I don't normally comment, but when I saw USS LST 325 I had to call my son. I wasn't sure about the number. My son's grandpa, my father-in-law, served on USS LSt 325 in WWII. Pretty exciting to, kind of, see this boat on Virtual Railfan. I am a big enthusiast of trains, maybe not as big as some, but I have always loved trains. I am subscribed and I have been watching your channel for just over a year I think. I love America and I love my freedom. The rails of this country are a part of what has made us great.
While we're talking family who were on LST, Dad was on LST 1126, Snohomish County, in early 1960s. It was in commission 1945 to 1970. He tells of being in a storm at sea with it empty and standing in the cargo area ('Well deck'?) watching the hull flex from the wave action. That is not odd considering an LST of that era was basically just a floating box with a couple engines. Dad wasn't much of a railfan until we had chance to go inside an E8 in the 1980s and its two EMD 567 engines turned out to be the same type engines the LST had.
Pleased to see Ft Madison coverage of museum ship USS LST 325 (Landing Ship Tank) based in Evansville, IN now in midst of her annual 3 wk inland waterway cruise as she is a fully operational almost 80 year old memorial. A veteran of the Italian invasion as well as D-Day she has some railroad tie ins. Several LSTs were equipped with railroad tracks so at D-Day Normandy they could land rail equipment thru their bow doors to a nearby rail line connection for use in the invasion operations. Also notably each LST was powered by 2 EMD V-12 567 A Block diesels, the same as used in early EMD locomotives!
The bridge "swivel" in Fort Madison ... what nice little bonus! Always something interesting going on ... great videos, lots of work putting them together, I'm sure! Thanks for sharing! [Greetings from Tucson where we've got one really nice train depot and museum!]
I loved that panorama shot pf Big 10 Curve at rhe end with downtown Denver in the distance. It was great! I haven't been back to Colorado for more than 20 years; I miss it a lot. That Santa Fe "Yellow Bonnet" at 3:43 was also nice to see. Not many of those around anymore. Someday, I hope BNSF will bring out three heritage units with all three of Santa Fe's "bonnet" locomotives. Sure would be nice to see! Also, that piece of music at the end, "Big Sur," was a perfect companion to end the video. It was very inspiring; thank you for sharing that. I found it on Amazon Music and added it to my playlist. 👍
Thanks for another great Grab Bag. Liked the switching sequence at Chehalis and wonder which is the other Railroad that connects there, please? And at last, a Darwin dressed for the occasion.
Its always nice to seen green BN units still on the roster with BNSF. I was a young railfan when BN and ATSF merged; at the time I lived near a decent ATSF yard, and that yard is still in service
Kudos to CSX for getting into the Heritage schemes, albeit three quarters of the locos. Now if we can only convince the "Oracle of Omaha" to turn in the nine decals and paint those schemes on the actual locomotives!
Love the "runaround" at Chehalis - excellent view of the "lift frog" in action. The light is just right at 18:02 to show the wheel lifting above the rail
Can u put a cams at Clark’s Bears, Winnepesaukee Scenic Railroad/Hobo Railroad, Cog Railway and Conway Scenic Railroad as well? When are U gonna do it?
Darwin for sure, but what bad planing that a train has to park across a crossing? Suppose it was a fire truck try to get through to save someone’s life. I remember that in a signal control cabin I was in once that there were notes on signals saying do not hold train here, the idea being to use a previous signal so a crossing is not blocked.
I swear, the darwains really go through great links to put themselves in horrible danger from what I've seen throughout these compilations -_- Aside from that these are amazing videos, I always look forward to them so I can see the great and instresting things the cameras pick up : )
With the amount of Darwin's appearing to increase it's only a matter of time until someones luck eventually runs out on camera unfortunately. Hopefully it doesn't happen too soon.
I caught that CSX C&O Heritage Unit in Kenly, he was late, didn't get to me until about 10pm that Saturday and a little bit later, I caught CSX Seaboard System Heritage Unit leading I032
Toody,and Muldoon strike again! Definitely,someone in your crew,is dating themselves! The late great Fred Gwenn[?],was an all around actor,who also starred in the Munsters! Memories!! Thank you 😇 😊!!
Not usually. Loaded vehicle cars are handled pretty expeditiously, so they don't stop long enough for vandals to get at them, and especially not in cities. They will be at an auto facility that is heavily secured, or in a railyard that is similarly secured with a lot of bright lighting and crew activity. Aside from that, the "artists" of graffiti, the ones who paint the really impressive stuff, have their own code of.... less-than-honor, where they won't tag the actual freight, reasoning that doing so costs people money. For the record, tagging freight cars also costs people money, because then we have to repaint them for like $50,000 a pop, but your average graffiti painter doesn't know that.
Does anybody know why sometimes you'll see a freight train with a couple of old passenger cars on the back of it? I've noticed that a couple of times in these videos.
Big Sandy gets ignored again. It had 3 heritage units go through over the weekend, with a meet between two of them and on went through twice and not a peep. UP1111, NS8100 and NS8099 all went through. UP1111 and NS8100 had a meet, also NS8100 went through twice. And we told a mod about all of them.
Export/import, mostly. With the price caps and regulations of Bidenomics, we're back to the days of fossil fuels being more profitable to ship overseas for sale or refining, hence the massive bulk shipments of fuel oils we've been handling. Under Trump's deregulation, most interstate shipping could be handled by trucks, since a single fuel truck will supply a gas station for a week or so. Most refining is done on the coasts, right next to the enormous boats that take multiple train loads to fill, and they have pipelines there. Inland, the large wellsprings have their own refineries. But if the wells are shut down or have their capacity artificially reduced, it's cheaper to ship crude to the larger, operational, and profitable refineries on the coasts. Same thing happened under Obama, and before that, Carter.
