Scenic Palouse River & Coulee City Railroad (4K) | March 29, 2024 

Just breathtaking landscape - really enjoyed it very much! Thanks for sharing!

You are one of the most under-subscribed content creators. Wishing you growth!

Thank you so much. I grew up in Tekoa WA and my Dad used to order anhydrous ammonia cars for Gardner & Smith Fertilizer & Chemical in Tekoa and Oaksdale. Dad had a pass and the agent's son in Tekoa was a high-school friend so we'd occasionally ride in the caboose south to the county seat in Colfax on the UP. In those days (mid 70's) typical power was a GP-9 or GP-7 A & B.unit combination If we were very lucky we got to ride in the cab. Living in Tekoa as a kid I got to see the UP from my grandmother's back porch, the Milwaukee cross the viaduct in Tekoa from my parent's front porch, and the Northern Pacific from my Aunt's back yard in Oaksdale. It's so great to see your excellent work. I can almost smell the journal grease, creosote, and diesel exhaust from my childhood. Perfect....

You created a video of your friends life on the railroad for his family and friends too see forever, very cool my friend 😊

Love the Zentner geology and trains to boot!

So many great things here. The Palouse, to me, is a very scenic and fascinating area. Your drone shots showed the terrain very well. I see that the summer wheat had already sprouted-nice and pure green. Nice also to see the railroad has some shuttles from local to terminal elevators. That’s long-gone with the class ones and grain trucks now perform the shuttles in most of the country. The Palouse terrain also doesn’t allow for the loop load-outs such as on the BNSF at Tokio. Another fun part of your drone shots was watching the ground chasers leap frogging and sometimes having to flip around when confronted with a dead end. Well, well done Mr. Dan-you made my day!

Seeing this small rr, and its operation , in that location, fantastic, thank you

Talk about literally EVERYTHING falling in place on this trip!! The timing of the arrival with the train leaving is crazy, but to have known the engineer is next level!!!

Thank you for showing the switching. I grow up on the old SP Mt. Shasta/Dunsmuir CA line back in the mid 60s. I have vary vague memories of the big SP engine moving backwards to hook up to our "home". Love your videos.

Thank you for showing LaCrosse, Wa. Your videos are will done and enjoy watching them.

Thank you for this video on the Palouse & Coulee City Railroad, Dan! The train, with your friend Jason as the engineer, took us on a wonderful trip through the Palouse area of the State of Washington. The train traveled through some beautiful landscapes which your drone footage was able to show us. You mentioned that engine, WAMX 5012 began life as a Chicago & North Western Railroad GP50 in 1980. As a Chicago & North Western Railroad fan, I noticed that the gong bell that the CNW had attached to the front of engine is still there. I did some research and found that WAMX 5012 started life as CNW 5095 and was built in August 1980. Chicago & North Western placed an order for the first 50 GP50s ever built for delivery in 1980. These 50 engines were purchased primarily for use on the CNW's Falcon TOFC trains which ran from Global I in Chicago, Illinois to Fremont, Nebraska. At Fremont, Nebraska the train was handed over to the Union Pacific for delivery to the west coast. Global I was CNW's yard located east of Western Avenue and 14th Street in Chicago, Illinois. This was the first of CNW's TOFC/COFC yards. Union Pacific still uses Global I to originate and terminate intermodal trains. Global I was built on the site of CNW's "Potato Yard". The "Potato Yard" was the yard where trains of refrigerated cars (originally Iced bunker cars and later mechanical cars) loaded with produce from the western states and other locations to Chicago. At this yard local produce buyers and east coast produce buyers would inspect the cars to purchase the contents. The cars of produce heading to the east coast would be transferred to other railroads to head east.

Another awesome video featuring , "The Chase"! Good job, and great scenery of Eastern Washington.

Shortlines are always exciting and this one is no exception. The rolling hills are amazing, especially when we see them from high above. No wonder this area is famous. The little towns the train goes through are lovely. Typical American country towns, where life is much slower and quieter than in the big cities. The spring weather was very nice and the green fields are cool. It's awesome you could chase your friend's train. Wonderful movie again Dan. Your updates never disappoints.

