I took pictures at Danville but I didn't film there. I rode the 611 steam train there and back from Ludlow , Kentucky which is just across the river from Cincinnati. I did that twice and I also rode in a boxcar to Danville and back from the ohio River. I spent the day in Danville and then rode in another boxcar back . Stobe also rode a train through there
@@JawTooth That bull they had in the mid and late 90s there was a mean sucker! Ross everyone in jail first catch! Dry county too I remember having to hitch hike a ride to Lexington just to get beer..... lol
Some JawTooth quotes that I love "Stick around for some live action" "Go ahead and start the video son" "But wait there's mooore" enjoying the videos bro, keep it up
I remember about 3 years ago they seemed to be non-stop....I am looking at old L&N Division timetable from 1981, and there were 4 trains a day each way between Decoursey and Osborn yard....My brother in law worked for the L&N from the late 50's to the mid 90's. I could remember as a child and teenager at the L&N golf course in Bullit County...In the pool on a hot summer day watching trains go by.....wish I had a video camera in the 60's.....Would be nice to see CSX stop running trains so long 5000 to 6000 ft is more than enough. Nice video son... :)
50! That's amazing..here in Richmond we get 4, we used to get hundreds of coal trains a week but csx took away our grain and ethonal from the CC and coal went out of business..
@@JawTooth Alot more then we get lol. This place used to be awesome but CSX done messed it up, long before I started Railfanning here. The L&N railroad used to have a yard here, I could only imagine the stuff that came through here back 70 years ago
Makes sense, the balance of trains being routed through L&I, assuming the imbalance of southbounds to be loaded car racks. This being based on my observations i Columbus
There hasn't been a freight train through Santa rosa California in 40 years. The reason is the train tracks fell into the river. It used to go alongside a rocky mountain and that's where the tracks fell in the river. The company's that were hired mismanaged the money. So now we have little motor cars going up and down the tracks that were fixed. It will be years before it gets up north. When the freight trains were running there would be anywhere between 200 to 350 cars at a time. Your videos are awesome and stay safe out there.
The "STREET RUNNING TRAINS" are my ABSOLUTE favorite and I'm thinking that was close to 3miles long. Once again I enjoyed the video and keep it up and don't forget to give a shout out to "SHAWN IN DELMAR DELAWARE"
Glad you enjoyed it and I have a Street Running playlist. I will give you a shoutout in a video. I have a few already put together so it might take a while
I can't comprehend the stresses imposed on the couplings on the front parts of that train, pulling a load 2 miles long (despite the mid power unit). Incredible.
One of your best. I like the white background on the sub-titles and notes. That makes them easy to read, and keeping them at the bottom, they don't cover important elements of the picture. Please leave them on 3 - 4 seconds longer so I don't have to keep pausing. LaGrange is a nice old town. I have spent time downtown just looking at the beautiful old buildings. I would, as luck goes, have to be there a week to see a train though. Thumbs up to "Son's slide show".
video editors problem always read it twice they know what they are reading we have to make sense of it problem is 90% of the time editors just flash titles on with no regard to their customers who pay to watch programmes
This line also goes through the University of Louisville’s campus. I’ve noticed that the train frequency has decreased even from a few years ago. I hope that business picks back up eventually for them. This spot is rail fan heaven.
I plan on filming trains there. I was set to go there recently but they had some protests going on nearby that made me change my mind. I have been robbed a few times while railfanning but I want to go back there.
@@JawTooth I've never been threatened or robbed when I've gone to train watch but every time I went I would always lock my truck and keep all my electronics and valuables with me and where I could see both them and my vehicle at all times because then I would be able to tell if the vehicle or my items had been tampered with.
@@JawTooth yes JT I was reminded now that you mentioned being robbed and wanting to film trains inLouisville , my great uncle’s son worked on switch engine crew in yard at Louisville for L&N till he retired. My uncle said his son and some of the crews was shot at in some of area neighborhoods back then. Some of those locals in these cities work in some pretty rough areas.
I went there once and it is truly as magical as it looks. Nobody looks at you crazy for videotaping and photographing trains. Hope they always use this line.
Always enjoy the videos, though some are better than others. Trucks have long been eating away at railroad business. Add to that the decline of manufacturing in the US and you have fewer trains. Not so long ago there was the Panhandle Line that connected Pittsburgh and St. Louis through Columbus and Indianapolis. Conrail was ruthless in abandonments and it shut down in 1990. A bike trail exists there now in PA and WV, with a fiber optic cable buried underneath. If President Elect Hair Sniffer doesn't ban fracking, some of that Panhandle Line could open again. Western PA has lots of natural gas. The Wheeling and Lake Erie has several trains a day running through my town moving gas, and they even rebuilt an abandoned section of the old Montour RR to ship natural gas.
