I take NJT often! I think it would be really interesting if you did another video similar to this, but talking about rail infrastructure used by militaries for transport of equipment or any special weaponry.

I heard of fire trains but never heard of police trains. Railroads do have their own emergency forces. Those are some good looking police and fire trains and their equipment. Thanks for explaining them. :]

A lot of new information in here for me. Thanks for posting.

Excellant video, thanks for taking the time to put it together.

Great Video! Never seen a Lenco Bearcat HiRailer! Very sharp! And the Fire Trains are something to see them working! 👍👍👍

Wow I knew about Loram and the hyrail trucks but that's about it. Awesome video, I'm going to watch it again!

Something new on the tube ! Thanks !

several rail networks across Europe run their dedicated fire and rescue trains, like e.g. in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Norway. They're based at lines which are difficult to reach as they're up in the mountains, go through lots of tunnels or high-speed lines which are difficult to access as well. Some sections of track which only might have difficult access might be covered by only a single rescue car, which will be taken to the incident by a locomotive.

Wow, that is so memorable, honouring those that do/have served in the emergency services. They should do something like that here in the UK.

Thank you very much for mentioning and honoring our first responders, people are forgetting the sacrifices of 911, again, thanks

I actually saw NS 911 a few years ago as a DPU on a mixed freight train in Fort Payne, Alabama.

I don’t know if someone mentioned this already but the Red substance being sprayed is called Phos-Chek. It’s 85% water and 15% Fertilizer that includes Iron Oxide which gives it that red color.

How cool is that! I've seen the maintenance trucks on tracks, but not the other trains.

its always a very good sign when V12 productions upload, you teach us a lot of thing, so thank you very much.

Another terrific video, Charlie!

Pretty amazing thank you for sharing this

Nice video, as always, very informative. That was definitely worth a grand finale!

Thank you for a very interesting and educational video! Keep up with the great videos!

Hello Charlie! Thanks for the Very Interesting video. Never seen the Southern Pacific Police Caboose. 👍🙏

Great topic, that’s awesome!

Wow dude! Awesome topic!!!!

That's cool to have trains put out fires 🚒🔥 and police officers training train tracks on the tracks.

Nice, love the high-rail Bearcat and the Pierce NJ ESU rig! your correct in saying railroad cops have real authority(basically federal powers on their properties& rights-of-way)! Thanks for the video!!

In the UK our police have old trains setup at training facilities to practise hostage rescue on, there's even a disused underground station in central London they hold huge exercises at [exercise Strong Tower] CSX have a mobile swat school based on a train, some of the instructors were EX European CT experts.

V12 productions is awesome!

Loved the ending with all the horns.

That was fascinating, I live in Australia and I'm sure we font have any of these except the car...they'd be a great asset to our rail network

What cool equipment!

Excellent video. You have another new subscriber.

Thanks... You put together a really nice video and narrative.

Gravine Vintage's ex-SP 2248 was once in firefighting service after it got pushed out of mainline service by larger steamers, used to have fire monitors and big steam pumps all over its boiler and tender.

Loram constantly parks in the MOW siding in my town, they’ve had a ton of MOW working that line last couple of years I figured it’d hopefully mean maintaining it so there’s an increase of traffic. So far 5/6 trains at most come through

So cool I've never heard of a firefighting train

You did a fantastic job on this video my friend

Cool video. Thanks for sharing. I have a SP Police caboose

Those are important jobs they risk there lives awesome videos

that Marta armored hi-railer is a B E A S T! I mirror the sentiments of hoping it's never fully needed for anything outside of charity events but if it gets called to action that thing is gonna be more than ready to take down whatever is fragging around looking to find out.

Charlie, thanks for making this interesting video! Dan Page

I love Georgia and Im not a native, moved here in April of 2018.

Great episode!

Awesome video!

Great video 👍🏻

thanks that was great

Wow that first train is near me currently how exciting!

I’m new to you I love what you do

Fantastic Video!