Another amazing video of an equally amazing region. Wow...so much in this one, I kept checking off mental boxes in my head of all the neat things going on there. I loved it. 🤠👍

Great Video!

super great video sir ❤❤😍😍👌👌

Great video. Countless scenes that would be great for model railroad applications.

Thanks! Love these short-line videos Dan❤🤗🚂

The Palouse region sure is pretty in the early spring. This video was truly a delight. Well done, Dan!

Another well done video Dan and I agree with you, the scenes with the train along the river are the best.

Another fantastic video! You do an amazing job of capturing the countryside - a better view than if I was there myself!

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Another wonderful video ! I appreciate all the knowledge and hard work that go into these videos .

Another excellent video. Thank you

Great stuff Dan! Been watching for some time now. great way to enjoy a cup of coffee.

Your video is very enjoyable, great views from the air, good to see your countryside & so much information, good to this on RU-vid from England uk 🇬🇧 April 2024 thank Dan😊

Several years ago your videos introduced me to Joso trestle and Palouse Canyon, which became part of a memorable day's drive in 2022 from The Dalles to Spokane through Colfax. Amazing and varied scenery, Lyons Ferry Road getting to Joso was a highlight (of stark and distinctive landscape, it's not train country). Then a southbound train on the trestle, what luck! Your services to tourism should be recognised. 😊 John from Australia.

This one small train took at least nine tanker trucks off the highway, probably more. That scene "East of Endicott" with the wheat fields disappearing over the hill was awesome. It would be neat to see it in different seasons. I know, its a long way from Eugene!

I appreciate all the research you put into the operation of these lines, scouting locations and your amazing drone flight & videography skills.

I am really enjoying your videos. Every place you film has it's own beauty. It would be interesting to see a video of the Kettle Falls railroad up here in the NE part of Washington. Thank you so much!

YEAH going there this weekend !

An absolutely gorgeous video, and so well shot. Thank you.

Absolutely spectacular! Bravo!

Nicely done!

Thank you for your time Dan, where ever trains are that is a good spot I think. You can see some of those old cuts where the roads were realigned that I mentioned in the last show. Paul

Just gonna say I love your drone work / photography. You really do know how to capture the good scenes. Peace. (oh btw I have been living in Walla Walla for just over 3 years so this area is really fun for railfanning)

Very time consuming and brilliant video Dan.

I know it's already been done before, and you've done it as well, but seeing Tehachapi in the winter with the snow (if it gents a good dusting :p) would be amazing. Something I wish to see in person but also from drone, and your skills are amazing. I can only imagine what a snowy Tehachapi video would look like. ^-^

great Video Dan !! 👏👏👍👍

I was lucky enough to ride that line in the 2000’s. Funny but as I’m watching I’m saying to myself how much faster it looks like the trains running compared to what I remember as either 5 MPH or 10 MPH track. Glad to hear they can run faster now.

Thanks for this one, the scenery a bit more homespun than typical on your channel. I've been through this country by auto, a little bit south of this stretch, on the way to Orofino in Idaho, something like 15 years ago. I wax nostalgic. And thank goodness I am not trains-phobic.

Another fantastic production! Honestly I really enjoyed narrated switching videos so if you were to do one I would definitely watch it at least once! Thanks again

Awesome...new sub from WV!

You know, at the beginning of the video when your engineer buddy was in the loco with no train behind him and with all the pretty scenery around I would have really been tempted to put the loco on "autopilot" and just stand at the front like I was on my own private train...ha ha! And yeah, it was too bad you didn't "swoop down" and say Hi to your friend that would've been cool! With all the tech out there, do they make a drone with a speaker? Another fun video...Thank you!

Fascinating railroad country, much of it's present day shape formed by gigantic Ice Age floods thousands of years ago.

Great shot, nice video. You told about low speed... I thought so. 16 mph...

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Now I’m going to get technical-please no offense. The southbound unit grain train was a UP train with CPKC power leading and a UP DPU pushing.

Nice little lazy, "milk run".....uhh, I mean ammonia run.😄 Thanks, Dan.

Incredible...Do you mind if I take screen shots and save to my computer for my own use?

What highway is that near the rail

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