MAN CAUSES TRAIN TO GO INTO EMERGENCY! ANOTHER MAKES A LIFE SAVING DECISION. SUNSET WITH MUSIC 

I think we all feel the same way about the person that caused the Train to go into emergency and stressed out the crew. We also hope someone recognizes him and notifies the authorities. And thank all of you for being civil about it when something like this happens.

LOVED that La Plata sunset on the day that Klaatu died! God was telling us that he was welcomed into Heaven with open arms by that GORGEOUS sky. RIP, sir! 😢🙏

I totally agree....crews should NEVER have to go through this!

12:27 i hope that man is arrested for disturbing the peace, and interfering with the railroad.

This Grab Bag is dedicated to memory of Klaatu (think that’s how you spell his username), a longtime viewer on the La Plata railfan streams. He was diagnosed with cancer on February 17, 2024 and passed away February 20th, 2024. He will be missed on the La Plata chat.

That dude that caused the train to go into emergemcy.....he needs.....nevermind. I don't want to get flagged.

When we saw the chap stop on the tracks waving his arms, we both said”is it a suicide action”? We both worked in psych situations so this could have been a real situation, but instead a numb nut trying for attention. To the crew who are slowly recovering from rapid heart rate and over load of adrenaline, good job.

Always hurts my heart to see these folks....who are obviously suffering from a mental break...walk out like that wanting to harm themselves in the mist horrific way imaginable, then traumatize the crew. Hope this person is identified and placed on a hold.

God Bless and comfort Klaatus family and friends.

I hate it every time someone would step out like that in front of my train... you never knew if they were serious or not. Usually they weren't serious, but you can't take that chance. I can almost head the engineer saying the expletive that matches his horn as his train grinds to a stop. I've been there a few times myself and it just sucks. And unfortunately I bet Flagstaff PD was nowhere near to arrest that guy or at least get him the help he needs.

RIP Klaatu! I remember when he got his first membership. My user name was Mr. Spock then. Of course we had fun with that.

You know it's a good day instead of a boring school day when virtual railfan uploads ;-)

The RF&P unit is their best one yet 👍

I love playing ‘’ here my train coming’ by jimi … the Berkeley version. Best country song ever

Love the Pong, guys. Keep 'em coming!

Including the full switching move was a nice extra treat. If I was in one of the cars that saw that I would become involved.

Had to laugh at the guy getting 'bopped' on the head by the bar as it happened to me too, but in a garage.

Just catching up on a missed grabbag and sorry to hear of Klaatus departure. Not many names I recognise but have seen many of his posts, and as a cancer survivor, its always sad when someone doesn't and is lost to it. Rest in peace big man, you where known around the world, in my case Scotland.

Wow! Excellent catching all the trains, especially the BNSF train in Flagstaff, Arizona, makes an emergency stop by a person, the CSXT1836 in Waycross, Georgia, the CSXT1713, also in Waycross, Georgia m, the railgrinder in Chehalis, Washington, the Herzog train in Fort Madison, Iowa, railroad crossing gate hits the man in the head in Deshler, Ohio, and so much more, I like them all, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much.

Loved Pong at 6:58 👍

6:55 Oh come on. PONG!?!?!! 😂 That had to be added later by video editors. If so, they did a good job! 12:45 I hope that man gets the help he needs. And you’re right, no crew should have to go through that. 😮

Wondered what it would look like on Earth when the sun expands billions of years from now. The gorgeous video at 30:25 is pretty close. The sky looked like it was on fire. Amazing

Great bag catch! The barcode my all time fav unit.

R.I.P. Klaatu from a fellow moderator, La Platian and "hooligan." You'll be missed. And another name shall be inscribed on La Plata's Memorial Bench.

Thank you again VRF for another great Grab Bag! Nothing like sitting back with a glass of wine, headphones on, and hear them beautiful train engines, heaven! And the beautiful sunset with the music, wow, had to rewind that so hubby could hear it as he is playing guitar now. He loved it! 😍😍😍

Thanks I love the video Blessings ❤️😧😀☺️

Nice sunset ... RIP Mark .... Godspeed Brother!

Thank you vR for another awesome video love watching these each and everyday

We had one of those cute little Trackmobile car haulers like they show at 0:42 at the company I retired from. It had rubber tires as well as the flanged wheels so we could spot it anywhere around the yard.

that la plata sunset is beautiful

I hope they have some type of cab video of that guy who forced the train into emergency. They could probably find him through the Flagstaff police department.

Excelente!!!!! Parabéns!!

