Тёмный

(HD) Crossing the Mississippi Railroad Bridge at La Crosse: Great View 

railjames
Подписаться 4,2 тыс.
Просмотров 58 тыс.
50% 1

From the Open Air platform of an Observation Car, cross the Milwaukee Road, Now Canadian Pacific, bridge that crosses the Mississippi River at La Crosse Wisconsin. Traveling eastbound from River Junction on the River Subdivision, on the Minnesota side, through the approach, over the 4 separate bridges that make up the crossing, starting with the main Swing bridge over the Mississippi channel, then the east channel bridge, the French slough bridge, and the Black River Channel Draw Bridge and into Wisconsin. Shot from the open air platform of private heavyweight observation car Lamberts Point on the rear of Amtrak #8, the Empire Builder. June 2014. For more information on the Lamberts Point, visit www.261.com.

Опубликовано:

 

15 сен 2024

Поделиться:

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист
Посмотреть позже
Комментарии : 29   
@thomream1888
@thomream1888 4 месяца назад
I know this video is just a couple weeks old(!) but I'm using it to help fill in details on three HOdcale model RR bridges I'm working on. This vantage point is invaluable to a modeler - most of the time we can never get to these places in the track! Your camera work was excellent (some fools wave their camera around like it was a flag!) and well-composed. I enjoyed the natural sounds of steel wheel on steel rail. Even the background talking was not distracting. You've earned my sub, and my deep appreciation for helping me achieve a much higher level of modeling accuracy I would otherwise have missed. Thank you for that! Now I have to catch up on some of your other excellent bridge videos. Ghost of the SP
@bruceroberts8640
@bruceroberts8640 3 года назад
So interesting to see the different bridge segments that comprise this Mississippi River crossing! Great job, railjames; thank you!
@miketdavis
@miketdavis Год назад
Thru small old river towns then Dubuque, beautiful oldest city west of the mississippi, on thru Guttenburg, to Marquette, going thru a few miles in Minnesota and on to Lacrosse Wisc, layover in Lacrosse GOOD TIMES, very fortunate to be able to ride up and down Beautiful Mississippi Valley and get Paid to do it...Thank you for the Video .. mike t
@mollyballiet1407
@mollyballiet1407 6 месяцев назад
Is this a passenger train or a freight train?
@mollyballiet1407
@mollyballiet1407 6 месяцев назад
Because I heard people
@scoobycarr5558
@scoobycarr5558 6 лет назад
That looks like superb looking tracks with nice ballast and ties - something that the Milwaukee Road sadly never had throughout its life as a railroad. Many thanks to the Soo Line and now Canadian Pacific for carrying on the proud tradition of railroading in the stead of the late great Milwaukee Road. 😄
@pkranz937
@pkranz937 4 года назад
The Milwaukee was a first-class railroad until deferred maintenance became the norm after 1960 or so. After the CP/Soo took over in 1986, the State of WI gave them financial incentive to improve the tracks. CP chose to single-track the main between Pewaukee, WI, and East Hastings, MN between 1988 and 1993. Deep granite ballast, new 136# ribbon rail, and CTC made the ride safer and smoother, but at a significant cost in total capacity. With pending expansion of Amtrak service via Milwaukee to St Paul, there will be some degree of 2nd main restoration in several places, but CP refuses to invest in cspacity improvements on the Soo Line, east of St Paul, unless Amtrak foots all or most of the bill.
@alexlarams
@alexlarams Год назад
As a CPRS (soon to be CPKC) employee, I used to spend a lot of time railfanning at River Junction where the Marquette Sub mainline swings off towards Iowa and Kansas City.
@charlesrlassiter
@charlesrlassiter 9 лет назад
Man, that must have been a GREAT trip riding the open air platform of the observation car. When I was very young, right after my loving and wonderful mother passed away, my father took me on the Denver, Rio Grande, & Western R.R. through the Rockies and I shot 8mm movies the trip. You trip must have been so wonderful. I am almost 58 now, and I have loved trains (and model ones, too. I miss all the REAL (and original R.R. lines like your Milwaukee Road Line. Thank you so much for sharing such a great ride and seeing the double-stack that you passed. Your photography is just fantastic!!!!! Thank you!!!
@railjames
@railjames 9 лет назад
charlesrlassiter Glad you enjoyed it. I did not get to stand out on the platform all of the time. I used my tripod and camera on continuous and at times I had to go inside the car for safety reasons when the speeds got high.
@miketdavis
@miketdavis Год назад
I was a conductor and Brakeman on the Milwaukee Rd in the 1970s and rode up and down the river rails daily some days I would ride thru 4 different states, starting in Savanah Ill crossing the bridge to Sabula Iowa continue along the Mississippi
@austinmiller3497
@austinmiller3497 4 года назад
Wow that is so cool I hope to ride on that train and see the Mississippi River and more someday
@dancer1
@dancer1 Год назад
How are you filming this
@paul-andrelarose3389
@paul-andrelarose3389 7 лет назад
Beautiful engineering, well maintained roadbed and total absence of graffiti on wayside structures on this ex-Milwaukee Road in La Crosse, Wi. This is a good illustration of the ecological superiority and appropriateness of Railways. 2017/07/09.
@railjames
@railjames 7 лет назад
I agree, thanks!
@johncotter1710
@johncotter1710 5 лет назад
Do you have any rides from St.Paul to LaCrosse? Very scenic view on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi river.
@chegeny
@chegeny 3 года назад
Fun to compare the Mississippi River here at La Crosse with the river at New Orleans, crossing on the Huey P Long.
@justasadmanforabanana4124
@justasadmanforabanana4124 11 месяцев назад
What county is it
@postalfnj
@postalfnj 9 месяцев назад
are the second and third bridge movable."?
@mybestieischloer2401
@mybestieischloer2401 2 года назад
good rail vidio
@MrResiemon
@MrResiemon 3 года назад
Great video. It's a heel trinion movable bridge not a draw bridge.
@postalfnj
@postalfnj 8 лет назад
Good stuff
@litelleo
@litelleo 3 года назад
4:07 *metal sound*
@postalfnj
@postalfnj 8 лет назад
was that a freight train you were on?
@railjames
@railjames 8 лет назад
+postalfnj I was a guest on a private railroad car with an open observation platform on the rear.
@railjames
@railjames 8 лет назад
postalfnj, I was on the rear of a private car, open platform, attached to the back of the Amtrak Empire Builder.
@billscheitzach6026
@billscheitzach6026 7 лет назад
response to howardkevinm - He was eastbound, coming from Minnesota and the Twin Cities, entering into Wisconsin.
@ArtistGoodLefty
@ArtistGoodLefty 4 года назад
The great Euphrates.
@kathleenmelzer7499
@kathleenmelzer7499 5 лет назад
it makes you wonder how logustics in the United States is done.
Далее
The Eads Bridge
9:47
Просмотров 23 тыс.
"Yes, These Tracks Are Used":  2018 New Freedom Special
10:23
Union Pacific in-cab ride
15:24
Просмотров 505 тыс.
Broken Joint Bar - Have to Repair it Fast!
13:30
Просмотров 1 млн
#14,....Railroad Swing Bridge! LaCrosse Wi.
5:22
Просмотров 18 тыс.
Train Ride Over Mississippi River @ St. Louis
6:16
Просмотров 65 тыс.