You are a real die hard spending your day off sharing and explaining what’s going on at your usual work location. I appreciate your skillful camera work and most importantly your narration and the content and information you post. I’ve often wondered on a typical train what’s the loads vrs empties and you are able to provide that info! thanks again
Thank you, a great video and lots of personal memories for me - from the shot passing the DQ in Oakridge to chasing SP back and forth between Oakridge and Dunsmuir for a week (my wife was very tolerant in those days). We'd ridden the Coast Starlight north from Sacramento to Salem in July 1992 and the experience led us back to the North-West (from England) a couple of years later. It was a good time with plenty of real SP power, the early CORP switching at Black Butte, BN power in the Willamette Valley and on the way the early California Northern! When we were on the north side of the mountain then Oakridge DQ became our refuelling point while we waited for the next train heading up the hill. In those days there was no Internet to be able to prepare so we just winged it, just wish I'd had your local knowledge but I can't complain, the memories were good as were many of the photos - but the sun/shade issue haunts us all, though better to get a good shade angle than a bad lit angle! Can't wait for your next day's shooting here. Thanks again!
I really believe the journey is all part of the experience, which is why I like to add a little highway footage. Thanks a lot for sharing your memories! That would be a terrific week! I’d love to have a block of time like that! I’m glad your woman was so patient;)
Thanks for showing us the back woods beauty of this part of Oregon. You are getting closer to my favorite area, O'dell Lake. I camped there a few years ago, and during my first night there, I heard a train horn echoing through the darkness of the forest. The next day, I was like a kid in a candy store! I was so excited to explore the area. The fishing can wait!😅 Hoping to see that area in your videos. BTW: Fantastic camera footage!😁👍🇺🇸
I’m really glad to provide it! I have a few videos that get trains at Odell Lake. Including a caboose trip starting there if you’re interested to see from the train perspective.
Always nice seeing railfanning around where I live, and I'd always wondered what those hopper cars were doing on that siding off 58 the several times i've driven by over the years. Managed to see a couple NS high hoods at a grain depot in Portland while on a delivery, talk about far from home
I wanted to say thanks for your video. I also deeply appreciate the explanations on railroad operations. I have a new Sony TV what a beautiful picture it gave me of your video. I appreciate your work
Another tremendous video. Thank you, sir. I really enjoy the crew radio chatter as well as your commentary. On that final train, it appears the UP is getting to deal with the same problems that beset the SP back in the '60s - namely, units overheating in tunnels!
Hello my name is Bruce I have been enjoying your videos for some time now they are fantastic . Its very rare to find a fellow railway employee who loves railways like myself railways run in my family my father was a locomotive engineer for the Canadian national railway since 1948 till his retirement as was my grandfather was a locomotive engineer for the Canadian Pacific railway since 1928 in British Columbia Canada both have since passed away now . They told me so many stories' about the railways they worked for I myself worked for CN rail for years (maintenance of way) till I was injured on the job now I am retired from work on a pension Do you have any plans to do videos in British Columbia Canada there are a lot of beautiful places to film them as well as history please let me know if you are thanks please keep up the good work
Bruce, nice to meet you! I’m sorry you were injured and couldn’t continue, but it’s cool to be a part of a family heritage like that. To answer your question, I do t have plans to get up there, however I would love to do so. I’ve been to BC and Alberta but it’s been a long time. And I never was there with a camera. So such a trip would be fantastic as the scenery is practically unmatched. Maybe someday I can take a trip up north. Perhaps complete the series about UP trains interchanges with CP, and film the journey through the Rockies up there. Thanks a lot for reaching out! -Jeremy
Hello Jeremy thank you for getting back to me about the comment I left for you Its very nice to talk about trains with someone who likes trains like myself . Maybe sometime in the future I could tell you some stories' my father and grandfather told me about if you like I could give you my email address so we could talk about railways and other things
@@brucehughesman5238 sure! I’m bad at checking email; but would enjoy that. By chance do you have Facebook Messenger? If so, I’d be happy to communicate through that. Either way. Jeremylidbeck@yahoo.com Jeremy Lidbeck
I saw and waved and flashed my headlights today at 3909? Eastbound like @2:44 w a Amtrak on standby as it waits for you guys . Someone honked at me back !! Thank you !!! Near the rusted 100 cars .
I've been wondering what will happen when the huge fleet of woodchip cars from the 1970s hits the 50 year mark. I have seen a few like these new LFPX cars on eastern webcams; probably in0 garbage service.
I saw almost 10,000T and 5 locos and went nope not going to work. UP really needs to do an AC rebuild of the SD70M given they've got over 1400 unless the plan is replace them.
Yeah…we didn’t used to use so many SD70s. They came out of storage or got shipped up here from the Midwest…this summer will be tough if we don’t start providing more (better) power to these heavy trains.
@@pacificrailproductions5281 the SD70AC from what I know should be be fine, still just an odd choice that in 2000 UP ordered 1500 DC engines. Yeah DC power was an odd choice given the grades
Great work and wish you would show the complete mixed manifest as they are interesting too as the engines. Containers , we'll someone else can argue for them as just boring. I'm beginning to think, any trees left in the Forest with the quantity of wood moving South
These cars are in storage. There isn’t currently business requiring them to be in service. Actually as I understand it, they were involved with the fracking industry carrying sand. I could be wrong. But that is what I know-and that there has been talk they will be moved. Nobody knows when though.
How does a Norfolk and Southern locomotive end up on the West coast sandwhiched between the BNSF locomotives at the front of this train? There must be some really good accounting between the freight lines.
Actually, we seem to get a bunch of them out here for some reason! I don’t know why. It would be interesting to find out why Oregon frequently sees them on UP.
So they’d lose loco #3 through the tunnel but could be reset after that tunnel provided they got out of it? Glad your channel came up on my selection wall and will continue to look it over as time permits sir….
True, if the train can get out of the tunnel, the cool fresh air can revive it. Sometimes they don’t come back on their own though. For the engines with 25 years of service, it is more likely to happen.
Cute town off the beaten path nestled in the shoulder of the cascades and home to awesome railroad action! But also a launch point for outdoorsmen and women who mountain bike, climb, ski, hike, camp…hunt. You name it.