I still say vote for a cam in Watts Oklahoma! there is a place where the old depot used to be, across from the mill. the platform has a mast signal, and when real long trains go by, high rail trucks watch for anything wrong. but its easy to get to and its not trespassing. I have seen over the last 25 yrs, or so almost every time I go through Watts, I noticed rail fans with there video, and cam gear on that platform. its a great place to railfan. there is a 8 track flat yard just west of the depot platform. ....and lots of Southern Belles grey ghost, and now and then you might get to see a white sd40.
Seaboard Coast Line too! I grew up a kid in rural Georgia who watched them traverse some of the lines in middle and eastern portions of Georgia. My grandparents lived across the street from one of their rail lines and I always enjoyed spending holidays and some weekends with them, running to the other side of the road and getting the engineer to honk the horn, lol. I would love to see an SCL again.
0:14 UP 2002 (Salt Lake Olympic Unit) leading 0:32 clever signs, you two! 1:08 Chessie System boxcar 1:26 fresh untreated ties on flatcars hauled by two H2 dash 9s 1:55 UP new livery with engine room door left open 3:07 another chessie boxcar 3:24 new blue and white CSX coil cars. CSX has recently stopped using the boxcar brackets on their logo. 4:56 empty nuclear cars. 6:07 CSX trailing with cab light left on with loaded nuclear cars of the same type in the previous clip. 6:27 I've never seen UniOcean containers before. They company has existed since 2014 and is based in the UK 6:39 BNSF OCS of 14 cars pulled by two GEVOs 7:44 8-unit lash-up on a UP train 8:50 CSX welded rail train 9:58 BNSF 3-car inspection train 10:33 KCS, CN, NS, CN, and OmniTRAX through Ft. Madison 11:16 ex-Citirail unit on a UP train 12:22 Seaboard System boxcar 13:03 BNSF 6017 still has nose graffiti 13:13 knuckle couplers fail to engage 13:38 lovely lighting on this shot of a CP snowplow train with only half the snow-clearing cars 13:59 BNSF 25h Anniversary GEVO 6179 14:55 25th anniversary GEVO 6111 15:23 the flashbang that made the thumbnail (more noticeable when slowed down at 15:50) 18:52 same BNSF OCS but with only one GEVO 20:10 NS 38
Legends stays that Chessie still traveles the railway and if u listen you can here Chessie meow to us railfans letting us know that he/she is still with us
13:22 Don't believe that was the proper safe way, stepping in front of moving car, that the crewman used to apply the handbrake on that gon!?! Actually probably should be a Darwin Award winner/looser.
Yeah, looks like an employee from the business there.... had he tripped it could have been bad. It was sped up, so kinda hard to tell how fast they were really going, but stuff can change in a hurry.
@@ihavenoideadanny Not sure what railroads you have worked on but there were probably several standard safety and operational rules violations here. Every rail operation I have worked on required you clear the ends of cars you walked around by at least 20+ feet, and that is for equipment STANDING STILL. Being in front of even slow moving equipment not allowed. Note in addition to the common tripping hazards such as rails, ballast, ties, you had the addition of slippery snow compromising his footing. And by the way do you have any idea how many tons that car weighs even when it is empty? At worst the move would have been to cross BEHIND car to other side and board car on side step/grabiron on "B" end of car to apply hand brake from side not end. When the initial coupling failed, probably the result of couplers not being aligned, the gon was set in motion. When car was left while other cars were worked the handbrake probably should have been set, tho not required if track layout favorable, but not doing so led to this problem. As stated the speed up of the action does complicate the analysis, so hard to tell if they were even using "3 Step Protection" in their moves but sad experiences have shown even at slow speed accidents do happen. It is common truism in rail safety training that every rule has "been written in blood".
@@kennethhanks6712 I've never worked on a railroad, but I have got a brain in my head and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that guy do that. Thank you for your long, informative comments.
In the '60's, when I was in little league, all the teams in our area would take the Chessie passenger train from Grand Rapids to Detroit to see the Tigers play on "sand lot" day. Coolest thing ever for a kid.