That's another beautiful sunset ending to the video. I have always loved the way the setting sun turns the rails to gold. I would always love coming home from work on the train, and just where the track did a 'S' curve, the setting sun would leave a picture of strips of gold ahead of the train. On the other hand, the driver of the train has all my sympathy, having to drive into the sun, making seeing the signals almost impossible. It can be treacherous enough as it is in a car, as I know from sad experience.

hello Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks Virtual Railfan Friends Randy

😍*gasp* 00:45 - I want one!

R.I.P. Mark, from France.

OK….even with all the rare, unusual, exciting things shown on this fantastic channel, the picking-up of the set-out Superliner car at Galesburg ( 4:00 ) has got to be one of the RAREST THINGS one would ever expect to see in real life! A seriously contender for “Rarest Catch” in the Grab-Bag, ever….even more rare than the BNSF “Golden Swoosh”! COOL STUFF! 🤩

12:48 guy should be sited... not sure what but there must be a legal law or something he can be fined or arrested, both the conductor and engineer should have free therapist consulting too...

sheeeeesh, not his first time, it is like he knows

I remember the days of driving a trackmobile. I derailed it once. Had to get a diesel tow truck to pull it back on the tracks

Wow who knew that a little machine could pull that train

*Nice Catches*

A friend mentioned these people operating trains stressed out by people who interrupt their shifts, right out of the blue that came from her. I said 'Thank you!' on behalf of people hardly mentioned, along side the countless other people such as car and truck drivers who have that happen and aren't recognized for their unplanned and unwarranted part in it. I think it's high time, someone pays when it's possible to hold someone to account. Either those doing that to taunt other people if they live or whoever is responsible for the care of people in the case of that so-called "care" not actually helping but harming or ending lives while ruining the lives of those who're working or commuting. I see people out this way on tracks and some are pedestrians on the wrong kinds of paths, pests or not looking with their full faculties, yelling profanities or screaming inaudible words. Plus we get lots of full and empty shopping carts left very close, at times I estimate within feet to inches, I pull them away before anyone needs to know for sure how close they are left. Calling around for cart pickups proves useless, more end up there before any somehow disappear and then there's more. I have seen seven carts, plus the garbage that is dumped out. Why? I couldn't guess. Some day, pieces of that kind of wire cart or hard debris may enter a nearby home if not whole parts of a train with its operators. And then there's people who cross stopped trains. First I saw of that, thankfully the last so far, a young teen maybe, I ran yelling to get her off it, but she was too quick. That train was moving, not where we were, but it was in action and our area of cars moved right after she got through. I hope I get wide dissemination of this one message. Please share.

Reve bear and Sky bear should be waking up soon.

Awesome compilation !

any further information about that emergency stop? how soon afterwards did the train start moving?

Love the Pong placement on that Loram lol. RIP Klaatu

6:57 I can't wait for a Pong simulation on a passenger car window, made with cellphones... 🙂😉

i smell a darwin

that guy in flagstaff should be in jail for doing that wow that is nuts

6:59 Pong! 15:01 Great camera work Fantastic sunset 🌇 Awesome as always, thanks for sharing 👍

Brilliant Video! 👍🌼🇮🇳🌼👍

lots of interesting stuff going on in this one. thx

That little shunter is so cute

30:25... Doink, ow ow ow... 😆

3:29 "Byeeeee!" 3:44 "Nah just kidding, hang on a sec." 4:27 "Okay, now byeeeeeeee!"

Another great grab bag video. Thumbs up

12:30 I'm amazed that train could stop that fast. Those brakes must be glowing hot.

Nothing like a welded rail train on Horseshoe Curve, and it was dropping rail, already bent.

5:12 - The most impressive thing to me about the train at Kingsley Inn in fort Madison wasn't the big flat car but the caboose. I miss cabooses. 30:24 - That "boing" sound made me laugh out loud.

Unfortunately that seems to happen in flagstaff alot. Like the guy taking one to the noggin That's learning the hard way. Beautiful sunset in LaPlata.

another day another darwin!

Rip klatuu ☹️❤️

That man should be arrested and charged to the max. The railroad doesn't have time for ignorance like that.

The guy looked like he'd been drinking 😵‍💫

The Pong add-in was hilarious!

I hope this doesn't get that guy with the pong game fired.

12:35 you can hear someone telling him we was doing something dumb. Man should go to jail.

Good stuff.

Question: once a train goes into emergency, does it have to completely stop to reset?

Apparently the Amtrak Passenger Car on the Siding in Galesburg had a Broken Axle. It was apparently taken to Denver but then taken Back to Chicago. 🤔

@12:47, I would've never put my train into an emergency. What would've happened just would've happened and brought the train to a controlled stop.

