SEPARATION, LIGHTNING, FORT WALL REMOVAL & PIGGLY WIGGLY! SEQUENTIAL ENGINE 8572/73, SHAVE & HAIRCUT 

We still have Piggly Wiggly’s in Wisconsin. I once dated a very pretty assistant manager at our store. She absolutely made that Piggly Wiggly.

Sad seeing Fort Madison being dismantled. History hauled-off to a landfill. What's next? Timeshare condos at Yellowstone?

Really enjoyed seeing a Leigh Valley heritage unit.

The Grab Bags are absolutely righteous brother. Keep it up.

Piggly Wiggly first outlet opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee, and is notable as the first true self-service grocery store

Shoppin at the PIG, fer sure!

I grew up going to piggly wiggly, they used to give the best cookies while your parents were shopping.

It's saying alot but that Wabash Heritage unit has to be the best one overall so far! Man that's sharp!

17:06 Wow that’s very interesting these single level Utah front Runner commuter cars are a long way from home I wonder where they’re being taken to?

0:12 That trucking company reminds me of the Golden Pig Intermodal service the Southern Pacific had back then. Just a thought.

Wow Piggly Wiggly still exists! That last one I saw was when I went to CDL school in Dunn NC back in 2015.

Wow! Excellent catching all the trains, especially the Heritage Units, lighting strikes in Rochelle, Illinois, and so much more, @Virtual Railfan, I like them all, thank you very much.

nice collection of moments! And yeah, Piggly Wiggly, gotta love that store branding. I first encountered it in Florida visiting parents. But they were more fond of the more dignified "Food Lion."

First time I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kid and saw a *Piggly Wiggly truck I thought it was made up and then you guys have one on camera!!!

Piggly Wiggly opened a store here. Great fanfare and publicity. Many people went. Once... Heck some might remember Mick or Mack stores, that for years was the only place to get really good lard, prices and selection were comparable to the bigs but the municipalities in a lot of places taxed them out... Sorry for a mini rant, Wonderful Grab bag!

WAMX can sure paint locos in striking colours.

"Oh sir, wasn't it smashing!" quote from some children's book that i read backalong The sequence at Galesburg with the shunt and the freight dividing in half and then the speeded up section 10X was the one I really liked I really liked it all! 😁

That lightning was amazing, but I'm so sorry that tornados came with it. And after watching trains allow people to get off and grab their forgotten stuff, board late and so on, it seems to me that the railroads still embody a lot of that Georgia fallen flag slogan of "Courtesy and service." You won't get that from a jet plane!

Hello Grab Bag🚂Friends👋🏻

Piggly Wiggly still has an active distribution center in Bessemer AL just west of Birmingham right off of I-20/59

Multiple examples that Amtrak really cares.

Great video 👍 love the grab bags! Darwin's 👺

Hope they get the belen cam fixed i like that cam and what a crazy driver at ft madison and that train split wow

Wow what a great Grab Bags as always

14:00. That is one very important alternator!!!!

0:12, Piggly Wiggly, Shop the Pig!

*Nice Catches*

Chessie System ❤

I love Grab bag time!

Piggly wiggly started in memphis and pioneered DIY shopping vs having a clerk get it there were boatloads of em in the south east but foodlion and publix are the main regional rivals i

Belen had a Piggly Wiggly and a Safeway, but with the creation of Amtrak, Belen lost the passenger rail and both stores closed down. Several retail outlets (Sprouse Reitz, T.G. & Y, Sears catalog store) made a go of it for a couple of years, but they also shut down. The merger of BNSF and twenty Hollywood movies made there breathed new life into the town.

3:03 Look at those really old and rare CP boxes! Also, at 17:46 I caught that specific CEFX AC4400, 1043, like 3 times within a week because he wouldn't stop following me when I was railfanning lol

19:09 Cool to see sequential numbered locos. I recently saw three at the BNSF Denver loco shop. 3308,3309, 3310, & 3311. All looking shiny and new. Think they were just passing through and were on a service and fueling layover for a few days. 😊

Very awesome video thanks

Nice time lapse at Galesburg

Piggly Wiggly is only on East Coast, here in the West we have Safeway

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

22:46 I like how the angle of the Galesburg, IL camera allows us to see slack-action delay as the crew pushes the separated train back together.