Glad to see that the spaghetti works building sign replaced some of its blown out light bulbs. UP has some big power pulls. BNSF has many excursion trains and maybe private cars out and about. NS has a super hammer head engine with a matching train car. That explosion and flash appeared to not be train car produced. I know historically extreme right peoples have sabotaged railways and it's trains. Super long Convoy in KC. The gentleman in on Wisconsin is a brave man, stopping a loaded rolling Car. Almost superman! Thanks
The gentleman in Wisconsin was breaking numerous basic railway safety and operating rules. If he were a regular railway employee, rather than an industrial plant crewman, he would be lucky not to be immediately fired. As it is if he keeps up that kind of behavior the odds are he will eventually be terminated, one way or the other.
@@MatthewMelloActually at 13:22. Switching without air not totally a problem IF done safely and carefully. Any rail worker properly trained is always to allow at least 20ft or more when going around cars that are SITTING STILL. Gon should probably have been spotted, stopped and brake applied before other cars in string were handled-looks like they were attempting coupling with couplers not properly aligned. Even going around to other side of gon and getting on side step of "B End" to apply brake while car moving not generally allowed these days.
@@kennethhanks6712 we switch without air all the time in Framingham Ma. But that is a pretty controlled environment with a bowl type yard. But some of our C&D customers like to switch with no air and leave the cars inches from the end of the track.
They are fresh, untreated ties. I would guess they are headed for Koppers tie plant just south of Galesburg BNSF yard along Illinois Route 41. But they could go anywhere for treatment.
@@larrylawson5172 Oh okay. I've never seen those kind of cars before. Usually I see ties being transported in gondolas whether they're new or rotted. Thank you.
I am curious about rolling stock and what it's used for. What are the cars at 3:44 used for? The NS ones are more square which is what stirred my curiosity. They look like large rolling batteries.
@@ozgirl45 Basically a train they use for events,company outings and promotions.Some of the cars are used separately or in conjunction with other cars for track inspection.There is also a "power car" to supply functions for the passenger cars as modern freight engines are not equipped to do so.Edit:In the next clip the red "engine" with the single passenger car behind the NS engine is also a power car built into an old loco shell (No fans or exhaust on roof)
The NYC reporting marks are own by CSX. After the Conrail split up in 1999, CSX used the NYC reporting marks on all the freight cars they acquired from Conrail.
@@Southwest_923WR Most freight cars only have hand brake on one end ("B End" designation). In this case the lesser of the evils would have been to go behind the car movement, go to the B End, mount the side grab iron/foot stirrup and apply brake from side but most industry practice has been to discourage mounting moving equipment. Car should have been spotted w/hand brake on while other cars were worked then come back for coupling.
7:00 The Silver Service Amtrak trains from NYC to Miami only have four coach cars, a diner, two sleepers, and a baggage car in that order. Apparently there are not many people traveling that route who want to take the train. The autotrain, on the other hand is a different story. 12:25 That train running down the middle of the street looks dangerous, not to mention inconvenient for the people parked there. I wonder if the drivers get any warning to get off the street when the train approaches 17:40 More military equipment, this time tanks. Warms my heart every time I see them. I hope these are staying here and going to Zelinski, who bought and paid for Biden's support. .
If you consider the NE Corridor to FL is currently supporting 3 trains per day each way (Silver Meteor, Silver Star and Auto-Train) that seems to indicate a fairly good passenger count for basically one route.
@@kennethhanks6712If you read my post again, you will see that I said the opposite was true for the autotrain, It is packed. The last time I rode one of the Silver service trains, it was more than half empty.
@@wayneyadams Well, not exactly sure about your sample size but looking at the ridership figures for the Silver Meteor, Silver Star, and Auto-Train in 2019 (the last full year before COVID) the ridership figures were 343,000, 377,000 and 236,000 respectively. If you check the counts for the 5 years previous the figures were comparable. In FY 22 the Meteor 80,000, but it had been annulled Jan-Oct due to Covid Amtrak staffing issues etc, Star 434,000 (garnering some of Meteor traffic while it was not running) and Auto-Train 279,000. With Covid restrictions, etc now all but gone ridership should mostly once again reflect pre-19 levels baring equipment, crewing etc problems. It is to be noted ALL Auto-Train passengers ride full route while many Meteor and Star passengers only do partial run. These figures can be found several sources.