06:56 Yeah, that's just what the Big RR Executives are doing right now. -- - - - - - - Maybe that was an executive MOV car?????

Did anyone else notice the Cotton Belt car at 1:34?

Excellent Grab Bag and the Darwin that caused the train to stop, needs to be put in jail, so he can think about what he did.

It looks like they've added an old baggage car to the SD24T4 powered rail test train, tool car perhaps?

0:37 the trackmobile emerges! These switching vehicles can maneuver off rails when needed 2:48 P42 164 in Phase IV and dash 8 515 on the Capitol Limited 3:33 picking up the Superliner that got its axle replaced a few grab bags ago 4:51 two Empire Service Phase III P32AC-DMs and two more Genesis locomotives on a 6-car Empire Service! 5:14 empty heavy haulage train placed after the rear DPU 6:20 Loram ballast wheel moving at night 7:38 Herzog well train moving on its own 9:07 Federal Paper Board Company tall hoppers filled with woodchips 9:41 CSX 1836 leading solo 10:09 man running trying to beat the train gives up when he reaches the first track and the train is already on the third track's crossing surface 10:23 NS 4045 stops NS 38 on the crossing 12:06 I think he was trying to hurt himself, but walks away at the last second! 13:32 all CSX power (aside from manned helpers) over Horseshoe curve 15:36 CSX 7264 is powered by 20% biodiesel. CSX 1836 is also trailing on this train 16:12 inspection train with Franken-GEVO finally leaves its siding 18:20 long-hood-forward leader over Horseshoe Curve, followed by welded rail being laid 24:38 Lake Shore Limited passes a CSX local job 25:22 CSX GEVO and SD40-3 doubleheading on a BNSF train at two locations! 26:08 Amtrak 187 with Big Game Train logos pulls the Empire Builder 27:23 NS 1111 leading 27:47 backhoe perched in an old hopper car to unload ties 28:18 nice to see this happen on the Burlington bridge 29:12 NS 1065 leading 29:46 replacing FREDs, something I've never seen before! I've only seen the removal or addition of one 30:18 Hit me! No, not like that!

One thing I was taught as an engineer was to never go into emergency before the incident has occurred incase in never actually occurs.

Looked like that La Plata BN was rolling into a nuclear blast.

There is a SPECIAL place for special people like that called jail.

6:57 I see what you did there. 😂

12:00 they should fine those facts

12:33 right here

😂 7:10 haha. 😂😂😂

I’m not sure if the police of Flagstaff will finding this man who playing chicken with the BNSF freight train. I may not be a law enforcement expert for the reaction and as the result of “play chicken” incident. Either he or (a she), would get an extended fine or charged for interfering to railroad operation of private property. They would may temporarily arrested until they can let it off with a stern warning.

Hope we get updates on the guy that stopped the train, hope the guy gets arrested.

R.I.P., Klaatu

I posted a comment on the channel before about a high school kid who sat on the tracks and let the train hit him. This person should be made to go and view those pictures then not allowed to clean themselves. BTW, there is a section that anyone trespassing on railroad property can receive a citation but in today’s world they probably would have dismissed the case but you have to catch him first.

At 15:09..Ultrasonic rail surface testing vehicle?

Some people don't get is that trains (Passenger and Freight) can't stop on a dime therefore crashing into whatever is in it's road

A new Grab Bag episode with awesome train action and the greatest crews around the country along with people however that don't abide by the rules on the tracks but another great episode thanks.🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇲🇨🇦

12:50 Once the brakeline pressure was totally released, musthe train come to a stop? Or could pressure be increased in the brake line to cause the brakes to release? Were I athat crossing, I would gotten out and done a citizen's arrest and called police.

wow what a terrible thing for someone to do in Flagstaff. At first I thought maybe he was actually having thoughts of unaliving, but it actually looked like that wasn't the case and he was joking around or whatever.

40 seconds!

Pretty sure some crew, would say oh well. We tried. Really can't feel sorry for people like that guy. In my opinion.

It looked like the guy was attempting to commit suicide. Although we knew the outcome, it was nerve racking to watch.

The man on tracks 12:06

The Loram equipment @ 6:20 looks like a train wreck. When a trains goes into "emergency" does it have to come to a complete stop evert time? Not like a vehicle letting off the brakes. @ 21:00 the car carrying the transformer looks like it has counter weights on each end on the one side. Does that make sense?

At 12:30, faster, the train will win.

10:25 More cars clogging up the "Don't Stop Here!" zone at the level crossing in Austell