Klamath Northern Railway (4K) | Special Ballast Train & Maintenance | June 23, 2023 

The DJI Drone is an awesome drone. Thanks again Dan. I appreciate your work

Wow! really good little documentary. Really neat operation and great editing and film making! Shortline railroads will always have a special place in my heart.

Awesome video Dan. Many thanks.

That is such a unique railroad with that cool locomotive!

Dan, thank you for this video of the Klamath Northern Railways dumping ballast on the right of way. It was interesting to see what is involved with dumping ballast and using a tamper to tamp the ballast under the ties. The filling of the ballast cars and the dumping of the ballast is in this case a very dusty job. I noticed that your friend Luke and his partner were making every effort to walk in front of the ballast as it was coming out of the ballast cars because of all the dust that was coming off the ballast. Your closeups of the temper, that Sean was operating, shed some new light on how the temper works for me. I was not aware that the tamper lifted the rail as the tamper pressed the ballast under the ties.

This is a very comprehensive MOW video. We rarely see this kind of action here, so this is indeed a unique upload. This is one of the weirdest American locomotives I've ever seen. It's not your typical Class 1 heavy duty engine that's for sure. The scenery is beautiful, everything is green and healthy. Great video again Dan, I really enjoyed this unusual content.

Very nice Dan!

Dan that is the best ballasting vision I have ever seen. The voice over is excellent with the right amount of information without over doing it.

Great video! Dan, now your narration is absolutely perfect, love it! Big thanks!

That was refreshingly different. Fun to watch and very informative!

Nice documentary.

Great video! Neat coincidence that the AERC ballast hoppers are the same color as KNOR's locomotive.

I absolutely love your videos. Stunningly gorgeous. Thanks for another great one.

Awesome as always.

Nice Show ~! Good job boys!

Dan, your content is always great to watch. I love just learning a bit more with each video. The Pacific Northwest is so beautiful. I was just in LaPine this past week. A bit smokey there right now. Keep up the great work.

I really enjoyed this video, Dan. Although I've lived in Delaware for more than 50 years, I've always considered southern Oregon home. The future must look bright for the Klamath Northern if they're doing this MOW work. I would love to sometime see the whole revenue operation, from loading the center beams to hauling them wherever they go.

Great video!

Thanks!

Remarkable footage! I am from and Love the PNW!

Yet another fascinating Oregon shortline, thanks for video, Dan.

Beautifully done! Beautiful scenery and excellent camera work! Thoroughly enjoyed it!

Wow! Wonderfully unique footage Dan. Loved this video❤ - there's something attractive about how they do railroading on short lines! No masks? Where is OSHA? 🚂Lawrence

Really enjoyable video, Dan. I regularly drive between Bend and the valley, always taking the Crescent Cutoff Road, and I've always wondered what the story was with those tracks at the crossing by that Shell station. Now I know!

My son loves trains 🚆🚃🚄🚅🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🛤 and he says the Klamath Northern looks like a very scenic line and hopes that they will start running tourist trains on it.

I loved it !!!

Entertaining work filmned nicely. A few more cars had made the operation more effective. Convienient train speed for drone filming, not like the 50 - 60 mph trains I hunt.

Hi Dan. Great video - as always. This one definitely was improved with your narration. Very interesting. Sadly, almost all the small lines serving parent industries like this have disappeared or are shut down in my area, There is a 100 mile municipal owned railroad a few miles away from my house that sees an out and back 2 or 3 car hazardous chemical delivery train, led by old alco S type switchers, maybe two times a month. They still use an old wood caboose, too. But only when I'm at work, and they definitely don't do any regular or scheduled maintenance work on the line after the last on line industry, coincidentally a series of massive sand and gravel quarries, shut down 30 years ago. Before the shut down, they also had a fleet of 4 GE 44 tonners to haul some of the rock trains. Those and all the old ex CN, DM&IR, and Great Northern ore cars they once owned all seem to be off the roster now.

Nicely done. I worked out of Klamath Falls back in the 70's both to Eugene and on the Modoc Line (and Alturas to Lakeview!). I remember interchanging lumber cars at Gilchrest Junction but never saw their locomotive. My father worked out Klamath Falls in the 40's and said the Klamath Northern used a Shay Locomotive back then. I did get called off the extra board one day to go over and fill in as a brakeman on the OC&E but it was an extra work train and we only went out a few miles so didn't get to see the whole line. Thanks for the memories

Fantastic! I love short line railroads!

Like 6 beautiful video, greetings 🚂👍👋

I love it, Dan! So many things in this video that are fascinating to me to watch, and especially from the perspective of your expertly piloted drone. I love the voice over too. You're a natural at it. First off, the GE SL-144 is such a cool engine and now there is really good video of one to reference here on RU-vid. I love the dual snowplows on it too. I wish a good model manufacturer would make one in HO-scale. Then it's mesmerizing to watch the ballast flowing out of the hoppers and the reloading of them too. Luke and his coworker must've walked the entire length of the railroad during this job. At 8:44 at Crecent, it looks like there used to be another railroad and a diamond right next to the grade crossing. Thanks again for this one, Dan. 👍

You would think they would have more than two hoppers so they wouldn't have to go back to the mill and reload with ballast rock.

Dan, Now your talking!!! Very interesting for the true railfan.That's up by the "old" Weyerhaeuser railroads, Columbia and Cowlitz, Chehalis Western R.R. and Oregon, California and Eastern. Dan, are there any Logging rail operations around that you can do some features on? I was wondering about this "one horse" railroad. It's like you read my mind. That's a unique engine, reminds me of the C-415, on the Columbia & Cowlitz. Hope you get a good following with the audio. Very beautiful area of backwoods, that you are blessed to be at. As always! Happy Trails! 😊 😊 Oh! Cool Logo on the cab!

Hey Dan! I was wondering if you knew the normal operating times of the Klamath Northern…I’m taking a trip up there, and I’m hoping to catch the railroad in action!

Dan, where are you when you’re filming with the drone? Do you drive around to all your filming sites and what type of drone do you use?

Any idea or a guess of how much area one load of two cars would cover? Was it even a mile? Just curious. Great video. Thanks!

Hey Dan I was looking at that road next to the track, not the powerline road. on google earth it says it will take you back to Hwy 58 .Anyone know if my AWD all terrain tires would make it ?

Is it effective to just dump new ballast on top of whatever is there? I would have expected that they somehow excavate and remove the used and worn ballast first.

Is that Elsey/Table Mountain basalt ballast? (Same as UPRR uses?)

So that machine packs the dirt under the ties?

Balast cars must have been too old to interchange? Or is UP really incapable of routing something from Albany to Crescent Jct?

Those workers will get silicosis if not wearing some type of respiratory protection.

Dumping ballast without a respirator violates safety rules and causes lung damage from silica in the dust.

Dan, I worry about your buddies dumping ballast and it doesn't look like they're wearing masks. That's rock dust and it's so bad for lungs.

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