Okay, I'm Australian, so I don't know what the story is, but why are they pulling down the wall of the fort?

The reason for the lightning was that us IL residents had 6 small tornadoes last night

Odd to see the Front Runner in PA. It's actually a commuter train for the Wasatch Front in Utah.

Trivia: Piggly Wiggly was the first grocery store chain that introduced self service for getting items

Lots of great NS Heritage Units, good video VRF!🛤🚂

Yeah it was interesting last night in Illinois with those storms.

1:29 86ft boxcars including a Chessie System one 2:41 CSX 3415 has a Georgia Railroad sticker on its nose 3:14 CSX SD40-3 trailing on a BNSF train 3:46 MOW equipment passing Paradise (again at 21:20) 4:25 CSX 1869 leading with a Do not Hump automated inspection boxcar 4:42 CSX 1836 leading 15 minutes later 5:10 although this train just barely cleared the crossing before it stopped, this driver didn't take into account other trains that might be coming 5:27 Amtrak 187 with Big Game Train logos on the Empire Builder 6:50 P42 and SC44 doubleheading the Carl Sandburg with an Amfleet cafe and three Venture cars 8:42 removing the wall at the old Fort Madison. This is a 1970s replica depicting its 1803 appearance as the original would've been located where the tracks are at 369 ave H (the camera is at 709 ave H) 10:20 private cars on the rear of the California Zephyr 12:18 D&H hopper 13:08 New Haven P32AC-DM 230. It is owned by CTDOT as are the passenger cars with the red stripe 13:47 three locos for a heavy haul of a large machine 14:21 CRRC carbodies tarped up. I don't see a logo on either tarp 15:58 NS 1070 as mid-train DPU 16:45 Utah Frontrunner Comet I coaches! These were stored at the Abilene & Smoky Valley for a while after being retired in 2022. HRMX is Heritage Rail Management. 19:05 sequential locomotive together! 22:30 train snaps in half! 23:52 NS 8101 as DPU

What was up with the fort wall removal?

Whats happening to the Fort in Fort Madison?

🌲🌱🇮🇳🌱🌲 Awesome Video!

I guess the late Amish passenger in La Plata couldn't get their horse started.

P42's rule Chargers don't

What a shame they removing the wall at fort madison alot history getting destroyed

Good stuff at 21:33

Great grab bag. Lunatic Darwin had no idea whether a train was approaching on either of the other two tracks! It’s a kinda sad day for me, as many of my favourite cams go on subscription after tomorrow so I’ll be unsubscribing and wishing VRF a fond farewell. Thanks for all the memories, it’s been a blast!

I dig the pig.

15:26 AND THEN ALONG CAME ZEUS

You showed a tug (really a push) and barge on the river at Fort Madison, but you didn't show the bridge open.

Now, we are waiting for the hogly wogly truck...

lol 23:40

I saw this part live 8:36

NS 9862 Delivering 5 UTA/Frontrunner Comet Cars To Utah At Horseshoe Curve (TIMESTAMP AT 17:15)

The CSX at FTM, how far did that end up going? Not very often have I seen a CSX engine there.

@22:55 Is anyone else bothered by the fact that it looked like the shove just pushed the separated train together without hooking up train air? Unless I missed something, it seemed like a continuous shove. How were the cars brakes not still set from the emergency application? What am I missing?

What's with the fence tear down at Fort Madison? Replacing the rotten materials?

How do yall determine where to put cameras? I know 2 spot in Knoxville Tennessee that’d provide a lot of traffic and one spot that’d get some gorgeous shots!

Surprised to see a lot of Amish on the rails, but easier than an airplane TSA line……

Why are they taking the wooden wall around the fort down?

hey I was just wondering what is this box car called with the red light underneath?

I have never believed that a sleeping kitty was a good logo for a freight railroad...

do future videos need some daredevil stunts

Um, aren't commercial vehicles supposed to stop at rr crossings ?????

What is Piggly Wiggly?

But why tear down the old fort!? 🤔

1:24 a GG1???

Thank God for freight, seeing all of those passenger cars with three or four people on board is sickening.

Was there a Darwin candidate? I missed it. Anyone have a time stamp?

PIGGLY WIGGLY makes the worst ketchup in the world.