That's alot of neat equipment

Hey I've got an ho scale caboose, road name (ROUTE ROCK), SIMILAR COLOR TO THIS SOUTHERN PACIFIC POLICE CABOOSE YOU JUST SHOWED, AWESOME, AWESOME, 😎👌👍

Not sure I noticed those extra details on CSX 3194 on 911 before. Gotta say, I have a bit less respect for the former and much more for the latter. The "343" actually gave me pause. Generally fantastic video! I never would've guess police to still have full service vehicles exclusively for railroad, even if the modern examples are only Hi-Rail, and the various firefighting equipment? Incredible!

5:45 - F no! No way does a transit police force need a fricken military style armored fighting vehicle! They are not going to war.

A lot of interesting content! I really like that tunnel at 6:18 and was wondering if anyone knows where that is.

Nice video. I own one of those HO scale police cabeese :). Fun to see one here.

I got to see a rail grinder in rural Alabama many years ago. It was cool

In Germany, there are even fire-fighting vehicles that can drive on the road and on the rail. It is called emergency firefighting vehicle 24/14-S(S for rail). The duties of the emergency firefighting vehicle 24/14-S are: -Fire-fighting; focus on tunnel installations -Technical assistance; focus on rail vehicle accidents

That NJ Transit Truck is great, or woukd be if they were ever available when you needed them. Have seen everything from rail line brush fires to 10 alarm buildings with a side accessible only by the rails and cant think of a time they actually showed up, though can think of several requests..

Unique coverage🚂🚨👍🙋

Love your content, I want to ask you one question. How do you hear the convo of The Loco Engineer using your wakie? Just curious

5:51 imagine seeing a police car run on an elevated railway

Great video full of info

I wondered what might’ve happened to the SP caboose after UP took over SP. I hope it’s in a museum somewhere at least.

Awesome video sir!

I just seen 3194 passing thru Valdosta ga heading to waycross ga

The CSX Engines 3194 and 911 where featured on Distant Signal Production on RU-vid.

I wish the lego city people would make these. Because having a rail grinder in lego city would be Awesome

Well a couple of years ago a rail grinding train came through our area and just about every jurisdiction was responding to brush fires

Wow. Futureristic.

In Switzerland we had a prison train. It was a repurposed old commuter Train (RBe540 with a matching BDt car) that got converted for prisoner transport

Phos-Chek fire retardant they are always using it with the red iron to see where they sprayed it on and they use it for the wildland firefighting aircraft as well

Nice like the caboose on the trains wish they would Bring them back miss them on the trains

GREAT VIDEO!!!

I caught a Loram train on my channel a few months ago, and it made that police siren that you mentioned at me. I've got 3000 views on that video!

Lol yup, Atlanta totally needs a fully armored rail car. Not a complete waste of resources at all

That red stuff is Phos Chek 4:15

The red "foam" like spray you saw then spraying of of that ES44C4 is just flame retardant.

I know where one of these police bay side cabooses still exists. I live right next to one. Also know where a Rio grand/SP caboose converted into a police caboose is sitting and rusting away near the Pacific ocean.

Imagine a caboose overtaking you on the highway, yelling "THISISDAPOLICE!!! Stop, or i'll... uum... uuuh... wull-youBETTEHSTAHPanyways... PHUNK!"

You legit remind me of a news media

5:35 all blue lights, that is right choice for police vehicles.

really wish i still lived near train tracks, would really like to get into train watchiny

Very interesting.

The official vehicles for the street train racers and drifters😁

I never knew of these.

I’d love to see robot railroad workers in this country as rail grinders and maintenance vehicles.

Years ago, there was a Southern Pacific Railroad Police caboose in the middle of a train. Needless to say, the train derailed at speed, and killed those police riding in the caboose.

4:18 the red substance is fire retardant, no different than the stuff dropped from planes during wildfires…it’s protecting the rail line and helping create a fire break should a fire reach the line the NJT high-rail rescue isn’t for firefighting, it’s for rescue and SWAT situations.

It’s actually funny, I had a dream last night that I rode a fire truck on rails in an underground subway.