For a short time in 1979-1981 I went to the old Crestwood Elementary. My classroom faced the tracks and during that time a train would go through maybe every hour. Now it can go 8 or more hours between trains. Ford is a huge customer for CSX and the factory on Chamberlain Lane isn't far away. Back in the early 80s L&N trains would be loaded with autoracks heading towards Cincinnati with five or more locomotives. They were climbing a grade and be in notch 8 the whole time. Now they usually leave Ford and head towards Osborne Yard.
Fun and interesting, seeing these towns that have trains going through the streets. I had to laugh at your acting like the train sheds were porta-potties!! 🤣🤣
love watching your videos. i have a buddy of mine who works for union pacific out of st louis and goes to chicago regularly and has been very busy. but they are also shutting down 3 rail yards out of the mid west and have been moving a lot of engines and cars to other locations. and also said they have been putting a lot of engines and box cars into storage because of the virus. but the trains have been longer as well. this is what he was telling me.
Thanks, Jawtooth -- "that was pretty cool"! I love street running videos, and on one of my Trainz routes I modeled the Columbus and Chattahoochee's street running through Columbus, GA. That was an incredibly long train to run through a busy main street -- as someone below said, if you want to go somewhere in LaGrange be sure to set out early. Great mix of cars, and thanks for showing us the consist -- so many videos focus on the engines, but it's neat to see the variety of revenue cars in a mixed freight.
Awesome kind of town there Jaw Tooth! Love to get something to eat at one of those eateries and come outside to see some big auto racks and of course the DPUs come rolling by on the street!
Hi Jawtooth. Thanks for the Congratulations on me working at Amazon Fulfillment Center in Fontana, California San Bernardino County. We send product from our Facility to Cleveland, Ohio😊
Geez. I still am amazed at that Super Monster Train. For Kentucky and in the middle of town. We have Monster Manifests and Intermodals in Southern California, but never through town or city. The citizens of Kentucky must have their patience tried. That is...if they aren't Railroad Fans
That’s really not a fun fact JT. It’s depressing! I remember working on the Marriott hotel in Covington, KY back in the early 2000’s. The CSX bridge over the Ohio river, is just to the east of the hotel, and it was a constant parade of trains. It was nice to see all of the variety in lease units that were on the CSX, at the time. Great content as always, keep it up.
Awesome picture in kentucky CSX frieght train fleshing lights gates are down doing 25 miles per hour big town keep up the good work jaw tooth bless you happy Thanksgiving holiday season grain cars
Hello again from England. I only ever once visited the US for a month, and stayed in Texas back in 1980. However, since the UK's first lockdown, I have seen so many videos of La Grange, by you and others, and have watched the Virtual Railfan live cameras, that I feel that I know that bit of street. I see that a few minutes in, you were filming right under the live cameras. It certainly looks very different at street level. This is the first time that I have seen two locomotives forming mid train DPU. I understand that some of these trains are well over 2 miles long and have seen about 200 wagons/cars on one train. This bit of track still carries a huge volume of freight every day, even if there are less trains.
There is just something cool about a street running train! I have seen them in NY State and other areas. Although there are few, they are all cool as can be!
Hey Brian...you were not kidding about a long train. Definitely you need the DPU on these. Sadly many of the Major Railroads are having to combine trains due to cost saving measures. Its great to see these trains running along the main thoroughfare. I believe these longer trains and cutting down others is a trend we will continue to see indefinitely. Those working in the corporate level of these railroads are interested in maximizing their bottom line and saving money by reducing the number of routes. As old timers retire they are not keeping up with replacing them. CSX along with BNSF and the UP have taken simular action. Thankfully railroads continue to be a vital part of the shipping industry. Certainly Covid-19 has had somewhat of an effect but still not that significant. I know my buddy who's a 28 year Engineer with the BNSF wants to retire in the next few years. Said things went downhill after the BN merger with the Santa Fe.
Awesome video jaw tooth I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving maybe you might see some trains go by on Thanksgiving day too I saw three or four trains on Halloween and a few more on veterans day
Clicked that video of the Japanese forest railroad and saw your comment up at the top. When I read it I heard your voice in my head "Wow, that was cool!"
Flashing light? Didn't see it after rewinding twice. I liked your walk down Main St. I like quaint downtowns - a very small part of my hometown still looks like that.
Covid put a big hurt here in Schenectady. Trains were plentiful @ the 32 milepost but now you can sit up 3 hours without seeing anything. Selkirk yard is a ghost town.
Wow, Jaw Tooth! That has to be the longest train I've ever seen in my life! For a while there, it seemed like it was never ending! That was amazing! "Go ahead, start the video, son! WOOOOOOO!!!"
@Jawtooth love the channel and love seeing you promote some lesser known lines. Love the variety. I live in Michigan. I have Norfolk Southern Dearborn district line in my backyard. Used to be a lot of trains, but now we get maybe 3-5 locals a day if that. The line is maintained by Amtrak now, and is utilized by their Wolverine service. They were running 6 trains a day between Pontiac and Chicago but now it's just 2 due to the virus. I day trip down to Fostoria and Deshler quite a bit. Love the CSX traffic down there. Not sure of you ever get up that far or not. Anyway......I look forward to seeing your videos and hearing you say "Start the video son" :-) Keep up the great work!
Thanks for watching my videos! Yes, I have filmed Amtrak on that line. I got them in Michigan right near the border and I spent 2 nights in motels in Northern Indiana where I could see that line. One motel I stayed in was in Michigan City and I could see a railroad bridge that moved for the trains. I made videos of those a few years ago
As far back as 1995, in Western Nebraska, coal trains coming East out of Wyoming, were 5 miles in length. They would split them into shorter trains at North Platte, N.E., before going on Eastward. I thought the family and I would suffer Heat Stroke, before they cleared the crossing. We didn't have A.C. in our vehicle at the time and it was the hottest Summer in years. Better prepared today. FYI: I lost count when you zoomed in towards lead locomotives. I estimated around 167 cars & 4 engines.
Now take a seat and close your eyes. Not suppose to be a pun. lol The only thing different is the sound of the locomotives. Love the trains going through LaGrange. Thanks for the video son!
You dont see many if the light future livery trains -nearly always the dark or the renaissance livery machines these days ! Good catch Jawtooth -seems strange -no horn -just some leviathan slipping bye quietly! Few flat wheels by the sounds too ! Regards
The LH&StL”Texas” line between Louisville and Henderson, currently has no scheduled trains between Henderson and the west side of Owensboro. This line had about 4 thru trains daily, then was cut down to one East bound auto rack. In March that auto rack train was re-routed. The only thing running on it are a couple of J trains between Owensboro and Louisville. The rails between Henderson and Owensboro are getting rusty. The Henderson Sub(Evansville, IN to North Nashville, TN) has picked back up since then.
I counted 175 cars, possibly missing one, but I don't really think I did- since my childhood I've been a train car counting nut :) Street running is unique and I'm glad they still do it.
Same number I came up with, given that I counted the doublestack car as three cars (platforms) but the articulated coaltainer car as a single. (I also count articulated auto carriers as singles)
If one is caught at these crossings just shut off the car, get out the lawn chair and watch it go by as it is going to take a while for the train to clear. I, being a railfan ,would enjoy just seeing it go by.
JT, about your fun fact about RR's losing customers. It may not be so much fun for the RR's. And less trains is not so much fun for us rail fans. Maybe it should be a "sad fact." :(
As interesting as they are, I kinda surprised street running trains are still a thing. I'm sure local traffic and businesses like that cafe must hate them. I would have thought bypassing the town would be cheaper for insurance, speed and safety reasons too.
Nice catch Jawtooth 2 locomotive as a dpu also autoracks mixed in with the consist aso and it's like 2 trains on one consist with a dpu in the middle awsome and i love it. And I noticed thay been using the blue end of train device instead of the red end of tran device.
Hi Jaw Tooth. I expect that the US railway companies don't regard the loss of 10% of their customers per year, as much fun, even if it is a "fun fact". That would also be contributory reason for less trains running through La Grange.
After watching this monster, one can see that's two trains. I thought I saw two NYC Conrail box cars. Don't see them in my neck of the woods. With respect to the former L&N branch, some half century ago I saw L&N engines at the Hardy Street Yard [SP] in Houston where we picked up/dropped off our power and caboose.
I definitely need to make a trip to La Grange. I saw across the street what looks like apartments on the second floor balcony with chairs and tables. I could see myself running to the door every time I heard a train lol
Really neet seeing a train going through town. I think that the last train through my town was in the 70s and after that during the local elections for a couple of years. Now the track is pulled out and covered by bicycle trails. It sure must have looked like this back when the lumber mills were running.
Lagrange lookin nice . PSR though becoming redicoulus . You stepped up your game and, but with PSR you may need a second battery . Start the timer son ..... Jg.
